I just mentioned Woola in another thread.
Sorry. I should have seen that and acknowledged it.
No, no, no, it was a different thread, no reason you should have seen it. It was the Baker’s Dozen thread, and I put Woola in as an animal companion.
The Adams books are as close as I get to a holy text. Every few years I’ll pull out the compilation and read it front to back again.
Like others above, I just finished a comprehensive re-read of all of Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe stories and added the dozen or so written recently by Robert Goldsbourgh (not bad, he captures the atmosphere, but the conclusions are not up to standard, IMHO).
Have often re-read Eric Flint’s 1632 and David Weber’s Honor Harrington series but both have become so long and cumbersome reading the whole body of work will take weeks, so I pick and choose.
I have the Lensman series sitting on my booksheves, paperbacks from 1966-67, but haven’t re-read them in 40 years.
Multiple-read series for me:
Dune (the original Frank books)
Lord of the Rings
Illuminatus
Titan/Wizard/Demon
White Mountains
Hitchhiker Guide (though now I only re-read the first two anymore)
edit to add:
Gibson’s Sprawl books
Thomas Covenant chronicles
Bridge of Birds and follow-ons
The first couple of Goldsbourgh’s are okay, but I lost interest after than
Purist that I am, and idolizing Stout and Wolfe, I have never considered reading the Goldsboroughs, and don’t plan to.
Has anyone who continued a dead author’s series ever risen to the level of the original?
Matt Helm, by Donald Hamilton
Harry Dresden, by Jim Butcher
Richard Bolitho, by Alexander Kent
Swallows and Amazons, by Arthur Ransome
Asey Mayo, by Phoebe Atwood Taylor
John Grimes, by A Bertram Chandler
Time Patrol, by Poul Anderson
Blandings Castle, by P G Wodehouse
- Belgariad series, by David Eddings, with the codexes of Belgarath and Polgara. I’ve reread these so many times.
- Discworld. The entire series.
- All the books from Valdemar, by Mercedes Lackey. Good fiction.
- The older Laurell K. Hamilton Anita Blake books. The newer ones are just porn.
- The Dresden Files. Love them a lot.
- The Nightside books by Simon R. Green.
I was once on a jag where all I read was Henry Miller’s Rosy Crucifixion. Over and over.
If there is a story started or an outline, some have made some pretty good ones. L. Sprague de Camp did this to some RE Howard tales, and even converted some non-conan to Conan, and they work fine.
Hornblower in Space!
I read the first few, then she went from vampire killer to vampire fucker.
Quite a few of mine have already been mentioned including The Foundation series, The Dresden Files, Patricia Briggs’ Mercy Thompson series, & Heinlein’s Future History.
I’ll add.
The Iron Druid series by Kevin Hearne
The Alex Verus series by Benedict Jacka
The Known Space books by Larry Niven
The Star Trek novels using the characters from the original series
Yes! Came in here to say that.
Also Varley’s Gaia trilogy, I re-read that even more often.
Narnia, of course.
Hitchhiker’s, from time to time
Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City series.
I love him, but the idea of the iron Druid being a hired killer, turned me off. Then some of the later books, written in one of the other characters 'voice".
His Kraken series is good, but it needs a glossary or something.
Several of mine are already mentioned, but I’ll throw out some others that I haven’t seen mentioned:
The Expanse by James S. A. Corey
The Sarantine Mosaic by Guy Gavriel Kay (really, any of Kay’s work, but particularly this two book set)
The Riftwar Saga by Raymond Feist (just the first series, not all the sequels, although I think I’ve reread the Empress series a couple of times)
How could I have forgotten the Kay books? The Sarantium books and the three later sequels I can read over and over.
And my brother would read Eric Frank Russel’s Wasp at least once a year.
I found an inexpensive used copy on Amazon, I will give it a try
Thanks!
I am a bit surprised you don’t reread over and over a certain series by Harry Harrison featuring James Bolivar diGriz…
Did it a couple years ago, but it may be time for a re-fresh…