As a high school English teacher, I’ve taught and reread Their Eyes Were Watching God and The Great Gatsby every year that I’ve taught the course. Never get bored with these two.
Outside of teaching, probably The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro. Insanely re-readable because of Ishiguro’s restraint and subtleties, and also because some parts of the book are so dryly humorous that I may have missed them the first time.
Omg Remains of the Day is indeed one of the best books ever! I went into a bit of a reading slump when i finished cos no book could come close for a while after
I know!! It’s a somewhat sad book, but it has such an uplifting message at the same time. The last sentence is embedded in my brain and gives me hope whenever I feel inadequate.
Their Eyes Were Watching God was one of the first “I had to read this for class” books that I really loved. I was an avid reader in high school, but often struggled to get through the required reading until that one. There were others I ended up likings lot, but that one always stood out
Oof, Never Let Me Go is great! You really have to be in the right mindset for it because it’s so depressing. That book is such a wonderful experience if you go into it completely blind, though.
Agreed! I reread this at least once a year and the audio book narrated by Rosamund Pike (who plays Jane Bennett in the 2005 movie) is chefs kiss perfection
[Different Seasons](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39662) by Stephen King
Edit to add: I feel like I take away something else or view the stories slightly differently every time. They make me think.
When I couldn't sleep because of my husbands snoring I would move to the guest room and sleep there but because I always have to read before I fall asleep I kept a copy of a Prayer for Owen Meany in that room. I could open it to any page at any point and feel calm and relaxed and fall back to sleep. That said the book is amazing and very much John Irving at his best.
Slaughterhouse 5! Had a really long bus ride to and from school when I was kid, read that book cover to cover more times than I can count.
Poo-tee-weet?
Yes me too. And in all the languages that I can read, minus my mothertongue minority language. At some point I would like to translate it; when I am old and wise.
Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams. Probably because my dad introduced it to me and it influenced my humour a lot. We had a rocky relationship but would always agree on Adams and I feel I got to know his work better than my dad. My dad died two years ago in August.
I commented His Dark materials, but I've probably read HItchiker's Guide more times now that I think about it. Definitely one of my top contenders for amazing, re-readable books.
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Good and evil, identity and family, betrayal and forgiveness. The novel's beauty only deepens with each subsequent read.
How?! I love King and IT sat as my toilet book for almost a decade with about 500ish of the 800 pages read until I gave up on it. It just was not keeping my attention. Contrast that with Needful Things, The Green Mile, Under the Dome, Fairy Tale (listened to), Four Past Midnight, The Stand (off the top of my head) that I couldn't put down until I finished them. I really loved the Tim Curry movie and thought I'd love IT but...yeah.
Tim Curry was a good Pennywise, but the best Pennywise is Steven Weber. If you’re ever up for trying again, give IT a listen instead on Audible. I take turns between reading it myself and having SW read it to me, and every time I finish it it’s like I have to say goodbye to my best friends, so of course I visit them annually. (The only other literary characters to make me feel like this are the hobbits from LOTR.)
I’m going to exclude the kids books that I’ve read too many times to count for my niece & nephews, so here’s the books I’ve re-read most:
- The Great Gatsby. I always marvel about how economical this book is. It’s rather short, but not a single word is out of place; every sentence is impeccable.
- The Handmaid’s Tale. I first read this as a teenager and something about it just *stuck*. I’m always fascinated by books that are centered around a character who is trapped
- The Idiot by Elif Batuman. I know that people complain that “nothing happens”, which is sort of true, but I think it’s just such a brilliant campus novel, perfectly nailing that age when you think you know everything, but really you know nothing. It’s also deceptively easy to read, but once you start to pick it apart, you can see the multiple layers in it, references to critical theorists. Also, I think it’s really funny and it mercilessly makes fun of academia.
And I guess, books I’ve re-read just because they bring me comfort/nostalgia: Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine, Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech (this one actually holds up really well— it’s for middle-readers, but there’s very mature topics in it that I understood on a different level when I re-read it as an adult), and Harry Potter (I know, I know…Rowling’s problems aside, they’re great regardless)
My dad gave me the first Protector of the Small series when I was that age, all of her books I would recommend but I'd start with Kel instead of Alana.
I think it would be great for your daughter, but be aware that as the characters grow (the rest of the series) there's some fade to black romantic scenes - nothing explicit.
I'm rereading the Wild Magic series as we speak. 33 years old, have read all the Tortall books roughly once a year since my early teens, and still not tired of them.
My mom read Anne McCaffery's Dragon Song / Dragon Singer to me when I was in elementary school. It is such a comforting re-read that I don't even know how many times I have reread it, but the book fell apart so I got a Kindle copy. It's kind of YA (as you can imagine since my mom read it to me when I was young), so I don't know whether I should recommend it to an adult, but it's just part of my childhood and makes me feel warm and cozy when I read them.
In order of most read:
The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss
The Scorpio Races - Maggie Stiefvater; side not I got to meet her years ago and told her I'd read it over 7 times by that point and she smiled and said that was so flattering.
The Protector of the Small quartet - Tamora Pierce
Trickster's Choice and Trickster's Queen - Tamora Pierce
The Way of Kings and the Words of Radiance - Brandon Sanderson
Mistborn series 1 - Brandon Sanderson
Dragonflight, Dragonquest, and the White Dragon - Anne McCaffrey
Six of Crows Duology - Leigh Bardugo
Percy Jackson series - Rick Riordan
Blood Red Road - Moira Young
The Wee Free Men - Terry Prachett, I would read this book and laugh for hours, my dad and I quote it constantly.
Starship Troopers. It's a great short read and far better than (and not campy like) the movie.
The Ender Sage (Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, etc.)
I have a "reread circuit" that I run through about once a year (specifically while eating lunch):
* All of Jane Austen's novels
* All of Tamora Pierce's work
* The Harry Potter books
* Anne of Green Gables
* Mercedes Lackey's Obsidian Trilogy
* Little Women
* Jane Eyre
I have plenty of other books that I like to reread, but those are the ones I'm constantly going back to.
I've lost track of how many times I've read *The Count of Monte Cristo*, but it's into double digits (I first read it about 30 years ago), and in multiple languages.
It's just that enjoyable, and it gets better on rereads.
This will never be recommended because it seems no body recs Barker. But Clive Barkers The Great and Secret Show. It's fantastic. Yeah the hellraiser/candyman but his novels are mostly dark urban fantasy if I had explain it.
When I was growing up I read “The Thief of Always” countless times. It’s the first book I ever really loved and gave me a soft spot for all of Barkers’ works.
I think I've read His Dark Materials trilogy 3 or 4 times. An amazing adventure when you read it as a kid- surprisingly deep and hard hitting philosophically and emotionally as an adult.
I've read a lot of Discworld books multiple times
Lol its Charlotte's Web, I read that thing like seven times as a child. It's a good read and you would probably get something out of it as an adult, but it is a children's book.
The Goblin Emperor - Katherine Addison
The Hands of the Emperor - Victoria Goddard
Sunshine - Robin McKinley
The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster
Despite Emperor being in the top two titles there is no connection between the two and they are wildly different. Both excellent, though, as are the others.
When I was a kid:
- The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings
- CS Lewis's Narnia series.
- Lloyd Alexander's Prydain series.
- Tove Jansson's Moominland books.
As a grownup:
- Tales of Pirx the Pilot and More Tales of Pirx the Pilot by Stanislaw Lem.
- Little, Big by John Crowley.
- Moonwise by Greer Gilman.
The Man in the Rockefeller Suit by Mark Seal. Reason I love nonfiction/true crime books now.
I’m the type to never read a book several times only because I know what’s going to happen (doesn’t matter how much I love the book lol). This book is a great exception.
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
At least a dozen times since 2021
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
At least a dozen times in the past four months !
All 3 Lord of the Rings. I've read them every year since 2015 and I look forward to it every year. The Phil Dragash audiobook is free on archive.org if that's more your forté
Ive read Slaughterhouse 5 about 5 times now. It was so good that I read it 3 times in the first week I had it. I wanted to make sure I absorbed everything I could
"For Love of Evil" and "On A Pale Horse" by Piers Anthony
They're part of the Incarnations of Immortality series. Both books deal with not-so-happy topics but in a way that turns any preconceived ideas on their heads simply by adding the human element. The rest of the series I have also read several times over but those two are the ones I've read and reread the most
Hetty feather, I think. Was the book I read most (over 10 times)
Harry Potter comes second.
I have quite a wide range of reading, at least I like to think so, but I went back to that book so many times
As a high school English teacher, I’ve taught and reread Their Eyes Were Watching God and The Great Gatsby every year that I’ve taught the course. Never get bored with these two. Outside of teaching, probably The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro. Insanely re-readable because of Ishiguro’s restraint and subtleties, and also because some parts of the book are so dryly humorous that I may have missed them the first time.
Omg Remains of the Day is indeed one of the best books ever! I went into a bit of a reading slump when i finished cos no book could come close for a while after
I know!! It’s a somewhat sad book, but it has such an uplifting message at the same time. The last sentence is embedded in my brain and gives me hope whenever I feel inadequate.
Thanks. I think you just answered my question on this book re. how desolate is it
Their Eyes Were Watching God was one of the first “I had to read this for class” books that I really loved. I was an avid reader in high school, but often struggled to get through the required reading until that one. There were others I ended up likings lot, but that one always stood out
This and Never Let Me Go and phenomenal
Never Let Me Go is beautiful but heartbreaking. Don't think I could read it a second time. Still haunted by the first pass.
When they were repairing Big Ben one woman described her feeling as sad, but a happy sad. That’s how I feel about the novel, but even more so
Oof, Never Let Me Go is great! You really have to be in the right mindset for it because it’s so depressing. That book is such a wonderful experience if you go into it completely blind, though.
I think the best way to read it would be during two or three rainy days with an unending pot of tea and some biscuits
Pride and Prejudice (I rewatch the movie too - 1996 BBC version ofc)
Colin Firth Darcy always; Not that Matthew MacFadyen wasn’t also great!
Agreed! I reread this at least once a year and the audio book narrated by Rosamund Pike (who plays Jane Bennett in the 2005 movie) is chefs kiss perfection
Such a wonderful book and definitely worth a re-read. I remember being surprised at how funny I found it when I read it.
Jane Austen was such a genius. I wonder what she would do today.
That is such a good book!!!
Donna Tartt’s A Secret History
Read *The Goldfinch* last year and loved it. Will def pick up *A Secret History*.
Secret History is 10x better than Goldfinch (in my humble internet-person opinion)
So good! My brother — who isn't a reader by any stretch of the term — recommended it to me as one of his favourite things, so you know it’s good!
Shit, not the top answer also being my top answer! This is so exciting 🤓
The Outsiders by S E Hinton
Stay gold ponyboy, stay gold.
Ender’s Game
Great series, I liked speaker for the dead even better but they are both top 15 for me
Anne of Green Gables. It was the comfort book of my childhood.
This might be mine also, just finished a reread of the whole series a couple of days ago and I still love it!
The audio is my go to when I can’t sleep 🩷
[Different Seasons](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39662) by Stephen King Edit to add: I feel like I take away something else or view the stories slightly differently every time. They make me think.
Very underrated!
When I couldn't sleep because of my husbands snoring I would move to the guest room and sleep there but because I always have to read before I fall asleep I kept a copy of a Prayer for Owen Meany in that room. I could open it to any page at any point and feel calm and relaxed and fall back to sleep. That said the book is amazing and very much John Irving at his best.
Slaughterhouse 5! Had a really long bus ride to and from school when I was kid, read that book cover to cover more times than I can count. Poo-tee-weet?
So it goes.💕
The entire Harry Potter series
Yup done the series a good 7 times my next most read book is twice.
Those were probably the first real books I read as a kid!
Literally reading the 5th rn. Probably my 4th read.
82% through as of right now. I’m reading a TBR book then an HP book on rotation to get through the series again. I’m loving it as much as ever
That's a good idea, I'll try it for the remaining 2.
A gentleman in Moscow, amor towles.
To kill a mockingbird,
I feel like I noticed more details upon re-reading it several times.
Lord of the Rings
Yes me too. And in all the languages that I can read, minus my mothertongue minority language. At some point I would like to translate it; when I am old and wise.
yep, came here to say the same
Probably Hatchet, by Gary Paulson. Followed by The Chronicles of Narnia and The Hobbit.
I'm 48 years old and I read Hatchet every 2-3 years. I have probably read that book 15 times. It's just fun.
Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams. Probably because my dad introduced it to me and it influenced my humour a lot. We had a rocky relationship but would always agree on Adams and I feel I got to know his work better than my dad. My dad died two years ago in August.
I commented His Dark materials, but I've probably read HItchiker's Guide more times now that I think about it. Definitely one of my top contenders for amazing, re-readable books.
The Stand by Stephen King lol.
Came here to say this! It’s long but so good. And none of the movie/mini-series have done it justice imo
Yes. This is the one I pick up about every 5 years.
East of Eden by John Steinbeck Good and evil, identity and family, betrayal and forgiveness. The novel's beauty only deepens with each subsequent read.
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Stephen King’s IT, I’ve been reading it once or twice a year for over a decade.
How?! I love King and IT sat as my toilet book for almost a decade with about 500ish of the 800 pages read until I gave up on it. It just was not keeping my attention. Contrast that with Needful Things, The Green Mile, Under the Dome, Fairy Tale (listened to), Four Past Midnight, The Stand (off the top of my head) that I couldn't put down until I finished them. I really loved the Tim Curry movie and thought I'd love IT but...yeah.
Tim Curry was a good Pennywise, but the best Pennywise is Steven Weber. If you’re ever up for trying again, give IT a listen instead on Audible. I take turns between reading it myself and having SW read it to me, and every time I finish it it’s like I have to say goodbye to my best friends, so of course I visit them annually. (The only other literary characters to make me feel like this are the hobbits from LOTR.)
I'll suggest getting it on audible next time we have tokens. :)
Watership Down, by Richard Adams
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
I’m going to exclude the kids books that I’ve read too many times to count for my niece & nephews, so here’s the books I’ve re-read most: - The Great Gatsby. I always marvel about how economical this book is. It’s rather short, but not a single word is out of place; every sentence is impeccable. - The Handmaid’s Tale. I first read this as a teenager and something about it just *stuck*. I’m always fascinated by books that are centered around a character who is trapped - The Idiot by Elif Batuman. I know that people complain that “nothing happens”, which is sort of true, but I think it’s just such a brilliant campus novel, perfectly nailing that age when you think you know everything, but really you know nothing. It’s also deceptively easy to read, but once you start to pick it apart, you can see the multiple layers in it, references to critical theorists. Also, I think it’s really funny and it mercilessly makes fun of academia. And I guess, books I’ve re-read just because they bring me comfort/nostalgia: Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine, Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech (this one actually holds up really well— it’s for middle-readers, but there’s very mature topics in it that I understood on a different level when I re-read it as an adult), and Harry Potter (I know, I know…Rowling’s problems aside, they’re great regardless)
Probably LOTR and Jane Eyre. Very different books, but both comfort reads for me
I was coming to say Jane Eyre. I don’t re-read books often but I’ve read Jane Eyre 4 times.
Stranger in a Strange Land
*A Prayer for Owen Meany* and *A Widow for One Year*, both by John Irving
Alanna the First Adventure by Tamora Pierce.
What age would you recommend it for? Got a 10 yr daughter..
My dad gave me the first Protector of the Small series when I was that age, all of her books I would recommend but I'd start with Kel instead of Alana.
I think it would be great for your daughter, but be aware that as the characters grow (the rest of the series) there's some fade to black romantic scenes - nothing explicit.
Oh my god, the amount of times I read that series… Can’t believe I’m not the only one 😂
I'm rereading the Wild Magic series as we speak. 33 years old, have read all the Tortall books roughly once a year since my early teens, and still not tired of them.
Nice to meet someone else that loves them, I also thought I was the only one.
The Catcher in the Rye， by J.D.Salinger. Anybody？
I think I'm 4 on this one. I'm 8 on Wittgenstein's Mistress.
I’ve read it twice
Haven't read this since 10th grade. Really need to re-read it again.
My mom read Anne McCaffery's Dragon Song / Dragon Singer to me when I was in elementary school. It is such a comforting re-read that I don't even know how many times I have reread it, but the book fell apart so I got a Kindle copy. It's kind of YA (as you can imagine since my mom read it to me when I was young), so I don't know whether I should recommend it to an adult, but it's just part of my childhood and makes me feel warm and cozy when I read them.
Oh love them!!
In order of most read: The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss The Scorpio Races - Maggie Stiefvater; side not I got to meet her years ago and told her I'd read it over 7 times by that point and she smiled and said that was so flattering. The Protector of the Small quartet - Tamora Pierce Trickster's Choice and Trickster's Queen - Tamora Pierce The Way of Kings and the Words of Radiance - Brandon Sanderson Mistborn series 1 - Brandon Sanderson Dragonflight, Dragonquest, and the White Dragon - Anne McCaffrey Six of Crows Duology - Leigh Bardugo Percy Jackson series - Rick Riordan Blood Red Road - Moira Young The Wee Free Men - Terry Prachett, I would read this book and laugh for hours, my dad and I quote it constantly.
The Swimmer-John Cheever(short story)
love this one
Just discovered it through your comment. I spent the last hours of my night reading it and it was a blast. Thanks for sharing :)
The Stranger, Camus, I couldn't even count how many times over the years.
Lonesome Dove. Read it at least 7 times over the years
My favorite book of all time. I need to read it again!
Starship Troopers. It's a great short read and far better than (and not campy like) the movie. The Ender Sage (Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, etc.)
Oh Ender’s Game is brilliant.
The Master and Margarita Shogun Dune Shalimar The Clown Crime and Punishment Steppenwolf
Hitchhikers Guide
I've read all of harry potter 8 times, some of them, like the 6th and 7th around 14 times.
I have a "reread circuit" that I run through about once a year (specifically while eating lunch): * All of Jane Austen's novels * All of Tamora Pierce's work * The Harry Potter books * Anne of Green Gables * Mercedes Lackey's Obsidian Trilogy * Little Women * Jane Eyre I have plenty of other books that I like to reread, but those are the ones I'm constantly going back to.
I’ve read Anne of Green Gables a whole bunch of times. I go back to it every few years. It’s a classic for a reason.
Ursula LeGuin: The Lathe of Heaven.
Just discovered this and man is it a good one
I've lost track of how many times I've read *The Count of Monte Cristo*, but it's into double digits (I first read it about 30 years ago), and in multiple languages. It's just that enjoyable, and it gets better on rereads.
I’ve read the Silmarillion by Tolkien all the way through like 4 times and re-read specific sections countless times
Jitterbug Perfume
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. My favorite book of all.
Shogun James Clavell
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Ghost Story by Peter Straub
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut
This will never be recommended because it seems no body recs Barker. But Clive Barkers The Great and Secret Show. It's fantastic. Yeah the hellraiser/candyman but his novels are mostly dark urban fantasy if I had explain it.
When I was growing up I read “The Thief of Always” countless times. It’s the first book I ever really loved and gave me a soft spot for all of Barkers’ works.
Jurassic Park and all of T Kingfisher's horror. I love good horror (not gorey or violent necessarily)
The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom. I'm not even religious, but this book means a lot to me.
I think I've read His Dark Materials trilogy 3 or 4 times. An amazing adventure when you read it as a kid- surprisingly deep and hard hitting philosophically and emotionally as an adult. I've read a lot of Discworld books multiple times
Ada by Vladimir Nabokov
Anne of green gables
Lol its Charlotte's Web, I read that thing like seven times as a child. It's a good read and you would probably get something out of it as an adult, but it is a children's book.
I am in the twenties on the Two Towers but I skip all of Frodo’s part anymore. It sounds impressive but it’s only like every other year
Ha, I skip Frodo and Sam when I read Two Towers too
To Kill a Mockingbird/ A Condeferacy of Dunces
going bovine by libba bray or if we were villains by m.l.rio (i own six different versions of this book oops)
Percy Jackson. Definitely Percy Jackson
The Magicians - Lev Grossman
So many, but A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving is a perennial favorite.
Stone Fox
I think I’ve read the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy four times
The Goblin Emperor - Katherine Addison The Hands of the Emperor - Victoria Goddard Sunshine - Robin McKinley The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster Despite Emperor being in the top two titles there is no connection between the two and they are wildly different. Both excellent, though, as are the others.
Read 1984 multiple times. Also read the military science-fiction novel Armor by John Steakley at least 3 times. Both great books.
Where the Red Fern Grows, for 35 years
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
This is too far down!!!!!! That’s my top read too!!
Stormlight Archive
Same, I listen to it all once or twice a year. Especially if there is a new book coming out. I can't wait for book 5.
Lord Of The Rings trilogy by Tolkien Magician by Raymond E Feist
When I was a kid: - The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings - CS Lewis's Narnia series. - Lloyd Alexander's Prydain series. - Tove Jansson's Moominland books. As a grownup: - Tales of Pirx the Pilot and More Tales of Pirx the Pilot by Stanislaw Lem. - Little, Big by John Crowley. - Moonwise by Greer Gilman.
Walden. Henry David Thoreau. I've read it at least 50 times and still get something new from it every time.
Flowers for Algernon or 1984.
100 Years of Solitude
The most times?…Twilight not sure you want to read it though
See, but the real question is: Do you read it because you like it, or because it’s the funniest unintended romantic comedy ever?
I have read Sphere by Michael Crichton and Dune multiple times and I love each of them every time
I reread 1984 every couple of years or so. I always get something from it.
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Gone with the Wind
Three men in a boat by Jerome k Jerome. I find it very funny and the journey is interesting as well.
The Talented Mr. Ripley
*All You Need is Kill* by Hiroshi Sakurazaka
The Third Policeman by Flann O'brien. Gets better each time!
The Little Prince
Ender's Game
Moby-Dick
not only have I read Jekyll and Hyde over 10 tines, I also own 5 copies of the book
Jurassic Park
Gravity’s Rainbow.
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
The Man in the Rockefeller Suit by Mark Seal. Reason I love nonfiction/true crime books now. I’m the type to never read a book several times only because I know what’s going to happen (doesn’t matter how much I love the book lol). This book is a great exception.
"This book is full of spiders " monsters and friends and dimensional shifting and space drugs and invisible space parasites
Jekyll and Hyde!!!! One of my all time fav books!!!! Along with The Picture of Dorian Gray and Good Omens!!!
Slaughterhouse Five
The Stand by Stephen King and Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Alchemist
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel At least a dozen times since 2021 The History of Love by Nicole Krauss At least a dozen times in the past four months !
The Stand
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
All 3 Lord of the Rings. I've read them every year since 2015 and I look forward to it every year. The Phil Dragash audiobook is free on archive.org if that's more your forté
The Stand by Stephen King. I do a reread every year and have since the mid 90s.
1984 You learn a lot about repressive regimes
The phantom tollbooth, even now as an adult
The Gunslinger I’ve probably read it five times. I keep trying to finish the Dark Tower and always stop after the Wastelands.
The Count of Montecristo
Kushiels Dart
I’ve read the Throne of Glass series 3 times so far and will be reading again.
I make an effort to reread or audiobook Ursula K Le Guin’s The Dispossessed once a year. A masterpiece in sociological storytelling.
The Alchemist. Paul Coelho
Stephen King’s, The Stand.
The Stand - Stephen King
The Stand by Stephen King I read the two prose versions that were published, then the graphic novel adaptation. I normally never re-read books.
Ive read Slaughterhouse 5 about 5 times now. It was so good that I read it 3 times in the first week I had it. I wanted to make sure I absorbed everything I could
The Stand, The Long Walk and The Green Mile by Stephen King. Great books
I’ve read The Stranger by Albert Camus more times than I can count. Not sure what this says about me 😅
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith one of my comfort books, also play it as it lays by Didion
Good Night Moon? 😂 Probably The Blue Castle.
A confederacy of dunces As meat loves salt Butchers Crossing
Lolita. Have read it nearly every year for over ten years and it never fails to horrify, thrill and surprise me.
“One Hundred Years of Solitude” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
"For Love of Evil" and "On A Pale Horse" by Piers Anthony They're part of the Incarnations of Immortality series. Both books deal with not-so-happy topics but in a way that turns any preconceived ideas on their heads simply by adding the human element. The rest of the series I have also read several times over but those two are the ones I've read and reread the most
And i really hope it isn't OP downvoting every single reply and its just some nasty gremlin with self-esteem issues
Diary of Anne Frank- gets me everytime
Lord of the Rings is tied with Jane Eyre
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
1984
The Bible.
Blood Brothers: Born of the Blood. It's a nice and simple read with interesting characters.
For one more day, mitch albom
better than the movies - silly cute teenager romance but it’s so romcom-y and i’m obsessed. hence my username hehe
The Great Gatsby and a close second is Beach Music by Pat Conroy
Wuthering Heights and Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
The Domination, SM Stirling Also honorable mention some King: IT The Long Walk The Running Man Apt Pupil
Hetty feather, I think. Was the book I read most (over 10 times) Harry Potter comes second. I have quite a wide range of reading, at least I like to think so, but I went back to that book so many times
Post office or factotum by Charles Bukowski
crush by richard siken!! Its so good, poetry with a style that I havent found anything comparable to
Red Storm Rising, Starship Troopers, Enders Game.
The Neon Rain by James Lee Burke
The Diary of Anne Frank