# What books do you read and re-read? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 21, 2014, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-books-do-you-read-and-re-read/681907 "2014-02-21T19:59:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2014, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-books-do-you-read-and-re-read/681907/61 "2014-02-24T08:57:50Z")
The only book I have ever read more than once is Flowers for Algernon. I don’t read many books, and when I do, I prefer to read new ones rather than ones I’ve already read before. ---
**Author:** ![Elemenopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b5e925/32.png) [@Elemenopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elemenopy)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2014, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-books-do-you-read-and-re-read/681907/62 "2014-02-24T13:59:24Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > I would estimate that I’ve read _Gone With the Wind_ cover to cover over a hundred times. > > _Jane Eyre_ is my comfort book, I can pick it up and start on any page and instantly feel better. > > The Narnia books and various Stephen King books are next most read. Are we related? 😃 I’ll add James Michener’s _The Source_. I reread it, at least the first half, about once a year. I’ve read _The Talisman_ a dozen times and I’m now (slowly) making my way thru the audiobook with my husband. > [@](#): > > Stephen King The Stand (and I always seem to get a cold 3 chapters in to it - either my paperback is crawling with germs, or I’m extraordinarily suggestible. Little from column A, little from column B) That’s funny. Maybe cold germs last longer than we think… > [@](#): > > the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series, the Dirk Gently books (to me the Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul is at least the equal of Hitchhikers), and Last Chance to See (which is almost criminally under-rated). This, too. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2014, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-books-do-you-read-and-re-read/681907/63 "2014-02-24T14:29:34Z")
Almost anything by Tamora Pierce: these are my comfort reads. The exception to this is the _Trickster’s Choice/Trickster’s Queen_ duo. I still think they’re great, but unlike, say, the _Protector of the Small_ quartet they’re not the same level of comfort read for me. Also, _A Tree Grows in Brooklyn_. I’m sure there are more, but these are the ones I turn to over and over. ---
**Author:** ![Grrlbrarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrlbrarian/32/4048_2.png) [@Grrlbrarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrlbrarian)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2014, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-books-do-you-read-and-re-read/681907/64 "2014-02-24T16:40:41Z")
As a child & teen: The **Little House** series **Anne of Green Gables** & its sequels Everything Agatha Christie **Gone with the Wind** As an adult: **The Hobbit** and the **Lord of the Rings** trilogy All Jane Austen except **Northanger Abbey** Pratchett Lindsey Davis’ Marcus Didius Falco series Harry Potter series I also love to re-read anything & everything I enjoyed as a kid, especially when I’m sad. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2014, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-books-do-you-read-and-re-read/681907/65 "2014-02-24T16:42:40Z")
The Godfather The Princess Bride I would estimate I read both titles at least once every couple of years. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-books-do-you-read-and-re-read/681907.md?page=3)