A bunch of books: Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey (as well as several of the sequels), American Gods by Neil Gaiman, The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi, The Magicians by Lev Grossman, Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie, Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling, The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin, and a bunch of others.
Ask HN: Which books have you read more than once?
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#52I used to read The Illuminatus! Trilogy [0] once every year or two, though that's slowed down; I feel like I've gotten something new out of it every time.
I'm now taking a second pass through Unsong [1], simply because I enjoyed the first read so much.
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#53I've read all of discworld by Terry Pratchett at least three times. I'm almost finished with my second sequential reading. It's comfort food in book form for me.
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#54These threads are posted a lot, but I still like reading the comments for new book recommendations if I see a match. Also, hopefully this can show people how great fiction is. I've seen comments that shun people for liking fiction compared to non.
For me:
Lonesome Dove
100 Years of Solitude
Catch-22
The Sellout (very relevant again)
East of Eden
Kafka on the Shore (and all the stories in Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman)
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#55The Dispossessed - Ursula K. Le Guin
Harry Potter - JK Rowling (re-read it all when the last book came out)
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#56So I know this is the opposite of what OP is asking, but I've taken the stance recently that I won't re-read another book. There are books that I would like to re-read, but they come at the opportunity cost of reading others. A fellow traveler in a Guatemalan hostel broke it down to me like this: - let's say as an avid reader, you're able to read 12 books a year. - let's say you have 50 years of reading left in you,…
Breadth is nice, but depth is too. I tend to gain more from a second read than from a first, and also I can consume content where I know what to expect while in a different mindset and state of being than what I require to crack open and explore something all new.
But sure, everyone is different and does things their own way. If it works for you, that’s great!
(Totally agree with putting down a book that isn’t working for you. You have no obligation, in most cases, to any book. It can be freeing to realize this if it’s not something that’s already obvious!)
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#57The book I've reread the most is The Odyssey. For a long time, I've read it once every year.
Another book I've read many times is Eco's Foucault's Pendulum.
I've read Asimov's cycle of Foundation many times. Don't know how many, actually.
I've also read several times some philosophy classics, particularly Plato's Symposium, Phaedrus, Apology and Republic.
Then there are many books that I've read at least twice, almost all considered classics (from 1984 to LoTR, Great expectations to Tom Sawyer, Crime and punishment to Twenty thousand leagues under the sea, etc).
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#58Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson, every three years or so.
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#59I usually read good technical books twice. Recently did that for: Designing Data-Intensive Applications, DynamoDB Book.
Designing Data-Intensive Applications is probably one of the absolute best technical books I've read. I haven't done a second read through, but I can definitely see that being helpful.
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#60Douglas Adam's "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency". Probably the finest work of fiction ever written, and my favorite book of all time. You kind of have to read it twice, the end completely changes the interpretation of the entire rest of the book. It's great. Avoid spoilers, and also avoid the TV versions - not even the same story, and quite disappointing. The audiobook version, read by Douglas Adams himself,…
I rather like the Max Landis Dirk Gently series, albeit as its own thing: a drastic reimagining only loosely inspired by the source material, similar to The Shining.
The 2 1/2 Dirk Gently books are Adams' finest in my opinion. HHGTTG is fun, but it doesn't hold together as a cohesive narrative in the same way. It's such a shame that we'll never know how the third book would have resolved.