My list is pretty typical.

The Harry Potter Series
The Twilight Series
The Sookie Stackhouse Series.

I'm more inclined to read a book more than once if it's light reading.

Some of the more complex books I've read, I take a long time to read them and pretty much find once is enough.

I've yet to get through The Bible. I plan on tackling it like Shakespeare. Book and audio at the same time.

Stephen King's "The Stand" and practically his whole Library
Swan Song

Every Terry Pratchett book.

Just noticed that there's a new one out in October. Possibly the last one
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I always wondered who read books twice, or three times? Or who keeps the books after they read them. Why? To read them again or just to let their friend borrow them?

jthad1129 said:

One of the rare upsides of having a bad memory!

jthad1129 said:

The first time I read the Stand, I viewed God as God.

The second time I read the Stand, I viewed God as the Devil.

It's nice to re-read favorite books when you've changed in your life.

Supa's Just not that Into you

When Good Supa's do bad things

Les Miserable Supa

Supa's War on America

Imago said:

ALL

GREAT

BOOKS

i read "the stand" for the second time last summer.

i've read "the color purple" a bunch of times.

i've read "naked lunch" and "confederacy of dunces" at least twice all the way through, and i read bits and pieces i like from both now and then.

and i can't even tell you how many times i've read john waters' "shock value". it's pretty much a reference manual for me.

As a teenager I read Garp, The Great Gatsby, and The Hotel New Hampshire over and over

Other than those I have 100's of books I have read 2 or 3 times

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

Me too! What is Swan Song?

bluesbaby said:

It's an end of the world type story. Swan is a 7 year old girl and the main character. She's the biggest threat the devil ever had..... I love this book!

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

The Bluest Eye- Toni Morrison

The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)

Soul on Ice (Eldridge Cleaver)

The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

The Drowned & The Saved (Primo Levi)

Giovanni's Room (James Baldwin)


I'm sure there are others, but these came to mind right away.

And I Don't Want To Live This Life by Deborah Spungen. I was going through a Sid and Nancy phase when I was 13 years old.

anthem ann rand

the merlin trilogy mary stewart.

a shitload of stephen king
dracula
alice's adventures in wonderland & through the looking glass (like a million times )
anything poe wrote
of mice and men

that's just recently. if i listed everything i'd be sitting here for ten decades.

Pretty much all of Jane Austen.

Lots of books from my childhood - none of which I can name.

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

So does the book change? Do you change? Is black still black? Do you try to find a different metaphor for different words?

if I read 'Jaws' a second time, would the outcome be the same? Yes, but the shark might become more of an obsessed devil from satan, instead of a mere shark? possibly.

Tried to re-read Harry Potter but can't read any of them again.
I've read a Gus Johnson novel twice
'The Hobbit' and 'Lord of the Rings' trilogy at least five times.
The Narnia Chronicles three times.
I've re-read E.Lynn Harris' first three books.
A few others but so much to read and so little time.

purpleizpassion said:

That is sooooo sad. The book.

The whole Maya Angelou's work.

Makes me wanna holler- Nathan Mccall

Autobiography of Malcolhm X- Alex Haley

Stuipd White Men-Michael Moore

Success – Martin Amis
Free To Choose – Milton Friedman
The Selfish Gene & The Blind Watchmaker – Richard Dawkins
Naked Lunch
Watership Down (Embarrassing, considering it’s a sissy book about rabbits, but I still pick it up every now and then)
Why People Believe Weird Things – Michael Schermer

Around grade 7 or so, all the guys in my school were heavily into Robert Howard's Conan books & those sword & sorcery-style pulp novels. I can't remember the specific titles, but I know I read a lot of those books repeatedly.

Harry Potter books
Wuthering Heights
Confederacy of Dunces
Catcher in the Rye--I've had vastly different reactions to that one over the years
A lot of graphic novels, too many to name, but most recently Y: The Last Man

When I was a kid, I read and reread all of S.E. Hinton's books.

There are probably a lot more I'm leaving out. Certain books are great to revisit. Some I just like to crack open and read a little bit of, not necessarily all the way through from the beginning. War and Peace is like that. Just making it through that thing once was a huge accomplishment for me. But I'll occassionally pick it back up and read several pages of it.

Celestine Prophecy
Da Vinci Code
Scar Tissue
Long Hard Road Out Of Hell
To Kill A Mockingbird
The Odyssey of Homer
Antigone
Wuthering Heights
Anna Karenina
The Island of Dr Moreau
Orlando

Most of Stephen Kings work..

jthad1129 said:

There is more to be had from a book with each reading

There are single lines from Shakespeare that will infinetly reveal more meaning with each reading

There's probably hundreds of books I've read more than once, but these are some of the ones that spring to mind as always being worth another read. Like the best music, I never get tired of them.

Douglas Adams - Hitchhiker books
Peirs Anthony - Split Infinity trilogy
Clive Barker - Imagica
William S. Burroughs - The Naked Lunch
Paul Devereaux - Earth Memory
Raymond E. Feist - Magician / Empire trilogies
Ken Follet - Pillars of the Earth
Ann Gay - The Brooch of Azure Midnight
Stephen Hawking - A Brief History of Time
Stephen Lawhead - Empyrion
Richard Mooney - Colony Earth
RA Wilson - Cosmic Trigger / Illuminatus trilogies / everything else by Wilson
John Varley - The Persistence of Vision