What books do you re-read?

[Madame]

I attempt to read everything and anything at least once - except for 50 Shades of Crap, I couldn't get beyond the first few chapters.

Me neither! It really is a crappy read (& I've been known to read some Harlequin Romance mind candy). What a waste of money.

 

[Pixiedustaway]

wally lamb's she's come undone.

 

[ronandannette]

Does the Bible count? If it does, I've had that one on a constant loop non-stop for the past 30 years.

As for novels, I'm not a re-reader (I don't generally watch movies more than once either). The only one I can ever really remember reading twice is Stephen King's The Talisman. It was much more fantasy-genre (which has since become my favourite) than horror and I was completely captivated by it.

 

[CynBeth]

Harry Potter series
Twilight series
Hunger Games series
Allegeant series
Little House books

I also like to every once in a while reread series that I loved when I was in middle and high school.

 

[jevs]

Harry Potter series
Twilight series
Hunger Games series
Allegeant series
Little House books

I also like to every once in a while reread series that I loved when I was in middle and high school.

Yes, I forgot about that series. I've also read the maze runner series a few times even though I couldn't get into the movie - maybe because I was on a plane at the time.

 

[plutotek]

Harry Potter
Some Stephen King
Just started re-reading Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan series
Absolute favorite series to re-read is The Dresden Files; just can't get tired of it.

 

[MrsCobraBubbles]

SO many.

I couldn't even tell you how many times I've read Gone With The Wind or The Chronicles of Narnia or the Harry Potter series or The Neverending Story. Too many times to count. In fact, I wrote a 30-something page mini-thesis for my Children's Lit certificate about the Harry Potter books, I think I know them forwards and back.

I love Cozy Mysteries, so I've read everything that Agatha Christie, Lillian Jackson Braun, Dianne Mott Davidson, and Donna Andrews ever wrote, most of them multiple times. Same for the Jane Jeffries mysteries, Cleo Coyle's books, and the Kate Jasper Mysteries. I've read the first 3 books of the Demon Hunting Soccer Mom mysteries a bunch of times too.

For a while I was really into Charlaine Harris, I've read everything she ever wrote. And I went through a Twilight phase as well.

Like you, OP, I'm a big fan of Michael Crichton. Airframe, Rising Sun, and Congo are my favorites I think, but I enjoyed all of his books. Timeline, Jurassic Park, and The Lost World were a bit too gory for me. And if we're talking about science fiction, I have to admit that I spent way too much time in college reading Ray Bradbury for fun.

When I was 11 or 12 I used to love to scour used book stores and thrift shops and found many of my favorites there. There were three books in particular that I absolutely loved to read in Jr. High and High School, I read them over and over until they fell apart, then I'd repair them and read them to shreds again, it was a cycle. I lost them in a move and never bothered to replace them because I was at the point in my life where I needed to get rid of books, not buy more. They went out of print decades ago, but someday when money's not so tight I'll track down copies to replace them:

Last Junior Year
Can I Get There By Candlelight?
Celia Garth (the story reminds me of Gone With the Wind, except it's set in the Revolutionary War)

 

[GaryDis]

The one book I'll reread that stands out is a little known Ira Levin novel, This Perfect Day.

I'll also reread most of the Heinlein juvies and a couple of his adult novels, especially The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. There are other SF books I'll reread. If David Gerrold ever gets A Method for Madness onto the shelves, I'll reread the entire Chtorr series. (It was reportedly completed last fall, but I haven't heard anything since.).

I've also recently gotten into some gay YA romance novels, in audiobook form, and will relisten to some of those.

 

[GaryDis]

I've read The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan many times. Usually everytime a new book in the series came out, i'd re-read the entire thing. There are 15 total books (counting the prologue), so that amounted to quite a few re-reads!

That's really intrepid. I have the entire series on audiobook. I had half the series in paperback, but tossed them when we downsized. It didn't help that the covers were notorious for getting detached.

But I can't imagine rereading or relistening to the entire series. I'd listen to the tail end of a book when the next came out, but that's it.

 

[zippitydoo]

The Harry Potter series

 

[Bianca and Bernard]

Oh, too many to go through. Here's a few:

Jim Butcher's Dresden series
Laurell K Hamilton's Anita Blake series and Meredith Gentry series
Harry Potter books
Little Women/Little Men/Jo's Boys
Nora Roberts (many trilogies)
Maya Banks (romance series)
Cody McFadyen's Smoky Barrett series
Blake Crouch/Jack Kilborn, JA Konrath
Raymond E Feist (Magician series)
Johanna Lindsey (Mallory family and others)
Brandon Sanderson (Mistborn)
Suzan Tisdale (romance)
Wild Cards (edited by George RR Martin)
Robert Asprin (Foole/Myth series)

 

[katie01]

Pride and Prejudice
Gone with the Wind
Emily of New Moon series (by L.M. Montgomery, author of the Anne of Green Gables series)
Shadow Mountain
Where the Red Fern Grows
Doctors (by Erich Segal)
Sophie's Heart by Lori Wick
The Joy Luck Club (but mostly re watching the movie)
A Little Princess
Time at the Top by Edward Ormondroyd
The Waiting Child by Cindy Champnella

 

[katie01]

SO many.

I couldn't even tell you how many times I've read Gone With The Wind or The Chronicles of Narnia or the Harry Potter series or The Neverending Story. Too many times to count. In fact, I wrote a 30-something page mini-thesis for my Children's Lit certificate about the Harry Potter books, I think I know them forwards and back.

I love Cozy Mysteries, so I've read everything that Agatha Christie, Lillian Jackson Braun, Dianne Mott Davidson, and Donna Andrews ever wrote, most of them multiple times. Same for the Jane Jeffries mysteries, Cleo Coyle's books, and the Kate Jasper Mysteries. I've read the first 3 books of the Demon Hunting Soccer Mom mysteries a bunch of times too.

For a while I was really into Charlaine Harris, I've read everything she ever wrote. And I went through a Twilight phase as well.

Like you, OP, I'm a big fan of Michael Crichton. Airframe, Rising Sun, and Congo are my favorites I think, but I enjoyed all of his books. Timeline, Jurassic Park, and The Lost World were a bit too gory for me. And if we're talking about science fiction, I have to admit that I spent way too much time in college reading Ray Bradbury for fun.

When I was 11 or 12 I used to love to scour used book stores and thrift shops and found many of my favorites there. There were three books in particular that I absolutely loved to read in Jr. High and High School, I read them over and over until they fell apart, then I'd repair them and read them to shreds again, it was a cycle. I lost them in a move and never bothered to replace them because I was at the point in my life where I needed to get rid of books, not buy more. They went out of print decades ago, but someday when money's not so tight I'll track down copies to replace them:

Last Junior Year
Can I Get There By Candlelight?
Celia Garth (the story reminds me of Gone With the Wind, except it's set in the Revolutionary War)

I loved Can I Get There by Candlelight! I actually do have my copy still. I'd give it to you if I weren't so attached to it myself Good luck tracking down your favorites. I was so glad I saved all my Sunfire Romances from my tween years, the romances were cheesy but I loved the historical aspect, and they are all out of print now too

 

[nerdydisneygirl90]

Harry Potter series, every time a new book was released I re-read the previous ones.

 

[pryncess527]

That's really intrepid. I have the entire series on audiobook. I had half the series in paperback, but tossed them when we downsized. It didn't help that the covers were notorious for getting detached.

But I can't imagine rereading or relistening to the entire series. I'd listen to the tail end of a book when the next came out, but that's it.

WoT was my main reason for wanting a Kindle. Reading those in physical form can be a pain because they are so long, my paperbacks are falling apart as well, but we have the whole series in hardback (and now e-book)

I confess my re-reads have often skimmed the most familiar parts, but starting the series fresh with Eye of the World always excites!

 

[JaxDad]

I re-read too many books. I need to get better at selecting new ones. In addition to some already mentioned, I've re-read:

- Travis McGee series
- Catch-22
- Watership Down
- Jeeves and Wooster series
...probably many others

 

[GaryDis]

WoT was my main reason for wanting a Kindle.

These days, I use my iPad mini which supports Nook, Kindle, and other services. When e-book prices are in the same ballpark, I'll get the Nook version, because Amazon already gets too much of my money.

But mostly I'll get audiobooks, and, sigh, Audible has very little competition.

 

[Jaya]

"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn". I was given a copy for my 10th birthday and I've read it at least once a year since then. After almost 59 years of handling, the book is pretty beat-up, but I treasure it greatly.

 

[King Schultz]

I re-read too many books. I need to get better at selecting new ones. In addition to some already mentioned, I've re-read:

- Travis McGee series
- Catch-22
- Watership Down
- Jeeves and Wooster series
...probably many others

The Travis McGee books are awesome.

 

[JaxDad]

The Travis McGee books are awesome.

Yep. And most of the books on your list earlier in the thread are part of my "some already mentioned..."