Anyone else re-read non fiction?

I do, I admit it. I’m a major history buff, and I have tons of books, and often I’ll read them again, especially biographies.

Is this odd, or does anyone else here do this?

Sure, I do it. My favorite non-fiction titles get re-read several times. Women’s work: the first 20,000 years is at the top of the list. Lots of others too.

When we did our lists of most re-read books, almost all of mine were non-fiction. As I said in that thread, I’ve read “When Genius Failed” at least 40 times. Jon Krakauer’s books and Woodward and Bernstein are also high on my list.

Occasionally. I love apocalyptic fiction, so my nonfiction reading tends toward plagues and other disasters.

I read a lot of biographies & Auto biographies… My Favorite? Gracie: A Love Story.

Not really; I don’t tend to re-read books very much, because there’s always something new ready to be read. But for non-fiction, I sometimes will look something up, but generally I won’t re-read it.

I don’t have as much time as I would like to spend reading. Usually just the Bible, peoetry and just one book in particular. It’s kind of heady reading but its Hagakure:The book of the samurai. There’s more practical information in it than one would expect, but the same can be said of the Bible. I like the King James version but some of the reading can be tedious given it’s age.

I have read:

Thailand: A Short History, by David K Wyatt, several times. I used to read it once a year or so as a refresher but stopped once I seemed to have memorized it.

The Penguin History of the World, by JM Roberts, twice.

A History of South-East Asia, by DGE Hall, twice.

The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval Europe, edited by George Holmes, twice.

The Story of English, by Robert McCrum, William Cran and Robert MacNeill, twice.

I significantly more non-fiction than fiction. Don’t often re-read it though (the only non-fiction book I can think of that I have, Anthony Beevor’s Stalingrad).

I’ve been on a Carl Sagan kick lately. I returned Cosmos and The Dragons of Eden to the library yesterday, & found Broca’s Brain at a used bookstore. If memory serves (I read the book in the mid-'80s), I’m in for a treat.

Love, Phil

Growing up I was a huge fan of non-fiction TV (documentaries) so much so that I would happily watch the open university stuff on BBC2 into the wee hours (picture a 12 year old boy wide-eyed fascinated by a guy pointing at a board of complex figures and talking)

I loved non-fiction books too. So I am surprised I don’t have more of that stuff as an adult - I have mostly fiction.

I re-read nonfiction and fiction all the time. I tend to re-read histories of the 3rd Reich and biographies of Hitler fairly frequently. I think my wife thinks I’m just keeping an eye on things to make sure they come out right.

Cosmos! Yes, I’ve read that twice, too.

I tend to re-read certain autobiographies more often than naught if I really enjoy the writing and such. I also love Historical Fiction so I read those (ie: Killer Angels series and the like), but those don’t really count.

So I tend not to Re-READ non-fiction, but rather just read more about the event via different books or stories. Autobiographies seem to the one exception which i love to re-read.

Reading The Nine Toobins story on the supreme court. I have The Brethren by Woodward so I read and compare.

I reread non-fiction books that are particularly well-written. Among my most worn-out titles are those by G. K. Chesterton, C. S. Lewis, and E. F. Schumacher.

Does *Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas * count as non-fiction? I read that twice in two months in Europe, once in Switzerland and once in Austria. Then again in later years.

And I read Hell’s Angels twice, and maybe some of Hunter S Thompson’s other books.