@Sybylla
Second your public library app recommendation, I use Overdrive and Hoopla (just started using Hoopla), it is so convenient and has very extensive ebooks, audiobooks, movies and music (the latter two are from Hoopla) right at your fingertips. I still read “conventional” books in paper, but the majority books are now all on my phone.
I have read the Thrush Green series by Miss Read a couple of times. I usually only read a book once, though.
I’ve re-read A Thousand Plateaus by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari several times and have found it increasingly rewarding.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Thousand_Plateaus
I forgot to mention earlier that I have also read “And Ladies of the Club…” several times. I am always sad when it iis done.
Every few years or so I reread: HP, LOTR, Z for Zachariah, The Christmas Jars, Skipping Christmas, several Jodi Picoult books, and lately Still Alice. I reread sections of books, too. My favorites all have passages that have moved me or made me think long after finishing the book. I like having those words easily within reach.
Alice Hoffman, Sandra Dallas, Sue Grafton, and lots of cookbooks.
I used to reread Jane Jane Eyre yearly until about age 15. Little Women as well. As an adult I have read The Road from Coorain a number of times, as well as Pearl Buck’s autobiography, and the Trapp Family Singers story. Just last month I reread Pachinko for a book club discussion, and was very happy to do so. So often I find new things to appreciate on a reread.
I get that some feel life is too short for rereading but like @“great lakes mom” I find that I notice different things each time. When my kids were little they were reading an entirely different Lord of the Rings than I had. They were both younger than I was when I first read it and boys. It was really interesting to reread it through their eyes.
I do notice except for Jane Austen and Jane Eyre, relatively few classics get a mention.
I’ll go see any production of Twelfth Night but I don’t reread it. I keep meaning to reread Moby Dick, but will I?
@mom2and I could have written your post verbatim. I even own a battered paperback of Gone to Soldiers.
At my library you can set the lending period on Libby for up to 21 days - give it a try!
For the same reasons that you suggest, I tend to “reread” audiobooks of familiar works before I go to sleep. I will often reach for YA literature - My Side of the Mountain, Anne of Green Gables, Little House Series, Witch of Blackbird Pond, Island of the Blue Dolphins, Harry Potter, etc.
I reread many Jane Austen novels annually as I always find something new to admire in her language.
I wish I had more time to read for pleasure.
The Road from Coorain, Trapp Family Singers, Anne Frank, Little House series, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, EB White essays, The Chosen, The Glory and the Dream, The Woman at the Washington Zoo, LOTR, Eleanor and Franklin, World of Our Fathers…lots of history.
I reread lots of books. When I ride my exercise bike every night, I usually re-read a favorite mystery because I’ve found that I don’t really retain information that I read while exercising…so why read something new?
I also reread parts of the Bible. I’m especially fond of those “love thy neighbor” and “do justice” parts.
The book that I re-read most often is “A Voyage to the Bunny Planet” by Rosemary Wells. Whenever I have a bad day, I love those lines “…here’s the day that should have been.” And the “First Tomato” poem always makes me cry.
I will never give away my copy of the Bunny Planet books!
@intparent - I know! I bought myself a copy when D left home with her copy. And it’s the book I always give new parents.
@momofsenior1 I really enjoyed Discovery of Witches! I just re read the series & then the stand alone. I’m hoping the tv show will at least be decent!!
Harry Potter, of course is well loved (ok, falling apart). I have a deep affinity for children’s and YA fantasy. There are a few authors that I enjoy reading again… Jonathan Auxier, Sullivan’s “Green Hill” books, Holly Black of Spiderwick fame has some really good reads, Matthew Jobin, John Stephens’ Books of Beginning series is fun too.
Oh, I also read The Christmas Box about every 5 years in December.
100 books a year is 2 per week. My sister easily reads that many, probably twice as many, plus magazine articles and the newspaper every day. She teaches school so also reads YA books, runs a book club for her students, is in a couple for herself. She’s a reader. She has books beside her bed, in her living room, in the bathroom. She has a Kindle in her purse just in case she’s waiting in a line or to pick up a kid.
I love rereading books. One of my favorites is Coming Home, which takes a girl through WWII in Wales, England, and Sri Lanka.
I have not even heard of many of these titles! Exciting!!!
I thought of a few more that I have read more than once.
The Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy.
My collection of Calvin and Hobbes
The Far Side Gallery
I love Georgette Heyer regency romances—my guilty secret. I read them whenever I want a quick cheery re-read. Feisty heroines (for the most part) and happy endings.
@HImom You would probably like Willig’s series starting with The Secret History of the Pink Carnation. Lots of fun!