What's your all time best novel that you can repeatedly read ?

[Kristin]

For the first half of my life it was "Love Comes Softly" by Janette Oke (must have read it 20+), but then I discovered A Voice in the Wind by Francine Rivers which opens with an incredible description of Rome sacking Jerusalem. I go to it repeatedly only to discover I loaned out/gave away my last copy!

http://www.francinerivers.com/books/v...

[Ruth]

Paola wrote: "I usually don't re-read books, but for these two I've made exceptions:
The secret garden
and The Lord of the Rings (compl..."

The Secret Garden is one of my favorite books from my childhood. I just finished rereading it and found I enjoyed it as much as I did when I was young

[Paola]

Ruth wrote: The Secret Garden is one of my favorite books from my childhood. I just finished rereading it and found I enjoyed it as much as I did when I was young

It's the same for me Ruth! And I find it amazing because usually books from our childhood don't have the same effect on us when we grow up...

[Kelly]

To Kill a Mockingbird. I've read at least a half dozen times!!

[Sam K.]

A Christmas Carol, Dickens! Also, basically anything Tolkien.

[Igor]

I think Night Watch by Terry Pratchett.
Igor

[Jim]

A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens

[Bernadette]

Other than re-reading books in a series to relearn the story, the only book I have loved so much that I have to re read every few years is Shogun. I enjoy historical novels, but this one in particular keeps drawing me back

[Kendra G. ツ ~There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for~]

The DIVERGENT SERIES!!!!

[Jools]

I read these two books at least once a year


The Great Gatsby and 1984

[Clara]

I love Harry Potter and the Overlander series read then so many times!!!

[Becky]

1. The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy (I consider them different parts of the same story)
2. Ivanhoe
3. Red Storm Rising

[Luis]

Manalive

[Flo]

Harry Potter is my go-to comfort read, but if I had to choose a single novel it would be The Secret History by Donna Tartt.

[Robert]

I rarely read a book twice, but "Catch 22" and Stephen King's "On Writing" would be worth the time.

[Paul]

Every year I re-read Walker Percy's The Last Gentleman, and I confirm again that Percy knew me better than I knew myself. And every other year I read his book, The Second Coming, about the same character who's reached middle age, and I think, "Yeah, he still has ME in mind!"
Besides Percy, I re-read Follett's Pillars and World books, Pauline Gedge's two books about Thu the overreaching Egyptian girl. Gedge's books are a wonder to me, a model for historical fiction writers.

[Emily]

Watership Down by Richard Adams (cheers HRM Maire!)
and
Tailchaser's Song by Tad Williams

[Sophie]

I don't usually re-read books but I will always love The Hobbit and The Selection series

[Shawn]

Like a majority here, Hobbit and LOTR. When I was a kid, however, I read Sword of Shannara constantly, which is basically the LOTR in one book and more digestible for a kid.
Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe and a lot of his other stuff because you have to if you are going to go down that path.
The Stand a few times and I've read Mark Helprin's A Soldier of the Great War multiple times.
I find myself re-reading To the Lighthouse throughout my life. I think it's because when I read it in college it was the first time I realized a book could be more than just a story.

[Abbi]

There are three for me:

1)The Hobbit (incl. LOTR)
2)Tale of two cities
3)Pride and Prejudice

I cannot stop reading these books. In fact they are actually quite worn in from me reading it so much. :)

[David]

For me, the books I read over and over include:
The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. Tolkien not only invented his own world, he seemed to live in it. Who else would invent his own language, complete with alphabet and grammar?
The Uplift War by David Brin. Brin does a better job of creating believable aliens than any other author I've read.
Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold. I love the way she develops her characters.

[MJ]

The Great Gatsby.
Fitzgerald's writing is exquisite.

Also, Pride and Prejudice <3

[Hannah]

A Tale of Two Cities

[Claire]

Most Ardently wrote: "The Great Gatsby.
Fitzgerald's writing is exquisite."

Amen to that. So many writers try their hand at that prose-poetry/unusual-poetic-metaphors style, but only a few writers actually do it well. Fitzgerald is one of those rare writers.

[Papaphilly]

To Kill a Mockingbird if I had to only pick one. Bradbury and Vonnegut if I get to pick a few.

[Apolinar]

*A Christmas Carol
*Watership Down
*The Count of Montecristo
*The Sherlock Holmes canon
*The Conan saga
*100 Years of Solitude
*Tom Sawyer/Huckleberry Finn
*The Hobbit/Lord of the Rings
With the exception of Dickens and Tolkien, I read all of these while in my teens, and I keep enjoying them now, four months shy of fifty.

[TC]

100% Harry Potter...I honestly couldn't even count how many times I have read them. Will always be my favourite series.

[Peter]

Everything by Zelazny, Tolkien, Eddings.

Most Simak, Harrison, Anderson, Pohl/Kornbluth

[Jonathan]

The early works of Greg Bear are always a fun re-read: Blood Music, Hegira, Anvil of Stars, etc. Great fun there. His later works ran out of mojo but early on he was a creative guy.

[Mike]

The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis

[Mark]

I have three that I read every year
1. The Hobbit (Easter)
2. Witches Abroad (Halloween)
3. Hofather (Christmas)

[Caitlin]

I read The Lord of the Rings probably every year or two. It has so much depth and is so easy to get immersed in.

[Linda]

The Count of Monte Cristo!

[Elaine]

I can think of so many. Some are children's classics, others adult books.

The Hobbit
Harry Potter
The Secret Garden
Girl of the Limberlost
Hawaii by James Michener
West of Eden by Harry Harrison
The Girl, the Gold Watch and Everything by John D. MacDonald

I am sure I could think of a number of others, given a little time.

[Farin]

hobbit, Coraline, or the Hunger Games trilogy

[Julie]

The Lost Prince of Samavia. (There a precious few books that I read twice)

[Ezgi]

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time.

[Sundas]

Harry potter........... the best

[David]

Look Homeward Angel by Thomas Wolfe.

[Stephen]

TJ wrote: "Several come to mind:... A Christmas Carol - I read it every year!..."

It IS that kind of story. Paul Morella does a one man show each year in the MD/DC area where he gets on stage and retells the story and it's great fun. I saw it at the Olney Theater last year

[Jacey]

Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold. The best hero ever (who never once sees himself as a hero) and a deeply engrossing plot with interesting twists, a well thought out magic system and a great sense of place.

I'll also confess to re-reading Terry Pratchett's Night Watch several times. TP's best as far as I'm concerned. Not only is it centred on my favourite character, Sam Vimes, its a nail biting story which draws out dramatic tension to the nth degree before Pratchett lets everything snap into its rightful place.

[Joyce]

The seven books of The Chronicles of Narnia. Love that Aslan!

[Joyce]

Terri wrote: "Not sure if it would be considered a novel but my all time favorite story is A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.
I read it every Christmas and I collect different editions of the book and I have ..."

Which movie version is your favorite, Terri?

[Sage]

Jane Eyre, for me. It never fails to lift my spirits and inspire me to be a better person. And hey, who doesn't love a good Gothic romance?

[Alexis]

A Christmas Carol. Not the greatest book ever but it's a classic. I always read it around the Holidays.

[Jim]

Alexis I read it to my kids every Christmas

[Andy]

Ursla K. Le Guin "A Wizard of Earthsea", and the rest of the trilogy of course

[Mat]

The Stand.Stephen King.Just something about it that I can read again & again.

[Teresa]

Every summer since I was 13 I have read To Kill a Mockingbird and Rebecca both responsible for a life filled with books

[Kinzey]

the blood of kings series by Jill Williamson.:)