What book have you read the most times?

[mvd]

When I was young I read 6th Grade Can Really Kill You like a million times - I'm pretty sure it still holds the record.

[teach1st]

1. Jitterbug Perfume

Tom Robbins

[Cuban_Liberal]

2. 'Lincoln', by Gore Vidal.

I can recite passages from memory, and could still sit down and read it again tonight, and enjoy every minute. :)

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

15. Me, too!

and I have the video, starring Sam Waterston as Lincoln.

[terrya]

19. Same here. I think it's finest biography of Lincoln as President ever.

Vidal did a lot of research for "Lincoln". I got a real sense of the man in this book...a man woefully underestimated by his Cabinet (particularly William Seward, Lincoln's Secretary of State)...and ended up being respected. A marvelous, marvelous book...immensely readable (and it stands on its own in Vidal's series of novels on the history of the United States)

[Dookus]

3. Candide

dunno why....just love to read it.

[Parrcrow]

4. Slaughterhouse Five

at least once a year. The novel itself is about repetativeness in non-linear time (but in a funny way).

[ComerPerro]

52. Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut

Great book.

That and God Bless You Mr. Rosewater are two of my favorites.

[The empressof all]

66. me too

And I too re read it every year or so- My other favorite is Confederacy of Dunces

[bicentennial_baby]

5. The Great Gatsby

[southpaw]

65. Yep... gotta be Gatsby for me, too.

Wrote a lot of papers on that book.

[djeseru]

6. Alice In Wonderland/Through...

...the Looking-Glass - over and over and over...

To Kill A Mockingbird and The Bell Jar.

[bobbieinok]

7. Pride and Prejudice

also reread many times

Alan Mendelssohn: Boy from Mars

Politics of the Prussian Army - Gordon Craig

Consciouness and Society - H.S. Hughes

Hitler: A Study in Tyranny - Alan Bullock

Berlin Diary - Shirer

[orestes]

11. going by the creases

on the spines of my books, looks like it would be either Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire, Aristotle's Ethics, or Age of Reason by Tom Paine.

[patriotvoice]

18. Great selection...

... and welcome to DU.

[Wickerman]

8. Hot Rod - Henry Gregor Felson

just a guess. Read it a lot as a kid. Maybe Willard and His Bowling Trophies, maybe any Prey book by John Sandford - they are all good, but they are all effectively the same book.

[Mobius]

9. Bible

but not lately

[NC_Nurse]

10. Skinny Legs and All

Tom Robbins

[MikeG]

12. The Affluent Society - John Kenneth Galbraith

[salvorhardin]

13. Toss up...

...between Heinlein's Moon Is A Harsh Mistress and Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy.

[mike_c]

14. Dan Simmons Hyperion series...

...comes to mind. I've read the whole series three times but the last volume five times (yes it's THAT good). It's been a vacation standby for several years.

[patriotvoice]

16. Goedel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

EOM

[bobbieinok]

39. I'm impressed - I've 'read at' it

[Madrone]

49. What about Metamagical Themas?

n/t

[dae]

17. The Three Musketeers by Dumas, not a child's book. ;-)

Shogun by Clavell, went thru my Samurai phase.

[proud patriot]

20. As a preschool teacher it is a tie between

"A fish out of water"

"Cloudy With A chance of Meatballs"

"Three Billy Goats Gruff"

"the little red hen"

"green eggs and ham"

"Alexander and terrible horrible no good very bad day"

"fox in sox"

"Chicka Chicka Boom Boom"

"tell me again about the night I was born"

I could go on and on ...These are staple books with kids .

[hyphenate]

21. I'm working on a third reading

of Silverlock by John Myers Myers.

[NewHampster]

22. Lord of The Rings - All Three, Four Times

The last time was just before the first film was released. I had to brush up my memories.

I still miss Tom Bombadil but I know Tolkien thought him meaningless to the story.

[Reciprocity]

23. TLOTR more than 28 times.

I am 45 and I have read The Lord of the Ring trilogy every year starting September the 22nd cause that’s Bilbo and Frodo’s birthday since I was 17.

[NewHampster]

24. Ok, I thought I was sick for my 4 times

You are nuts.

[Reciprocity]

27. Certifiable

[starroute]

34. I've probably read The Hobbit more times than LotR

I read The Lord of the Rings a half-dozen times the year I was eleven, and probably another 6-10 times by the time I was 21, but I'm sure I've read The Hobbit more than that:

Once or twice when I was about eight. Then when I was eleven and caught up in The Lord of the Rings, I went back to the kiddie section of the library for The Hobbit and read it three times in three days -- plus several more times over the next few weeks. Then at regular intervals all through high school and college. Then once to my own kids.

Plus there were things like the time I came up with a castoff library copy of the original, unrevised version of The Hobbit and went through both versions word-by-word, noting the differences.

That was a long time ago, though.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

33. I've lost count but

I'd guess I'm at around 20 times.

[Mr. McD]

25. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

:)Or E.E. Doc Smith's "Lensman series"

[AlienGirl]

26. Brightness Falls From the Air

While I was recovering from my first childbirth, I read Brightness Falls From the Air by James Tiptree, Jr. every night. That is, I would read the first half one night and the second half the next night. I did this for seven weeks or so.

Still love that book, too.

Tucker

[Catshrink]

28. Several..

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
Sarum - Edmund Rutherford
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy - Tolkein

[SarahB]

29. A Wrinkle in Time

That whole series was read many times as a kid.

[Lizz612]

38. Same here

I love that book and most of that series. I have read it so many times I can open it to any page and know exactly what happened before and whats going to happen next.

[MrSlayer]

30. The Hobbit.

Read it so many times I can pretty much quote it verbatim.

[Kadie]

31. Good Night Moon

[bleedingheart]

32. Mists of Avalon

I love that book...its my favorite Arthurian legend books.

[MsSnood]

35. To Kill A Mockingbird

[dweller]

36. Fire From Within

research,
dp

[JanMichael]

37. Crime & Punishment. I don't remember how many times either.

Don't know why but I've always related to Raskonikov:shrug:

[lpbk2713]

40. Probably "The Old Man and the Sea"

I get a good feeling after reading it.

[Raenelle]

41. One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest--3 times

I read Forever Amber three times also, but I didn't enjoy it that much the third time.

[shimmergal]

42. The Forbidden Tower, Heritage of Hastur, and Sharra's Exile

by Marion Zimmer Bradley.
and
The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire by Luttwak.
and
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis.

Not counting the sixty-eleven times lately that I've read Snow White to my 3-year-old granddaughter.

[NMDemDist2]

43. Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

and Mark Twain I re-read him at least once a year, usually Huck Finn or "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court". I also re-read "Even Cowgirls get the Blues" every few years. and Heinlein's "Moon is a Harsh Mistress"

[Kool Kitty]

44. It's pretty even between

"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith and "Kalki" by Gore Vidal.

[ThoughtCriminal]

45. Brief History of Time - maybe

I think I had to read each page an average of 3-4 times as I tried to grasp it.

[mitchum]

46. "Last Exit To Brooklyn" or "To Kill A Mockingbird"...

at least a dozen times for each one

[FDRrocks]

47. "The Stand" by Steven King

4 times. The Autobiography of Malcom X is in close second at 3 times.

[SmileyBoy]

56. Me too. I'm on my 4th reading of The Stand.

[LDS Jock]

48. Gone With The Wind

But I haven't read it in years.

[darkstar]

50. Huckleberry Finn, 6-7 times (great thread topic, btw!) n/t

[Tredge]

51. "The Godfather" and "The Sun Also Rises"

Pretty much a tie between those two with "Crime and Punishment" not far behind. I've read "Ulysses" about six times, but that doesn't really count because I had to do that before I could understand it.

[Insider]

53. Peter the Great by Massie

can't finish that last 200 pages. but i keep starting it over again and again.
the one i finished many times was Hunt for Red October

[Atlanticist]

54. Only a few books I've read more than once.....

TLOTR (five times in my teens and again recently)

Evelyn Waugh - Decline and Fall, Scoop, Black Mischief - absolutely hilarious, but VERY un-PC !!!

Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov - the greatest novel I've ever read - have read it 3 times

Boswells Biography of Johnson

Obviously Shakespeare - For the past 5 years, I've always had one on the go alongside other books - must have read Julius Caesar a dozen times

Based on above recommendations, I'll read Lincoln. I tried to get into Vidal a year or so ago with Aaron Burr. Will try Lincoln.

[JCMach1]

55. LOTR-- I lost count between ages 10-NOW

:(

God that sounds pathetic...

[RunOfTheMillDemocrat]

57. Sybil - the only book I've read more than once

A facinating story.

[Misinformed01]

58. Lonesome Dove

Larry McMurtry--

[NoPasaran]

59. On The Road

-Jack Kerouac

[bmbmd]

60. "Goodbye to a River"

by another great Texan, John Graves. At least once a year for thirty five years.

[LWolf]

61. I'm not sure.

I've read so many books so many times. I won't count the picture books I used to read to the groups of children in the library; I'd read it 33 times in a week, until I could recite it easily without ever glancing at a page. Ok, I'll choose just a couple of my favorites:

The Monster at the end of the book by Jon Stone
Thundercake by Patricia Polacco

As a child, I read the following until I wore them out:

The hobbit and rings trilogy
The ghost at Dibble Hollow (can't remember the author)
My side of the mountain by Jean Craighood George
Every horse book written by Walter Farley

As an adult, I seem to go through authors; I read everything on my shelves by that author periodically. The most-often read authors of the many represented would be:

Barbara Kingsolver
Ursula LeGuin
Patricia McKillip
Anne McCaffrey
Sharon McCrumb

There are more; these pop into mind because they are the most recent re-reads, I guess.

[Bertha Venation]

62. Roots and A Tree Grows In Brooklyn

Roots -- Alex Haley
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn -- Betty Smith
and
Bingo -- Rita Mae Brown
Harriet the Spy -- Louise Fitzhugh
Beach Music -- Pat Conroy
Six of One -- Rita Mae Brown

All highly recommended (even Harriet the Spy for adults -- no kidding).

[buddhamama]

63. To Kill A MockingBird

and All The Strange Hours.

[gpandas]

64. trinity and the tell

are the only books i read more than once