30-day Challenge! - Day 2: A book you have read more than three times

[Trisha]

Day 2: A book you have read more than three times

-Wuthering Heights

Who wants to play!

[Cleo]

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

[Sara]

Ella Enchanted

[Bob, Short Story Classics]

I can’t remember ever reading a book more than twice. A few months ago I pulled A Cry of Angels by Jeff Fields down from my book shelf and I plan on re-reading it for the third time later this year. It is one of my all-time favorites reads. The second time I read it was over thirty years ago and I want to see if I am still as attached.

[Kat]

The Lord of the Rings trilogy. I've read it at least four times.

[Cleo]

Kat wrote: "The Lord of the Rings trilogy. I've read it at least four times."

Oooo, how could I forget about that one?! Me too! My husband has read it 13 times and now tries to read it once a year!

[Jenny]

I've never read a book 3 times. I'm not a big rereader, even though I have a lot of books I want to reread, because there are still so many new books I want to read.

[Cindy]

[Kat]

Oh, I forgot! I read Dracula every October. I've also read Wuthering Heights and Pride and Prejudice a bunch of times too. I like to reread some books-even though my life is too short to read all the books I want-because a book can mean something different to me at a different point in my life.

[Barbara]

From childhood, "The Secret Garden": from adulthood, "Pride and Prejudice" and "Goodnight, Mister Tom". There are others but those are the ones I keep going back to. And I always find something new in them.

[Annina]

I have never read any book more than 2 times.

[Shawn]

My absolute favorite!

[Maddie]

White Oleander by Janet Fitch. Read it more than twenty times now.

[Terri]

Little House on the Prairie

[Diana S]

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

[Tracy]

"The Hobbit" by J.R.R. Tolkien. Each of my children wanted me to read this to them as a good night story when they were young.

[Sarah Renae]

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

[MK]

Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand.

Read it first in high school (not for a class), then again multiple times, for the next dozen years or so. Thought if I ever could make it through John Galt's , or even Francisco's, (each) dozens of pages long soliloquies (? not sure if that's the right word), in one sitting, I might finally be able to make sense of them. Never did ;-). I wrote one of my college application essays on that book. I even had to buy a new copy of the book, later on, in my 20s, bc the first one fell apart.

I realize in today's political atmosphere Atlas Shrugged has become a rich source of devotion or mocking, depending on your political bent ;-). But I had no knowledge of any of that at the time. I just liked the story.

[MK]

Ahhh, from childhood (hat tip, Barbara), A Wrinkle In Time. LOVED that book.

[Kat]

MK wrote: "Ahhh, from childhood (hat tip, Barbara), A Wrinkle In Time. LOVED that book."

Have you read the whole series? My favorite was A Wind in the Door because I adored Progonoskes.

[MK]

Wow! Kat, that just blew me away! I never knew there was a series!! I read that book so many times, too. Even tried reading the beginning chapters aloud to my younger brother, on a car trip one time, in an unsuccessful bid to get him so interested, he'd give reading a try ;-).

There are FIVE "Time" books. Wow! I added them to my books wish list. I will read them for sure, sometime. Thanks so much for mentioning them.

[Connie]

Read more than 3 Times:

Gone With the Wind
Pride and Prejudice
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

I had forgotten how much I have enjoyed Tuesdays With Morrie. I have read it a few times.

by Mitch Albom

[Rick]

Earth Abides by George R. Stewart. A little dated at this point but a powerful story.

[MK]

Kat wrote: "Have you read the whole series? My favorite was A Wind in the Door because I adored Progono..."

Kat, I have to read the rest of the quintet, now that I know about them :-). I requested the first two from my library. I have to reread A Wrinkle ..., because it's been sooo long since I last read it.

[Kat]

Kat, I have to read the rest of the quintet, now that I know about them :..."

Great, I hope you like them all! Madeleine L'Engle also has a spin-off series featuring the O'Keefe family. The books (in order) are: The Arm of the Starfish, Dragons in the Waters, A House Like a Lotus, and An Acceptable Time.

[Tytti]

I don't usually read books many times, mainly because I remember them too well anyway. (And there are many I haven't read.) But I am pretty sure Uncle Fedya, His Dog, and His Cat was read to me a couple of times at least and I read it at least once myself.

Oh, now I remembered! Of course I've read Plagues and Peoples and a couple of Finnish books a few times. But it wasn't by choice, they were for an entrance exam...

[MK]

Kat wrote: "Great, I hope you like them all! Madeleine L'Engle also has a spin-off series featuring the O'Keefe family. The book..."


Ohhhhh gonna have to read those, too!

[MK]

Kat wrote: "Have you read the whole series? My favorite was A Wind in the Door because I adored Progono..."

I just finished reading the second one, Kat. Proginoskes ... now I know who you were talking about :). What a wonderful character. Sigh ...

Really enjoying these (finally read Wrinkle last night). I have to stop for now, and read the rest of my insane pile of books, it I'll be coming back to these. Want to read the whole quintet, and the spinoff series too.

[Mbondare]

A Room with a View by E.M. Forster is by far my favorite book of all time. Usually, I enjoy books less the more I read them... this one I find more and more enchanting each time. I first came across this book in a 20th Century Literature Class nearly 5 years ago. I still read it every spring. I highly recommend this book to anyone and everyone.

[MK]

Mbondare wrote: "A Room with a View by E.M. Forster is by far my favorite book of all time. Usually, I enjoy books less the more I read them... this one I find more and more enchan..."

I just read my first Forster last month. No, wait, I finished it THIS month (heh). It was A Passage to India. I think I'd like to try Room, that's a very strong recommendation you made! I'm adding it to my tbr :)

[Tina]

gone with the wind

[Liz_]

The Lord of the Rings - I first read it over 30 years ago and I've read it countless times since.

[Kelly B]

When I was a kid, I read The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton over and over again.

As an adult, I haven't read any books more than twice. Too many books, too little time:-).

[Moselle]

The Only Series by Elizabeth Lowell, the Bible, the first 2 books in the FBI Series by Catherine Coulter. Enchanted, Forbidden and Untamed by Elizabeth Lowell. A Knight in Shinning Armor by Jude Deveraux, this was my first book in English.... several other children books too... if I really like a book I can read it over and over again...

[Andrea AKA Catsos Person]

Testimony of two men by Taylor Caldwell. I've read this too many times past counting.

[MK]

Moselle wrote: "...the first 2 books in the FBI Series by Catherine Coulter..."


How come the first two, Moselle? :)

[Moselle]

MK wrote: "Moselle wrote: "...the first 2 books in the FBI Series by Catherine Coulter..."


How come the first two, Moselle? :)"

The FBI series is on book 11 or 12 now... but the best ones are still the first 2 books, specially book 2 with Sherlock and Dillon who then show up in every book afterwards... Dillon is on book 1 too.

[Alissa]

To Kill a Mockingbird. I read this every few years, and I'm still in love with it

[Kristi]

Agnes and the Hitman, Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder, The Winter Sea, The Way of the Fight, Naked in Death.

[Kim]

Every single Harry Potter book and Matilda when I was younger.

[Kelly]

I think I've read To Kill a Mockingbird twice. And maybe The Prince of Tides, although that isn't a "classic." I have so many classics I haven't read that it will be a while before I re-read any book! :)
And I think I'm the only person in the world who hasn't read any of the Harry Potter books. I've got to get on that!

[Blueberry]

Lord of the Flies

[Rick]

Earth Abides

[Julie]

Pride and Prejudice

[MK]

Rick wrote: "Earth Abides"

That's a famous book, and I never even heard of it until this past December, when I picked it up on a Kindle Daily Deal. Haven't had a chance to read it yet, but it's definitely one I'd like to fit in, sometime this year.

[Janet]

I have read a few books twice, but not three times. There are just so many books to read, that I can't squeeze time in to reread. That is, excluding picture books I read over and over and over to my sons!

[MK]

Janet wrote: "...That is, excluding picture books I read over and over and over to my sons! "

Moo, Baa, La La La! by Sandra Boynton,
Feelings by Aliki,
and Wacky Wednesday, by Dr. Seuss

... if we're counting those ;-). That's just what I can remember off the top of my head :D

[Faouzia]

i have read "Au bonheur des dames" by Emile Zola more than 5 times :) and Gone with The Wind maybe 3 times, i don't remember exactly :)

[Kalyn]

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee