Which books do you read again, and again, and again...

[Richards]

Actually, now that I think about it, there's one book that I've read literally hundreds of times, and as such wins the "most reread book" contest hands down as far as I'm concerned.

When I was a teenager, my little sister absolutely loved The Monster at the End of This Book, starring Sesame Street's "lovable, furry old Grover." I would read that thing to her probably two or three times in a row, every night, for months.

Years later, with kids of my own, I made sure to pick up a copy of The Monster at the End of This Book to read to my sons, and they loved it just as much. I think it got to the point where I had all of the dialogue memorized. Of course, they're both in college now, so I'm a little rusty, but I'll bet I've still got a good 75% of it stored in permanent memory.

Johnathan

 

[hafrogman]

Ender's Game

I've read that book too many times to count.

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

Although I haven't read it for a few years, Alice In Wonderland is by far my most re-read book. I think I was reading it about once a year for 10 or 15 years.

I've also re-read LOTR, Chronicles of Narnia, Lovecraft's stories, and some others. These days, I don't re-read very often, since I don't have as much time as I used to for reading new things.

 

[Evil Eli]

Reread so many times:
The General series by David Drake and SM Stirling
The Belisarus Series By SM Stirling and Eric Flint
All the Hammer's Slammers series by David Drake
LoTR's - Once every two years
Alas Babylon - Every three or so years

 

[thatdarncat]

I reread a lot. If I enjoyed it, I've probably reread it at least once, usually all the way through, though I do go back to reread sections if I'm looking for something more specific.

The Most-Reread award probably goes to "Deep Wizardry" by Diane Duane. It's the second book in the series, and for a few years was the only book in the series that I could get my hands on. (Incidentally, this series also wins for "most recommended book or series")

 

[EricNoah]

Lord of the Rings, of course. I've been Tolkiened-out though after three years of staying on top of the LotR movies.

Dune series. I should do that one again soon.

Hughart, as someone mentioned -- I just re-read the Master Li/Number Ten Ox trilogy. If life were fair there would be many more of these...

I re-read Narnia many times.

I will need to re-read Song of Fire and Ice before the next book comes out.

 

[Sarigar]

Actually, now that I think about it, there's one book that I've read literally hundreds of times, and as such wins the "most reread book" contest hands down as far as I'm concerned.

When I was a teenager, my little sister absolutely loved The Monster at the End of This Book, starring Sesame Street's "lovable, furry old Grover." I would read that thing to her probably two or three times in a row, every night, for months.

Years later, with kids of my own, I made sure to pick up a copy of The Monster at the End of This Book to read to my sons, and they loved it just as much. I think it got to the point where I had all of the dialogue memorized. Of course, they're both in college now, so I'm a little rusty, but I'll bet I've still got a good 75% of it stored in permanent memory.

Johnathan

Same here. My sons going on 4, though, so I continue to entertain him with Grover's frantic pleas. Its only fun when you really get into it, however.

I like to read a series again when a new book in the series comes out. Of those series that have concluded, I only read LOTR's regularly. Too much good new stuff comes out that I want to read.

 

[Kesh]

The Dragonlance novels by Weiss & Hickman
Dracula
Frankenstein
Dune
Anything by H. G. Wells or H. P. Lovecraft.
The Sherlock Holmes stories
Stephen King's The Stand, Firestarter, 'salem's Lot, The Eyes of the Dragon and the Dark Tower series.
Any Star Trek novel by Peter David
Mary Stewart's Merlin trilogy
Timothy Zahn's Thrawn trilogy of Star Wars novels
Star Wars: The Truce at Bakura by Kathy Tyers
Richard Matheson's I Am Legend

 

[John Crichton]

Chunks of Salvatore's Drizzt series but I know I've read Homeland the most of all of them. Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days is also a favorite of mine to reread every few years.

This is a good reminder topic - I've been meaning to go back and read Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality series again.

 

[nyrfherdr]

Any book that I finish and say Wow! I really enjoyed that goes on my bookshelf for a re-read. If I enjoyed it that much the first time, I'm guaranteed to find more to enjoy the second (or more times.)
As a former student of Literature... Knowing what happens is only a small part of what makes the book good! See above posts for examples of what they enjoyed. A finely crafted story is finely crafted for enjoying on multiple levels at multiple times. Knowing the story allows you to find more to enjoy.
Before I leave the impression that you should be looking for deep meanings in your reading, I should also say that I can re-read a book on the most basic of levels if all I want is rip-roaring action and some books don't go much deeper than that anyway.

Almost all of the authors mentioned here I've re-read too (some so many times, I can't remember).
One of my other favorites for SF is Dietz. His "Bounty" series is good, McCade's Bounty, Alien Bounty, etc.

The record for me would probably be "There's a Monster at the End of this Book" too. Goddaughter, son, 3 nieces, 2 nephews and more. I guess everyone else in the family got tired of speaking in Grover's voice.

Maybe someone will re-read this post, but I doubt it.