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

[Phillip]

Very nice. Another person who loves Lovecraft.

[J.]

It's a tie between the Harry Potter which I've read in four different languages and Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice. I'm not sure how many times I've read it. Probably too many times. Runner up is a kid's book; Where the Red Fern Grows. I'm reading it for the third time.

[Jamie (The Kansan Reader)]

The Lord of the Rings and the Harry Potter series.

[Marryn]

My all-time favorites are "The Hero and the Crown" and "The Blue Sword". I love reliving these adventures and I love the complex relationships. These books have a perfect dose of romance- hints here and there. i can not stand a book that is overly focused on the love story. There are plenty of fights and the female main characters have amazing war horses and fantastic swords. They are almost spiritual in a way.

[Marryn]

It would seem that the big three for most of these discussions is Percy Jackson, Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings.

[S.K.]

The Bourne Identity is my all time favorite, although the Hobbit comes in a close second. You cannot go wrong reading the Jason Bourne trilogy followed by the Hobbit/Lord of the Rings series.

[Eric]

Harry Potter by J.K.Rowling and Heroes of Olympus by Rick Riordran are mine. I am now, in fact, rereading the Harry Potter series for the 8th time in a row!

[Julia Stephanie]

Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice or Eragon.

[Carole]

OUTLANDER by Diana Gabaldon
Have read the whole series several times.

[Ken]

Phillip wrote: "Very nice. Another person who loves Lovecraft."

I was thinking that too! It's refreshing. I need something with more depth and scope to it than Harry Potter. Lovecraft is excellent. I've a mind to re-read some Voltaire this summer too.

[Mark]

The Hobbit. I read this book every Easter and reflect on the story when inbetween reading I also have 7 copies! so yes a bit of a Hobbit Fanatic.

[May]

I'll give you the sun by Jandy Nelson

[Kristine]

I've come back to Wuthering Heights a few times in the last year and a half. It's my favorite book.

[April]

There are several: Gone with the Wind. All of Jane Austen's works (I even have a new appreciate for Northanger Abbey) Jane Eyre. The North and South trilogy by John Jakes. A Separate Peach. The Jungle. And I'm sure there are others I have re-read so many times.

[Jacqueline]

I read certain books countless times primarily because as an English teacher there are books I teach year after year. I am lucky because for the most part I can choose what I want to teach. Some of my favorite frequent reads are: Brave New World, To Kill a Mockingbird, Jane Eyre, The Hobbit, Frankenstein, and Their Eyes Were Watching God. Books that I have read once and want to read again: All the Pretty Horses, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, A Thousand Acres. Books I don't plan on EVER reading again: The Goldfinch and A Secret History.

[Shamma8]

I remember re-reading The Other Boleyn Girl so many times after first reading it, I was completely obsessed with it, I think I was 15. It has exposed me to a whole new genre of reading; historical fiction. Also Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, but that I only read once.

[John]

I never get tired of Fevre Dream by George R.R. Martin

[Julia Stephanie]

I love reading some of the classics like Jane Eyre and Pride and Prejudice. But i also reread Mr. Penumbras 24 Hour Bookstore very often

[Gigi]

I've read "The Martian" three times and loved it better every time. It is my favorite book to just sit and read. :)

Can't wait to see the movie!

[Papaphilly]

Gigi wrote: "I've read "The Martian" three times and loved it better every time. It is my favorite book to just sit and read. :)

Can't wait to see the movie!"

I wonder if that book is destined to be a modern classic. We shall see in thirty years or so.

[Joshua]

the hobbit

[Jim]

I just started the Martian. I re-read A Christmas Carol at the Holidays.

[Vickie]

Lucifer's Hammer
Harry Potter
Lord of the Rings series and The Hobbit

[Papaphilly]

Vickie wrote: "Lucifer's Hammer
Harry Potter
Lord of the Rings series and The Hobbit"

I was always surprised that Lucifer's Hammer was not made into a movie.

[Vickie]

Oh and I forgot His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman.

[Lesley]

Mapp and Lucia, EF Benson
Alright Jeeves, PG Wodehouse
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
The Old Wives' Tale, Arnold Bennett

[Ricky]

"The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway
"Tales from Margaritaville" by Jimmy Buffet
"The Gold Coast" by Nelson Demille
I know they probably meant just one novel, but I had to list several , and still did not name all my favorites.

[Gav451]

I really don't get on with Jane Austen. I also know I love some really terrible but comfortable books

Lord of the Rings when I was a teenager.
The Belgariad is my real comfort book. Another teenage hangover.
A day in the life of Ivan Denisovitch.
Down and Out In Paris and London
A homage to Catalonia
The Girl with All the Gifts
Let the Right one In is amazing.
Good Omens
Hitchhikers

[Miyanlove]

Chronicles of Nick and Dark-Hunter series, both by Sherrilyn Kenyon.
Inkheart trilogy by Cornelia Funke.
Harry Potter by JK Rowling.
Of course, The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit are my favourites too, by JRR Tolkien.

[Marko]

Coming back to a beloved book is like visiting an old friend. The books I have reread recently are:

Dune
The Hobbit
Catcher in the Rye
The Great Gatsby
The short stories of Ray Bradbury
Call Me by Your Name

[Mark]

I reread so many books , sometimes I go back to them if I find my self lost at point's in life. here is but a few examples:
The Hobbit
Hogfather
Neverwhere
The Long Earth
The Box of Delights

[Jamie (The Kansan Reader)]

Harry Potter series and the Hashtag series by Cambria Hebert.

[Joyce]

Gone With the Wind

The Lord of the Rings

Animal Farm

[gracie mack]

The Giver Quartet! (Or just the Giver) It is the most amazing book I have ever read! I have seriously read it 5 times already!

[Mario]

The Lord of the Rings by J.R. Tolkien. I have the original publication, a re-impression one, a condensed edition, a nice hard cover with the 3 stories in one book, the movies, the music, so I think I am very crazy and obsessed by LOTR. I also love the Hobbit, that's what got my attention for this discussion.

More recently, I also have to say that Meriln the Lost Years (the 5 books) by T.A. Barron is a must for readers of Fantasy, you will not regret it!

[Tim]

The Silmarillion. Or the Edda.

[Mario]

Tim wrote: "The Silmarillion. Or the Edda."

Can't wait to see what the movie will look like. Good luck to make this logical. Even the novel you have to read some parts a few times, it is so complex!

[Gav451]

Legend by David Gemmell is a cracking read. His books are really fast readers.

I have read Dune a few times as well and having read the above comments fancy doing so again.

[Xavi]

The Hobbit. No joke.

[Tim]

Mario wrote: "Tim wrote: "The Silmarillion. Or the Edda."

Can't wait to see what the movie will look like. Good luck to make this logical. Even the novel you have to read some parts a few times, it is so complex!"


It is pretty complex, I agree. I didn't know they were planning on making a movie out of it; sounds like a hell of a task.
Still waiting for a movie adaptation of the Edda, though :)

[Carole]

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

[Jim]

Dickens A Christmas Carol.

[Karen]

I feel like the first one would be the Kingkiller's Series, and then followed by the Lord of the Rings, then Silmarillion. No Harry Potter for me. I feel like their magical system is really...weird.

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Throne of Glass any day! :)

[Spyros]

I would go with Lord of the rings too.

[(Mark) EchoWolf]

Three books for me.
Breaking Out by Derek Maitland.
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole.
And of course, The Hobbit.

[Jordan]

Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon. Funny, immaculately written, and inexhaustible.

[Judith]

The Francis Crawford of Lymond series by Dorothy Dunnett. Hands down the best historical fiction ever.

[Robert Wilson]

The Hobbit or Lord of the Rings - 3 books. Just Pure Brilliance!!

[NormaCenva]

Always a great re-read, the continuation the other 2 books in this trilogy are also really good!