Comments on: Books you can read over & over

By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 02 Dec 2015 16:33:52 +0000

I have read the vast majority of the Discworld series multiple times.
A few of the Culture novels by Iain M. Banks have been re-read. The Player of Games at least three times.
The Silmarillion can engross me for hours even though I read it through 5 times and slogged through the Christopher Tolkein dissections of the history of writing it.

I read through the first and second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant three times each. I’ve almost got a hankering to do it again, but I’m way behind on catching up last couple years of Banks, Pratchett, Gaiman and more.

By: mcfly

mcfly — Tue, 01 Dec 2015 21:53:07 +0000

By Brian Greene. I’ve read it cover to cover three times and have re-read certain sections probably three more times. Just thinking about it makes me want to read it again. I’ve got it in hardcopy and eBook.

In the fiction world, there are a handful of books I’ve read a couple of times but one that jumps out at me is Niven’s The Legacy of Heorot. I love every page of that book. He penned a sequel, however, that I found intensely disappointing.

By: ER

ER — Tue, 01 Dec 2015 16:57:27 +0000

you can read people you’ll never meet: The real people who wrote the books, and the imaginary people they write about. And its the only way the dead can speak to us. They too, have something to tell us.

By: Jody

Jody — Tue, 01 Dec 2015 16:44:21 +0000

But I always end up reading people instead.

By: ER

ER — Tue, 01 Dec 2015 15:59:58 +0000

Tales of Brave Ulysses

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By: SDG

SDG — Tue, 01 Dec 2015 15:52:50 +0000

sci-fi
Ender’s Game – I’ve read or listened to this more times than I can remember. I’ve also read it to my daughters when they were in about 6th grade. Will read it to my son in a couple of years.

I’ve read and reread most of the other books in the Enderverse. Speaker for the Dead has the most rereadability

All of John Scalzi’s books except God Engines (once was enough)

Though I haven’t reread them yet, I plan to reread all of the Expanse novels as well as Game of Thrones.

fiction
Chaim Potok’s The Chosen and also The Promise. These books helped me immensely as a teenager dealing with weighty family issues. I revisit them about every 5 years.

nonfiction
I’ve read a lot of Ambrose and tend to reread his WWII books every 5 to 10 years.