Young Adult Fiction for Adults discussion
Name the book you've read the most times
, definitely. It's my favorite book and it just makes me incredibly happy. It's the only book that I have actually read twice in a row :) and many more times as well.
I won't say it's my favorite book, but I am sure I have read Twilight more times than any other book.
I can honestly say I've never read Twilight. I just haven't gotten around to it.
I've read
every year since I was 12 and I still love every single book. Two I've read recently that I'll be adding to the "books I read every year" list are
and
. Both awesome books with fabulous, strong characters. Love em.
A whole lot of people love it and of course there are those who equally love to trash it. The beauty of it when I first read it was that I didn't know anyone else who had read it other than my family (2007) and we all loved it from myself to my DIL, my son, and my granddaughters. We didn't know about the rest of the world out there! Then later I found so many wonderful friends through love of this series, it became an "event" and not just a book series.
Becca, I liked Graceling a lot and love every book Juliet Marillier has written (and own them all in hardback. I've read Son of the Shadows twice and definitely will read it again.The only series I have ever read straight from one book to the next and then picked up the first one and read them all again was C.L. Wilson's Tairen Soul series starting with Lord of the Fading Lands
I have listened to several Harry Potter books on audio and read them in print multiple times. When I was younger I read
(same cover I had) and
over and over and over again.
Heidi I think I ready Tales of a Fourth Grade a few times when I was younger as well...I've read a couple of the Dear America Diaries a couple fo times and Tithe :)
Ottilie wrote: "Heidi I think I ready Tales of a Fourth Grade a few times when I was younger as well...I've read a couple of the Dear America Diaries a couple fo times and Tithe :)"
Judy Blume is my hero! I also read
and
multiple times.
Judy Blume seriously was amazing for childhood times :)
Harry Potter, which I didn't discover until I was an adult, I have read at least four times all the way through.Jim
Hemingway Man
Well, there's Outlander, big surprise. But a few that I'm not so known for would be Where the Red Fern Grows, because I love the tone to the book. It reminds me of my grandpa.
Emergence by David R. Palmer. I have a very battered, yellowed copy of it. Wish he'd put it out as an ebook.
Where the Red Fern Grows I read in sixth grade, and I cried. Yup, I cried. Great book.Jim
Hemingway Man
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Read it 22 times when I was in school. :p
I haven't read Where the Red Fern grows in years but have read it more than once. My son wore a paperback copy out when he was a kid - he carried it with him all the time and read it over and over. Can anyone read it without crying?
I think the Harry Potter I've read the most is number one, once through each time a new book came out and twice more since the end.Jim
Hemingway Man
Wendy F wrote: "i cry EVERY time I read it."I read that one several times too Wendy.
The books I've read more than a dozen times each (at least the ones that first come to mind are)All 7 Harry Potters
Stephen King's The Stand
Ender's Game
Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians
Sort of an eclectic group
Ooh... I love this question. There are lots of favorites that have been already mentioned. Harry Potter, Finnikin, the Outlander series. Both Fire and Graceling were great. I also love the Sookie Stackhouse series (True Blood). I both love and hate the Twilight books... But my hands down, read it over and over again favorite is
by Robin Mckinely I've read it probably once a year since sixth grade. There's something about it... Favorite books are like comfort food.
They are totally like comfort food. Even if you've had it a million times, you'll go back for it again and again.
Judy Blume books when I was a kid along with Little House on the Prairie. Throw Anne of Green Gables in for measure when I was younger. Also killed the bindings on The Secret Circle & The Vampire Diaries back in the early nineties.Recently I'd say all of the Twilight books, along with the Poison Study & Graceling series.
The book(s) I have read the second most are The Mortal Instruments series - four times and listened to all of the audios twice.
In high school I loved Maeve Binchy, and probably read
,
, and
a dozen times each. Now I've found myself revisiting
often.
Not that they're novels, but now that the movie is coming, I have to admit to a certain sense of smug pride knowing that I've read every single Tintin book a million times, and was introduced to him by my mother when I was four or five.
Ali wrote: "Judy Blume books when I was a kid along with Little House on the Prairie. Throw Anne of Green Gables in for measure when I was younger. Also killed the bindings on The Secret Circle & The Vampire D..."Yay! Love Judy Blume, Little House and how did I forget Anne??? I have read Anne multiple times. Great picks.
I absolutely adore Tamora Pierce's The Will of the Empress. I've read it at least 15 times in the past 3 years.
The last 3 harry potter books and last sacrifice, which is the final book in the vampire academy series. Love them and wish I had more time to read them all again.
Definitely the Harry Potter series. I've probably read the first book more than any of the others.
For me it's definitely
(every year or so since I discovered them at school),
(my favourite book on the planet) and
.
Oh, and
! Another awesome one discovered at school :)
Arphaxad wrote: "For me it's definitely (every year or so since I discovered them at school), (my favourite book on the planet) and [bo..."I agree that the song of the lioness is one of the best series on earth...
"Ender's Game", definitely. I have been reading it every few years since the 6th grade!And probably "Are you there God, it's me Margaret", when I was a youngin'.
I used to re-read books all the time as a child so it's hard to actually know. I read
A LOT, but it was just one of many that I had on repeat.Of recent years the first 4 Harry Potters. I've read those about 5 times (but that was back in high school)
Probably read
4 times. I don't really keep track. Sometimes I just need a Tamora Pierce fix and I go for it
it is a wonderful story. I absolutely love the Polar Bear King fairy tale
Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer by Patrick Süskind. I read that book quite a lot.
It's a tie between Meg Cabot's Shadowland or When Lightning Strikes, I would always read the entire series but every once in a while I'd just read the first and skip around.
Does it have to be a YA book? Funny, I've read so many of my YA books multiple times that I'm not sure what the clear winner would be.For non-YA, I've read Pride and Prejudice many times... and alternate that with watching the BBC TV minseries!
My go-to books for when I have a cold and need 'comfort reading' are Georgette Heyer's The Grand Sophy and Arabella.
And then my all-time favourite series is Peter O'Donnell's Modesty Blaise series... yes, the villains are rather camp, but the rest of the characters and the writing are SUPERB!
I reread all the time - it's hard to pick one that I reread the most. Some of my top 'comfort food' rereads are:everything by Tamora Pierce
By the Sword by Mercedes Lackey
the Elemental Masters series by Mercedes Lackey
The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley (and many of her other books)
The Dragonsong (Pern, #3), Dragonsinger (Pern, #4), Dragondrums (Pern, #6) trilogy by Anne McCaffrey
the Heris Serrano and Vatta War series by Elizabeth Moon
the Belgariad and Elenium series by David Eddings
and (more recent but quickly catching up in number of rereads) the October Daye series by Seanan McGuire
Janet, I also read 
series so often (the 1st AND 2nd trilogies) I had to vuy new copies because the books fell to pieces on me. I've reread about the first dozen books every year or so for the past few decades! The Belgariad series are another favorite! Also all of
the Darkover books. Another of hers that fell apart on me was
which I had to replace as well. I notice that now that I have my Nook, it's so easy to find and buy new books, so I have not been rereading like I used to. But seeing this topic has got me yearning for all my old comfort books again!
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. I would re-read the series each time a new book would come out and then when the majority of the films came out. Oh and I may have read it just randomly a couple of times, as well. Not that it's my favourite Potter book or anything. Just that it happens to be the first. :D
My mother got me a copy of
when I was 8. I have no idea how many times I read it when I was a kid. I read
the summer between 4th & 5th grade and then reread it every summer until I was a sophomore in high school. As an adult there's little I've read more than once other than
and
.
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Mine is The Witches by Roald Dahl.
What's yours?
Jim Maher
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