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<p>I agree with you. Belva Plain has written plenty of good books, but she had only one great book in her (well, at least so far), and it was Evergreen.</p>
<p>Iamsoconfused: Do you have a favorite Caldwell character? Mine is Julia and especially in “Thus Was Adonis Murdered” where she looks to Shakespeare and Catullus for seduction tips.</p>
<p>The Henry Huggins and Ramona series’ by Beverly Cleary. Read them myself as a kid, and as bedtime stories with each of our children. Am on the last go-round now with D2, now 11. Never tired of them!</p>
<p>To Kill a Mockingbird
Johnny Tremain</p>
<p>Two childhood favorites that I’ve reread a couple of times as an adult. I am still amazed at how Harper Lee got into the mind of a child the way she did.</p>
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I don’t think I ever seen anyone else post about these two books/series in the same post. Needless to say I’ve reread both - though I was more partial to Blyton’s school stories.</p>
<p>alh re Sarah Caudwell yes, I do love Julia and I love the humor. And I do love the cleverness of having the narrator be of an indeterminate gender. Man? Woman? Something else I reread and ALH mentioned is Carolyn Heilbrun who also wrote mysteries under the name Amanda Cross and they are very rereadable. Fortunately I don’t care if I know what happens if I find the characters endearing.</p>
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<p>If we get to count children’s bedtime stories among the books we’ve reread, then I’ve reread every Berenstain Bears book and most of the Dr. Seuss books at least a dozen times each.</p>
<p>I’m only counting ones I actually enjoyed as an adult too. Though I am (only grudgingly) willing to leave out such classics as A Surprise for Mrs. Bunny, The Bake Shop Ghost, The Magic Train, and Pete’s a Pizza.
But yeah, I actually DO enjoy the Beverly Cleary books. They’re nostalgic, soothing, relaxing… It’s probably un-American, but I was never a big fan of Dr. Seuss.</p>
<p>And as for YA/adult books-- The Secret Life of Bees, and The Once & Future King.</p>
<p>I re-read all my books, but my copy of Contact by Carl Sagan is well-loved and dog-eared. Not having personally known a bunch of women scientists to look up to when I was growing up, I always really admired Ellie Arroway’s persistence and moxie.</p>
<p>lspf72: I gave away, to various good homes, shelves of Dr. Seuss during a major book clean out; I didn’t care for those books as a child, really got tired of them with my own children and absolutely refuse to reread them to any future grandchildren and will instead reread Maurice Sendak, Beatrix Potter, Lewis Carrol and Milne. I also gave away all those Berenstain Bears and an astounding collection of Goose Bumps. I have neither read nor reread the Goose Bumps.</p>
<p>Seconding Iamconfused on the Amanda Cross mysteries, though they are becoming the very slightest bit dated on recent rereads imho. And I do read mysteries for the characters, the settings and the language more than the plots. Mostly in the ones I read (Caldwell, Cross, Janet Evanovich, Elizabeth Peters, Carolina Garcia-Aguilera) the plots rarely make much sense as far as I can tell.</p>
<p>I no longer reread Laura Ingalls Wilder since I can recite them by heart, every one. I told in much earlier thread how i burst into tears in the National Archives when I came across Charles Ingalls application for homestead land in South Dakota. My children laughed at me, evil things that they are. </p>
<p>I must admit that if I like a book I am likely to reread it right away – I read Giliad three times straight through, but that book is so intense that I think I could read it a couple more times. </p>
<p>My oldest son says he has read War and Peace three times – the first time just to say he had read it, the second time to figure out who was who, and the third time for the story. He thinks he needs to read it at least a couple more times.</p>
<p>^I liked Peace but couldn’t make it through War.</p>
<p>One more - Wind in the Willows</p>
<p>Jane Eyre multiple times and House of God (samuel shem)</p>
<p>Enchantress from the Stars by Sylvia Engdahl</p>
<p>Thats a great book- maybe I will dig it out.
the fun thing about no short term memory is I can reread anything in my collection and it is like * the first time!*</p>
<p>I reread Winter’s Tale by Mark Helprin ( I also like Winter’s Tales by Isak Dinesen)
For kid’s books I sometimes reread- The People of Pineapple Place or the Hunky Dory Dairy, by Anne Morrow Lindbergh .</p>
<p>How about every book in the Bible- many times over.</p>
<p>The only book I have read multiple times is Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey.</p>
<p>wharfrat–what a great book; haven’t read it in a while. That scene with the log in the river, what was the character’s name, Joe Ben? (don’t want to say more)…</p>
<p>I read the Merry Hall series by Beverly Nichols about once a year.
I reread The Razors Edge every few years.
I haven’t read any of the Crystal Singer books in a long time or the Shanara series, thanks for the reminder it may be time!</p>
<p>I loved the Little House books as a child. Having sons they weren’t interested, but I did read Farmer Boy to them. One chapter a night, they loved it and would often beg for another chapter. It was a nice time with my boys.</p>