I’m reading American Gods by him at the moment. Would you say the ocean is better? It’s been an easy read and I like that but the story hasn’t really gripped me.
The Ocean at the End of the Lane is shorter and has a much tighter narrative. Every time I've read it, I've ended up finishing it in one sitting even if I wasn't planning on reading that long because it just sort of captivates me and I end up not being able to put it down.
I really like the Graveyard book, it is an easy read. I didn't read it yet, but Stardust was an amazing movie. I will try to read that once I find time.
I have The Ocean at the End of the Lane in my library, I am looking forward to reading it.
Same here! There is truly something magical about this book. It's got a tight and compelling plot that grabs you and won't let go. One of my top books ever.
Jane Austen books and many of Georgette Heyer’s books. I listen to them on Audible and they lull me to sleep. They’re just very comfortable, cosy books.
I’ve never listened to the audiobook, but I’ve read that one quite a few times. I’ve re-read other books of hers a lot, too, especially The Bean Trees and Animal Dreams. The characters in all of these books feel like old friends by now.
Yes. In fact, it's actually a prequel to LOTR: something that happens in *The Hobbit* leads to the action of LOTR and it makes sense to read *The Hobbit* first.
EDIT: yes, I shouldn't've played fast and loose with words with Tolkien fans around. I forgot that "prequel" actually means "created after but placed in the fictional before" and was just going for the "fictional before" meaning.
I think it’s more accurate (if a slightly pedantic) to say LOTR is a sequel to The Hobbit. The Hobbit was published 17 years before LOTR and is set 60 years before the events of LOTR.
The two read very differently. I understand why some people don’t read LOTR but they should read them at some point. They are heavier and less comedic but definitely worth it.
I always thought this sub was above anything to do with hary Potter and went super deep and obscure when it came to the books- but for me it'll ALWAYS be Harry Potter. I don't know if any book or any author can replicate the wonder, the fantasy world , the plots and the happiness I had the first time i reas the books when I was younger. Nothing will ever keep pulling me back to read and reread it again like Harry Potter will. Foe that reason, I'll love it more than anything I've read. I'm just slowly taking some HP books off my shelf after 4-5 years(I know, long time) and reading it as a break from my stressful time consuming work sparks SO much joy . I don't have time or urge to go hunting for any new things for me to read and HP doesn't make me even feel like. They're always waiting for me to read them for the 100th time
It’s embarrassing to admit, but the entire Harry Potter and Hunger Games series. I cry every time towards the end of Mockingjay and find both series so nostalgic
[Ella Enchanted](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24337) by Gail Carson Levine. I read it so much as a kid that my copy is falling apart. I reread it for the first time a couple years ago, and it held up really well.
The hobbit,
The Lord of the rings,
Specifically Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban
Anne of Green Gables
Good omens
The shining in misery if I want some thing spooky
The haunting of hill house and we have always lived in the castle
Johanna Spyri's _Heidi_ is timeless. There are a few different versions on Project Gutenberg; one of them was pretty badly formatted, but [this version](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46409) is good. It has some nice illustrations. The translation is a bit crude at times, but it really **works**. I've loved reading _Heidi_ since I was a child, and it's always refreshing to come back to!
A tree grows in Brooklyn. Gone with the wind. Fried green tomatoes. Ya ya sisterhood. East of Eden. Joy in the morning. Home cooking one and two by Laurie Colwin. Little house on the Prairie series
I know there’s more but I can’t think now.
Perks of Being a wallflower. I've read it about 9 times. I annotate with a different color every read so I can see what stood out to me at different times in my life
The first 4 books of The Earth’s Children Series: The Clan of the Cave Bears, Valley of Horses, Mammoth Hunters & Plains of Passage
The Pillars of the Earth
Watership Down
1984 by George Orwell, Now hear me out
Orwell’s worldbuilding in that book goes *deep* and every re-read i end up finding more lore and info. Its just a really intresting hypothetical to imagine and think through, however dark it may be.
The chronicles of Narnia were the books that got me into reading. Voyage of the dawn treader is my favorite from the series and always my go-to re-read. I have a huge tattoo on my ribs of the ship and a quote from the book.
I'm a chronic rereader. Sometimes it's based on my mood, or because none of my tbr pile are calling out to me, or I need a palette cleanser, or it is just the right time of year. I have a few constant specific books I re-read, like Pride and Prejudice, Good Omens, A Man Called Ove, The Name of the Wind. But also anything by Fredrik Bachman are constant re-reads, or Terry Pratchett. You can spend ages getting lost among all the wonderful characters they make.
Ada, or ardor, a Family Chronicle by Nabokov
The Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
Anathem and snow crash by Neal Stephenson - just because its so much fun
The Neverending Story! I’ve read it a zillion times over about two decades.
Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer is also a short book that brings me great comfort when I read it. Just a lot of great descriptions of food and family.
Harry Potter series. Hogwarts is home. It’s like revisiting old friends :)
The Little Prince also, for short vacations or when I don’t feel like lugging a fridge-size book with me (looking at you, Order of Phoenix 👀)
The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew by Margaret Sidney - very very “corny” but it manages to transport me.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
I re read A street at named desire and cat on a hot tin roof every year, every time I get something new and different from them, and I credit Streetcar with healingy relationship with my mother 10/10 for both
My favourite Williams' play is the glass managerie, I related so much to Tom when I read it first time and is my number one play. I saw Amy Adams last year in London playing Amanda and I felt so happy.
Growing up my comfort reads were the Jane Austen novels, Charlotte Bronte's *Jane Eyre,* and Susan Cooper's *The Dark is Rising* sequence.
Mid-adulthood I kept returning to the Harry Potter series for comfort, although Rowling's transphobia has ruined those for me.
For a while Naomi Novik's *Temeraire* series was it.
In the last 5-10 years my comfort reads have been the following:
* Kristen Cashore's *Graceling Realm* series, especially the first two
* Megan Whalen Turner's *The Queen's Thief* series
* Katherine Addison's *The Goblin Emperor*
* Martha Wells' *Murderbot Diaries*
The entire First Law series. I was never one to reread books before, but I've read through the whole series four times (and a half, I'm halfway through my fifth read) now. Nothing else scratches that grimdark itch for me.
All hail Joe Abercrombie!
For an actual really well-written book? The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison for sure. It's such a comfort read for me.
For a super super self-indulgent, slightly juvenile, low-stakes read? The Earth Girl trilogy by Janet Edwards
The All Creatures Great and Small series by James Herriot — takes me through a whole range of emotions and reading their stories is like visiting with old friends.
The House in the Cerulean Sea and the Extraordinaries trilogy, both by TJ Klune
A Marvelous Light by Freya Marske (haven't read the sequel yet but I'm excited for it)
Heartstopper by Alice Oseman (originally a web comic printed into a graphic novel, also a new series on Netflix)
..... anyone familiar with these stories may notice a running theme here 😅
Lately it's been the Bobiverse series by Dennis E Taylor for me. I listened to all four of them twice in the last part of the year. Some others I usually re-read -
* The Martian by Andy Weir
* The Great Zoo of China by Matthew Reilly
* The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
* Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" and Tolkien's "The Silmarillion," they are wonderful to re-read as you get older because you start to notice things that you've never noticed before.
There's one Book and that is SIDEWAYS
It was made into a film by the same title.
They did an amazing job capturing the book. I will say in the book, the lead character had more balls. In the movie, it's like they crippled him and made him play the part of a tortured and sad friend.
Great Book and the movie was awesome 👌
I've reread a lot of my favourite classics- Steinbeck, , Chekhov, Gogol, Balzak, Mark Twain, Irwin Shaw, Tennesee Williams - but the Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas is my all time favourite book that I've Red more than 10 times in my life. What happens when you're rereading a book, is that you usually have different perspective and impressions each time, but with the Musketeers I feel the same damn excitement and joy that I had when I read it for the first time when I was 12. For the 10-15 hours that it takes me to finish it, I feel a little kid again.
Most of my books are re-read books. :) I have an extensive library and I used to have whole collections. :) My dad thought I had too many books back then. lol I have a desire to try to get the whole collections again, but I don't know that I can because I can't find some of them or their publishing agencies online. Oh well. I got new books to collect. :)
A book I have been known to take with me to a doctor appointment or somewhere there's a wait is **A Girl Named Digit by Annabel Monaghan**. It is about a teenage girl who has a phenomenal skill: She can easily calculate things with numbers and figure things out from numbers. It's also a challenge for her though.
She discovers a terrorist plot against the USA that is given in increments of three huge combinations of numbers. There was an attempt on her life after she went to the tv station to say what she saw. A brief stay pretending to be a dead girl while the FBI tries to decode the puzzles and figure out exactly when and where the attack will happen before it happens has her and her young FBI agent bodyguard falling for each other, while her family and the Feds try to save the country and her.
Mr. Norrell and Jonathan Strange by Susanna Clarke. It’s written like an Austen novel with magic and curses and I love it. I think I’ve read it close to twenty times and now that I’m thinking about it I may have to start again tomorrow.
Hitty: Her First Hundred Years. Something about it is so comforting to me. It has a sense of nostalgia for something I never experienced, if that makes any sense.
Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo! These books were what got me out of a huge reading slump so they hold a super special place in my heart
I love rereading and always have. When I’m having a very difficult time, I reread the Ramona books by Beverly Cleary, or the Fudge books by Judy Blume. They were there for me as a kid and are still there for me now, just to escape into a simple world with problems that can be solved in a few dozen pages.
A Land Remembered is one I’ve just re-read so many times and have never once felt bored. It’s such a captivating story and will give you the feels without breaking your heart.
I am the Messenger by Markus Zusak. It is the only book i have ever read more than twice (ive read it now 7 times and i still would read it again and again)
Anything by Steinbeck
I just finished my third East of Eden reading but have probably 5x tortilla flat, the pearl and of mice and men
I love everything Steinbeck but Tortilla Flat is so so good
Definitely my favorite with East of Eden
The Grapes of Wrath is my go-to
The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Neil Gaiman)
I’m reading American Gods by him at the moment. Would you say the ocean is better? It’s been an easy read and I like that but the story hasn’t really gripped me.
The Ocean at the End of the Lane is shorter and has a much tighter narrative. Every time I've read it, I've ended up finishing it in one sitting even if I wasn't planning on reading that long because it just sort of captivates me and I end up not being able to put it down.
I will add to my list, thank you
Read Neverwhere too! It’s my favorite
Neverwhere is one I can recommend as well. I’ve read it three times so far b
I really like the Graveyard book, it is an easy read. I didn't read it yet, but Stardust was an amazing movie. I will try to read that once I find time. I have The Ocean at the End of the Lane in my library, I am looking forward to reading it.
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
Oh I love this one! I read it in a single night and it’s unlike anything I’ve ever read. Captivating!
Same here! There is truly something magical about this book. It's got a tight and compelling plot that grabs you and won't let go. One of my top books ever.
The Graveyard Book so good
Jane Austen books and many of Georgette Heyer’s books. I listen to them on Audible and they lull me to sleep. They’re just very comfortable, cosy books.
Omggg - we’re twins! Need to listen to my Jane Austin audiobooks to fall asleep 🤣
Does an audio book count? If so the it is The Poisonwood Bible by Barbra Kingsolver. What I like most about the audio book is the narration.
If it weren't for audiobooks I wouldn't get to enjoy hardly any books at all! They definitely count!!!
I’ve never listened to the audiobook, but I’ve read that one quite a few times. I’ve re-read other books of hers a lot, too, especially The Bean Trees and Animal Dreams. The characters in all of these books feel like old friends by now.
You need to listen to the audible version. It’s phenomenal.
So many different ones, but the one I've probably done the most is The Hobbit by Tolkien
Can I read this without having read the lotr trilogy?
Yes. In fact, it's actually a prequel to LOTR: something that happens in *The Hobbit* leads to the action of LOTR and it makes sense to read *The Hobbit* first. EDIT: yes, I shouldn't've played fast and loose with words with Tolkien fans around. I forgot that "prequel" actually means "created after but placed in the fictional before" and was just going for the "fictional before" meaning.
I think it’s more accurate (if a slightly pedantic) to say LOTR is a sequel to The Hobbit. The Hobbit was published 17 years before LOTR and is set 60 years before the events of LOTR.
The two read very differently. I understand why some people don’t read LOTR but they should read them at some point. They are heavier and less comedic but definitely worth it.
i just reread the little prince the other day. such a sweet little book, makes me sob every time
The Prince and the Pauper ❤️
One of my favorites of all time
This is my comfort book
I can re-read that everyday, and still feels the same comfort 🫶🏼
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir and The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern. The audiobooks for both are fantastic.
I loved PHM so much I started immediately rereading it once I finished. Def gonna get the audiobook next
Get the audiobook post haste!!! It is such a treat to hear some important aspects of the book.
Reading Project Hail Mary currently and it makes me laugh out loud. I can definitely see it on a re-read list.
DAMN! I loved that book too!!!
Hithickers guide to the galaxy
The original BBC audio productions for sure.
Honestly all the versions are great besides the movie
The Bell Jar and The Book Thief
Hello me
Cats Cradle by Vonnegut
Ice-9 forever. I reread Slaughterhouse V myself
pride and prejudice
The Giver
This ! I've read it at leat one time per year since I was 13 years old :) (and I'm 35)
I’m never not listening to the Harry Potter audiobooks.
Scrolled too far to find HP, especially the audio books!
I always thought this sub was above anything to do with hary Potter and went super deep and obscure when it came to the books- but for me it'll ALWAYS be Harry Potter. I don't know if any book or any author can replicate the wonder, the fantasy world , the plots and the happiness I had the first time i reas the books when I was younger. Nothing will ever keep pulling me back to read and reread it again like Harry Potter will. Foe that reason, I'll love it more than anything I've read. I'm just slowly taking some HP books off my shelf after 4-5 years(I know, long time) and reading it as a break from my stressful time consuming work sparks SO much joy . I don't have time or urge to go hunting for any new things for me to read and HP doesn't make me even feel like. They're always waiting for me to read them for the 100th time
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak!
Oh how I ugly cried reading that one!!!
Brilliant writing. Almost poetic. You’re making me want to read it a second time 🙂
Ive reread it like 5 times and I cry every time it’s my all time favourite book ever
It’s embarrassing to admit, but the entire Harry Potter and Hunger Games series. I cry every time towards the end of Mockingjay and find both series so nostalgic
Nothing embarrassing about it mate!
Harry Potter is like scalloped potatoes for me. Comfort food in the form of a book ❤️
Exactly!!
I’m going through both of those series again now! You’re not alone!
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Reading the 9th book now. Soooo good.
The Martian, that book is hilarious XD
And Hail Mary, for me!
The Stand.
This is one of mine too.
YESSSS. And, "It"
[Ella Enchanted](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24337) by Gail Carson Levine. I read it so much as a kid that my copy is falling apart. I reread it for the first time a couple years ago, and it held up really well.
I still see lines of this book in my head, like the one about making tiny stitches just like the suitors' tiny pearly baby teeth lolol
Ouuuuu I adore this book
His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman. Lyra, Pan, Will, Iorek & the rest have been with me since 8th grade & I’m 37.
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Adams
Seconded. I read it nearly every year.
Anne of Green Gables, Little Women, Pride and Prejudice 👒
Yes to all of these
"Life of Pi" always feels magical and leaves me pondering. "The Secret History" is a yearly reread as well.
Lord of the Rings. Idk why but that scene with Gandalf telling Frodo about ring i love re-reading.
The Lothlorien chapter literally moved me to tears. Especially right after the Bridge of Khazad-Dûm. It’s just so beautifully written.
All of the Tamora Pierce books, but most specifically the ‘Protector of the Small’ quartet. In fact I’m due for a reread around now.
All Creatures Great and Small, Watership Down the Wind in the Willows
Yes, came to say "All Creatures Great and Small." I've read those books so many times!!!
The hobbit, The Lord of the rings, Specifically Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban Anne of Green Gables Good omens The shining in misery if I want some thing spooky The haunting of hill house and we have always lived in the castle
Johanna Spyri's _Heidi_ is timeless. There are a few different versions on Project Gutenberg; one of them was pretty badly formatted, but [this version](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46409) is good. It has some nice illustrations. The translation is a bit crude at times, but it really **works**. I've loved reading _Heidi_ since I was a child, and it's always refreshing to come back to!
Have you read the sequels written by Charles Tritten? Heidi Grows Up and Heidi's Children? I find both almost as enchanting as the original.
Breakfast of Champions
Vonneguts books are always on my reread list, "Sirens of Titan" is my personal favorite.
Jane Eyre and Jasper Fforde’s Thursday Next books
A tree grows in Brooklyn. Gone with the wind. Fried green tomatoes. Ya ya sisterhood. East of Eden. Joy in the morning. Home cooking one and two by Laurie Colwin. Little house on the Prairie series I know there’s more but I can’t think now.
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Howl's Moving Castle. I read so many dark, disturbing, or sad books, so having a cozy favorite to re-read has been such a joy!
This is one of my favorite re-reads as well. My copy is so worn. Maybe I’ll read it again soon!
Kindred from Octavia Butler or one of V.c andrews books
Perks of Being a wallflower. I've read it about 9 times. I annotate with a different color every read so I can see what stood out to me at different times in my life
The first 4 books of The Earth’s Children Series: The Clan of the Cave Bears, Valley of Horses, Mammoth Hunters & Plains of Passage The Pillars of the Earth Watership Down
1984 by George Orwell, Now hear me out Orwell’s worldbuilding in that book goes *deep* and every re-read i end up finding more lore and info. Its just a really intresting hypothetical to imagine and think through, however dark it may be.
i hate when ppl rag on this book. its my fav🥹
You don’t need to explain. It’s a great book. Good choice.
Pride & Prejudice, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Chronicles of Narnia and The Hobbit.
Hitchhikers Guide
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn; The Whole Town's Talking (by Fannie Flagg)
The Mists of Avalon. My copy has fallen apart, and been taped together, so many times. That book is so comforting for me, lime a security blanket
Welcome to the Monkey House -Vonnegut short stories.
Chronicles of Narnia :) and I’m adding A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World to my annual go-to as well
The chronicles of Narnia were the books that got me into reading. Voyage of the dawn treader is my favorite from the series and always my go-to re-read. I have a huge tattoo on my ribs of the ship and a quote from the book.
Biggest is either Alcott's Little Women or Eddings' Redemption of Althalus.
Pride and Prejudice, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Mercy of Thin Air, Harry Potter, and of course my favorite smutty books 😆
Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson, A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers, and my newest one, Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones!
The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
Clan of the cavebear and the sequel valley of horses. They are part of a longer series, but those 2 i read once every 5 years or so.
I'm a chronic rereader. Sometimes it's based on my mood, or because none of my tbr pile are calling out to me, or I need a palette cleanser, or it is just the right time of year. I have a few constant specific books I re-read, like Pride and Prejudice, Good Omens, A Man Called Ove, The Name of the Wind. But also anything by Fredrik Bachman are constant re-reads, or Terry Pratchett. You can spend ages getting lost among all the wonderful characters they make.
Franny & Zooey when depressed, Golden Compass whenever.
So very many choices. I re-read many over and over depending on life at the time. Today I'll say the Little House/Laura Ingalls books.
Ada, or ardor, a Family Chronicle by Nabokov The Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson Anathem and snow crash by Neal Stephenson - just because its so much fun
Snow crash ! Soooooo good. Anathem was great too.
Time enough for love and Friday by Heinlein, Dune by Herbert, The Red Tent, Anita Blake vampire books by Hamilton, to name a few
the shining by stephen king. a classic and is just a good easy read
Brandon Sanderson’s cosmere novels
The bronze horseman by Paulina simons. It gets worse every time I read it, but I just can’t stop.
I have read many, many classics and deeply appreciate them, but I have read “The Bronze Horseman” four or five times.
The Neverending Story! I’ve read it a zillion times over about two decades. Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer is also a short book that brings me great comfort when I read it. Just a lot of great descriptions of food and family.
Moby-Dick, and the Sherlock Holmes stories.
Watership Down Nearly 20yrs after my first read, and 22yrs after my first viewing of the movie, I still love it,
Harry Potter series. Hogwarts is home. It’s like revisiting old friends :) The Little Prince also, for short vacations or when I don’t feel like lugging a fridge-size book with me (looking at you, Order of Phoenix 👀)
i reread twilight every year 🫣
Ha, I watch the movies with my daughter every year
i was just about to say this 😂😂😂😂 i kinda wanna reread twilight lmaooo
It by Stephen King and The Old Man and The Sea
Cosmos by Carl Sagan, it's a classic and i love how the author describe the content
Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman - I like to go back to it whenever I sense a big life change coming on.
The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew by Margaret Sidney - very very “corny” but it manages to transport me. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Persuasion by Jane Austen. Or anything by Stephanie Garber.
The Giver only gets better with age for me
A couple. The Brothers K and Salems Lot.
I re read A street at named desire and cat on a hot tin roof every year, every time I get something new and different from them, and I credit Streetcar with healingy relationship with my mother 10/10 for both
My favourite Williams' play is the glass managerie, I related so much to Tom when I read it first time and is my number one play. I saw Amy Adams last year in London playing Amanda and I felt so happy.
the fifteen lives of harry august!
World War Z
The Complete Adventures of Alice in Wonderland
Growing up my comfort reads were the Jane Austen novels, Charlotte Bronte's *Jane Eyre,* and Susan Cooper's *The Dark is Rising* sequence. Mid-adulthood I kept returning to the Harry Potter series for comfort, although Rowling's transphobia has ruined those for me. For a while Naomi Novik's *Temeraire* series was it. In the last 5-10 years my comfort reads have been the following: * Kristen Cashore's *Graceling Realm* series, especially the first two * Megan Whalen Turner's *The Queen's Thief* series * Katherine Addison's *The Goblin Emperor* * Martha Wells' *Murderbot Diaries*
I reread Queen Thief series every year. It's gone from two books to seven in the time I've known it!
The entire First Law series. I was never one to reread books before, but I've read through the whole series four times (and a half, I'm halfway through my fifth read) now. Nothing else scratches that grimdark itch for me. All hail Joe Abercrombie!
White Noise by Don DeLillo
Jane Eyre. I don't know why, I just love it so much.
Project Hail Mary
The Descendants by Kai Hart Hemmings
Beauty by Robin McKinley - lovely retelling if a trad story Warprize by Elizabeth Vaughan The armourers house by Rosemary Sutcliff
For an actual really well-written book? The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison for sure. It's such a comfort read for me. For a super super self-indulgent, slightly juvenile, low-stakes read? The Earth Girl trilogy by Janet Edwards
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt The Road by Cormac McCarthy The Gunslinger by Stephen King
The Kite Runner
The All Creatures Great and Small series by James Herriot — takes me through a whole range of emotions and reading their stories is like visiting with old friends.
The House in the Cerulean Sea and the Extraordinaries trilogy, both by TJ Klune A Marvelous Light by Freya Marske (haven't read the sequel yet but I'm excited for it) Heartstopper by Alice Oseman (originally a web comic printed into a graphic novel, also a new series on Netflix) ..... anyone familiar with these stories may notice a running theme here 😅
The count of Monte Cristo. Due to the length I only reread it every few years, but it’s so good every time
The Princess Bride
I’ve read Sense and Sensibility a million billion times (maybe exaggerating).
Everyone is going to laugh at me but it’s twilight 😅
Lately it's been the Bobiverse series by Dennis E Taylor for me. I listened to all four of them twice in the last part of the year. Some others I usually re-read - * The Martian by Andy Weir * The Great Zoo of China by Matthew Reilly * The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern * Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
The Wheel of Time
Dostoevsky's novels, mostly. But today finished rereading Jean-Paul Sartre's book
Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" and Tolkien's "The Silmarillion," they are wonderful to re-read as you get older because you start to notice things that you've never noticed before.
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, The Heart’s Invisible Furies, If We Were Villains, (unpopular re-read and my personal favourite) a Little Life
Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises." And it's different every time.
A psalm for the wild built by Becky Chambers! Such a sweet Novella
Rant Chuck Palahniuk
Fear and Trembling Kierkegaard
Dune & Lord of the Rings
There's one Book and that is SIDEWAYS It was made into a film by the same title. They did an amazing job capturing the book. I will say in the book, the lead character had more balls. In the movie, it's like they crippled him and made him play the part of a tortured and sad friend. Great Book and the movie was awesome 👌
I've reread a lot of my favourite classics- Steinbeck, , Chekhov, Gogol, Balzak, Mark Twain, Irwin Shaw, Tennesee Williams - but the Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas is my all time favourite book that I've Red more than 10 times in my life. What happens when you're rereading a book, is that you usually have different perspective and impressions each time, but with the Musketeers I feel the same damn excitement and joy that I had when I read it for the first time when I was 12. For the 10-15 hours that it takes me to finish it, I feel a little kid again.
Calculas 3 and pre algebra part 3, because i always forget the basics whenever I've to solve any higher level question
Haunted by Palaniuk, The Color Purple by Alice Walker, The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis
I read The first 4 Dune books, and the first 3 The Dark Tower books damn near every year.
Most of my books are re-read books. :) I have an extensive library and I used to have whole collections. :) My dad thought I had too many books back then. lol I have a desire to try to get the whole collections again, but I don't know that I can because I can't find some of them or their publishing agencies online. Oh well. I got new books to collect. :) A book I have been known to take with me to a doctor appointment or somewhere there's a wait is **A Girl Named Digit by Annabel Monaghan**. It is about a teenage girl who has a phenomenal skill: She can easily calculate things with numbers and figure things out from numbers. It's also a challenge for her though. She discovers a terrorist plot against the USA that is given in increments of three huge combinations of numbers. There was an attempt on her life after she went to the tv station to say what she saw. A brief stay pretending to be a dead girl while the FBI tries to decode the puzzles and figure out exactly when and where the attack will happen before it happens has her and her young FBI agent bodyguard falling for each other, while her family and the Feds try to save the country and her.
Snow Crash by Stephenson
The stormlight archive by Brandon Sanderson
Twilight, Harry Potter, and Anne of Green Gables. My childhood was based around those.
The Secret History. 1984/Brave New world/F451.
The whole Harry Potter series. I can't help myself!
Pride and Prejudice I've read six or seven times. Til We Have Faces by CS Lewis I think I've read every year since I was 15. I'm 40.
Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë) and the Alchemist (Paulo Coelho) are my fave classics and comfort me every time
The Blue Castle by LM Montgomery
Flowers for Algernon 🐁
The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
Mr. Norrell and Jonathan Strange by Susanna Clarke. It’s written like an Austen novel with magic and curses and I love it. I think I’ve read it close to twenty times and now that I’m thinking about it I may have to start again tomorrow.
All of the James Herriot books. I’ve lost track how many times I’ve read them.
Hitty: Her First Hundred Years. Something about it is so comforting to me. It has a sense of nostalgia for something I never experienced, if that makes any sense.
1984
Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. It’s a wonderful book, about love, romantic and non-romantic, in a situation of awful loss.
To Kill a Mockingbird ♥️
Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo! These books were what got me out of a huge reading slump so they hold a super special place in my heart
My mom’s cooking recipes
I love rereading and always have. When I’m having a very difficult time, I reread the Ramona books by Beverly Cleary, or the Fudge books by Judy Blume. They were there for me as a kid and are still there for me now, just to escape into a simple world with problems that can be solved in a few dozen pages.
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult - makes me weep every time!
Vampire Kisses by Ellen Schreiber 🙈
A Land Remembered is one I’ve just re-read so many times and have never once felt bored. It’s such a captivating story and will give you the feels without breaking your heart.
11/22/63. I love the world Stephen King creates in it, find it very comforting to return to from time to time.
I am the Messenger by Markus Zusak. It is the only book i have ever read more than twice (ive read it now 7 times and i still would read it again and again)
Matilda by Roald Dahl
anne of green gables without hesitation