What books do you like to reread every so often?

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In this House of Brede by Rumer Godden
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
Lord of the World by R.H. Benson
Most of Carla Kelly’s books, and P.G. Wodehouse’s Bertie and Jeeves books too.

I read over 200 books a year - it helps that I can read very fast and I don’t watch TV much at all.
 
*Brideshead Revisited *by Evelyn Waugh
*The Haunting *by Shirley Jackson
*Earthly Powers *by Anthony Burgess
 
This answer isn’t very scholarly of me, but I just re-read Are You There God, It’s Me, Margaret. It was fascinating rereading it because I just became a Catholic after years and years of searching for my true religious identity. So, I felt a lot like Margaret for a long time! Now, my book would be called, “I Know You’re There, God…and I Know You Know Me Too!” 😉

I also love to reread…
She’s Come Undone (Wally Lamb)
Steven King
Fit From Within and others by Victoria Moran
The Kissing Hand
Chrysanthemum
Lily’s Puple Plastic Purse
Knots On A Counting Rope
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
(What can I say about those last few? I am a kindergarten teacher! 🙂 )
 
Pierced by a Sword by Bud Macfarlane Jnr (until my daughter lost it - must get another copy)
LOTR & The Hobbit
Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
Late Have I Loved Thee by Ethel Mannin
Don Quixote, U.S.A. by Richard Powell
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Worst Kids in the World by Barbara Robinson (reassured me that mine weren’t)

Any of the works of the following:
Dean Koontz
Alistair Maclean
Louis L’Amour
Georgete Heyer
P.G. Wodehouse
Chesterton
Jane Austin
Madeleine Brent (aka Peter O´Donnell)
 
Just about anything. When you get my age you forget so much that you don’t even recognize a book you’ve read before. Saves money in buying new books too.
 
retrovert said:
Just about anything. When you get my age you forget so much that you don’t even recognize a book you’ve read before. Saves money in buying new books too.
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Mum had a box of books to give to a charity shop that Dad had sorted out, but he had a stroke and she forgot about them. Then one day, after he had recovered, she decided to et rid of themand he had a look and found he had forgotten the stories, so he read them all again.
 
Kera said:
This answer isn’t very scholarly of me, but I just re-read Are You There God, It’s Me, Margaret. It was fascinating rereading it because I just became a Catholic after years and years of searching for my true religious identity. So, I felt a lot like Margaret for a long time! Now, my book would be called, “I Know You’re There, God…and I Know You Know Me Too!” 😉
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I love that book too! Growing up I feel in love with it long before I became a Christian. I was raised in an unreligious house in the middle of the Bible belt. There were definitely times when I wished I had been raised something. I really identified with Margaret. 😃
 
leonie said:
Jane Austen’s novels

Peace like a River by Leif Enger (I love this book)

Every time one of my kids hits seven, I read them them the Little House on the Prairie books. Little Women is another read aloud I love

Robin McKinley books (I love Fairy Tales)

Victoria Holt novels (don’t tell, please):o

Can’t think of any high brow books I like to reread. I guess I’m a lazy reader. 🙂
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Oh man, I had a serious Victoria Holt phase for a while when I was younger (what can I say, all those tempestuous heroines and brooding heroes …) I vivdly remember one called The Shivering Sands - fantastic 😉

She writes historical semi-fiction under the name Jean Plaidy - stirred a lifelong love of history in me. I reread some of Jean Plaidy’s books every so often.

Apart from that, and the usual Jane Austen, I also regularly reread To Kill a Mockingbird, I’ve also read David Copperfield too many times to count. I intend to reread the Bible (I’ve almost, but not quite, managed to read it through in its entirety 👍

In general I go for new books though - stops the brain from petrifying.
 
Jane Austin’s novels, Harry Potter series, Little House books, Anne of Avonlea series
 
INTRODUCTION TO THE DEVOUT LIFE by St. Francis de Sales
(It is in my opinion one of the greatest works of psychology ever written)
 
Tenebrae said:
I’ll reread Daniel-Rops’ Jesus and His Times, Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice, Tolkien’s Ring Trilogy, and every Halloween I read Washington Irving’s Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Oh, and Daphne DuMaurier’s Rebecca (“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderly again…”)
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I love to re read my A Tale of the Malazan Book of the Fallen. by Steven Erikson. there are 10 of the books in the series, 7 of which are published and i have them all. they are very expensive. but if your an avid fantasy reader, then they are worth it. here are the ten books. i have everyone of them up to number 7 which is reapers gale.

A Tale of the Malazan Book of the Fallen:
  1. Gardens of the Moon ( one of the best in the series )
  2. Deadhouse Gates ( not as good as the rest )
  3. Memories of Ice ( the best! )
  4. House of Chains
  5. Midnight Tides
  6. The Bonehunters
  7. Reaper’s Gale
  8. Toll the Hounds
  9. Dust of Dreams
  10. The Crippled God ( all steven erikson fans can’t wait to see what happens to the crippled god.i hope he is gone for good! i hope erikson kills him off in the final book.)
malazanworld.com/site/index.shtml
 
snowgarden said:
Jane Austin’s novels, Harry Potter series, Little House books, Anne of Avonlea series
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Oh yea, there’s a few I forgot on my list- Anne of Avonlea books, and Harry Potter books! I knew I forgot some!🙂
 
I just finished rereading Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. I don’t know how many times I’ve read that book.

There’s many books I would like to reread like To Kill a Mocking Bird and Huckleberry Finn.

I like reading these book threads on CAF so I can get new ideas on books to read.
 
This summer I visited /revisited as many M.Scott Peck books as I could get my hands on.
most well known, The Road Less Traveled

The author journey through the years toward converting to Christianity, and finally does. He considers Catholicism, but at the point I stopped reading he remains " non-denominational" (his term). It is fascinating (to me at least:o ) to read how his emerging faith unfolds in the context of his practice as a psychiatrist.

Peace,
Kelly
 
The LOTR Trilogy
Ken Follett’s Pillars of the Earth
Anything by Terry Pratchett or Douglas Adams
 
To Kill A Mockingbird

The Good Earth

I’ve worn out paperback copies of both of these books from re-reading them, and I’ve had to get new copies. 😛
 
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