Thread: Books you read over and over?

I tend to only buy books that I want to read again at some point, but there just seem to be those titles or authors that I will read constantly. One author is Isaac Asimov. Growing up, I loved reading all of his fiction simply because it was well written and well thought out. Now I like to read it so I can find out what's coming next in the world. I read all of his science fiction at least once a year; often more.

Others that I reach for more than most are John Grisham, Anne Rice, and now JK Rowling (but only the later Harry Potter- the early ones are tripe).

The only non-fiction book that I regularly go for is my Federalist Papers. The others get soaked in on the first sitting and I'm good

So what do you reach for more often than others?

I've read Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse many times and have continuously had a copy for over 40 years. I can't count how many I have given away. Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett and some other noir guys. I used to have a thing for classic horror. I've read Dracula by Stoker time and again , stuff by Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E Howard, I could go on and on. Agatha Christis and Dorthey Sayers, and of course Conan-Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and haven't gotten tired of that in 50 years of re-reading.

besides the Bible, and all the crap I have to read at work, I would say Atlas Shrugged.

Matt

I forgot all about Sherlock! I've got one of the first printings of the whole collection that I read quite often.

Hanta Yo by Ruth Bebe Hill is one of those books for me, also anything by Taylor Caldwell.
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Gary Jennings books" Aztec" and "The Journeyer".Both are about 2 inches thick and you don't want them to end when they do.Also "Swan Song" by Robert McCammon and" The Stand" by Stephen King.All are fantastic and I highly recommend them all.

Originally Posted by Quick Orange

I forgot all about Sherlock! I've got one of the first printings of the whole collection that I read quite often.

Ive read a lot of Mark Twain and Jack London again and again. Gun books by Elmer Keith and bios of Wyatt Earp by various authors as well as Abraham Lincoln. The recent "Manhunt" by James L. Swanson is a real page turner that I will read again. I keep a copy of the complete poems of Carl Sandburg handy as well as Kipling's and RL Stevenson's short stories ...... than there are Shakespeare's plays ,,,,,,, like I said, I could go on and on.

Sun Tzu: The Art of War
H. W. McBride: A rifleman went to war
All of Jeff Cooper's books
James Joyce: Ulysses
Ruark: Use Enough Gun

Originally Posted by aroliver59

Gary Jennings books" Aztec" and "The Journeyer".Both are about 2 inches thick and you don't want them to end when they do.Also "Swan Song" by Robert McCammon and" The Stand" by Stephen King.All are fantastic and I highly recommend them all.

Swan Song was an interesting book. I might have to revisit it, as last time I read it, I was pretty young.

I never could get into Kipling, but Twain and I are old acquaintances. I used to have his complete works, but they somehow got lost. Made me mad too- they were hardback I like to think that Mark Twain and I would have gotten along had we met each other.

These are always in my rotation:

The Count of Montecristo - Alexandre Dumas
Aztec - Gary Jennings
The Sword of Truth series - Terry Goodkind
It- Stephen King
Kane and Abel - Jeffrey Archer