I’ve reread several Phillip Roth, especially I Married A Communist. I’ve re-read it perhaps 3 maybe 4 times. I enjoy browsing through Bill Bryson’s books as light reading before going to bed. I think I’ve probably read every chapter in Made in America 10 times.
I don’t reread many books (because there are so many still out there!) but as a kid I reread *Harriet the Spy * a good dozen times. It seems to have left its mark.
There’s people who barely even read books to begin with so, yes, there’s people who don’t re-read. Hell, I’m well-read (English literature major at that) and there’s only three books I could think of I’ve ever re-read.
Too many to count. But fewer now that I am older. As I have mentioned in other threads, when I was younger and poorer and had more time, i re-read often. Now that I’m older and have more money and less time, I rarely re-read. I just did because I had started a sequel and found that I had forgotten some things, so I went ahead and quickly re-read the first.
I don’t. I often think I should, when looking at a particularly good book on the shelf, but it just never happens. - Aside of (boooring) The Lord of the Rings , which I reread repeatedly during my teens, but (typically) can’t stand now when I’m twice that age. But now, there’s always the other book; for instance, right now I’m very much into 19th century russians, and while I’ve read quite a few good ones (quite an understatement of course), the ones I haven’t read is screaming my name at my favourite second-hand bookshop, and they’re simply irresistable. (And with three kids and an Xbox, I simply don’t have time to read as much as I once did.)
I’m convinced that re-readers and non-re-readers experience reading differently in some way. I’m a re-reader who, like many re-readers, is perfectly happy to re-read and enjoy my favorite books multiple times - but I have met lots of readers who would never consider doing this.
It’s not necessarily a different reading experience, it’s a personality thing–at least for me. It’s the decision between making the time to experience something new and different which you don’t know you’ll like vs. the comfort of re-reading something you already know pleases you. There’s so many books I eventually want to get to reading that I feel my reading time is better spent experiencing new books rather than re-reading old ones. That’s why I don’t re-read books, generally, and why I don’t re-watch movies generally. I kinda prefer unknown quantities to known ones, especially when there’s limited time I could devote to them. Now, for shorter works, like poems, short stories, episodes of the Simpons, those I can more easily experience multiple times.
Where to start? I have probably re-read almost every book I’ve read - starting with the “Hardy Boys” books when I was a kid. Some of the multiple read titles:
A Prayer for Owen Meany, Cryptonomicon, The Lord of The Rings, American Gods … You know, this could go on for a long time. Most books are like old friends, and re-reading them is like catching up at a reunion (except that no one’s getting balder or fatter or both.)
The Quincunx by Charles Palliser.
It’s a fiendishly complex inheritance story in the Dickensian style with a multitude of characters (some of whom appear under two different names!). I’ve read it about 6 or 7 times; the last time I did it, I made notes as I went along to try and keep track, but I still could not work out the answers to the many deliberately vague points.
Yeah, I feel this way, too. I’ve always said that any book really worth reading is worth reading again: once for the novelty, twice for the irony. Oh, and a third time for old times’ sake. A fourth for exquisitely aged nostalgia.
I like to put at least a year or two between re-readings, though. Gives it time to seem interesting again, and of course, I need plenty of time to acquire and read new books as well. 
There are books I’ve re-read at different points in my life and taken away from them different things each time. Different people experience the same text differently, and most of us do not stay the same person throughout our entire lives. So while there is definitely a comfort factor, I do think there’s more to be gained from re-reads than simply the pleasure of familiarity.
Far too many to cite. Unless I’m too short of time, if a book’s not worth re-reading it wasn’t worth reading in the first place.
Ender’s Game, most notably. I’ve read it at least six or seven times. The Wisdom of Insecurity is probably next, four or five times, plus often carrying it around in general and reading a few paragraphs here and there throughout the day. (Thanks, Mom, for the referral; it’s played a huge role in shaping my world-view.) Lolita two or three times. A few poker books have required multiple readings.
In the course of completing my Political Science degree, I read The Prince at least a half dozen times. Read most of Leviathan twice, and some parts of it 10 times.
If a book was worth reading in the first place, then I always find something new in re-reading it.
I HAVE gotten pickier in my old age. If a book doesn’t engage me, I have no problem with quitting before I’ve read the whole thing.
I have always been more likely to re-read than to read a new book, so I recently joined a paperback service similar to Netflix to make it easier to branch out. For me, it’s about spending time with characters I love or who are thought provoking and trying to catch things I missed the first time around. Also, I have books forever,I can’t get rid of them (another reason I joined Paperspine, so I HAVE to give them back LOL), so I can pick up a book I haven’t read in 10 years or so and see it from a different, more mature perspective. Recently, I re-read Gone with The Wind and it was an entirely different experience for me and I enjoyed it more this time than any other, especially the last few chapters.
Here is my “read more than twice list”-
English Passengers- 3 times (IN A ROW 
! ) Fantastic!
Lonesome Dove series (L.Dove, Streets of Laredo, Dead Man’s Walk, Comanche Moon)- who doesn’t want to spend time with Gus and Call at least once a year?
Jane Eyre
The Godfather- not a great book, but strangely addicting.
Chronicles of Narnia- except for TLWATW and The Last Battle who both just got two reads.
Melissa by Taylor Caldwell- first “grownup” book I read- that one comes out once a year for the last twenty odd years.
A Room with A View
Bridget Jones Diary
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (also the story/article Fear and Loathing in Elko, which is even better).
Trainspotting, Porno and Marabou Stork Nightmares
Pride & Prejudice, Persuasion and Sense & Sensibility
The Stand, IT, Carrie, The Shining, Dolores Claiborne, The Drawing of the Three and The Wastelands.
All of Rand’s novels (yeah, including Galt’s speech).
At least half of Heinlein’s novels.
My favorite by the same author is Betrayals. Hilariously wierd and multi-layered. And of course very, very nasty. 
Be warned, it is totally different from The Quincunx (though both are fiendishly complex).
All the books in my bookshelves - otherwise they don’t get to be there.
But one that stands out is “The Longships” by Frans G Bengtsson (though I read that one in Swedish as Röde Orm)
I very rarely reread a book. For me, a tremendous part of the pleasure from reading is the move from ignorance to knowledge: watching the story unfold is just wonderful (for that reason, it fills me with irrational irritation to see someone flip to the end of a book, and I usually won’t read blurbs). On a reread, this pleasure is gone. I’ve tried many times to reread a favorite book, and I generally fail.
The exception is children’s books: as a teacher, I reread a favorite book to vet it for my class, and then I rereread it to my students.
Daniel
Most of my P.J. O’Rourke books, especially Holidays in Hell. I have worn out two copies.
Rob