What books do you re-read often?

[NewHampshireDem]

I have several books that I seem to read about every 12-18 months or have read about a half-dozen times or so. How about you? What books do you find yourself reading again and again? (We'll count books on tape you listen to often as well!)

Here's my (partial) list:

Dune
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Neuromancer
A Clockwork Orange
Brave New World
Three Men and a Boat
The Road Less Traveled
Awakening the Buddha Within
Peace is Every Step
The Sun Also Rises
In Our Time/The Nick Adams Stories
Class (Paul Fussell)

[m-jean03]

1. Are some of those Thich Nhat Hahn titles?

He is immensely re-readable. :hi:

[NewHampshireDem]

3. Peace is Every Step is Thich Nhat Hahn

Buddah Within is Lama Surya Das, aka "The Deli Lama" :)

[m-jean03]

8. Oh yes!

Have read the former, not the latter.

I have "The Miracle of Mindfulness" that's good too.

[LisaM]

2. All of Jane Austen (2-3 times a year)

All of Barbara Pym
"Lucky Jim"
"The Great Gatsby"
"Lorna Doone"
The Narnia books
Lord of the Rings
The Anne of Green Gables series
"The Europeans"
"Portrait of a Lady"


This is a partial list, also.

[Bertha Venation]

4. Just finished a time-travel baseball novel for the umpteenth time

If I Never Get Back by Darryl Brock. Great fun for baseball fans; a good education on how the game was played in 1869.

Frequently re-read fiction by Rita Mae Brown. Preparing to re-read David McCullough's Truman for the second time this year.

[PragMantisT]

5. Catch-22

Something new every time.

Also The Catcher in the Rye, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, East of Eden, Travels with Charley, and Tortilla Flat.

[chiburb]

28. Same here...

Every 6 years or so, and always get something new...

[Speck Tater]

6. Illusions by Richard Bach, at least once a year (nt)

[burythehatchet]

7. Two books go everywhere with me

The Bhagavad Gita
and
The Prophet

[m-jean03]

9. I like to re-read Lolita...

Love that book. I need to read more Nabokov, I think.

[Whitacre D_WI]

10. Mostly non-fiction.

Plenty of baseball and rock & roll books.

Oh, and "Gatsby."

[flamingyouth]

15. Gatsby

Natch.:hug:

[phaseolus]

11. Raymond Chandler

I reread all the novels every 2-3 years, and have a great time doing it...

[madmax]

12. Anything by Nelson DeMille,

Dean Koontz and James Patterson

[Commendatori]

25. The Charm School

is my favorite novel.

[flamingyouth]

13. 1984

Also, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. I've been reading the latter every year, pretty much, since I was in 5th grade. I'm way ahead of Oprah!:D

[leftyandproud]

14. just bought "A Clockwork Orange"...

HELP!! I didn't get one with a translation guide in the back...how the hell do you understand who/what the weird words are?

[NewHampshireDem]

21. You can find one on-line, but you don't need it!

I found this guide here and it looks fairly decent:
http://www.geocities.com/malcolmtribute/aco/nadsat.html

The Nadsat "dictionary" in some texts was actually a latter addition, which I believe was added for the first American edition. Anyway, if you just "go with with it" you'll start to pick up the lingo pretty quickly--it's really quite poetic.

Enjoy!

[izzie]

16. Austin, for sure.

I also like Scott's books on India, War and Peace, it is such a great story, as is Middlemarch. Bronte is the same. It is like these are friends and you always know they will live up to what you hoped for, a good story.

[Rabrrrrrr]

17. I read some of those, too! Dune, Hitchhikers, Dirk Gently

also

• The Bible
  
• Cryptonomicon
  
• HP Lovecraft stuff
  
• other Stephenson books
  
• my entire collection of mystery books written by Keith Snyder (fantastic author! Better be having a new book coming out soon...),
  
• Foundation
  
• Hemingway
  
• Shakespeare
  

Quite a few, really

[NewHampshireDem]

22. Have you read Stephenson's stuff he wrote as Steven Bury?

"The Cobweb" and "Interface"? They are excellent.

[Rabrrrrrr]

26. dammit!

Didn't even know that he wrote as anyone else. Why didn't anyone tell me?

Come on people, throw me a bone here, I need the info...

Thanks for the info! I'll check them out. One of my favorite writers.

[fudge stripe cookays]

18. Just a few...

Sarah Bird- the Boyfriend School and Alamo House

Anything by Peter Mayle, but especially Anything Considered

And the Band Played On- Randy Shilts

Rebecca- du Maurier

The Longest Day and A Bridge Too Far- Cornelius Ryan

The Alienist- Caleb Carr

[Jack_Dawson]

19. Rich Dad, Poor Dad

Best financial book written...ever.

[bbernardini]

20. XTC-Song Stories

Every time I get in an XTC mood, I pick up this book. It's a great insight into the stories behind every song, as well as the process of recording every album. It also acts as a history of sorts of the band.

[sniffa]

23. Lies and the Lying Liars who teLL them

of course! :D

aLso - the theory of poker, and my favorite - 'have a nice day' by mankind.

[GOPisEvil]

24. I usually read "Summer of '49" every year.

In fact, every Yankees and Red Sox fan should read it. A great baseball book by David Halberstam recounting the 1949 season as told by the players.

[Burma Jones]

27. A Confederacy of Dunces

Lord of the Rings Trilogy
The Sun Also Rises



I've been working on my Doctorate, so my pleasure reading has been seriously curtailed.

[Robb]

29. Don DeLillo's "White Noise"...

...I seem to read it every year or so. It's such a well-done little book, and it reminds me how little I (and most people, actually) really know about writing. :)