Books You've Reread the Most Times

[psikeyhackr]

The Two Faces of Tomorrow
Voyage from Yesteryear
The Proteus Operation
all by James P Hogan

The Proteus Operation

When malcontents from a utopian twenty-first century us…

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The General Series
by S M Stirling

The General Series by S.M. Stirling

also referred to as Raj Whitehall series The Forge (The General, #1), The Hammer (The General, #2), The Anvil (The General, #3), The Steel (The General...

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Plus the usual suspects: Ender's Game, Foundation series, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Ringworld

 

[Rodders]

It's always quite surprising how much of a book you miss on the first reading. I recently re-read Neal Asher's Transformation trilogy and felt if was better the second time around as much of the detail and timeline I'd either forgotten or misremembered.

I'm going to do a re-read of the Culture novels next year.

 

[Extollager]

There's a separate thread below for things you reread every year.

Will you reread?

Which books can you not get by a whole year w/o reading again? I will start Harry Potter 1 and read the series straight through when the 7th finally comes out. Watchers by Dean Koontz is a definite Faerie Tale - R. Feist Time Traveler's Wife - Niffenegger Odd Thomas' x3 I imagine Electronic...

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The present thread is more expansive, just a place to talk about rereading.

 

[hitmouse]

There are a lot of books/series that I read and reread avidly from childhood through teenagerhood, but have not really looked at in the last 30 years. Not all necessarily great literature, just what was available and appealing to adolescent imagination at the time. These include:
Moorcock: Corum, Hawkmoon, Elric, The Final Programme, An Alien Heat
Philip Jose Farmer: the first two books in the World of Tiers series
The Hobbit
Narnia
The Gormenghast trilogy
Amber
Wolfe: The Shadow of the Torturer, and sequels.
ERB: the Barsoom novels, Carson of Venus
Heinlein: Red Planet, Starman Jones, Farmer in the Sky and other juveniles; Future History stories; The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag.
John Crowley: Little Big
Robert Holdstock: Mythago Wood
Bradbury: The Martian Chronicles
Clarke: The City and the Stars
Ballard: The Drowned World; Vermilion Sands
JP Martin: the Uncle books
Tove Jansson: the Moomintroll books.

I think new stuff I have reread since the age of about 25 falls into a different category.

 

[AllanR]

Clarke: The City and the Stars

I should reread that. It was the first 'great' sci fi novel I read.

For three plus reading I can think of...

The Hobbit
Crime and Punishment
We Can Build You
Starship Troopers
Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance
With Folded Hands
Middlemarch

 

[Danny McG]

Looking at my earlier listing in this thread and I realised I'd totally forgot to include all the John LeCarre books.

At least 4 times each, except for The Little Drummer Girl, that's only been once with a DNF the second time I had a go at it - it just doesn't appeal to me

 

[Rodders]

I have a desire to re-read Timothy Thrawn's Heir to the Empire trilogy again.

 

[Elentarri]

Books I've read more than 3 times (most of them as a teenager when I had more spare time and there weren't that many new books available):

Silmarillion / Hobbit / Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (lots - too many times to count)
Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
The Travelling Cat Chronicles - Hiro Arikawa
The Firebrand by MZB
The Word and the Void Trilogy by Terry Brooks
Brokedown Palace by Steven Brust
Faery in Shadow by C. J. Cherryh
The Finisterre Duology by C.J. Cherryh
The Chronicles of Morgaine by C.J. Cherry (re-read lots of times)
The BFG / The Witches / Matilda by Roald Dahl
Harp of the Grey Rose by Charles de Lint
Yarrow by Charles de Lint
The Elenium by David Eddings (reread lots too, preferred it to the other series)
Faery in Shadow by Raymond E. Feist
Magician/ Silverthorn / Darkness at Sethanon by Raymond E. Feist
Elf Defense by Esther M. Friesner
Golden Witchbreed by Mary Gentle
The Whims of Creation by Simon Hawke
Janitors of the Post Apolcalypse trilogy by Jim C. Hines
Bryony and Roses - T. Kingfisher
The Bone Houses by Emily Lloyd-Jones [it's the zombie goat - have to reread books with a zombie goat]
The Eye of the Hunter by Dennis L. Mckiernan [it was the only hobbits I could find after Tolkien's novels]
The Riddle Master's Game by Patricia A. McKillip [re-read lots of times]
Prince Ivan by Peter Moorwood
Flight in Yiktor by Andre Norton [re-read lots of times]
Various Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett
Drowntide by Sydney J. Van Scyoc [re-read lots, only book I've come across about mermaids that never uses that term]
The Shining Falcon by Josepha Sherman
Castle Hangnail by Ursula Vernon
Curse of the Witch-Queen by Paula Volsky
Knight Moves by Walter Jon Williams
The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
Passage by Connie Willis
Everything by Janny Wurts except her Wars of Light and Shadow trilogy
The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle [it's the dinosaurs]
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas by Jules Verne [various translations/editions]

This is what I still own that I have re-read 3x+.

hmmm - I've re-read some of my nonfiction books, but none of them three times or more.

 

[psikeyhackr]

The middle Vorkosigan books: Brothers in Arms through to A Civil Campaign, lots and lots

This is criminal. I'll have to have everyone but Jo rounded up. Nobody else mentioned Bujold's sci-fi. I tried 2 of the fantasies. Not my cup of coffee. I have read all of the books in the Vorkosigan series multiple times.

Possibly Captain Vorpatril's Alliance the most but I do not keep count. Too many counts in those books. [Groan!]