Have read most of the Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett several times over.
Also C.S. Foresters Hornblower series and Patrick O’Brians Aubery/Maturin novels.
Indivindual books that I have reread several times are Poul Andresons "The Broken sword"and Heinleins “Starship troopers”.
None, I think, but *The Great Gatsby *was assigned to me to read three times.
Bleak House, Charles Dickens
QBVII, Leon Uris
A Soldier of the Great War, Mark Helprin
Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility and Emma, Jane Austen
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe & Voyage of the Dawntreader, C.S. Lewis
A Coney Island of the Mind, Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
The Branch Will Not Break, James Wright
A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
The Earthsea Trilogy, Ursula K. Le Guin
Magic or Not?, Edward Eager
The Madness of a Seduced Woman, Susan Fromberg Schaeffer
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
The Haunted Bookshop, Christopher Morley
Hallelujah Anyway, Kenneth Patchen
The Triggering Town, Richard Hugo
Mike Nelson’s Movie Megacheese, Michael J. Nelson
Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
Mystery, Peter Straub
On Writing, Stephen King
Also, The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf and But Not the Hippopotamus by, Sandra Boynton (several thousand times, each)
I’ve had to organize my books in the same way. I have a hard time deciding which ones I won’t reread at some point, though.
I’m not familiar with Not As A Stranger, but I’ll take a look.
One other book on my list that I forgot to mention: A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (4 times). Because of the Christmas pageant scene, I tend to read it every few years around Christmas. Most recent was about three years ago, so it’ll probably jump up to five times pretty soon.
Not many…
Fiction:
Andre Gide - The Immoralist
Albert Camus - The Plague and The Stranger
Hermann Hesse - Steppenwolf, Demian and Siddhartha
Milan Kundera - The Farewell Party
Jerzy Kosinski - The Painted Bird
Non-Fiction
James Surowiecki - The Wisdom of Crowds
Way too many to remember. Some notable ones that come to mind:
Joyce: Ulysses (my all-time favorite book; I’ve read it many times)
Pynchon: Gravity’s Rainbow; The Crying of Lot 49
Delany: Dhalgren (just recently read it for the third time)
Brunner: Stand on Zanzibar; The Sheep Look Up; The Shockwave Rider; The Jagged Orbit; Double Double
Burgess: A Clockwork Orange
Lord of the Rings and Bored of the Rings (I still have the same Ballentine paperbacks of the LoTR trilogy that I bought back in 1968–wait, that’s not true, I didn’t buy The Fellowship of the Ring; it was was given to me by a classmate–and I’ve gotten rather a lot of use out of them. They’re not in mint condition.)
Twain: Adventures of Tom Sawyer (This was probably my favorite book when I was little. It may have been the first novel I ever read.)
ETA: Forgot to mention the Illuminatus! trilogy, even though a couple of others have already mentioned it.
Too many to remember, but the following are regular rereads every few years or so…
Dune (the whole series) (F. Herbert)
LOTR (Tolkien)
The Silmarillion (Tolkien)
1984 (G. Orwell)
Dracula (B. Stoker)
Steel Beach (J. Varley)
There are so many books in the world that I want to read, I can’t imagine taking time to reread most books. There are a few I’ve read twice, but probably the only ones I’ve ever read three times or more are Thailand: A Short History, by David K. Wyatt, and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, by Hunter S. Thompson. (The latter I read the first two times back to back, once in Switzerland and once in Czechoslovakia, when I was short on reading material during my summer backpacking tour so many years ago.)
I believe **A Wrinkle in Time **is the only book I’ve read more than twice. Maybe **Lord of the Flies **also.
Not counting books read to my children, of course. I think I have **Go Dog, Go **memorized.
Two more:
Stranger in a Strange Land
Dune.
Cover-to-cover only one, I think - Last Chance to See, by Douglas Addams.
LOTR and the Hobbit
Byzantium by Stephen Lawhead
Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley (the sequels only once)
Raising the Stones by Sheri S. Tepper
Lady of the Glen by Jennifer Roberson
I can’t remember if I read Katherine by Anya Seaton 2 or 3 times, but if it was 2 it’s worth a reread.
Kid’s books: Harriet the Spy and The Long Secret by Louise Fitzhugh about 20 times each.
Damn, I wish I had more time to read.
Clarke: 2001, Childhood’s End, and probably 2010
Robert Lindsey: A Gathering of Saints
Conrad: Heart of Darkness
Twain: Huck Finn
I’m pretty sure that’s it.
ETA: probably all of the Frances books when I was a kid (A Bargain for Frances, Bedtime for Frances, etc.)
Lots and Lots and Lots.
Of a Christian Nature
The Bible
C.S. Lewis (Mere Christianity, the Great Divorce, Screwtape Letters, Chronicles of Narnia, Perelandra, probably others)
Thomas a Kempis Imitation of Christ
Brother Lawrence The Practice of the Presence of God
Chesterton’s Orthodoxy
St. Augustine’s Confessions
Hannah Whitall Smith–The Christian’s Secret to a Happy Life
Pilgrim’s Progress
Science Fiction/Fantasy/Action
McCaffrey’s Pern Novels
Lord of the Rings & The Hobbit
Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy
Clancy’s Jack Ryan novels
The early Harry Potter novels–Usually reread them before the next big one came out
Zelazny’s The Chronicles of Amber (first series)
Brunner’s Stand on Zanzibar
Dune
The People by Zenna Henderson
Forester’s Hornblower books
A Wrinkle in Time
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Crystal Cave, Hollow Hills, Last EnchantmentHarlan Ellison’s Dangerous Visionis
Childhood’s End
Detective Fiction
Nero Wolfe–all of them, including the one’s written after Rex Stout’s death
Sherlock Holmes
Lord Peter Wimsey–all of them
Miss Marple–all of them
Children’s Literature
The Secret Garden
The Little Princess
Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass
Heidi
The Little Prince
Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates
Tom Sawyer
Huck Finn
Treasure Island
Adventures of Robin Hood
Kipling’s Jungle Books
Lassie Come Home
Call of the Wild
White Fang
The Wizard of Oz
The Yearling
Bambi
Little Women
Charlotte’s Web
The Boxcar Children series (first 5 or so)
Winnie the Pooh (all four basic books)
Great Literature & Chick Flicks
The well known Shakespeare plays (Hamlet, Romeo & Juliet, MacBeth, etc.)
A Christmas Carol
Jane Eyre
Jane Austen–all of them
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
Atlas Shrugged
E.B. White’s Elements of Style
Cartoon Collections
Doonsbury
Farside
Calvin & Hobbes
For Better or Worse
And a gazillion children’s picture books such as The Cat in the Hat and Millions of Cats, but we won’t go there, k?
I’m sure I’ve left out a lot—particularly some of the non-fiction. I enjoy books better the second or third time around, just as I’m more comfortable with old friends than I am meeting new people.
More books:
The Great Escape by Paul Brickhill
Big Secrets, Bigger Secrets, Biggest Secrets by William Ppoundstone
Martin Gardner’s books
Alan King’s books
Mike Nelson’s Movie Megacheese
A Christmas Carol
Legends, Lies, and cherished Myths of American History by Schenkman. Also his i Love Paul Revere, Whether he Rode or Not and Legends, Lies, and Cherishes Myths of World History
On the Spoor of Spooks and A Natural History of Nonsensep by the proto-Cecil, Bergen Evans
The books of H.P. Lovecraft
and The Straight Dope books, of course.
Just about all of the Fletch books by Gregory McDonald.
“The Annotated Alice” which goes through Alice In Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass line by line, showing how things refer to real life political names and events, and how the chess board, etc are metaphors of something or other.
I’ve read all the Sherlock Holmes stories three times. I love the construction of the early ones and am always dismayed that the later ones add action at the expense of deduction.
“PARKINSON’S LAW OR THE PURSUIT OF PROGRESS” Still one of the best books of all time. I especially love the original, and quote it every year to somebody.
“The Peter Principle” is in the same vein.
Definitely *The Fountainhead *and *Atlas Shrugged. *Probably a few by Heinlein, and some sci-fi-anthologies.
3 times is far too few to bother listing.
The big ones:
THGTTG series by Adams. I like “Most Harmless” thankyouverymuch. Also the Dirk Gently books but not at much.
“Cryptonomicon” and “Snow Crash” by Stephenson. Read them about once per year.
Lots of Vonnegut, let me think here, “Sirens of Titan”, “Slaughterhouse Five”, “Cat’s Cradle” and “Breakfast of Champions” at the least. (And “Venus on a Half Shell” of course!)
Most of my reading is non-fiction. But to give a hint about re-reads: Lots of Asimov’s science books and Jaynes’ “Origin of Consciousness …” book.
I did forget Alice. I’ve read that dozens of times, but I mentally skipped over that automatically because most of those times were as a child.
But while we’re on non-fiction, I have several works by Barbara Tuchman that I have scattered around the house and I sort of use for bathroom reading, because the flow of the prose is just as good or better than any novel or newspaper. I must have read Through a Distant Mirror and Guns of August dozens of times all told when you add everything up even though I only read a handful of pages at a time.