Books Worth Rereading

[Motakikurushi]

Chances are we've all read Alice in Wonderland as a child, but re-reading it again as an adult is mind blowing. The fact that it works so well on both levels is impressive, but as adults you notice intricacies and details that would breeze over a child's head.
I've re-read: A Clockwork Orange, Ulysses, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and lots of Franz Kafka titles. These are the ones I find most entertaining and stimulating, and with Ulysses it's such a phenomenal, huge, experimental piece you could very well read it until the end of time and never fully decipher it.

 

[Sn1P3r M98]

Oh, I came to suggest Animal Farm but I see you've already read it.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

I've reread World War Z and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy countless times.

 

[FoolKiller]

are you in highschool because that is almost exactly my high school reading list?

And I love Brave New World and Neuromancer

 

[Artina89]

I have reread all my books at least once or twice, but the ones I love to reread are:

"Battle Royale" by Koushun Takami
"The master and the margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakov
"The end of the world in Breslau"/"Death in Breslau" by Marek Krajewski
"Darkly dreaming Dexter" by Jeff Lindsay
The "Conan the barbarian" short stories by Robert E Howard
"The call of Cthulu/The witch on the doorstep and other short stories" H.P. Lovecraft
"The fall of the house of Usher and other short stories" by Edgar Allen Poe

I like to reread one or two of these books at least once a year. This year I have reread "The master and the Margarita", "Darkly dreaming Dexter" and "The fall of the house of Usher and other short stories". Not bad going

 

[blindthrall]

Most anything by stephen king is worth reading, particularly if it was made into a movie, through the book is better.

In Particular the Stand, The Dark Tower series, IT, Cujo, Desperation, Rose Madder, Insomnia. But really the list goes on.

I was all ready to dismiss King as an unoriginal regurgitator after Song of Susannah(He barely redeemed the series with that ending). But then I read From a Buick 8. I loved that story. No world-threatening evil. No evil at all, really. Just things that are too alien for us to react rationally. It didn't hurt that he didn't try to shoehorn in references to other stories. Except maybe from The Mist, but that's okay because that was his best story.

Eh, some people dont like him. He's still one of the best at his trade.

I think he just outproduces his inspiration, leading to long stretches that are pretty derivative. It's a shame, because if he hoarded his talents and wrote a book every year or so, he would be one of the greats of American literature. I think as it stands, he'll go down as an excellent pulp writer. Well, Lovecraft didn't even get that recognition, and look at him now.

 

[DirgeNovak]

I've reread Dearly Devoted Dexter a couple of time. By far the best in the series.
I've tried to read The Kindly Ones about five times, but I've never finished it. This is one tough book to read.

 

[emeraldrafael]

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Once he dies, he'll be huge. You can see it with Brian Jacques right now. he always came out with one book a year, and it felt like it was oversaturating (and it was, you can tell in some books its just not htere since it comes out so often, like Doomwyte), but now all those novels are appreciated, cause there's so much of it too read.

its just unfortunate there's no summing up book (not that it would be needed, since thats sorta the charm of Redwall, the Arthurian Camelot feel that goes on for ever), but it wouldnt really hurt. Though I imagine it would be something depressing, seeing the Abbey fall, the dream end and the magic die.

EDIT: sorry, rambled off there a bit.

 

[DEAD34345]

The Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy (All of 'em)

Small Gods

Rainbow 6

And... that's it, as far as i can remember. They are the only books i have read more than once, i think. With everything else i have just moved on to more books, and even with the ones i have re-read i always wait a long time before doing so, so i can forget most of what happens.

 

[Devil's Due]

Some great American classics that have done amazing jobs at capturing my attention and enjoyment:

Catch-22
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Red Badge of Courage
Fahrenheit 451

Some other great books:

Halo series (No matter what you think about the games, the books are actually well done. The games are... not so much)
Lord of the Flies
Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy series
"The Lieutenants" series, all of them except the last was well done.
And sorry, I have to: Star Wars "Death Troopers." I absolutely dislike the Star War's books, but that one is fairly interesting and very dark. I love zombies, I love Han Solo's cockiness, and I love the Imperials. So... win/win/win?

 

[geezah91]

I've lost count of how many times I've read The Lord of the Rings, and The Hobbit, and The Silmarillion, and The Children of Hurin....you probably get the message by now. The entire Harry Potter series has been on my bedside table more than a few times. Cryptonomicon is another one. Not Without My Daughter and The Kite Runner kept me entertained during 3rd year. I just finished reading The Art of War and will definitely re-read it

 

[Someone Depressing]

Just about any Jaqueline Wilson book where the Protagonist isn't a whiny little annoying *****, they're pretty deep.

Or an Alex Rider book, depends.

 

[AMX58]

The Great Gastby
Any Book about Navy SEALS or Snipers
Marine Sniper
anything about the MAFIA too

 

[The Small Cheese]

The Witches by Roald Dahl, I read that book many times as a kid. I got a kick out of reading it again now that I'm a little older. Nowadays I prefer non-fiction.

Hold Me Tight by Dr. Sue Johnson is a facinating book that explores love from a different angle, that is, that attachment and love-based connection are a biological neecessity, and how to maintain a commited, long-term relationship after limerence (romantic, fleeting love that is the initial attraction) has died away. I'd say it's one of the best books i had ever read.

Another great non-fiction book is How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie. When I first read it, I had the same reaction as Thomas Henry Huxley did when his friend Charles Darwin explained Natural Selection to him; I must have been stupid not to have thought of it sooner.

The book I'm reading now is The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo. It's about the famous Stanford Prison Experiment, where a group of good, honest colledge students turned into sadistic guards and mindless prisoners by being in a prison-like atmosphere. The author explains how and why normal, good people can become evil in certain situations, even though our we typically blame the people rather than the people's situation.

 

[Wilko316]

I read fuck all, but here's the books that I've read that are awesome enough to re-read.

The Mind and the Brain by Jeffrey M. Schwartz

and Restoration by Rose Tremain.

 

[EMFCRACKSHOT]

The Night Angel Trilogy, the first four books of the Horus Heresy Series, The first Space Wolf Omnibus, Eisenhorn, all of the books written by Terry Brooks (I've read Elfstones of Shannara at least 27 times xD), Song of Ice and Fire, The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, and the book i have reread most is Magician by Raymond E Feist. There are countless others i have reread but i CBA listing them as it would take forever.
As for books i would like to reread, Panzer Leader by Heinz Guderian and Arabs at war, military effectiveness 1948-91 (I have reread pretty much everything i have ever wanted to already xD)

 

[rabidmidget]

Catch 22. read it ever year or so since I was given a copy for my sixteenth birthday.
other that i have read more than one include, Neil Stephenson's Snow crash, Diamond age, cryptonomicron and baroque cycle, The Iain Banks Culture novels, Raymond Chandler.

I'm currently reading Catch-22, and every time I do, I can see myself reading it again just due to the brillant pieces of dialogue.

 

[darthotaku]

Ender's game. that book gets me crying every time I read it.

 

[Hosker]

I think most good books are worth re-reading again eventually.

But my favourites to re-read would be Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter.