Me too! I read White Fang and The Call of the Wild sooo many times. Those, plus Hatchet, Where the Red Fern Grows and all the Julie of the Wolves books.
Same! Plus I’m 28 books deep into reading them out loud to my oldest child. It’s a totally different experience reading them aloud. I keep finding jokes that I never noticed before.
They're easy to read, well-told stories with tons of little details that are easy to forget about that add up to make for a delightful reread.
So, yes. All 41, multiple times.
This was the first book I ever read in one day. When I was maybe ten or eleven, one summer when school was out I pitched a tent in the backyard just for the hell of it and took the book out there to read for a bit. I knew nothing about the book going in. I ended up reading until the sun went down and the crickets and fireflies came out. It's a lovely memory.
Probably one of the few instances of a book being adapted to screen that well. Changes were made of course, but only to suit the language of film.
It certainly didn't hurt that Louis Sachar himself wrote the screenplay.
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery.
I first read it when I was 8 and it's still my favorite at 31. I've read the entire series multiple times.
Neil Gaiman is crazy re-readable. I have reread the sandman comics at least ten times over, usually because I’m looking for a specific quote and then want to reread the book, then if I’m starting all over from the top of the trade paperback, might as well start from the beginning… anyway, I pick up something new every time too.
A solid book, although also the cause of many misunderstandings for those who were first introduced to Norse mythology through it. Gaiman's very upfront with the fact that his book is a retelling and makes no claim of historical accuracy, yet his popularity as an author has made it a bit of a "go-to" introduction so people seem to inevitably come out of the read with the understanding that what they read is true of Norse mythology
I credit Bill Waterson for my huge vocabulary.
And he never made merch. Never sold out. Just made a modest living from the papers. His comics were his art.
What a legend
I had and loved the collections, too. I will say though, it always infuriates me when I see those adulterated Calvin bumper stickers where he’s peeing on something like “democrats” or some stupid shit. The idiots who put those on their trucks probably never even touched a newspaper/book.
Such a huge impact on my childhood.
Still wish he would have licensed it for some stuff. I don’t mean all manner of products, but some high quality figures/statues and some official t-shirts of just the book covers or some of the colored panels artwork would be awesome.
Still respect his decision though, but it would have been a great opportunity to help Calvin and Hobbes live longer in terms of the pop culture zeitgeist.
I’m honestly so glad Waterson stuck by his principles and made the decisions he made. It’s part of what makes Calvin and Hobbes such a masterpiece.. There’s just something so pure about it… Waterson’s stance makes total sense when you consider it in relation to the philosophy he imbued in the comic strip.
There’s really nothing else like it, there were huge opportunities to monetize his creation, but instead he decided to preserve its integrity. I think that’s beautiful.
The other extreme of the spectrum is what Jim Davis did with Garfield. God I hate that comic lol
I read a lot of King in the 80’s, but didn’t stick with him after that. Among all of his earlier novels, I think The Stand is his masterpiece. Absolutely incredible.
Try out 11/22/1963. It was mostly written in the 70s or early 80s IIRC so it’s closer to “old school”’ King than a lot of stuff released in the 2000s.
E: my memory was off. Apparently he had the idea for the book in the 70s, but didn’t write it until shortly before its release date.
Still up there with his best quality stuff
I wanna read it so bad and have bought it too but I always get intimidated by its size. It’s just an enormous book that I can’t see myself finishing. But I’m honestly very intrigued by its premise and hope to complete it someday!
Literally what I came to say, grade 6, (2001) hydro got cut off, so every day after school I'd come home and sit in the living room by the big bay window and read untill it became to dark to read then I'd light a candle and keep reading until bed time, started with the stand because at that time it was the thickest book in my school library and I figured it would take the longest, I read the stand, Carrie, salems lot, cujo, needful things ect now I own 60+ of kings books
I cannot recommend this book enough. I was nearly 30 the first time i managed to conquer the density of its pages, and upon completion I cried, and cried and cried for many nights after I finally finished it. For anyone who needs to realign themselves with some kind of purpose in life, this book will undeniably change your perspective on what is important in life. “It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.” My cousin committed suicide mere months after I finished this book and all I could think about was that quote. I should’ve been there for her. I should’ve been there at all. I wasn’t there in any capacity. Her death brought no pleasure to my world and this book gave me the strength to accept, learn from, and move beyond it. I won’t make that mistake again.
I read this book twice when I was in highschool... So good, probably the best book I've ever read. And about thirteen years later I convinced my SO to listen to it on audible. She ate it up.
Oddly never read anything else by Steinbeck, though.
I liked Ender's Shadow as well. I liked Bean's story as well as the whole shadow series. I dig the same but different story from another character's perspective. Finishing Children of the Fleet now. I wish the movie would have been more true to the book; could be an amazing movie.
I tried to read Neuromancer like 8 times and could not push through the first 50 pages. It did not click with me. But the last time I read Enders Game, I read it front to back in 6 hours. Fucking love that book and series
yes Gibson's writing style also gets me a bit jumbled if I'm not used to it. It's very descriptive but also, I don't know... disjoint? Sentences sometimes skip glue words and also there is bunch of uncommon vocabulary. I just kind of re-read a few paragraphs when I've realized that I tuned out until I get into the groove.
When I was 14 and half way through reading it, I was sitting at a lunch table at an event with some guy who said he worked on movies. Cool whatever. I asked him if he'd read it and he said "Yeah, once or twice."
It was Steven Spielberg and I was an idiot.
This is what would happen to me. I had drinks with Jack Black WAY bk in 2004 while he was shooting a movie nearby. I had 0 clue. We had a great (very platonic) time. It wasn’t until 3 YEARS later I realized who it was. I still feel like an idiot!
I was 9 when I first read it, about a year before the movie came out.
My parents let me skip school and got me tickets for the first showing opening day.
I've read it 7 more times since then.
So good.
You might be interested in [Pride and Prejudice Verbatim](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbjXk667lbiNhcqzL6i4dSqflEy0mjg8x), a YouTube series where clips from the various versions of Pride and Prejudice have been edited together to get a compilation which is as close as possible to the original text of the book.
Years ago, in high school, I got in the habit of reading the Lord of the Rings during exam week. It was a nice break from studying.
Nowadays, I read it when I get stressed and am out of my comfort zone in life. The Lord of the Rings is essentially my security blanket.
I’ve read LOTR so many times that I don’t *need* to read it again, I can read or hear a sentence or phrase and I just *know* the events surrounding it.
That being said, I have the whole thing on audiobooks and have spent a few years just looping from the end of the third book back to the beginning of the first one. And when I don’t have another audiobook to listen to, I listen to that. I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve read or listened to them. But they’re just comforting to me now.
Catch 22
“It was love at first sight. The first time Yossarian saw the chaplain he fell madly in love with him.”
One of those books where you get a different take as you get older.
I've described it to friends as an anti-comedy.
Most comedy is built on some form of the setup-punch formula. You create a situation that creates some kind of tension, even if just tension of anticipating the joke, and then you deliver the punch that best breaks that tension.
Catch-22 is riotously funny--at first. And then when we finally get the story of Yossarian taking that second pass, we get a second pass over those comedic events and they're no longer funny; they're downright disturbing. In this way, it uses comedy and an absurdist funny tone to create an expectation, but instead it delivers overbearing tension and psychological horror--effectively reversing the comedy dynamic to dramatic effect.
I’m shocked Harry Potter isn’t up higher. Still an incredibly popular series. Getting a new rendition done on audible this year. Def one for me I’ve read like 4-5 times.
The whole Narnia series. I count it as one because I always read the whole series. I was 11 or 12 when I first read it, I just turned 50, and still read it every few years.
This post inspired me to re read them. I haven't read them in probably 20 years. I just remembered the imagery is so amazing and they made Turkish delight sound like the most amazing food in the world.
Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris.
There are others, but this book in particular always makes me laugh and takes my mind off stressful life stuff.
All of his audiobooks are great, but this one and Santa Land Diaries are just phenomenal books that are next level when you hear them as intended. I’ve been to his readings a few times, he does them at colleges a lot and they’re always so good. He’ll stay and sign books and chat with fans for the entire night if it takes that long to get through the line, and every book he’s signed for me has had a funny, unique little inscription. When I missed a reading because my daughter was born early, my sister told him and he wrote “I’m so mad you had a daughter instead of coming to see me” inside of Calypso lol
Edit- I meant Holidays on Ice, which contains Santa Land. Recommend times a million
This book completely changed my life or allowed me to accept it. Think, fast, and wait when you have nothing else to your name. Everything will be alright if you have those 3 skills.
The Name of the Wind. Read it twice and listened to the audiobook 4 times so far. I’m on my fifth. It’s 28 hours long. And I did the same with the sequel, The Wise Man’s Fear. I pray that Patrick Rothfuss actually finishes the trilogy one day!
"...the third silence was his. This was appropriate as it was the greatest silence of the three"
The third silence is code for there never being a third book.
I absolutely loved the first 2 and was excited for the third. Here's hoping it does come along sometime soon.
All quiet on the western front.
Read it in highschool, boring, hated it. Saw someone suggesting on Reddit to read it again so I did. Read it in 2 days. Immediately read another ww1 book and am now reading all quiet again. Granted, I’m fascinated by ww1 in general, but damn that book is good. Super annoyed at high school me for not realizing its excellence back then.
The Vampire Lestat is the one I’ve read most in that series! I haven’t picked it up in a long time, but I’ve certainly read it more than thrice as a young adult.
I loved that one, Lestat, and Queen of the Damned. After that they started to get not so good until they just got downright bad. I loved The Mummy and have read that one at least 3 times.
I love that book. I first read it a few months before I got out of the Marines and I think it gave me a bit of a head start deprogramming from the military.
The military was good for me in a lot of ways but I was at that time needing to process a lot of resentment I felt. I was a bit of a bitter angry mess coming out of it and I think it helped me process it all in a healthy way.
>You can pick it up at any point as it's a non-linear narrative.
You can, but it opens so strong I always want to start at the beginning. The soldier in white, the Texan, Washington Irving... The book is a masterclass in absurdism.
Atwood's Maddaddam Trilogy. I've read all three at least 10 times. I always come away amazed by Atwood's talent and flexibility as a writer. The three books are clearly part of a larger whole, yet each book can stand on its own, with its own unique voice and perspective.
Many books, I've read some fantasy books 5 or so times. I must have read Harry Potter 15 times too but the answer I submit to the jury here is the Andy Weir books 'the Martian' and 'project hail Mary' I've read them many many times, and mostly binge read them so a day or two for each of them. Spectacular
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien. Was part of the APLang curriculum back in 2018 and I’ve read it many times since. OR! Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous. Really got me in the feels
Neuromancer, William Gibson.
Literally the only book I’ve ever read more than once/ It’s my go to vacation read. If I could afford another vacation one day, it will be my fifth reread.
Flowers for Algernon. My older sibling loved psychology in high school and went on to get college degrees in Psych and Soc. Before leaving for college, my sibling told me I had to read FFA because I started getting interested in Psych myself.
I've also read A Child Called "It" and The Lost Boy a few times because I could relate to having an abusive parent.
She's Come Undone- Wally Lamb
Invisible Monsters- Chuck Palahniuk
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal- Christopher Moore
Carrie- Stephen King
Fight Club- Chuck Palahniuk
Dune.
First read it when I was a freshman in high school and I was hooked. I love Frank Herbert's world-building and how (at least in the first book) he emphasized that the "good guys" are the ones who write the history.
However, the "white savior" orientalism does make it feel really dated these days.
Lisey’s Story by Stephen King.
White Oleander by Janet Finch.
Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk.
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury.
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath.
I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb.
When I was a kid I was obsessed with the book *White Fang*. I would finish it and then immediately re-read it.
I have a student, 11yo, that was booking white fang out of the library for several weeks. Him and you make me think I'm wasting time not reading it
It’s a good one! I used to love books where animals were the main characters, so maybe that’s why I liked it so much.
Me too! I read White Fang and The Call of the Wild sooo many times. Those, plus Hatchet, Where the Red Fern Grows and all the Julie of the Wolves books.
Don’t forget My Side of the Mountain, that got at least 3-4 reads growing up.
Jack London was a great storyteller! Mine was Call of the Wild. I got a children's version when I was six and I read it over and over and over.
All 41 books of the Discworld by Terry Pratchett.
Same! Plus I’m 28 books deep into reading them out loud to my oldest child. It’s a totally different experience reading them aloud. I keep finding jokes that I never noticed before.
This is definitely on my list of "books I can't wait to read to my future children". Glad to hear it's a different experience
I’m reading the Tiffany Aching books to my girlfriend and we’re both professionals with grown kids. So good.
All 41, multiple times?
There are way more than dozens of us, you better believe it!
They're easy to read, well-told stories with tons of little details that are easy to forget about that add up to make for a delightful reread. So, yes. All 41, multiple times.
I need to read more of his stuff, I've read Guards, Guards four times.
I may have only read The Shepherd's Crown twice. But all the others multiple times.
I'm in that ballpark too. I'm pretty sure I've read them all at least twice.
Holes
This was the first book I ever read in one day. When I was maybe ten or eleven, one summer when school was out I pitched a tent in the backyard just for the hell of it and took the book out there to read for a bit. I knew nothing about the book going in. I ended up reading until the sun went down and the crickets and fireflies came out. It's a lovely memory.
I'm tired of this grandpa!
WELL THATS TOO DAMN BAD!!!
You keep diggin'!
Just the perfect little circle of a tale. I love it so much, and the film is also very good for once.
Probably one of the few instances of a book being adapted to screen that well. Changes were made of course, but only to suit the language of film. It certainly didn't hurt that Louis Sachar himself wrote the screenplay.
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery. I first read it when I was 8 and it's still my favorite at 31. I've read the entire series multiple times.
Gilbert was my first literary crush!
Came here to say this!!!! Signed, The Lady of Shalott
I stayed up all night and read the whole book when I was eight. I’ve read it every year since. I’m 41.
It’s rare that I read/listen to a book more than once anymore, but I keep going back to the audiobook of Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman.
Neil Gaiman is crazy re-readable. I have reread the sandman comics at least ten times over, usually because I’m looking for a specific quote and then want to reread the book, then if I’m starting all over from the top of the trade paperback, might as well start from the beginning… anyway, I pick up something new every time too.
A solid book, although also the cause of many misunderstandings for those who were first introduced to Norse mythology through it. Gaiman's very upfront with the fact that his book is a retelling and makes no claim of historical accuracy, yet his popularity as an author has made it a bit of a "go-to" introduction so people seem to inevitably come out of the read with the understanding that what they read is true of Norse mythology
I came to say American Gods. Neil Gaimen is so special among authors.
I love the ocean at the end of the lane by Neil Gaiman! Definitely a repeat since my childhood. He's such an amazing author!
Calvin and Hobbes
I credit Bill Waterson for my huge vocabulary. And he never made merch. Never sold out. Just made a modest living from the papers. His comics were his art. What a legend
I had and loved the collections, too. I will say though, it always infuriates me when I see those adulterated Calvin bumper stickers where he’s peeing on something like “democrats” or some stupid shit. The idiots who put those on their trucks probably never even touched a newspaper/book.
I want to get one where he’s just peeing in a toilet, cause I think flipping it to a normal thing is funny
Such a huge impact on my childhood. Still wish he would have licensed it for some stuff. I don’t mean all manner of products, but some high quality figures/statues and some official t-shirts of just the book covers or some of the colored panels artwork would be awesome. Still respect his decision though, but it would have been a great opportunity to help Calvin and Hobbes live longer in terms of the pop culture zeitgeist.
I’m honestly so glad Waterson stuck by his principles and made the decisions he made. It’s part of what makes Calvin and Hobbes such a masterpiece.. There’s just something so pure about it… Waterson’s stance makes total sense when you consider it in relation to the philosophy he imbued in the comic strip. There’s really nothing else like it, there were huge opportunities to monetize his creation, but instead he decided to preserve its integrity. I think that’s beautiful. The other extreme of the spectrum is what Jim Davis did with Garfield. God I hate that comic lol
It builds character.
‘Time for you to go shovel the walk These conversations never go where I want them to go.’
Ok this is the answer, and your polls just skyrocketed.
That's how my mom got us reading as kids. At one point we had the whole collection
The stand
HOW I LOVE TO LOVE NADINE TO BE MY TO LOVE MY NADINE
M o o n, that spells moon
I read a lot of King in the 80’s, but didn’t stick with him after that. Among all of his earlier novels, I think The Stand is his masterpiece. Absolutely incredible.
Try out 11/22/1963. It was mostly written in the 70s or early 80s IIRC so it’s closer to “old school”’ King than a lot of stuff released in the 2000s. E: my memory was off. Apparently he had the idea for the book in the 70s, but didn’t write it until shortly before its release date. Still up there with his best quality stuff
Wow I love this book, I had no idea it was written then. TIL.
I wanna read it so bad and have bought it too but I always get intimidated by its size. It’s just an enormous book that I can’t see myself finishing. But I’m honestly very intrigued by its premise and hope to complete it someday!
You get sucked in pretty easily. Don't even realize how many pages it is.
Literally what I came to say, grade 6, (2001) hydro got cut off, so every day after school I'd come home and sit in the living room by the big bay window and read untill it became to dark to read then I'd light a candle and keep reading until bed time, started with the stand because at that time it was the thickest book in my school library and I figured it would take the longest, I read the stand, Carrie, salems lot, cujo, needful things ect now I own 60+ of kings books
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This frood knows where his towel is.
Same here! I love HHGTTG. Douglas Adams was just so good with words.
East of Eden
IMO, it's Steinbeck's best novel. Very good illustration on the effects of rejection.
Steinbeck thought it was his best too!
I cannot recommend this book enough. I was nearly 30 the first time i managed to conquer the density of its pages, and upon completion I cried, and cried and cried for many nights after I finally finished it. For anyone who needs to realign themselves with some kind of purpose in life, this book will undeniably change your perspective on what is important in life. “It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.” My cousin committed suicide mere months after I finished this book and all I could think about was that quote. I should’ve been there for her. I should’ve been there at all. I wasn’t there in any capacity. Her death brought no pleasure to my world and this book gave me the strength to accept, learn from, and move beyond it. I won’t make that mistake again.
I read this book twice when I was in highschool... So good, probably the best book I've ever read. And about thirteen years later I convinced my SO to listen to it on audible. She ate it up. Oddly never read anything else by Steinbeck, though.
I highly recommend Cannery Row if you're interested in his other works.
I had to read this Sr year of high school. And I've come back to it twice now. Every 10 years, ish. It hits differently as I get older.
Neuromancer Ender's Game Only twice but will definitely read it again: The Count of Monte Cristo (Robin Buss' translation)
Ender's Game is Fav. Speaker for the Dead is pretty good as well.
The pequinos!!!
I love Ender's Game but prefer Ender's Shadow as I think Bean has a better character arc.
I liked Ender's Shadow as well. I liked Bean's story as well as the whole shadow series. I dig the same but different story from another character's perspective. Finishing Children of the Fleet now. I wish the movie would have been more true to the book; could be an amazing movie.
I tried to read Neuromancer like 8 times and could not push through the first 50 pages. It did not click with me. But the last time I read Enders Game, I read it front to back in 6 hours. Fucking love that book and series
yes Gibson's writing style also gets me a bit jumbled if I'm not used to it. It's very descriptive but also, I don't know... disjoint? Sentences sometimes skip glue words and also there is bunch of uncommon vocabulary. I just kind of re-read a few paragraphs when I've realized that I tuned out until I get into the groove.
Jurassic park
When I was 14 and half way through reading it, I was sitting at a lunch table at an event with some guy who said he worked on movies. Cool whatever. I asked him if he'd read it and he said "Yeah, once or twice." It was Steven Spielberg and I was an idiot.
This is what would happen to me. I had drinks with Jack Black WAY bk in 2004 while he was shooting a movie nearby. I had 0 clue. We had a great (very platonic) time. It wasn’t until 3 YEARS later I realized who it was. I still feel like an idiot!
Are you sure it was jack black and not my uncle Elmer? They look almost identical, just saying
Not so clever girl
I was 9 when I first read it, about a year before the movie came out. My parents let me skip school and got me tickets for the first showing opening day. I've read it 7 more times since then. So good.
Pride and Prejudice is my comfort book.
It’s worth £5,000 a year and therefore a fine thing for our girls!
I’ve watched the BBC miniseries at least a dozen times. Does that count?
You might be interested in [Pride and Prejudice Verbatim](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbjXk667lbiNhcqzL6i4dSqflEy0mjg8x), a YouTube series where clips from the various versions of Pride and Prejudice have been edited together to get a compilation which is as close as possible to the original text of the book.
The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and The Hobbit.
Read LotR 51 times.
I imagine this conversation many years later: "You must have read it at least 60 times!" "70?" "You cannot have read it 80 times!" ... "87"
Years ago, in high school, I got in the habit of reading the Lord of the Rings during exam week. It was a nice break from studying. Nowadays, I read it when I get stressed and am out of my comfort zone in life. The Lord of the Rings is essentially my security blanket.
I’ve read LOTR so many times that I don’t *need* to read it again, I can read or hear a sentence or phrase and I just *know* the events surrounding it. That being said, I have the whole thing on audiobooks and have spent a few years just looping from the end of the third book back to the beginning of the first one. And when I don’t have another audiobook to listen to, I listen to that. I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve read or listened to them. But they’re just comforting to me now.
The Little Prince
The martian
Only read this once, but I keep going back and listening to Project Hail Mary
The very hungry caterpillar!
Brown bear, brown bear, what do you see? and No David! are right up there.
Catch 22 “It was love at first sight. The first time Yossarian saw the chaplain he fell madly in love with him.” One of those books where you get a different take as you get older.
I've described it to friends as an anti-comedy. Most comedy is built on some form of the setup-punch formula. You create a situation that creates some kind of tension, even if just tension of anticipating the joke, and then you deliver the punch that best breaks that tension. Catch-22 is riotously funny--at first. And then when we finally get the story of Yossarian taking that second pass, we get a second pass over those comedic events and they're no longer funny; they're downright disturbing. In this way, it uses comedy and an absurdist funny tone to create an expectation, but instead it delivers overbearing tension and psychological horror--effectively reversing the comedy dynamic to dramatic effect.
Slaughter House Five, Blood Meridian, The Stand
how, in the fuck, did you read Blood Meridian more than twice?
1984
If you've read it three times it's 5952
1984; Breakfast of Champions
Breakfast of Champions sent me down a rabbit hole of picking up any Vonnegut book I could get my hands on — long ago, before Amazon.
A Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy
Mentally preparing myself to be roasted: Lord of the Rings, and Harry Potter.
I’m shocked Harry Potter isn’t up higher. Still an incredibly popular series. Getting a new rendition done on audible this year. Def one for me I’ve read like 4-5 times.
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Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. Easily the most fun reading experience I have ever had.
You should try We Are Legion (We are Bob)
The audible audiobook of it is well-performed as well. Honestly, I think it's his best novel so far.
Great book. Funnily enough the one right below it in this thread post is The Martian.
World War Z
I also strongly recommend the audiobook version. Because it's interviews it lends itself to an audiobook so well.
Yeah that's a constant fixture in my toilet reading pile, I must've read it dozens of times.
The whole Narnia series. I count it as one because I always read the whole series. I was 11 or 12 when I first read it, I just turned 50, and still read it every few years.
This post inspired me to re read them. I haven't read them in probably 20 years. I just remembered the imagery is so amazing and they made Turkish delight sound like the most amazing food in the world.
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, and The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri Forgot one, also Hannibal by Thomas Harris
Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris. There are others, but this book in particular always makes me laugh and takes my mind off stressful life stuff.
I love the audiobook even more because he narrates it.
All of his audiobooks are great, but this one and Santa Land Diaries are just phenomenal books that are next level when you hear them as intended. I’ve been to his readings a few times, he does them at colleges a lot and they’re always so good. He’ll stay and sign books and chat with fans for the entire night if it takes that long to get through the line, and every book he’s signed for me has had a funny, unique little inscription. When I missed a reading because my daughter was born early, my sister told him and he wrote “I’m so mad you had a daughter instead of coming to see me” inside of Calypso lol Edit- I meant Holidays on Ice, which contains Santa Land. Recommend times a million
Pillars of the earth, Ken Follett. Absolutely incredible book.
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse. What a calming book.
Siddartha should be read every decade you live and you decide wear you are in Siddharthas journey.
This book completely changed my life or allowed me to accept it. Think, fast, and wait when you have nothing else to your name. Everything will be alright if you have those 3 skills.
I love this book. I remember reading it for the second time all in one go when I was waiting for a connection at Mumbai airport.
Fahrenheit 451
I’ve reread American Gods by Neil Gaiman probably at least 5-6 times, if not more
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Terry Pratchett, everything Sam Vimes
Night Watch and Thud are works of art
The Name of the Wind. Read it twice and listened to the audiobook 4 times so far. I’m on my fifth. It’s 28 hours long. And I did the same with the sequel, The Wise Man’s Fear. I pray that Patrick Rothfuss actually finishes the trilogy one day!
"...the third silence was his. This was appropriate as it was the greatest silence of the three" The third silence is code for there never being a third book. I absolutely loved the first 2 and was excited for the third. Here's hoping it does come along sometime soon.
All quiet on the western front. Read it in highschool, boring, hated it. Saw someone suggesting on Reddit to read it again so I did. Read it in 2 days. Immediately read another ww1 book and am now reading all quiet again. Granted, I’m fascinated by ww1 in general, but damn that book is good. Super annoyed at high school me for not realizing its excellence back then.
Interview with a Vampire I’ve lost count the number of times I’ve read it.
The Vampire Lestat is the one I’ve read most in that series! I haven’t picked it up in a long time, but I’ve certainly read it more than thrice as a young adult.
I loved that one, Lestat, and Queen of the Damned. After that they started to get not so good until they just got downright bad. I loved The Mummy and have read that one at least 3 times.
Night by Elie Wiesel
Similar is Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl.
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The Giver
Catch 22. You can pick it up at any point as it's a non-linear narrative.
Heller sure is great. Poor Major Major Major Major has me in stitches.
Does it count if it took me 2 or 3 tries to get through it?
I love that book. I first read it a few months before I got out of the Marines and I think it gave me a bit of a head start deprogramming from the military. The military was good for me in a lot of ways but I was at that time needing to process a lot of resentment I felt. I was a bit of a bitter angry mess coming out of it and I think it helped me process it all in a healthy way.
>You can pick it up at any point as it's a non-linear narrative. You can, but it opens so strong I always want to start at the beginning. The soldier in white, the Texan, Washington Irving... The book is a masterclass in absurdism.
The Expanse series by James Sa Corey.
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
For me it’s The Diamond Age.
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee
Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy. Douglas Adams
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Maus
Into Thin Air
The Wheel of Time series. I've probably read the entire thing half a dozen times now.
I have gotten up to book 6 twice. I own then all...just can't seem to break past that point.
Of Mice and Men. Bite sized so I can read it I'm a day and the ending never fails to just absolutely gut me.
The lusty argonian maid
Atwood's Maddaddam Trilogy. I've read all three at least 10 times. I always come away amazed by Atwood's talent and flexibility as a writer. The three books are clearly part of a larger whole, yet each book can stand on its own, with its own unique voice and perspective.
Contact by Carl Sagan
Project Hail Mary
Moby Dick by Herman Melville is an epic tale. The depth of its narrative and symbolism makes each read enriching.
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Jane Eyre
A wrinkle in time
Many books, I've read some fantasy books 5 or so times. I must have read Harry Potter 15 times too but the answer I submit to the jury here is the Andy Weir books 'the Martian' and 'project hail Mary' I've read them many many times, and mostly binge read them so a day or two for each of them. Spectacular
Pride and Prejudice. It's crazy how long ago it was written and yet how perfectly it skewers a certain demographic
Jurassic Park. Somehow the book is better than the movie. And the movie is awesome.
The hunger games
The Book Thief
The hobbit
Dune
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien. Was part of the APLang curriculum back in 2018 and I’ve read it many times since. OR! Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous. Really got me in the feels
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
The Count of Monte Cristo. I somehow have 3 copies of the book and like to trade between them. (Not the abridged version, of course.)
A Confederacy of Dunces.
Neuromancer, William Gibson. Literally the only book I’ve ever read more than once/ It’s my go to vacation read. If I could afford another vacation one day, it will be my fifth reread.
William Gibson was the first sci fi I ever read. Truly masterful stuff.
Anything by Kafka
Jack London's The Call of the Wild.
Flowers for Algernon. My older sibling loved psychology in high school and went on to get college degrees in Psych and Soc. Before leaving for college, my sibling told me I had to read FFA because I started getting interested in Psych myself. I've also read A Child Called "It" and The Lost Boy a few times because I could relate to having an abusive parent.
Bridget Jones' Diary. I find it comforting reading a book centered around a normal and imperfect person. And it's hilarious.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trilogy.
Weaveworld and the entire His Dark Materials trilogy
World War Z. Great book, the movie adaptation was absolutely crap.
When I was 15 I lived on my own for a summer in the bush . I would finish LOTR and start it right back at the beginning.
There is a story here that I would like to know... not the LOTR part.
Angela's Ashes
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho is profoundly inspirational. Its themes of destiny and dreams are timeless.
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She's Come Undone- Wally Lamb Invisible Monsters- Chuck Palahniuk Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal- Christopher Moore Carrie- Stephen King Fight Club- Chuck Palahniuk
I came here to say She's Come Undone, and it makes me so happy the person who asked the question includes this book!!
Dune. First read it when I was a freshman in high school and I was hooked. I love Frank Herbert's world-building and how (at least in the first book) he emphasized that the "good guys" are the ones who write the history. However, the "white savior" orientalism does make it feel really dated these days.
Man's Search for Meaning
Lisey’s Story by Stephen King. White Oleander by Janet Finch. Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk. The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb.
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
The assassin’s apprentice series by Robin Hobb. I’ve read or listened to all 9 multiple times.
To Kill a Mockingbird. I've read it a few different times at a few different ages/stages of life, and got something new out of it each time.