Books You've Read More Than Once

[Pooh]

Ignoring children's books that I have read many times, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams and Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C Clark are two that spring to mind, they are very different but both great in their own ways.

[Pedro25]

The Godfather Mario Puzo, and the best book I've ever read(4 times so far) I Am Pilgrim a tale about the hunt for an international terrorist, brilliant read with lot's of characters in it that keeps your brain active.

[Stick Legs]

Most of John LeCarre I have read more than once.

Len Deighton’s SSGB.

Max Hastings’ Bomber Command.

Eric Schlosser’s Command & Control.

Jilly Cooper’s Riders gets an outing about every 15 years because it is silly & gives my brain the week off.

[Krupp88]

'Bomber' by Len Deighton, and I have listened to the well produced and rather harrowing BBC Radio adaptation several times as well.

'A Fortnight in September' by RC Sheriff which I try and read every September just as summer starts to fade.

[RichTT]

Pooh said:

Ignoring children's books that I have read many times, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams and Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C Clark are two that spring to mind, they are very different but both great in their own ways.

Oh there's a book I havn't read in a while. You do know there's 3 books in the Rama series? I need to re-read them I think.

[Pooh]

RichTT said:

Pooh said:

Ignoring children's books that I have read many times, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams and Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C Clark are two that spring to mind, they are very different but both great in their own ways.

Oh there's a book I havn't read in a while. You do know there's 3 books in the Rama series? I need to re-read them I think.

Yes I have read them all twice but the first one is still my favourite, they would make an amazing film or series of films if somebody could do it properly.

[slopes]

Quite a few by Terry Pratchett but i especially liked any of his books to feature Sam Vimes and his dealings with the Patrician.
Maybe not to everyones tastes but always provoke a snigger here and there, especially Jingo and Thud

[tertius]

Pooh said:

RichTT said:

Pooh said:

Ignoring children's books that I have read many times, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams and Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C Clark are two that spring to mind, they are very different but both great in their own ways.

Oh there's a book I havn't read in a while. You do know there's 3 books in the Rama series? I need to re-read them I think.

Yes I have read them all twice but the first one is still my favourite, they would make an amazing film or series of films if somebody could do it properly.

They go downhill extremely rapidly in my opinion.

In terms of multiple reads two that stand out are Lord of the Rings several times (perhaps approaching ten?) and the Aubrey/Maturin series by Patrick O’Brian I have now read three times and can easily see me reading them again.

[Athlon]

Chickenhawk by Robert Mason. In my opinion the best book about the Vietnam war written.

[MC Bodge]

Athlon said:

Chickenhawk by Robert Mason. In my opinion the best book about the Vietnam war written.

It is excellent.
(Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes is very good too)

[toasty]

Kitchen Confidential by the much missed Anthony Bourdain.

Christine, It, The Stand, Pet Sematary - all by Stephen King.

I'd love to read The Count of Monte Cristo again but so many other books to read and so little time.

[Taita]

Red Storm Rising - Tom Clancy.

WISH there was a modern version, lots of the attempts are grim.

[nellystew]

Taita said:

Red Storm Rising - Tom Clancy.

WISH there was a modern version, lots of the attempts are grim.

I’ve read this loads of times as well, the different story arcs are so detailed and obviously well researched.

[nellystew]

I mostly re-read sci-fi, my favourites are :-

Forever War by Joe Halderman and Old Man’s War by John Scalzi
These have sequels, but not as good.

Both the Enders Game and Enders Shadow series by Orson Scott Card.
The Shadow series gives a different view of the Enders Game.

A non sci-fi one is The Lords of Discipline by Pat Conroy.
It’s about a cadet in a fictional military college in the southern USA.
Conroy had based the setting on The Citadel, a real college he’d been to, you can tell both the love and hate he had for the place.

[Mark V GTD]

A subject covered by another book mentioned earlier - but this one written by the man who lead Operation Chastise.

‘Enemy Coast Ahead’ by Wg/Cmdr Guy Gibson V.C.

[xeny]

Pooh said:

Yes I have read them all twice but the first one is still my favourite, they would make an amazing film or series of films if somebody could do it properly.

First book is great. Rest are terrible. Looks as if Villeneuve will direct a film after the 2nd Dune film.

[RichTT]

xeny said:

First book is great. Rest are terrible. Looks as if Villeneuve will direct a film after the 2nd Dune film.

Yes just heard that. I've downloaded the trilogy for kindle so will start re-reading them soon.

[Zumbruk]

I've got ~700 SF & fantasy books in my collection, all read at least once, many of them 2 or 3 times. The one I've read most of all is John Brunner's "Stand On Zanzibar". Must be 5 or 6 times now.

Others I've read multiple times;

Zelazny's "Nine Princes in Amber".
Niven's "Ringworld"
Stross's "Laundry Files" series
Banks' "Culture" novels
Gibson's "Sprawl" & "Blue Ant" novels
Reynolds' "Revelation Space" novels
Leckie's "Ancillary" series

There must be loads more.

[singlecoil]

Wilbur Smith's 'The Sunbird'

It's a frame story, starts off moderately interesting and then it suddenly changes gear. He said he wrote it because he knew it would be impossible to film.

[OMITN]

Outside the Asterix books I read and re-read as a child (and again with my daughter in the last few years), I’ve never knowingly re-read a book.

That was in part to many wilderness years where work (I’m a lawyer) killed any desire to read anything else in the limited free time I have. It was also in part to a desire not to repeat the past (I’m the same with my love of music - always searching for the new and rarely revisiting).

So I was surprised when in November and December last year (2021) I re-read Over Sea and Under Stone and The Dark is Rising, both by Susan Cooper. We had bought these for our Harry Potter mad 11 yo daughter, but couldn’t get her going on them. Knowing that The Dark is Rising is set across Christmas, I returned to my own childhood (I think I read them aged 9 or 10, so a similar age to my daughter reading all the HP books last January).

Not sure if I’ll re-read the rest of the series - too many other new books on the to be read pile..!