Kevin's Watch

Re-reading is a new thing to me, relatively-speaking. The only books I've re-read so far (in order from first to last):

The Catcher in the Rye

1st Chronicles of Thomas Covenant (I plan on giving them a 2nd re-read later this year)

The Wounded Land

Books I tried to re-read but couldn't muster the attention span:

The Lord of the Rings

For Whom the Bell Tolls

The One Tree (Runes came out! Bah!)

First and Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
The Book of the New Sun
Last and First Men
Starmaker
Beyond Good and Evil
War of the Worlds
The Time Machine
The Gap Sequence
Consider Phlebas
Pride and Prejudice

There's probably been too many to list (or even remember) them all...but some just in the past few months:
First and Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
Mordant's Need
Gap Sequence
Runes of the Earth
The Abhorsen Trilogy by Garth Nix
Protector of the Small series by Tamora Pierce (I read it for the first time, followed by several rereads at the holidays in December & early January, helped me get through a really rough spot)
Riddlemaster Trilogy by Patricia McKillip

and a couple of days ago I started rereading the Harry Potter series...

I know in the past I have read Lord of the Rings so many times I couldn't even guess how many that would even be...

I tend to read something over and over again when I get really stressed out...it comforts me somehow. And probably a lot healthier for me than grabbing for a chocolate bar.

Watership Down (some six or seven times)

most of the Stephen King library

the Covenant books

most of Kafka

I reread something every time I finish a book and need to wait a week or more for the next new one.

-First and second CoTC
-The Real Story
-The three aSoIaF books
-WoT
-The Hobbit
-LotR
-Malazan books (all except Midnight Tides, which I haven't gotten up to in rereads yet)
-Hitchhikers Guide (all five)
-The Curse of Chalion (haven't re-read Paladin of Souls yet)
-The Chronicles of Narnia (long time ago, a few of them I read three or four times)
-Small Gods
-Earthsea (long time ago, first four books are only ones I've read at all)
-A number of others I read as a child but can't remember clearly enough to list (Narnia books were among these but remembered, obviously).

I intend sometime this year to reread Midnight Tides, Runes, and The Darkness That Comes Before, and probably some others too.

Oh man, I'm a compulsive re-reader. I read pretty quick, and I can never keep up on getting new books, so I re-read pretty much everything. If I own it, chances are I've read it at least two or three times.

I think that top of the list must be The Hobbit, simply because it's the one that I've been re-reading the longest. I'd read it over a dozen times before I stopped counting.

Read all the WoT books at least 5 times, and Chrons even more. Just got (and finished) Runes, so will have to re-read that soon to think about it again.

Even mentioning these is pointless, like I said, I re-read everything, as long as I enjoyed it the first time. Watership Down, Shardik, Maia, gotta stop mentioning them now.

--A

I'm with Avatar, I reread anything I liked. LOTS and LOTS of books.
Dune (father & son), 1&2 CoTC, ROTE, Ender series, Shadow series, Harry Potter, Elizabeth Peters, John Christopher, Pamela Dean, Feist, Oz books, the first few WoT books (the last ones weren't worth the reread in my view), Zindell, Pern, Earthsea, Hobbit, Narnia, Gap series, Mordant's Need (actually only reread the first one), King, Gregory Maguire, the Horatio Hornblower series, goodness, the list goes on.

I don't date much.

LR

99% of the books I own I've read at least twice and most of the books that I don't own that I really liked have been read more than once.

The most recent stuff I recall re-reading would be:

Book of the New Sun
Farseer Trilogy
Riddlemaster Trilogy
Song of Ice and Fire

I rarely re-read, because there's too many books I haven't managed to get to even once yet.

But exceptions:

LotR
First Chronicles
Red Moon and Black Mountain (Joy Chant)
The Sword of Shannara
First four Dark Tower novels
Both editions of The Stand, similar to a re-read

I reread everything because otherwise I'd have no place to keep all the books I would buy.

I cannot understand anyone who can't or doesn't like to reread books. It's like saying you can never watch a movie you already saw, or hear a song you already heard.

The only books I've managed to reread are The Catcher in the Rye and Ender's Game. Probably because they're both short and I enjoy them. Heh. Good combination.-jay

COTC 1st and 2nd (many times)
Dragonriders of Pern series (again, many times)

I've only read Dune once - that was enough

First 4 Harry Potters books re-read once.

Wayfriend, here's why I can re-watch a movie or re-listen to an album, but rarely re-read a book.

Because I can keep up with all the music I like to hear and I can keep up with all the films I want to see.

But I'm so far behind on all the books I want to read, that I'll never get to all of them even once. So I can't afford the time to re-read books.

I'm with duchess on re-reading for comfort. I have a "security shelf" and if I start feeling stressed i grab something off it and bury myself for a while. Everything else I reread just for fun.

Tam Lin by Pamela Dean
The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley
The Hero and the Crown by ditto
Mordant's Need by SRD
The Dark is Rising sequence by Susan Cooper
anything at all by Georgette Heyer (I know, I know, but I can't help it, and A. S. Byatt likes her too)
the Wimsey-Vane novels by Dorothy Sayers
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
Wives & Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell

Harry Potter
Thomas Covenant
LOTR
The Familias Regnant Novels
The Vorkosigan Saga
Curse of Challion and Paladin of Souls
Wind of War
War and Remembrance

Mind you, this is just a partial list of fiction.

i have only re read LotR, the Hobbit, Simarillian, 1st and 2nd chrons, the gunslinger

I reread everything I enjoy. For fun, and also because I battle to get my hands on enough books to keep me busy.

My very favourites, I read at least once or twice a year.

I'm with the major rereaders. Myste: Georgette Heyer for sure. Couldn't have gotten through my mother's surgery without her. The Gap and the 1st TC Chrons, many times. Last month I reread a lot of McCaffrey, since I had a rest period.

In the last 31 days:

McCaffrey:
DRAGONSINGER
THE DOLPHINS OF PERN
SASSINAK
Boris Raymond:
THE TWELFTH VULTURE OF ROMULUS

Been pretty busy since mid-March.

Roland of Gilead wrote:But I'm so far behind on all the books I want to read, that I'll never get to all of them even once. So I can't afford the time to re-read books.

I'm in the same boat, Roland ... so many great books, so precious little time to read them all. At the pace I am going ... I doubt I'll get to read even half of the books I have (and continu to buy, for some reason) before my time is up on this little planet of ours.

Maybe I just need to re-arrange/re-think my priorities to make more time to read.

i dunno no why, but i don't re-read books at all. The only book i re-read (which was actully read outloud to me when i was tiny) was harry potter 1-3 :b