What books have you read that you loved so much you've read them more than once?
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What books have you read that you loved so much you've read them more than once?
Jessica by Bryce Courtenay
Pride and prejudice
Pride and Prejudice (Any Jane Austen really but P&P is her best work)
Anything written by Bill Bryson
War and Peace
Anna Karenina
All of the Tales of The Otari books
Vanity Fair
Memoirs of a Geisha
The Help
The Tale of Murasaki
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
The Count of Monte Christo
My Friend Flicka
I tend to re-read books I enjoy so I could go on all night....
Who's In The Loo - Jeanne Willis
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All of the Hitchhikers Guide books.
Harry Potter.
Shantaram.
Sense and Sensibility
Gone With The Wind
Jane Eyre
All the Harry Potters
Animal Farm
Oliver Twist
Christine
Carrie
The Stand
in fact any of the older Stephen King books
The Harry Potter Series
The Obernewtyn Series
The Sookie Stackhouse Series
Anything by Jane Austen
The Forsyte saga
Rebecca by Daphne de maurier
The obernewtyn series by isobelle carmody
I like rereading books that really consuming and escapist from the issues of here and now, so they always seem like a safe haven, especially since I know what's going to happen.
Memoirs of a Geisha
The Readers Digest condensed books - Mum has a heap of them
Anne of Green Gables series
Anne of Green Gables series
Sookie Stackhouse series
Gone With The Wind, have read it so much I have lost count
Definately Bill Bryson
Loads of stuff. It's why I refuse to get rid of any books and soon we will be eating & sleeping on books.
The Lord Of the Rings (like, 8 or 9 times :redface:)
The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay.
David Eddings.
Diana Gabaldon, Stephen King, Jeffery Deaver, Marian Keyes.
ETA - PZ - Shantaram was so good! Definitely on my list to read again, lol.
the L-shaped room
any of robert crais' books
The Grapes of Wrath
Of Mice and Men
1984
Animal Farm
Wuthering Heights
Kindling Does for Firewood
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Tin Drum
Catcher in the Rye
Dinner at the Homesick Restuarant
Any Christopher brookmyre
I think I have read all of stephen kings books twice. Rose madder & The Stand more:)
Icy Sparks - Gwyn Hyman Rubio
Black Beauty, I read this so many times growing up and I still like to read it every now and then.
Pride & Prejudice
so classic books here girls!!! what a well read bunch you all are! lol
i'm also with the austen group and have read P&P a few times as well as Persuasion, which is my absolute fave austen novel.
otherwise The Amtrak Wars by Patrick Tilley. Anyone inot scifi/fantasty books will love this. It's a real mergeing of sci fi and fantasty and just fab. not the usual 'farm boy has a gift he doesn't know he has and then he rules the world once he masters his powers' stuff lol.
The Tide Lords by Jennifer Fallon - also a very interesting and different take on the fantasty genre. dh and i read these together and we still talk about them!
great thread :)
I've read Anne McCaffrey's entire 'Dragon Riders of Pern' series about 3-4 times. That's a LOT of books, lol!
The girl with the dragon tattoo...and the following books ;)
The memory keepers daughter
Homecoming
House rules
Sing you home
My sisters keeper
Handle with care
The post mistress
omg mylitta that is A LOT of books lol.
the Wayfarer Redemption (incl the axis triology) by Sara Douglass is also good :)
Anything Jane Austen
Anne of Green Gables series
Anything by Francine Rivers
Jane Austen
Tomorrow series
Harry Potter
Gone With The Wind & Scarlett
And for fun, light hearted...
Anything by Melanie La'Brooy (a great Aussie author with a sense of humour I adore...although I can't read her books in bed as I laugh too much, shake the bed and wake DH up!!)
Most of Jane Austen
All of the Anne of Green Gables series
Falling Angels by Jane Chevalier
Gone with the Wind
The Winthrop Woman
Anything about the Tudors, Anne Boleyn etc so most of Phillipa Gregory's books
A Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Harp in the South
The Larkrise to Candleford series
I actually own them all too. Not only that, but I pretty much own every book in all of Anne McCaffrey's other series too. I counted them recently and I think it was over 70 books. Obsessed much? Lol!!!:
Agree...Persuasion is her best work! Such biting wit and characterisation!:
Lord of the Rings - well over 100 times. Love that book. Plus the other Tolkein ones, but we're only looking at up to 20 times with most of those.
Hitchhiker's Guide (etc), The Eyre Affair (etc), The Ship Who Sang (etc), Anne of Green Gables, Pride & Prejudice & Zombies (for a re-take on the classic), the Discworld books (read at least once every other year), Poirot... There are many, many books I have read many, many times.
All book club books are read twice: once quickly so I know the plot, the second slowly so I can discuss the book in-depth and talk about motivations etc. Plus so I can do a synopsis for the other book club members, who often don't even manage the once.
Flying Butter, I want you in my book club!!
New entrant onto the favoritest books ever shelf: The Book of Lost Things, by John Connolly.