quick question. Are there any books you love so much you re-read them every couple of years? Catch-22 is like that for me.

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“quick question. Are there any books you love so much you re-read them every couple of years? Catch-22 is like that for me.”

June 15 at 4:33 am - Link

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"I'm working on that", "The Sum of all Fears" and "Contact" - Kunal Malhotra via twhirl

Ulysses by James Joyce. I have read it and then used it as a travel guide on my journeys to Dublin. - Baard Overgaard Hansen

"Foucault's Pendulum" - Marc Dierens

J.D. Salinger - "Franny and Zooey", "For Esmé with Love and Squalor", and "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction". - Bryan Landers

Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand - Greg via twhirl

"The 7 Habits", one of Tom Clancy's books, "Captain Corelli's Mandolin", "Enigima" - Roberto Bonini

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis. Keeps everything real. - David Bausola via twhirl

Shogun by James Clarvell - read it at once a year- been doing it from about 87 :)- - Peter Dawson

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. - Timo Heuer

Pride and Prejudice - Mary Anne Davis

The Stranger, Albert Camus - Pedro Fonseca

Definitely "1984" - Jeremy Felt

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini - Dan Barrett via twhirl

Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America http://www.amazon.com/Funny-Fa... - alireza

yellow wallpaper (charlotte perkins gillman), my life and hard times (thurber, hillarious) mark twain and o henry essays/stories - washwords via twhirl

Dune - Doruk

"Nothing, and so be it" by Oriana Fallaci can't help re-reading it almost once every year ...besides a few other titles by her - Selma

Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, http://books.google.com/books?... - Dave Winer

Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy" by Carl Shapiro and Hal Varian (1998) - Yung-Hui Lim

"The Innocents Abroad" by Mark Twain - caleb phillips via Alert Thingy

Still life with Woodpecker, Tom Robbins, for me. - Zio Bonino

Hackers by Levy, The Marketplace by Antinou, Atlas Shrugged by Rand, a whole bunch of short Sci-Fi I read for fun... my reading mix is a bout 15% re-reads - Soulhuntre via twhirl

Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis - Rubin Sfadj via twhirl

Billy Budd by Herman Melville and Leadership by James MacGregor Burns - petermello via Alert Thingy

Anna Karenina by Lev Tolstoï - directeur

the alexandria quartet by durrell - ryan via fftogo

Skinny Legs and All - Tom Robbins. - Jack Baty

The Guns of August by Tuchman - Tim Wright

A Dance to the Music of Time - Anthony Powell - Edd Dumbill via twhirl

Godfather - Kfir Pravda via twhirl

and "story" - Kfir Pravda via twhirl

I don't usually read books twice. Exceptions: Vonnegut's Player Piano, Heinlein's Stranger In A Strange Land. - AJ Kohn

Plutarch's Life of Alexander The Great (Loeb Edition, parallel translation) - Phil Gomes

"To Kill a Mockingbird", "The Grapes of Wrath", & Stephen King's "The Stand" - Steve

"Leaves of Grass" by Walt Whitman - Sean McBride

Pride and Prejudice, Wrinkle In Time Trilogy, Atlas Shrugged - Chinkerfly via twhirl

American Gods by Neil Gaiman - Thomas B

Several actually. "Lord of the Rings", "The Foundation" Trilogy, "The Alchemist", Lots of Wodehouse and Oscar Wilde - Deepak

'new' books I may read again: Stephenson's Cryptonomicon, Atwood's Blind Assassin and Mitchell's Cloud Atlas (a must read). - AJ Kohn

Metamagical Themas by Douglas Hofstadter, 3 times so far and I still don't grasp half of it. - Jack Carlson

I don't regularly read books twice but this is a great list of reads. - Ole Begemann

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck - Peter Stathakos

I have Ian Fleming's James Bond series that I have to re-read every so often. - William Beem

Christine, The Shining, and Pet Sematary; though since my daughter was born (2yrs ago) i really haven't read anything... - Jeremiah Palmer via twhirl

Midnight's Children - amazing the plot Rushdie weaves in that book - Rishabh Manocha via twhirl

W. Somerset Maugham's "The Razor's Edge." - Christopher Harley

Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Oh and Cricket in Times Square! - Chris Ridenour

Robert Jordan's Wheel Of Time series. He wrote 11 books before he died and there's a ghost-writer working on finishing the last book in the series. It's like Tolkien without the provincial thinking or petty chauvinism but with a dash of the Manichean heresy - Adewale Oshineye

Patrick O'Brian's "Master and Commander" series of sailing books... - Glen Campbell

The Deep Space Nine - Millenium trilogy is quite high on my list of books I like to read every couple of years. - Horst Gutmann

if the book is a resident on my shelf there is a strong chance I've read it multiple times and will do so, if I have nothing else to read, I'll simply grab one... the one book that I read the most is probably Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card.... - nick carrasco

Many! William Gibson’s “Neuromancer” is a silly book which I keep coming back to. “The Gorilla Game” with Moore, Johnson, and Kippola is another. - ivanandersson via Alert Thingy

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell - always makes me want to go out and change the world. - Peter Dean

The Stand, E. T., Gone With The Wind, I'm With The Band, Helter Skelter, On The Night You Were Born, Thirteen Days. - Michelle Trent

animal farm. Simple and short read but it is such an amazing commentary on life and power that I read it every few years. - Pedram

Hate to do a "me too", but Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Player Piano. Also Fahrenheit 451. - Joanmarie

J.D. Salinger's "Nine Stories" and "Franny and Zooey", Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy, and Tad Williams' Otherland series - Michael W. May via twhirl

Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin. Beautiful. Inspiring. Makes me miss NYC so much. - Abby Martin

I second the asimov foundation trilogy, never get's old - Chris Jones

Hitchhiker's guide to the gallaxy - Douglas Adams - Siddharth Mitra

sun tzu - the art of war - Gautham Gauruv Maediratta

dune - ahmet bulent

Confederacy of Dunces. As a native New Orleanian, it captures the city perfectly. - Eddie LeBreton