# Book Series you can reread over and over **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** books-writing-myths\ **Created:** [September 22, 2024, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-series-you-can-reread-over-and-over/1007580 "2024-09-22T06:24:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2024, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-series-you-can-reread-over-and-over/1007580/1 "2024-09-22T06:24:32Z")
Now, I know not everyone does this. And of course we will take outy LotR, since some of us consider it one book. But for me it is- The Nero Wolfe Mysteries, Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovitch. And the Hornblower Naval fiction series I can also reread Bill Bryson, but is that a series? How about others here, dedicated readers? ---
**Author:** ![Nyvaak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Nyvaak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nyvaak)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2024, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-series-you-can-reread-over-and-over/1007580/2 "2024-09-22T06:31:16Z")
The Discworld books. Nearly every story in that universe is one I can read again and again. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2024, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-series-you-can-reread-over-and-over/1007580/3 "2024-09-22T06:33:44Z")
Great choice! Yes, I can reread them, also. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2024, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-series-you-can-reread-over-and-over/1007580/4 "2024-09-22T06:49:59Z")
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy “trilogy.” ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2024, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-series-you-can-reread-over-and-over/1007580/5 "2024-09-22T07:20:22Z")
The Vorkosigan series, I’ve re-read them many times. Elizabeth Moon’s Paksennarion series. The Matador series by Steve Perry. The Belisarius series by Eric Flint and David drake. The Sten series by Alan Cole and Chris Bunch. ---
**Author:** ![steepone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/977dab/32.png) [@steepone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steepone)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2024, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-series-you-can-reread-over-and-over/1007580/6 "2024-09-22T08:18:54Z")
The Dragon Riders of Pern series by Anne McCaffrey The Harry Potter series By J K Rowling The Lensman series by E E (Doc) Smith The Jack Ryan series by Tom Clancy I just finished rereading the Dragon Riders series a couple of days ago. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2024, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-series-you-can-reread-over-and-over/1007580/7 "2024-09-22T08:49:35Z")
**Discworld** by Terry Pratchett **Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn** by Tad Williams _(I haven’t read the sequel series yet, need to get around to that)_ ---
**Author:** ![xtenkfarpl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c2a13f/32.png) [@xtenkfarpl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xtenkfarpl)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2024, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-series-you-can-reread-over-and-over/1007580/8 "2024-09-22T12:28:06Z")
Travis McGee, of course! ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2024, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-series-you-can-reread-over-and-over/1007580/9 "2024-09-22T12:58:00Z")
Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey/Maturin series. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2024, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-series-you-can-reread-over-and-over/1007580/10 "2024-09-22T13:08:10Z")
Elmore Leonard’s writings aren’t purposely written as a series, but certain characters appear in multiple books and many reviewers refer to his works as a series. He started off writing westerns and then moved on to crime fiction. I’ve read every book he’s written multiple times and enjoyed every single sentence. After watching the two seasons of **Dark Wind** , I looked into Tony Hillerman’s novels. I’m on the fifth book in the series. He wrote 18 books in the Navajo series and 30 books all told. I can totally see rereading his Navajo novels in order. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2024, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-series-you-can-reread-over-and-over/1007580/11 "2024-09-22T13:56:01Z")
The Malazan Book of the Fallen, by Steven Erikson. Re-read it every few years, just gets better every time. ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2024, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-series-you-can-reread-over-and-over/1007580/12 "2024-09-22T14:07:48Z")
J.R.R Tolkien’s Hobbit and when I read the Ballantine editions there were three separate books. Then the more difficult Silmarllion. Every year when I was 11-13. Then Unfinished Tales and the lot of the HoME books I read as I got them but I’ve not re-read any of them. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2024, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-series-you-can-reread-over-and-over/1007580/13 "2024-09-22T14:21:36Z")
I read the Narnia books many times as a kid, and will no doubt read them again. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2024, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-series-you-can-reread-over-and-over/1007580/14 "2024-09-22T15:27:49Z")
I still reread Nancy Drew sometimes, although not the whole series in consecutive order. I have some favorites. John D. MacDonald’s Travis McGee books hold up well and I’ve made two complete passes and may return for a third at some point. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2024, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-series-you-can-reread-over-and-over/1007580/15 "2024-09-22T15:34:20Z")
A lot of my faves have already been mentioned (JRRT, PTerry, McCaffrey, Williams, Doc Smith) but I also can’t go more than a couple of years without re-reading King’s _Dark Tower_ books. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2024, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-series-you-can-reread-over-and-over/1007580/16 "2024-09-22T15:35:18Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > **Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn** by Tad Williams _(I haven’t read the sequel series yet, need to get around to that)_ Oh yes, you should! I am eagerly awaiting Tad’s (purported) final book in that world, _The Navigator’s Children_, due this November. ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2024, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-series-you-can-reread-over-and-over/1007580/17 "2024-09-22T15:49:06Z")
Donald E. Westlake’s Dortmunder series. They’re not series, as such, but every few years I’ll line up all of Kurt Vonnegut’s novels and read them in sequence. Same with Richard Brautigan. I might, in an alternate reality, reread Sue Grafton’s alphabet series, but every time I’ve thought about it, I was daunted by the number of books. So I guess my limit is some not-precisely-determined number between fourteen (for KV and Dortmunder) and twenty-five (for Grafton). ---
**Author:** ![xtenkfarpl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c2a13f/32.png) [@xtenkfarpl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xtenkfarpl)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2024, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-series-you-can-reread-over-and-over/1007580/18 "2024-09-22T15:52:49Z")
> [@Nyvaak](#): > > The Discworld books. Nearly every story in that universe is one I can read again and again. I love Pratchett. But… in the later books, things were perhaps getting a little bit too ‘cozy’ in Discworld? Not so many surprises and no real sense of danger? By then we have a “good” dictator in charge: Vetinari is an absolute tyrant but somehow is usually on the side of good government, free expression etc… And Vimes is a good cop with a conscience who tolerates no corruption. It’s almost turned into a place you’d quite like to live in… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2024, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-series-you-can-reread-over-and-over/1007580/19 "2024-09-22T16:10:48Z")
The Nantucket trilogy by S.M. Stirling The Thunder and Lightning series by John Varley Plus some that have already been mentioned. ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2024, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-series-you-can-reread-over-and-over/1007580/20 "2024-09-22T16:37:08Z")
Does The Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader series count? Or The Guinness Book of World Records? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-series-you-can-reread-over-and-over/1007580.md?page=2)