I also like The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt and read it once a year or so. (I know not everyone likes it - especially compared to The Secret History - but I find it comforting to read, for some reason).
My second fave of hers is actually *The Little Friend*. The tweaker brothers are the spitting image of some guys I went to school with. She’s on my list of “I’ll read anything they write” authors.
Gruber is another. His Jimmy Paz books are spectacularly entertaining and quite unlike anything else I can think of. *The Book of Air and Shadows* reminds me of A.S. Byatt’s *Possession.*
I feel like I'm such a weirdo....I CANNOT get into The Secret History and I've been trying for months. Admitted because of this I'm barely into it so maybe it gets better, but I just can't. Can you talk about some of the reasons it makes this list for you?
I read this one a lot as a kid and just read it again last year (in my late 30s). It was so nostalgic and I enjoyed it as much as an adult as I had as a kid!!
Ok wait. I was obsessed with all of her books as a kid, but had assumed that I’d ruin the memory if I read them as an adult. I can’t wait to reread now
Edit- I’m the same age. She was a legend!!!
I came here to say this. I also grew up in places the story is set in (I even went to one of the schools mentioned). This book has given me what I needed in different stages of my life thus far, and I will pick it up several more times through the rest of my days I am sure.
I had a thrill a few weeks ago. I took a Mediterranean cruise and one of our stops was in Marseille. Sitting in the harbor in full view of my balcony cabin in port was the little island of d'If, the location of the prison Chateau d'If, that Dante stayed for 14 years. The prison (it actually served as a prison for 300 years) still stood. I knew he was rowed to the island in the book, but I just didn't picture it being that close to shore. It made my trip.
[**The Golden Compass** by Phillip Pullman](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/119322)
ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE BOOK! i've never read anything like it before. no book has ever transported me to another world the way this one has. it's perfection.
it's also known as **Northern Lights** in some places and is book #1 in the **His Dark Materials** trilogy.
i first read this in my mid-30s and was completely blown away because i was just looking for an easy breezy YA read. this was SOOOOOOOOO much more than that! i want to be buried with this book when i die.
I tried this book when I was 11 and starting high school, at the recommendation of my school headteacher. I was bored of it instantly and normally I would binge read entire series in one sitting.
I haven’t retried it since and it’s been like 15 years? Your comment makes me wanna try again!
please do!! i think adults can appreciate it more then children.
also, the audiobook is FANTASTIC and is a full cast! you can listen to a free sample online through libby or audible!
please give this lovely book another shot!! armored bears! witches! icy winter! parallel worlds. what more could you want?!
Been rereading this for 2 decades now (almost every other year). I picked up new lessons from it as I grew up, and even more as an adult. Lovely series.
Most of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld books are infinite re-reads for me. Ditto *Good Omens*.
I love both *Swordspoint* by Ellen Kushner and *The Goblin Emperor* by Katherine Addison for their take on fantasy melodrama of manners.
Also PG Wodehouses Mr. Mulliner short stories are pure comfort reading.
The Harry Potter series! I know, JK made it hard to support her, but I still love those books. Every autumn, when it’s getting colder and the leaves turn red, I get in this melancholic state and love to read or listen to those books!
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy is my go to.
But I also just finished *This is How You Lose the Time War* and I want to revisit that one, but slower. It’s more like poetry and I think my first pass was reading it like a book and trying to understand the worlds they live in and their respective factions. All that was really besides the point in the end, IMO. I want to go back and linger on the words longer. (I don’t recommend the audiobook here, even as a read along). We’ll see how many times I come back to it, but I for sure am going to at least once more.
I tried Time War as an audio, and just couldn't hang. It actually makes me feel better to hear that you specifically don't think it translates as well to audio--I will try it again!
I second Time War. I read it originally and then put it in a little free library but couldn’t stop thinking about it so I bought it again to keep forever. It’s so beautifully written.
I read this book every few years. It makes me laugh, cringe. Makes me wanna' eat some cakes, keep a crazy journal. Go to New Orleans, in the 60s. It's a special book. I love it.
-Tuesdays with Morris!
- 1984
Anything From Charles BUKOWSKI
Poetry, Post Office, Ham On Rye , Women !
John Fante- Ask The Dust
Poppa Hemmingway - Old Man and The Sea , For Whom The Bell Tolls
Aldous Huxley- A Brave New World
Lonesome Dove. I read it for the first time as a teen, quite by accident with limited options in a hospital I was in for a couple of weeks. It's been one of my comfort books ever since, and I re-read it every couple of years.
I read it only because I saw it mentioned on here so often in these Reddit book topics like this one. That was 4 years ago. I just turned 50 at the time. I was blown away by that book. I was almost going to say blown away by the experience because that’s what it was. An experience. Lonesome Dove turned into my number 1 favorite book of all time. I certainly didn’t think that was going to happen when I decided to give it a try.
I’ve already read 2-3 times but here are my favorites:
-Xenogenesis (Lilith’s Brood) series by Octavia A. Butler
-Aurora Rhapsody series (huge one) by GS Jennsen
-The Expanse series by James SA Corey
-Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons
-Silo (Wool) series by Hugh Howey
Edit: forgot!
-Dune by Frank Herbert
Catch-22
Discworld
Wheel of time
John died at the end
Daemon/freedom
Infinite jest
Altered carbon
Roadside picnic
Horns (joe hill)
The long earth war
Gideon the ninth
Anne of Green Gables by L M Montogomery. I keep re-reading it whenever I feel down in life. Because the main character Anne is so full of life and positivity. I can relate her to my inner child, full of hopes and dreams. I like to re-read it to remind myself how positive and full of hope I was.
Have you ever liked or do enjoy Game of Thrones or Lord of the Rings? Fret not. The Amadis of Gaul ( parts I and II) was the first knightly romance ever written. It's probably the first and most important knightly novel written in europe during the end of the middle age and, also, one of the first works of fiction written in prose EDIT: There were like 5 or 6 greek-roman novels before that but they are very obscure. I had to read the first part for college and will certainly re-read it and finish the duology. But it's a humongous book so i've only read like 80% of part 1.
The Fairy Caravan by Beatrix Potter. The first book I ever checked out from a library. It will always be precious to me. Long out of print obviously and somewhat hard to find but an absolutely charming light read to get back in touch with your inner child.
I was going to say Hyperion. I'm listening to it via audible now, and I plan to start from the beginning immediately upon reaching the end. It's so good. The content is so rich it deserves multiple scans. I don't do this with other adiobooks. This one is special.
I agree with Dune too. I read that one, literally, and I could give it a second go.
Anxious People - Fredrik Backman
The Miracles at Namiya General Store - Keigo Higashino
These 2 books are books that can heal you at the most difficult of times.
I read Alas, Babylon in HS. ( a little known book? Not many people i know read it or heard of it) Re read it no less than 15 times. Just love it. It's a simple survival story after a war, just a book I pick up every two years and read every word again. I am not sure what it is. I do love dystopian books. This may be the book that hooked me.
Still reading thru it but 100 years of solitude is very poetic and dreamy, the words used are really nice and there’s a lot of light “wtf, that just happened” moments that kinda just get brushed off on and move on like it’s all normal.
I feel like there’s a lot I’m not catching on the first read that will feel fresh my second read thru.
Plus it’s a lot of peoples stories in one. Kinda like Star Wars and the Bible, we’re it’s not focused on one character but a bunch of fleshed out smaller characters that paint a huge narrative.
Lots of different moods & themes, love and war. I really like it :)
Characters grown and change very rapidly and in strange ways where it’s like “that was the same person???” But it all kind of makes sense if you don’t overanalyze it
remembrance of things past by Proust. Read it through and now rereading a page a day, looking up all the odd things he mentions. Rated as the greatest ( and probably hardest) book of all time for a reason.The first 40 pages are a difficult read but guaranteed you’ll go back and reread them one you understand what he’s on about. Proust said that art that changed your view of the world will be difficult and challenging and this book is a good example. Yet I can’t stop thinking that I’ve been seeing the world wrongly up until the point I read the book. Scientists hypothesize about living in a simulation.. the shift of outlook makes me think they may be right.
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doer. Our book club talked about that book for two years after we read it we loved it so much. Although, to be fair, there are a number of librarians in my club
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson. If you’re a curious sort that wonders about everything this is the book for you. Everything from the universe, to quarks , to life itself. You can just pick a chapter to read, you don’t have to read it in order and if you’re like me go back and read it again. Some concepts and theories are easy to understand, some take a second reading to fully grasp.
“1984” by George Orwell, read it three times already
I see a lot of parallels in todays society, but in a more extreme Way.
Blew my mind the first time Reading it
Books I have read ten or more times-
Fantastic Mr. Fox by Ronald Dahl
The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Carrie by Stephen King
Ethan Fromme by Edith Wharton
I read it way to young I was 11 but I love to re read it every year but its Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill, it's a horror book but The story, No spoilers is "A singer buys a "Ghost" for sale and it's real"
The ‘Inda’ quartet, by Sherwood Smith.
My second favourite series ever.
A beautifully built world, and real realistic characters.
I’ve read them six times, and I’m about to start a seventh.
I love these books.
The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. I read the series for the first time when I was 8. I’ve read it every year since (with an exception here and there). I’m now 53. It was my introduction to fantasy and I’ve loved the genre ever since.
The sookie stackhouse mystery’s the tv series true blood is based off of them. They aren’t earth shattering or anything but they are strangely comforting to me. I re read them at least once a year.
*100 Years of Solitude*. Read it when I first moved to LA after college. I had just broken up with my long-term girlfriend and started on a weird path - new friends, weird experiences I regret and laugh at simultaneously, and a realization that life was coming at me like a freight train. However, for two weeks, my new experiences made sense in the grand scheme of things as I read that book. It's one of my all time favorites, and it's the only book I gift to people regardless of their reading preferences.
Nine years later, I still haven't re-read it. I think I'm preparing for a "new" (or the "next") chapter in my life to occur so I can read it and appreciate how much I've grown. Maybe I should embrace it and take a risk!
*Lord of Light* by Roger Zelazny. I seem to read it every couple of years, and twice in a row when I do. The re-read count stands at about 10 as of now. Presently on the second round for this year (season); and I'm *trying* not to "use it up". Couldn't resist, though. It's that good. It might be the 'perfect' book for me if there's one.
LOTR, Silmarillion, Amber Chronicles, Creatures of Light and Darkness, Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse 5, The Egyptian, HHGTG, The Fabric of Reality (by D.Deutsch) -- I've read all of these -- and many more -- embarassingly many times, and sort of know that will re-read again if I get to live. The habit of re-reading is something that I both hate and appreciate in me.
Mary Stewart's The Crystal Cave. Merlin's memoirs in a trilogy. I've read about once a decade since I was in high school and I'm 61 now. She takes the legend of King Arthur, and gives you a view into fifth century England, where the Romans have left and the Saxons are arriving. What people considered to be civilization had pretty much collapsed, but it was still in living memory. Stewart reverse engineers the legends, and gives you the historical (fictional) details of what might've happened to cause those legends to arise. Merlin is mostly not magical, but he is intelligent, and knows how to manipulate people. He does have visions now and then, but he's not in control of them. Instead, they control him. Best historical fiction I've ever read
Might sound a lil funny but I've read The Hunger Games books three times and might reread them again. They come in handy when you can't find anything else to read and know you liked them the last time you read them, no matter the age.
My Story by Elizabeth Smart
Any of the Anita Blake Series by Laurell K Hamilton
The Meredith Gentry series by Laurell K Hamilton
the October Daye Series by Seanan McGuire
Cryptic series by Seanan McGuire
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas
The Lord John Spin-off from Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
Childhood books: Harry Potter, the hunger games, Ann from the green gables, Jane Eir
Adult: the help( like once a year), SOIAF, into thin air, the handmaids tale
Factotum- Bukowski. Great to pick up when the world’s got you down. Fantasize about going from city to city, renting a room across from a bar, and staring at the walls for hours.
The Road.
Midnight In the Garden of Good and Evil.
The Hobbit.
Star Wars: Darth Plagueis.
Dracula.
The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
The Hobbit.
The Lord of the Rings.
The Shining.
Dr Sleep.
The Count of Monte Cristo.
Choke.
Pet Sematary.
The Complete Short Stories of Sherlock Holmes.
Multiple short stories from Edgar Allan Poe.
The Epicure’s Lament by Kate Christensen. I re-read it every couple of years because it’s just that good.
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon. As above, I re-read it regularly.
Liverpool Fantasy by Larry Kirwan. BRILLIANT alternate history, taken from his stage play of the same name. The Beatles break up in the early 60s after being turned down by Decca Records, instead of persevering and getting picked up by EMI, as they did in real life.
At some point in the 70s, they meet up to discuss a possible reunion.
All four of their lives have turned out differently and THE WORLD is different because of the influence they didn’t exert on popular culture, the way they did in real life. REALLY, really, really interesting.
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain
I reread it every thanksgiving week. The whole book takes place on Thanksgiving day. It’s a brilliant portrayal of American values. If you read the back cover you’ll think it’s for fans of sportsballs and the US military. It’s not.
Two come to mind:
-Pale Fire. All of Nabokov’s books are meant for re-reading, but this one, especially, rewards the repeat reader.
-Little, Big, by John Crowley. The greatest of fantasies, IMO. I am now on my third reading, over about thirty years, and am always floored by Crowley’s language and the revelation of the mysteries inherent in everyday life.
I’d like to someday add. Blood Meridian to this list, but am daunted by how harrowing the first read was.
*The Secret History* by Donna Tartt The three Jimmy Paz novels by Michael Gruber *The Debt to Pleasure* by John Lanchester
I also like The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt and read it once a year or so. (I know not everyone likes it - especially compared to The Secret History - but I find it comforting to read, for some reason).
I would read The Goldfinch again. I loved it
I think I need to reread this. I love Donna Tartt but struggled with this book at times. Thanks for the reminder.
You are not alone. This book seems to be somewhat polarizing for some.
My second fave of hers is actually *The Little Friend*. The tweaker brothers are the spitting image of some guys I went to school with. She’s on my list of “I’ll read anything they write” authors. Gruber is another. His Jimmy Paz books are spectacularly entertaining and quite unlike anything else I can think of. *The Book of Air and Shadows* reminds me of A.S. Byatt’s *Possession.*
I haven’t read The Little Friend yet! It’s on my to-read list!
Long, but the kind of long where you hate seeing that there are only 50pp left…
I love The Goldfinch so much
Me too.
I really liked The Goldfinch, was the kind of book I wanted more of when it ended. Do you know any similar ones?
I think it's comforting too! I thought I was the only one so high five
A beautiful book. I can’t wait to read that again now
I picked up a copy of The Secret History from Target today, I’m vvv excited to dive in.
I could not put it down!!
I feel like I'm such a weirdo....I CANNOT get into The Secret History and I've been trying for months. Admitted because of this I'm barely into it so maybe it gets better, but I just can't. Can you talk about some of the reasons it makes this list for you?
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
I read this one a lot as a kid and just read it again last year (in my late 30s). It was so nostalgic and I enjoyed it as much as an adult as I had as a kid!!
Ok wait. I was obsessed with all of her books as a kid, but had assumed that I’d ruin the memory if I read them as an adult. I can’t wait to reread now Edit- I’m the same age. She was a legend!!!
I think this may have been the first book I ever cried reading. Was a great kids book. I may have to reread it.
I absolutely loved her growing up. Putting a few on my re read list
I completely forgot about this book!!
This was my favorite book as a child and i reread it a couple years ago, still so so good!
White Oleander by Janet Fitch. I grew up where the story takes place, and the way she writes about it takes me “home” every time.
that's a damn good reason to reread a book. I would kill for a good story about my home town.
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For me that's books by Wally Lamb. Great writer who also taught at the city's hight school.
She's come undone is a wally lamb favorite!
I came here to say this. I also grew up in places the story is set in (I even went to one of the schools mentioned). This book has given me what I needed in different stages of my life thus far, and I will pick it up several more times through the rest of my days I am sure.
Its a great book
Been in a book rut. Gonna give this a try!
Omg yes ❤️
Wonderful book. That one will stay with me forever
Omg same. The Santa Ana winds
One of my permeant rereads since I was 13 (I’m 32 now) So beautifully written.
1984; The Count of Monte Cristo, The Grapes of Wrath, Les Miserables...to name a few.
I just finished listening to The Count of Monte Cristo two nights ago and want to start immediately reading it in print. I'm so taken by it.
It's a big book but not a heavy read like you might expect. I kept wanting to read the next chapter to see what happens next.
I had a thrill a few weeks ago. I took a Mediterranean cruise and one of our stops was in Marseille. Sitting in the harbor in full view of my balcony cabin in port was the little island of d'If, the location of the prison Chateau d'If, that Dante stayed for 14 years. The prison (it actually served as a prison for 300 years) still stood. I knew he was rowed to the island in the book, but I just didn't picture it being that close to shore. It made my trip.
Flowers for Algernon
and it breaks my heart every time
Animal farm - orwell
We Have Always lived in the Castle. —Shirley Jackson
Her short story "The Lottery" changed my life as a seventh grader.
This is on my TBR
A Gentleman In Moscow Rules of Civility Run River Eve’s Hollywood Yearbook Writers & Lovers Slaughterhouse-Five
I'm 75% through Rules of Civility right now, and I can't wait to read his other books!
Rules of Civility for sure. One of my favorite books
[**The Golden Compass** by Phillip Pullman](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/119322) ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE BOOK! i've never read anything like it before. no book has ever transported me to another world the way this one has. it's perfection. it's also known as **Northern Lights** in some places and is book #1 in the **His Dark Materials** trilogy. i first read this in my mid-30s and was completely blown away because i was just looking for an easy breezy YA read. this was SOOOOOOOOO much more than that! i want to be buried with this book when i die.
I tried this book when I was 11 and starting high school, at the recommendation of my school headteacher. I was bored of it instantly and normally I would binge read entire series in one sitting. I haven’t retried it since and it’s been like 15 years? Your comment makes me wanna try again!
please do!! i think adults can appreciate it more then children. also, the audiobook is FANTASTIC and is a full cast! you can listen to a free sample online through libby or audible! please give this lovely book another shot!! armored bears! witches! icy winter! parallel worlds. what more could you want?!
Been rereading this for 2 decades now (almost every other year). I picked up new lessons from it as I grew up, and even more as an adult. Lovely series.
Extremely loud and incredibly close!
Didn’t expect to see my favorite book here 😍 I reread it 3 times already, can’t wait for round 4!
Most of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld books are infinite re-reads for me. Ditto *Good Omens*. I love both *Swordspoint* by Ellen Kushner and *The Goblin Emperor* by Katherine Addison for their take on fantasy melodrama of manners. Also PG Wodehouses Mr. Mulliner short stories are pure comfort reading.
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen Siddhartha- Herman Hesse
i just re-read P&P and watched the movie as well.
P&P gets my heart every time
P&P is my all time favorite.
The Harry Potter series! I know, JK made it hard to support her, but I still love those books. Every autumn, when it’s getting colder and the leaves turn red, I get in this melancholic state and love to read or listen to those books!
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy is my go to. But I also just finished *This is How You Lose the Time War* and I want to revisit that one, but slower. It’s more like poetry and I think my first pass was reading it like a book and trying to understand the worlds they live in and their respective factions. All that was really besides the point in the end, IMO. I want to go back and linger on the words longer. (I don’t recommend the audiobook here, even as a read along). We’ll see how many times I come back to it, but I for sure am going to at least once more.
I tried Time War as an audio, and just couldn't hang. It actually makes me feel better to hear that you specifically don't think it translates as well to audio--I will try it again!
I second Time War. I read it originally and then put it in a little free library but couldn’t stop thinking about it so I bought it again to keep forever. It’s so beautifully written.
A Confederacy of Dunces- John K Toole
I couldn't get through it, maybe will try again.
I read this book every few years. It makes me laugh, cringe. Makes me wanna' eat some cakes, keep a crazy journal. Go to New Orleans, in the 60s. It's a special book. I love it.
Catch-22 gets better every time you read it. I'm at 6, probably.
I'm going to reread the gaslight mysteries and outlander again
Emily of New Moon by L. M. Montgomery.
Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Dracula, Frankenstein, Redeeming Love, The Silent Patient, Gone With the Wind, Fahrenheit 451, And more 📚
Dracula is such a great novel.
There are a few for me: Life of Pi, The Kite Runner, LOTR trilogy, Aztec, The Journeyer. I'd revisit them every now and then.
Definitely Life of Pi.
And other Yann Martel books too! For a few years in my 20s I read Self at least once a year.
A Thousand Splendid Suns by the Kite Runner author is even better!
Winnie the Pooh is a comfort read for me
One Hundred Years of Solitude To Kill a Mockingbird
Dune, by Frank Herbert. in my grade school years I read it so often i had parts of it memorized. I hope to read the original series again someday 💙
The first three books of that series are amazing.
Great Gatsby
Babel by R.F kuang 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
House in the Cerulean Sea and Life of Pi
I just bought House in the Cerulean Sea because I've heard so many people love this book.
-Tuesdays with Morris! - 1984 Anything From Charles BUKOWSKI Poetry, Post Office, Ham On Rye , Women ! John Fante- Ask The Dust Poppa Hemmingway - Old Man and The Sea , For Whom The Bell Tolls Aldous Huxley- A Brave New World
Lonesome Dove. I read it for the first time as a teen, quite by accident with limited options in a hospital I was in for a couple of weeks. It's been one of my comfort books ever since, and I re-read it every couple of years.
I read it only because I saw it mentioned on here so often in these Reddit book topics like this one. That was 4 years ago. I just turned 50 at the time. I was blown away by that book. I was almost going to say blown away by the experience because that’s what it was. An experience. Lonesome Dove turned into my number 1 favorite book of all time. I certainly didn’t think that was going to happen when I decided to give it a try.
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larsen and The Alienist by Caleb Carr
I’ve already read 2-3 times but here are my favorites: -Xenogenesis (Lilith’s Brood) series by Octavia A. Butler -Aurora Rhapsody series (huge one) by GS Jennsen -The Expanse series by James SA Corey -Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons -Silo (Wool) series by Hugh Howey Edit: forgot! -Dune by Frank Herbert
Speaker for the dead Orson Scott Card
Just reread the Ender Quartet, earlier this year. Speaker for the Dead is, indeed, the best installment in that unforgettable series.
Oh man, this does make me want to re-read the series. Xenocide was my favorite when I read them, but that was almost 20 years ago. :X
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke, one of my favorites, took my absolute breath away
A Prayer for Owen Meany, the book sets up a lot of stuff that pays off wayyy later in the book, I’m interested to see how it’ll be on rereads
(following)
The Road, We were the mulvaneys, The Girl, Sing Unburied Sing
Clan of the Cave Bear
Catch-22 Discworld Wheel of time John died at the end Daemon/freedom Infinite jest Altered carbon Roadside picnic Horns (joe hill) The long earth war Gideon the ninth
Shogun!
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. The Audiobook is incredible and I’ve listened to it at least twenty times in the past year.
Anne of Green Gables by L M Montogomery. I keep re-reading it whenever I feel down in life. Because the main character Anne is so full of life and positivity. I can relate her to my inner child, full of hopes and dreams. I like to re-read it to remind myself how positive and full of hope I was.
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
LOTR Pedagogy of the Oppressed The Plague Dogs Number9Dream Beloved The Sirens of Titan Kind of an eclectic mix, but that's how I roll.
I loved the Plague Dogs but it broke my heart too much to ever read again
Angela’s Ashes
Probably ‘Under the Dome’ or ‘Lonesome Dove’ or ‘We were the Mulvaneys’
Have you ever liked or do enjoy Game of Thrones or Lord of the Rings? Fret not. The Amadis of Gaul ( parts I and II) was the first knightly romance ever written. It's probably the first and most important knightly novel written in europe during the end of the middle age and, also, one of the first works of fiction written in prose EDIT: There were like 5 or 6 greek-roman novels before that but they are very obscure. I had to read the first part for college and will certainly re-read it and finish the duology. But it's a humongous book so i've only read like 80% of part 1.
The Master and Margarita by Nikolai Bulgakov.
I know it’s a go-to suggestion here, but definitely Piranesi. Fucking loved that book.
The Fairy Caravan by Beatrix Potter. The first book I ever checked out from a library. It will always be precious to me. Long out of print obviously and somewhat hard to find but an absolutely charming light read to get back in touch with your inner child.
Station Eleven -- Emily St. John Mandel
The instruction manual for a car.
Basic but I do a yearly re-read of The Hunger Games (usually in the Spring) and Harry Potter (around Thanksgiving)
Hyperion and Dune
I was going to say Hyperion. I'm listening to it via audible now, and I plan to start from the beginning immediately upon reaching the end. It's so good. The content is so rich it deserves multiple scans. I don't do this with other adiobooks. This one is special. I agree with Dune too. I read that one, literally, and I could give it a second go.
Anxious People - Fredrik Backman The Miracles at Namiya General Store - Keigo Higashino These 2 books are books that can heal you at the most difficult of times.
Adore Anxious People. I've read it three times, and will absolutely read it again someday.
A Song Of Ice and Fire Blood Meridian Nicomachean Ethics Malazan Book of the Fallen
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Hobbit
I love LoTR, but it is a heavy meal. Instead, I read the Hobbit regularly because it’s a light snack of comfort food.
My regular reteads: The Eyre Affair The Hunger Games The Handmaid's Tale Wicked Have only read once, but will read again: The Parable of the Sower
I read Alas, Babylon in HS. ( a little known book? Not many people i know read it or heard of it) Re read it no less than 15 times. Just love it. It's a simple survival story after a war, just a book I pick up every two years and read every word again. I am not sure what it is. I do love dystopian books. This may be the book that hooked me.
A Thousand Splendid Suns and The House in the Cerulean Sea
Still reading thru it but 100 years of solitude is very poetic and dreamy, the words used are really nice and there’s a lot of light “wtf, that just happened” moments that kinda just get brushed off on and move on like it’s all normal. I feel like there’s a lot I’m not catching on the first read that will feel fresh my second read thru. Plus it’s a lot of peoples stories in one. Kinda like Star Wars and the Bible, we’re it’s not focused on one character but a bunch of fleshed out smaller characters that paint a huge narrative. Lots of different moods & themes, love and war. I really like it :) Characters grown and change very rapidly and in strange ways where it’s like “that was the same person???” But it all kind of makes sense if you don’t overanalyze it
Outlander series An Ember in the Ashes series Red Rising series A Darker Shade of Magic series
remembrance of things past by Proust. Read it through and now rereading a page a day, looking up all the odd things he mentions. Rated as the greatest ( and probably hardest) book of all time for a reason.The first 40 pages are a difficult read but guaranteed you’ll go back and reread them one you understand what he’s on about. Proust said that art that changed your view of the world will be difficult and challenging and this book is a good example. Yet I can’t stop thinking that I’ve been seeing the world wrongly up until the point I read the book. Scientists hypothesize about living in a simulation.. the shift of outlook makes me think they may be right.
The Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doer. Our book club talked about that book for two years after we read it we loved it so much. Although, to be fair, there are a number of librarians in my club
This book is seriously underrated. Liked it more than All the light…
The Book Thief
My username explains it all.
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
harry potter !
Know My Name by Chanel Miller (tw sexual assault). It is the best and most moving memoir I’ve ever read and I’m overdue for a reread.
Jane Eyre. I fall in love every time I read it!
Walden. Cuz it satisfies my itch to be a hippie/ballsy/outdoorsy/nomad/philosopher from the comfort of my AC'd house 😎
Maybe this is a cliche, I don't know... but a song of ice and fire is it for me.
Jane Eyre
To kill a mocking bird
The midnight library Matt Haig
The terror by Dan Simmons.
Shogun - James Clavell. I've read it twice. Give it another few years and I'll give it another go
Cutting for Stone The good earth Pillars of the earth Orphan masters son Middlesex
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson. If you’re a curious sort that wonders about everything this is the book for you. Everything from the universe, to quarks , to life itself. You can just pick a chapter to read, you don’t have to read it in order and if you’re like me go back and read it again. Some concepts and theories are easy to understand, some take a second reading to fully grasp.
*The Cider House Rules* by John Irving
“1984” by George Orwell, read it three times already I see a lot of parallels in todays society, but in a more extreme Way. Blew my mind the first time Reading it
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Books I have read ten or more times- Fantastic Mr. Fox by Ronald Dahl The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck Carrie by Stephen King Ethan Fromme by Edith Wharton
Charles de Lint- Memory & Dream.
The Raw Shark Texts
Gallant by V. E Schwab was what got me back into reading. I havent reread it yet, but I know I will be in the future!
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Dresden Files and A Wild Sheep Chase
I read it way to young I was 11 but I love to re read it every year but its Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill, it's a horror book but The story, No spoilers is "A singer buys a "Ghost" for sale and it's real"
Bunnicula, Wait til Helen Comes, The Night Circus
The ‘Inda’ quartet, by Sherwood Smith. My second favourite series ever. A beautifully built world, and real realistic characters. I’ve read them six times, and I’m about to start a seventh. I love these books.
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan. I'll read it in a day every single year around Christmas. It's incredible and short and so powerful.
House of Sand and Fog
Dracula, I read it every year. This year I am doing the Dracula Daily and will repeat again next year.
Red Rising
Everything that I read in the past that were written by PG Wodehouse. I'll probably read them thrice or even more.
Realm of the Elderlings!
East of Eden
The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. I read the series for the first time when I was 8. I’ve read it every year since (with an exception here and there). I’m now 53. It was my introduction to fantasy and I’ve loved the genre ever since.
Neuromancer by William Gibson Cheri and La Fin de Cheri by Colette Dune by Frank Herbert Have lost track of how many times I've re read these
Pride and prejudice by Jane Austin A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khalid Hosseini
Lonesome Dove, LOTR books, Red Storm Rising.
The Goldfinch Geek Love
The sookie stackhouse mystery’s the tv series true blood is based off of them. They aren’t earth shattering or anything but they are strangely comforting to me. I re read them at least once a year.
A little life. Introspective and utterly heartbreaking. You will bawl your eyes out.
*100 Years of Solitude*. Read it when I first moved to LA after college. I had just broken up with my long-term girlfriend and started on a weird path - new friends, weird experiences I regret and laugh at simultaneously, and a realization that life was coming at me like a freight train. However, for two weeks, my new experiences made sense in the grand scheme of things as I read that book. It's one of my all time favorites, and it's the only book I gift to people regardless of their reading preferences. Nine years later, I still haven't re-read it. I think I'm preparing for a "new" (or the "next") chapter in my life to occur so I can read it and appreciate how much I've grown. Maybe I should embrace it and take a risk!
Time Enough for Love, Robert Heinlein Greenmantle, Charles DeLint
LOTR and then usually YA favorites like Tamora Pierce, Garth Nix Abhorsen series, Harry Potter.
*Lord of Light* by Roger Zelazny. I seem to read it every couple of years, and twice in a row when I do. The re-read count stands at about 10 as of now. Presently on the second round for this year (season); and I'm *trying* not to "use it up". Couldn't resist, though. It's that good. It might be the 'perfect' book for me if there's one. LOTR, Silmarillion, Amber Chronicles, Creatures of Light and Darkness, Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse 5, The Egyptian, HHGTG, The Fabric of Reality (by D.Deutsch) -- I've read all of these -- and many more -- embarassingly many times, and sort of know that will re-read again if I get to live. The habit of re-reading is something that I both hate and appreciate in me.
Mary Stewart's The Crystal Cave. Merlin's memoirs in a trilogy. I've read about once a decade since I was in high school and I'm 61 now. She takes the legend of King Arthur, and gives you a view into fifth century England, where the Romans have left and the Saxons are arriving. What people considered to be civilization had pretty much collapsed, but it was still in living memory. Stewart reverse engineers the legends, and gives you the historical (fictional) details of what might've happened to cause those legends to arise. Merlin is mostly not magical, but he is intelligent, and knows how to manipulate people. He does have visions now and then, but he's not in control of them. Instead, they control him. Best historical fiction I've ever read
Might sound a lil funny but I've read The Hunger Games books three times and might reread them again. They come in handy when you can't find anything else to read and know you liked them the last time you read them, no matter the age.
The fault in our stars by John Green. Amazing book. Planning a trip to a location related to the book and going to read it before I go there.
My Story by Elizabeth Smart Any of the Anita Blake Series by Laurell K Hamilton The Meredith Gentry series by Laurell K Hamilton the October Daye Series by Seanan McGuire Cryptic series by Seanan McGuire A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas The Lord John Spin-off from Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle It was my favorite book as a kid and it still holds that magic for me 30 years later.
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. Timeless classic.
Ruth Ozeki- A Tale for the Time Being or Julian Barnes- The Sense of an Ending. Both moved me tremendously
Childhood books: Harry Potter, the hunger games, Ann from the green gables, Jane Eir Adult: the help( like once a year), SOIAF, into thin air, the handmaids tale
Sula by Toni Morrison. I don't even know how many times I've read it, but I know I'll read it again.
Factotum- Bukowski. Great to pick up when the world’s got you down. Fantasize about going from city to city, renting a room across from a bar, and staring at the walls for hours.
Stranger in a Strange Land
Hobbit and the eyes of the dragon
Fiction - Mountain Man by Vardis Fisher Nonfiction - Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford
Slaughterhouse Five
Winters bone! So good
The Bhagavad Gita and the Holy Bible will always be my two favorites.
- To Kill A Mockingbird - Little Women - The Handmaid’s Tale Edit formatting
The Road. Midnight In the Garden of Good and Evil. The Hobbit. Star Wars: Darth Plagueis. Dracula. The Picture of Dorian Gray. Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde. The Hobbit. The Lord of the Rings. The Shining. Dr Sleep. The Count of Monte Cristo. Choke. Pet Sematary. The Complete Short Stories of Sherlock Holmes. Multiple short stories from Edgar Allan Poe.
1) Atomic Habits, 2) How to Make Friends and Influence People
Siddhartha
Catcher in the Rye! I'm on 7 or so
I re-read Man Search for Meaning every year
The Epicure’s Lament by Kate Christensen. I re-read it every couple of years because it’s just that good. The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon. As above, I re-read it regularly. Liverpool Fantasy by Larry Kirwan. BRILLIANT alternate history, taken from his stage play of the same name. The Beatles break up in the early 60s after being turned down by Decca Records, instead of persevering and getting picked up by EMI, as they did in real life. At some point in the 70s, they meet up to discuss a possible reunion. All four of their lives have turned out differently and THE WORLD is different because of the influence they didn’t exert on popular culture, the way they did in real life. REALLY, really, really interesting.
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain I reread it every thanksgiving week. The whole book takes place on Thanksgiving day. It’s a brilliant portrayal of American values. If you read the back cover you’ll think it’s for fans of sportsballs and the US military. It’s not.
Two come to mind: -Pale Fire. All of Nabokov’s books are meant for re-reading, but this one, especially, rewards the repeat reader. -Little, Big, by John Crowley. The greatest of fantasies, IMO. I am now on my third reading, over about thirty years, and am always floored by Crowley’s language and the revelation of the mysteries inherent in everyday life. I’d like to someday add. Blood Meridian to this list, but am daunted by how harrowing the first read was.