I’ve been rereading a lot of the books I own partly as a way to decide whether to keep them or put them in the nearby free little library. Also, when the news is tough right now, I find that somehow a few pages of a repeat book right before bed improves my sleep. So I read new stuff on the bus and for a while before bed, then pick up a reread for the last 10 minutes before going to sleep. I do reread some of the Vorkosigan books just because I like them sometimes; I keep the full set on my tablet.
@Hello44 I will be definitely rereading the Neapolitan novels. Thanks for the thumbs up on the HBO series. I don’t get HBO and haven’t seen them yet, but so good to hear they’re worth watching from someone who loves the books.
I reread the Lord of the Rings trilogy as a teen and young adult. Read it again later in life and it was not the same 
Also have read the Outlander series twice. I have a long list of books, but with very little spare time, I often find it hard to commit.
I reread books. It brings me a certain level of comfort. Not every book but I’ve read Pride and Prejudice many times. Often when reading a book again I notice something new. When I was a child I read books over and over. We didn’t buy books but checked them out of the library and if I remember the children’s section wasn’t enormous.
I’m sure you all know the feeling of loving a book so much you slow down towards the end so it doesn’t end too soon. I can get so invested in a book that it takes me awhile to be able to read another one.
I like to reread Pride & Prejudice and A Christmas Carol around the holidays. Like @conmama I think it’s super comforting.
When I was a kid, I cannot tell you how many times I read Johnny Tremain , Little House on the Prairie series and the Marguerite Henry books ie Misty of Chincoteauge, etc. Horse & history loving kid! My friend and I wrote to Marguerite Henry and she replied - one of my childhood highlights. I still keep these books in my library. Hope I don’t look as old as they do…
@bajajmm I simply could not get into Harry Potter books. Tried a couple of times.
On and off, if I reread any book, it will be either Jane Eyre or A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. They are both cherished childhood books. The first was originally read as a translation in my native language. It took on a total different tone reread in English. The latter was the first book I owned given to me by my English teacher when I came to this country. That’s when I discover that I love books about books, book lovers, bookstores, libraries and so on…
@ccreader, from about the age of 14 through probably 25, I reread Jane Eyre every year :)))
Long complex Russian novels with lots of complicated names to remember.
I’m another who, despite being an avid reader, never read HP, nor did any of my four kids. No surprise with my boys, it was and has been a struggle to get them to read anything. My girls are avid readers like me, but despite my urging when they were younger, neither had any interest in them. Some day I might decide to give them a try.
The only novel I read by J.K. Rowling is The Casual Vacancy. I actually quite enjoyed it though I know many Rowling fans did not. It took me a while to get into it, but I persevered and in the end, thought it was a good, character-driven book. I noted later that most of the people who gave it terrible reviews were huge HP fans, and I take it that this novel was such a departure from her previous works, that they had preconceived notions about what to expect.
The Bell Jar, and House of God (shem).
We had a small branch not far from our house, and if you looked at the cards in the pockets (where we wrote out names when we checked them out), many of the books just have a list of my name over and over again as I checked out my favorites repeatedly. My mom’s rule was that I could check out as many as I could carry, and she would take me as often as I wanted to go. So I’d stagger to the car with a stack from my stretched out finger tips up to my upstretched chin every time. Then a few days later, I’d be ready to go back. As far as I was concerned, the kids chapter book section of that library was my own personal fiefdom, and… it pretty much was. I rarely saw anyone else in that section now that I think about it. 
It might be my fondest childhood memory. Of course I loved the big library downtown, and the Bookmobile that was occasionally parked by the bank was a treat as well. And there was a branch right by the lake park we used to picnic at - my idea of heaven was a day at that lake park with swimming, popsicles from the small convenience store nearby, and wandering through the lakeside library in a damp swimsuit and flip flops. But that little branch near my house was a constant and favorite.
@intparent, the public library is still my favorite place (well, second favorite; my house is my favorite).
I read a lot, probably 150-200+ books a year (I am a very fast reader), and will occasionally go back and re-read favorites. Like someone else said, if I’m waiting for a new book in a series, I’ll go back through them all or at least the last few.
Sense and Sensibility I read every few years; I love that book. The Betsy-Tacy books were read over and over, and introducing them to my daughters was a joy. Also A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Some of my favorite authors have passed away, so I will re-read them (Sarah Caudwell, Elizabeth Peters/Barbara Michaels) and it’s like seeing an old friend.
I usually don’t read proper literature or the latest best sellers, unless they’re the latest by an author I already enjoy.
I forgot that I have read Pride and Prejudice multiple times, and seen just about every filmed version as well.
I read the first Harry Potter book just before it became really famous, I think it came up on some AOL parent board. I will forever be grateful to HP because it got my then second grader fromi struggling with Nate the Great level to “I can read! I can read Harry Potter! Can I bring it in to school? Can I go down and tell Daddy?” He’s been an avid reader ever since. I’ve read them twice, but thought the books got more and more bloated as the series progressed, I am unlikely to read they again.
I am astounded at the # of books some of you can read a year! Literally a book every couple of days! I love to read but my life could not accommodate that many hours to read!! So glad you love it though!
I have read Jane Austen’s novels multiple times. When I was first married, I read War and Peace every year. I am not quite sure why, but I do love the book. I did read the CC Book Club selection “Station Eleven” twice because I really, really loved it. I will also read some of my favorite spiritual journey books again when I need the uplift that they give me.
Abasket, my “reading” increased when my younger son started going to a h.s. 45 mins away. Though we are in a carpool, I drive a minimum of 2-3 round trips per week so I started listening to audiobooks to pass the time. It took a while to adjust but now that I have, I listen all the time when I’m driving, and if a book is really engrossing, I’ll listen when I’m home alone folding laundry, prepping/cooking dinner, etc. I listened to about 15 books last year. I watch little tv, Netflix, etc, plus I’m a fast reader. I could read even more books if I spent less time on CC and the internet. ?
It’s the 100+ that is astounding!
Thx for the reminder of the tony Hillerman books. Time to reread
I do go to Agatha Christie and Jane Austen many times. I also enjoy Emily Dickinson . I often have to skim thru a book before a book club, to refresh my memory. I reread the Harry Potter books before the movies.
@ccreader
Jane Eyre was the first book I read in English in my teen years (I have never read it in my mother-tongue), and it is also the book that I have re-read several times more, and amazingly, I still feel my heart-pounding fast/get goosebumps when Jane declares her love to Mr. Rochester in the garden…I have also watched several versions of Jane Eyre, but the 1970 version by George C. Scott is my forever Mr. Rochester, even beats out Micheal Fassbender, Lol.
Some other books that I have re-read are the great gatsby, to kill a mockingbird, pride and prejudice, sense and sensibility, books that I read when I was much younger and the re-reading have been surprisingly satisfying, I still enjoy them, sometimes more so (esp. in the case of Austen’s Books).
I found that I often become disappointed after reading some highly praised/promoted contemporary books, there must be reasons that certain books have been read and reread by generations of book lovers.