I recently re-read John Christopher’s Tripods Trilogy after having last read it something like 25 yeas ago, and enjoyed it thoroughly.
Also, I still think Tolkien is terrific.
I’ve like Tolkien ever since I read the Hobbit when I was in 6th grade. Pretty much owe my entire love of reading to him.
I have been on a Stephen King re-reading spree of late. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed most of his books and read almost all of them when they first came out. I’m old, heh.
Re-reading them is fun because he’s so good at weaving the pop culture and zeitgeist of the time into his books it brings back all sorts of memories.
John Steinbeck. About once every decade I re-read Grapes of Wrath. I’m about due.
Thank you for reminding me of Wodehouse! I adored him in my teens and 20s, I should see if his books have stood the test of (my) time.
Connie Willis and Lois McMaster Bujold.
I picked up Anne of Green Gables as a teenager and really liked it. L. M. Montgomery does have that comforting quality.
It’s a little surprising that Montgomery’s own life was almost entirely unlike the lives she wrote about. Her heroines found family and friends and love, but her life was destroyed in a maelstrom of despair and drugs.
You hit a couple of mine straight away. I first read the Earthsea (then) trilogy when I was nine or ten, and it’s still a fine read. Pratchett I’ve been reading for nearly 25 years, it helps that his books grew up a bit with me. There were only four or five discworld books when I started reading them. He visited my school a couple times to give talks in the library, but sadly I never heard him speak.
Another that I still take out every few years is Susan Cooper’s The Dark is Rising sequence. It’s inspired by British mythology and folklore.
And surely I don’t need to mention LotR?
For me it’s C.S Lewis, Larry McMurtry and Stephen King. I also still reread my first “grownup” author, Taylor Caldwell, and enjoy most of her works although I am not quite as taken in by her philosophies as I was when I was a teenager.
Stephen King still can churn out a great story (11/22/63 and The Wind in the Keyhole as recent examples.) I do find his somewhat new habit of inserting his personal politics into every opportunity to be annoying and if he only wrote stinkers such as Lisey’s Story, I would have dumped him but I still have faith that at least 75% of what he turns out will entertain me.
Robert Crais. I’ve read everything he’s written. He is one of the few authors I’ll preorder as soon as a book becomes available.
Frank Herbert. Even his outdated non-Dune early novels and short stories are great to read. He has such an enjoyable command of the language that the plots almost don’t matter.
Robert Heinlein
Martin Gardner
Christopher Moore
Stephen Jay Gould
L. Sprague de Camp
Dave Barry
James Lileks
Willy Ley
Isaac Asimov
Arthur C. Clarke
Frederick Forsyth
Fredric Brown
Cecil Scott Forester
Robert Hans van Gulik
Arthur Conan Doyle
Lucian
Mark Twain
Richard F. Burton
James Burke