# What is your favorite book to read again, and again, and again...

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**Created:** [April 30, 2004, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-book-to-read-again-and-again-and-again/242803 "2004-04-30T04:39:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2004, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-book-to-read-again-and-again-and-again/242803/81 "2004-05-05T02:27:01Z")

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I reread Armistead Maupin’s **Tales of the City** series about every 5 years.

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**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2004, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-book-to-read-again-and-again-and-again/242803/82 "2004-05-05T02:32:23Z")

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_The Fan Man_ by William Kotzwinkle is funny every time I read it.

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**Author:** ![Sevastopol](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@Sevastopol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sevastopol)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2004, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-book-to-read-again-and-again-and-again/242803/83 "2004-05-05T06:56:10Z")

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I read too much really, but some favorites re-reads that haven’t already been mentioned include:

_Brideshead Revisited_; Evelyn Waugh  
_The Loved One_ “” “”  
_Vile Bodies_ “” “”

_The Book of Laughter and Forgetting_  
_The Unbearable Lightness of Being_; Milan Kundera

_The Reckoning; the Murder of Christopher Marlowe_; Charles Nicholl

Practically anything by Steven Jay Gould & P. Quammen

_Nostromo_; Joseph Conrad

_Midnight’s Children_  
_The Satanic Verses_; Salman Rushdie

That’s enough ideas for the moment!

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**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2004, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-book-to-read-again-and-again-and-again/242803/84 "2004-05-05T07:17:24Z")

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I’ve read _Good Omens_ three times now and am about ready for another round, since I’ve already forgotten most of it.

When I was in my early teens, I must’ve read the Brian Daley Han Solo books (_Han Solo at Star’s End_, etc.) about a dozen times each.

The winner for me, though, is Roy Blount Jr’s books of essays. _Now, Where Were We?_ I’ve read at least a dozen times by now. He just rocks.

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**Author:** ![WILLASS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/54ee81/32.png) [@WILLASS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WILLASS)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2004, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-book-to-read-again-and-again-and-again/242803/85 "2004-05-05T11:00:47Z")

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I find I tend to re-read almost all of my books but the most often re-read are:

**Kitchen Confidential** - Anthony Bourdain.

**One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest** - Ken Kesey

**Skeleton Crew** - Stephen King

**Treasure Island** - Robert Louis Stevenson

**Alice in Wonderland** - Lewis Carroll

**Trainspotting** - Irvine Welsh

Also anything by **Pratchett** or **Bryson.**

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