I seem to go through periods of re-reading one book (or several) for a year or two and them moving on to some other. Used to be a really blood chilling horror novel, then some very technical SF, then I spent awhile as an expert/guru about a very technical subject and had to keep reading on that … and most recently a nice theological fantasy…
A lot of them – but for some reason, I keep repeating Nevil Shute novels the most. Not the most intellectual books in the world, but they have heart! James A Michener and Wilbur Smith are other favourites!
I’d have to say, “The Cat in the Hat” takes a slim lead over a few others. So what’s the slam against nutritional information not changing? I would guess that’s more likely that the other three.
When I was in school, I took a course in economics. I read Samuelson, Keynes, and many others; but the most boring and hardest to find the back cover was Leftwich. That book was so bad, the only way I could get through it was to read something else, alternating every 45 minutes. The book I chose was LotR in 1973 for the first time. I re-read LotR annually until 2006, when I realized there was nobody in my circle with whom I wanted to talk about it. I’ve re-read Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy several times, but nothing like LotR!
Sorry I couldn’t reread it , but the book that pushed me into being a reader was “The Shining”. Going through the topiary garden actually raised my hackles. That convinced me to let my imagination go. I have reread “Lord of the Rings” many times and each time the world expands. God I love books.
No time to read. Too tired when I come home from work. Have at least three books I have started but never finished. “Einstein” is the one I want to finish first.
I haven’t re-read a book since I was a kid. Back then my two favorite books was Follow My Leader, author I don’t recall and My Side of the Mountain by Jean George..
Mine is Shane by Jack Schaefer. When my family move to Ontario I had to learn English in a hurry. By the time I got to high school my vocabulary still needed improvement. Mr. Duquette my English teacher assigned Shane as additional reading, just to me. I wasn’t all that thrilled at first. Turns out I never thanked him enough.
I’m not sure i’ve read any book more than twice. But those i have read a 2d time include: Venus on the Half-Shell(Kilgore Trout), Lying Awake (Salzman), Walkin’ Matilda (Graham) (don’t think anyone else here would have read this one), Siddhartha (Hess). I did start to read Tom Sawyer multiple times over the years but just couldn’t get into it; i finally finished it last Summer.
Read the Bible through every year. Read Tolkien’s main 4 about 10 times….then libraries networked through ILL program – not enough years too read all the books available now. My reading list is up to 64! No more re-reads…..
My current most re-read book is “The Deed of Paksenarrion” by Elizabeth Moon. It was originally 3 books published in 1988 and 1989. I think I picked it up about 15-20 years ago and have read it at least 10 times – sometimes back to back. It reads like a really good DnD game. I just love it.
Bible every other year, the Apocrypha and the Lost Books the alternate years. Michener’s and Edward Rutherfurd’s epics about once each decade or two. On my third trip through Shakespeare’s canon (of course, any play I’m in gets extra readings). Have also read Lord of the Rings and its prequels and the Sherlock Holmes canon many times, just not recently.
I love that this has lead to a great sharing among readers. I have re-read a lot of classics and science fiction and fantasy (definitely LOTR and the Hobbit) but I have probably read the New Testament and the Book of Mormon more than any other, followed by the Doctrine and Covenants, the Old Testament, and the Pearl of Great Price. The Old Testament almost as much as the New Testament if you don’t count skipping Songs of Solomon, Psalms, and Proverbs. ;)
Too many, I can’t remember which one I read the most. But I don’t think I have ever read an Oreo packaging, even though I was once so desperate for something to read I read the instructions on the box of my toothpaste.
I echo Robert Heinlein and Larry Niven. I’ve read many of their books more than 5 times. Riverworld series by Farmer. Nero Wolfe as fusilier above mentioned – odd to re-read a mystery! But with Wolfe it’s enjoyable whether you remember the ending or not! When. I was younger I binged Asimov robot stories and mysteries like Caves of Steel and kept going back to them.
Pastwatch by Orson Scott Card. Tailchaser’s Song (also Memory, Sorrow and Thorn series) by Tad Williams. 1984 by George Orwell. The Gate to Women’s Country by Sherri S. Tepper. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. The Chronicles of Narnia (also The Screwtape Letters) by C. S. Lewis. The White Plague by Frank Herbert. All the Harry Potter books by J. K. Rowling. The Hitchhikers series by Douglas Adams. Plus Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg, Robert Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke.
Lots of books I’ve read many times, a lot of them mentioned above, but since the question is about reread the most times, I’d have to go with ‘One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest’. Sometimes I didn’t even intend to read it; I would see a copy, say to myself, “Oh yeah, I remember this one”, look at the first page, and just fall in.
eromlig about 4 years ago
Huckleberry Finn.
PoodleGroomer about 4 years ago
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
sdmitchell02 about 4 years ago
Groundhog Day. I’ve read it thousands of times.
Wilde Bill about 4 years ago
Foundation and Earth.
allen@home about 4 years ago
Iron Coffins.
Odd Dog Premium Member about 4 years ago
The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. I know I’ve read them over a dozen times.
amethyst52 Premium Member about 4 years ago
Gone With the Wind, A Prayer for Owen Meany, The Prince of Tides, all the Harry Potters, Green Dolphin Street, How Green Was My Valley.
Concretionist about 4 years ago
I seem to go through periods of re-reading one book (or several) for a year or two and them moving on to some other. Used to be a really blood chilling horror novel, then some very technical SF, then I spent awhile as an expert/guru about a very technical subject and had to keep reading on that … and most recently a nice theological fantasy…
Bilan about 4 years ago
I’m like Mr Spaetzle, but with the tv guide; always hoping there’s suddenly something decent to watch.
rekam Premium Member about 4 years ago
Gone With the Wind. I read it 3 times I think and each time I discovered something new.
stellanova87 about 4 years ago
The Junie B. Jones books, I used to read them to my kids.
LobosSolos Premium Member about 4 years ago
Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein (And no, the book and the movie have nothing in common other than some names).
Nachikethass about 4 years ago
A lot of them – but for some reason, I keep repeating Nevil Shute novels the most. Not the most intellectual books in the world, but they have heart! James A Michener and Wilbur Smith are other favourites!
222jo about 4 years ago
Harry Potter because I’m learning french so it helps if you already know the story and it isn’t too complicated.
gsawyer101 about 4 years ago
Atlas Shrugged
The Old Wolf about 4 years ago
Lord of the Rings
matthew about 4 years ago
Fahrenheit 451
Gizmo Cat about 4 years ago
The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, It, The nutmeg tree, The hitchhikersguide to the galaxy and ‘Kruistocht in Spijkerbroek”
AlanM about 4 years ago
Eric Flint’s “1632”.It can be downloaded for free from https://www.baen.com/1632.html
lee85736 about 4 years ago
“The Free Lunch” by Spider Robinson. Highly recommended, if you can find a copy.
Ignatz Premium Member about 4 years ago
Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. I’ve also read Of Mice And Men a bunch of times. And LOTR. And Narnia. And Dante. And Shakespeare.
danketaz Premium Member about 4 years ago
Maybe he should work his way through all the Oreo variations.
Charles Spencer Premium Member about 4 years ago
“Soul Music”, although I don’t think I’ve read any Discworld less than three times.
There’s a lot of fantasy and sci-fi on these posts!
Kkrnc74 Premium Member about 4 years ago
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, at least 5 times!
Ceeg22 Premium Member about 4 years ago
Harold & the Purple Crayon
sandpiper about 4 years ago
CS Forester’s the Hornblower series
Old Girl about 4 years ago
I’d have to say, “The Cat in the Hat” takes a slim lead over a few others. So what’s the slam against nutritional information not changing? I would guess that’s more likely that the other three.
The Legend of Brandon Sawyer about 4 years ago
A raisin in the sun
David Wolfson Premium Member about 4 years ago
LOTR, Catch-22, Watership Down, most of Terry Pratchett and most of Lois McMaster Bujold. All at least a dozen, some probably pushing 20.
OshkoshJohn about 4 years ago
When I was in school, I took a course in economics. I read Samuelson, Keynes, and many others; but the most boring and hardest to find the back cover was Leftwich. That book was so bad, the only way I could get through it was to read something else, alternating every 45 minutes. The book I chose was LotR in 1973 for the first time. I re-read LotR annually until 2006, when I realized there was nobody in my circle with whom I wanted to talk about it. I’ve re-read Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy several times, but nothing like LotR!
Ontman about 4 years ago
jessegooddog about 4 years ago
Watership Down
cj7ole about 4 years ago
The rest of us aren’t commenting as our taste in books isn’t so highbrow…
Geophyzz about 4 years ago
Everything by Carl Barks, starting with A Christmas For Shacktown.
landyk about 4 years ago
Sorry I couldn’t reread it , but the book that pushed me into being a reader was “The Shining”. Going through the topiary garden actually raised my hackles. That convinced me to let my imagination go. I have reread “Lord of the Rings” many times and each time the world expands. God I love books.
Jhony-Yermo about 4 years ago
I like some Steinbeck but I hated Of Mice and Men. I guess not my cup of tea. But I sure love Cannery Row.
Cortez about 4 years ago
Since the movie I can’t read “No Country” without the voice of Ed Tom Bell being Tommy Lee Jones in my head.
jscarff57 Premium Member about 4 years ago
1984
Sportymonk about 4 years ago
No time to read. Too tired when I come home from work. Have at least three books I have started but never finished. “Einstein” is the one I want to finish first.
sloaches about 4 years ago
The Stand by Stephen King, although not recently.
cissycox about 4 years ago
The Virginian and Pride and Prejudice at the beginning of every summer for years.
animemom50 about 4 years ago
I haven’t re-read a book since I was a kid. Back then my two favorite books was Follow My Leader, author I don’t recall and My Side of the Mountain by Jean George..
lagoulou about 4 years ago
Outlander series…3 times so far
fusilier about 4 years ago
Nero Wolfe mysteries.
fusilier
James 2:24
Seed_drill about 4 years ago
He’s old enough to have had Oreos with lard, so that changed.
djlactin about 4 years ago
Dune
cervelo about 4 years ago
Mine is Shane by Jack Schaefer. When my family move to Ontario I had to learn English in a hurry. By the time I got to high school my vocabulary still needed improvement. Mr. Duquette my English teacher assigned Shane as additional reading, just to me. I wasn’t all that thrilled at first. Turns out I never thanked him enough.
ppw04 Premium Member about 4 years ago
To Kill a Mockingbird although the 2015-published prequel/first draft has taken the shine off Atticus.
MichaelHelwig about 4 years ago
The Jerry Todd series.
kconnell about 4 years ago
J.R.R. Allison’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
ArtisticArtemis about 4 years ago
Hah! The ingredients list of Oreos HAS changed!
High Fructose Corn Syrup and palm oil wasn’t in them when I was a little girl!!!!!!!
Bill Löhr Premium Member about 4 years ago
I’m not sure i’ve read any book more than twice. But those i have read a 2d time include: Venus on the Half-Shell(Kilgore Trout), Lying Awake (Salzman), Walkin’ Matilda (Graham) (don’t think anyone else here would have read this one), Siddhartha (Hess). I did start to read Tom Sawyer multiple times over the years but just couldn’t get into it; i finally finished it last Summer.
Stephen Gilberg about 4 years ago
I think the only books I’ve read more than twice are ones I read in early childhood. Not sure how much I read them on my own, tho.
…Oh wait: There are also the baby books I’ve read to my nephew.
Bill The Nuke about 4 years ago
Does he expect the Oreos package or any of the books mentioned to change?
rlaker22j about 4 years ago
Yeager also into the mouth of the cat character builders
dhmcgee04 Premium Member about 4 years ago
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Leadvilledave about 4 years ago
All the “Heath Barrington” Murder mystery books!
Darwinskeeper about 4 years ago
“The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” and its sequels.
DonLee2 about 4 years ago
“Imperial Earth” by Arthur C. Clarke. And then “To Kill a Mockingbird.”
Boots at the Boar Premium Member about 4 years ago
I’m still waiting for Oreos made with Olestra.
Jan C about 4 years ago
Not a single book, but a series: E.E. “Doc” Smith’s Lensman series.
jbmoore2 Premium Member about 4 years ago
The Great Gatsby, The Sun Also Rises, Old Man and the Sea are favorite re-reads among others.
amxchester about 4 years ago
Read the Bible through every year. Read Tolkien’s main 4 about 10 times….then libraries networked through ILL program – not enough years too read all the books available now. My reading list is up to 64! No more re-reads…..
contralto2b about 4 years ago
My current most re-read book is “The Deed of Paksenarrion” by Elizabeth Moon. It was originally 3 books published in 1988 and 1989. I think I picked it up about 15-20 years ago and have read it at least 10 times – sometimes back to back. It reads like a really good DnD game. I just love it.
Pequod about 4 years ago
As much as I like No Country for Old Men, it is far from McCarthy’s best work. Personally, I favor Suttree and Blood Meridian.
gcarlson about 4 years ago
Bible every other year, the Apocrypha and the Lost Books the alternate years. Michener’s and Edward Rutherfurd’s epics about once each decade or two. On my third trip through Shakespeare’s canon (of course, any play I’m in gets extra readings). Have also read Lord of the Rings and its prequels and the Sherlock Holmes canon many times, just not recently.
streetbeater about 4 years ago
“Brave New World” – Aldous Huxley
asrialfeeple about 4 years ago
Ronja the robbers daughter. Narnia. Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy. Will see if I can get Kruistocht in spijkerbroek from the library.
Leewit about 4 years ago
I love that this has lead to a great sharing among readers. I have re-read a lot of classics and science fiction and fantasy (definitely LOTR and the Hobbit) but I have probably read the New Testament and the Book of Mormon more than any other, followed by the Doctrine and Covenants, the Old Testament, and the Pearl of Great Price. The Old Testament almost as much as the New Testament if you don’t count skipping Songs of Solomon, Psalms, and Proverbs. ;)
RussellRogerBe1 about 4 years ago
Most read book in our house, for both SWMBO and I, The Holy Bible.
GreggW Premium Member about 4 years ago
“The Brothers Karamazov”, twice. Maybe that’s not legit because it was two different translations. Planning on a third.
Pipe Tobacco Premium Member about 4 years ago
Mobey Dick.
Teto85 Premium Member about 4 years ago
LOTR, Larry Niven’s Known Universe, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, manga version, Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.
syzygy47 about 4 years ago
Certain ‘graphic novels’ aside, Alfred Bester’s The Stars My Destination and The Demolished Man
cabalonrye about 4 years ago
Too many, I can’t remember which one I read the most. But I don’t think I have ever read an Oreo packaging, even though I was once so desperate for something to read I read the instructions on the box of my toothpaste.
evilsofa about 4 years ago
“Wow, you have a lot of books! You’ve read all of them?”“No, I haven’t read any of these. Why would I want a bunch of books I’ve already read?”
Mark Devney about 4 years ago
I echo Robert Heinlein and Larry Niven. I’ve read many of their books more than 5 times. Riverworld series by Farmer. Nero Wolfe as fusilier above mentioned – odd to re-read a mystery! But with Wolfe it’s enjoyable whether you remember the ending or not! When. I was younger I binged Asimov robot stories and mysteries like Caves of Steel and kept going back to them.
Mark Devney about 4 years ago
Oh! And David Eddings’ fantasy series’. I come back to The Belgariad every decade or so. :-)
Daeder about 4 years ago
“No Runners for Mice and Men”
davidringler about 4 years ago
wow….Once A Runner….you had to have been one…classic
LoveBritTV Premium Member about 4 years ago
Pastwatch by Orson Scott Card. Tailchaser’s Song (also Memory, Sorrow and Thorn series) by Tad Williams. 1984 by George Orwell. The Gate to Women’s Country by Sherri S. Tepper. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. The Chronicles of Narnia (also The Screwtape Letters) by C. S. Lewis. The White Plague by Frank Herbert. All the Harry Potter books by J. K. Rowling. The Hitchhikers series by Douglas Adams. Plus Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg, Robert Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke.
ars731 about 4 years ago
The Stand by Stephen King
Sanspareil about 4 years ago
“The Ring of Ritornel” and “The Rose” and The Venetian Court and The Paradox Men by Charles L. Harness.
ampeck about 4 years ago
the Narnia Series 20+ times start from the time I was 10.
joeparkmoor about 4 years ago
“The Martian Chronicles”
mischugenah about 4 years ago
Terry Pratchett’s THUD
dbmail545 about 4 years ago
Holy crap! I’ve read all those books!
childe_of_pan almost 2 years ago
Lots of books I’ve read many times, a lot of them mentioned above, but since the question is about reread the most times, I’d have to go with ‘One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest’. Sometimes I didn’t even intend to read it; I would see a copy, say to myself, “Oh yeah, I remember this one”, look at the first page, and just fall in.