Since we have a thread on movies we can re-watch, let's also discuss the books we love to re-read. Some of mine are; To Kill a Mockingbird The Once and Future King The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy The Rocket Boys Harpo Speaks Chuck Amuck
Short list (in no particular order): The Bible (var. authors) An Army at Dawn (Atkinson) Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck) Unbroken (Hildebrand) Mere Christianity (C.S. Lewis) Undaunted Courage (Ambrose)
I first read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn when I was 7 or 8 years old. It's my all-time favorite and I re-read it every 5 or 10 years. Not too many other books that I've read multiple times, other than fishing books. The only other novel I can think of at the moment is The River Why.
I have read most of John Steinbeck's novels quite a few times, especially "Of mice and men" and "Cannery row". T.C. Boyle "Water Music" J.D. Salingers "Catcher in the Rye" and "Franny and Zooey" I had to read the first few books of the "Wheel of time" series over and over again - almost every time a new book was published I started at the beginning again to catch up When I was young: Hermann Hesse "Unterm Rad" and Max Frisch "Homo Faber"
I have this nostalgic/sentimental connection to Robert A Heinlein's "Have spacesuit - will travel". I think I read it the first time when I was maybe 10 years old and have re-read it umpteen times over the years
Too many to list. I'd rather read a good book than watch a good movie. There are scored of books I've read multiple times. Some that come to mind: The Stand (the original publication, not King's extra 400 pg Bataan Death March of a story) The Hunt For Red October by Tom Clancy Just about anything from David Weber "The Corps" series by W.E.B. Griffin The Fire Dream by Franklin Allen Leib
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Most Kurt Vonnegut books - especially Breakfast of Champions and Slaughterhouse Five Stephen King's The Running Man The Martian - a recent addition to my list, but well worth a read (or five) if you're into science and/or MacGyver-like problem solving.
The books that I have read multiple times are those I read and re-read over and over as a child and occasionally pick up to read again even now. The Hobbit The Lord of the Rings trilogy Treasure Island The Swiss Family Robinson Tom Sawyer Huckleberry Finn Captains Courageous 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Journey to the Center of the Earth. And many more...
Anything by these authors: J.R.R. Tolkien David Weber John Ringo Also the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan and Neverness and The Requiem for Homo Sapiens trilogy by David Zindell. The Harper Hall of Pern trilogy by Anne McCaffery. There's others, many others, but those are my "if I was stranded on a desert island" books.
+1 for WOT series... I'm on book 9. Rand is one bad MF with Callandor But the problem with them is it'll take a couple years to re read them all. If not more.
I read,"the far pavilions", twice. the author is M M Kaye. it was later made into a movie. I thought it was a good read. thick book though, but once into it the pages just turn themselves.
Two books I have read more than once... Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry and Earth Abides by George R Stewart
The True Game series by Sheri S Tepper, the Amber Chronicles by Rodger Zelazny, the Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan and Branden Sanderson, the Deathgate series by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. There are many more the Hannibal books by Thomas Harris, George RR Martins A song of ice and fire (if the last one ever comes out) There are way too many to keep listing. The Dresden Files series from Jim Butcher. Ok I'm done now.
I loved any of the Dean Koontz books, and I read Hatchet several times growing up. I was always a fan of the survival books.
