Novels worth reading more than twice.

Dead Souls
The Diary of a Nobody
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series

if you enjoyed a book first time around, then it’s worth re-reading again at some point. It doesn’t matter if it’s ‘worthy’ or not.

Pretty much all Russian classics - I would pick Master and Margarita, Brothers Karamazov, the Idiot, Anna Karenina, Fathers and Sons. I personally avoid Crime and Punishment, but my DH loves it dearly.

Then I would go for ones I read in childhood - Gone with the Wind, Where angels fear to Tread, White Nights, Emma, Pride and Prejudice, the Dog's heart, Dostoyevsky's Demons.

Going well into childhood (9-12 years) - I like to re-read Frankenstein, Little Women and Prof. Doyle's Head.

I have read the following books more than once;

Lolita - Nabokov
Prep - Curtis Sittenfeld
Catcher in the Rye - Salinger
The Snow Goose - Paul Gallico

I read Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow recently, and want to read it again.

Persuasion (and other Austen novels but I get the most out of re-reading Persuasion) Cold Comfort Farm. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt. PG Wodehouse.

Interview with the Vampire (rereading due to the TV show, gorgeous lush writing)
A River Runs Through It
Perfume
The Persian Boy
The Talented Mr Ripley
The Road

All Agatha Christies.

I don't tend to read anything published post 1980 tbh.

I re-read Watership Down many times as a child. So much so that I never wanted to see the film because the characters in the book were so familiar to me that I didn't want someone else's imagining of them to blot out mine.

I also re-read The Shipping News a couple of times. Drawn to do so again now actually. Also never wanted to see the film for the same reasons above.

Many already mentioned here but I must add to the mix several Bill Brysons - more his travel books although the Thunderbolt Kid is great too. Also Dreamland by Rosa Rankin Gee, The Wall and several other post apocalyptic novels. Fuck knows why I like them so much - in a real apocalypse I'd be one of the first to be picked off by zombies!

I read this as a teen and never forgot it it made a huge impression on me

@Regalia the real Charlotte ! I also love the Irish RM - really makes me laugh

We need to talk about Kevin

A little life
The hearts invisible furies
To kill a mockingbird
Where the crawdads sing
Les Miserables

Most Stephen king novels
J.R. Tolkien
C.S.Lewis

Charles Dickens' The Pickwick Papers. Still makes me laugh out loud, and fill up too. Must have read it a dozen times. Also have the audiobook read by Patrick Tull. Also Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, preferably a bit modernised, but not too much. Especially the Merchant's Tale and The Nun's Priest's Tale.

The second time was with a mumsnet readalong which made it worth the effort!

In no order — Villette (C Bronte), The Fountain Overflows trilogy (West) The Real Charlotte (Somerville and Ross), Le rouge et le noir (Stendhal), All My Puny Sorrows (M Toews), Ulysses (Joyce), all of Antonia Forest, Gaudy Night and Murder Must Adveryise (Sayers),The Last September (E Bowen), The Golden Bowl (H James), The Gathering (Enright), Seven Gothic Tales (Isak Dinesen), Family Sayings, Natalia Ginzburg,The Gate (Szabo) Tales of Bective Bridge (M Lavin), The Age of Innocence (Wharton), L’amant (Duras), Juliet Barker’s Bronte group biography, Wolf Hall trilogy (Mantel), Woolf’s journals and Mrs Dalloway, The Flower of May ( K O’Brien), Conversations with Friends (S Rooney), A Month in the Country (Carr).

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Rumer Godden's In This House of Brede. Every older version of me finds something new in it.

I have a terrible memory so I could probably read lots of books several times without realising. I have reread War and Peace and Anna Karenina and there was so much I'd forgotten.

Some books I re-read for the sheer beauty of the language:

Anthony Burgess: Nothing Like the Sun
Evelyn Waugh: Brideshead Revisited
P. G. Wodehouse: Right Ho Jeeves
Anita Brookner: Hotel Du Lac
Aldous Huxley: Crome Yellow
Oscar Wilde: Dorian Gray
Virginia Woolf: Orlando
The poetry of Larkin and T. S. Eliot

Some I re-read for comfort

Sherlock Holmes
Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
The Narnia books
The Wind in the Willows
Kipling: Just So Stories

Some I re-read for the author's company. There are certain writers whose personality comes through so strongly that each time I pick them up I feel like the author is there in the room:

Patrick Fermor: A Time of Gifts
Robert Graves: Goodbye to all That
Dickens: David Copperfield
Bertrand Russell: Autobiography
Douglas Adams: Hitchhiker's Guide and also his non-fiction

Some I re-read for intellectual stimulation/sense of wonder

Carl Sagan: Cosmos
Aldous Huxley: Point Counter Point (and his essays)
Harold Bloom: The Western Canon
Bill Bryson: Short History of Nearly Everything

There are lots of novels I've read once but plan to re-read. I certainly want to re-read Middlemarch, and also Henry James' Portrait of a Lady. In fact, with novels like that I don't think you have read them until you've re-read them.

The Color Purple - I had to read for A level English and loved it. Read it a couple of times since.

Captain Correlis Mandolin - I get something new from it each time.
I have recently re-read The Handmaids Tale as I wanted to read the follow up - I originally read it in the 1990s.
The Elizabeth Stroud books about the main protagonist Lucy I read twice - they were so good first time round I wanted to read them again to savour them next time round.

Vanity Fair
Pride and Prejudice
Wolf Hall
House on the Strand
Jane Casey Maeve Kerrigan books

I've read The Tricksters by Margaret Mahy countless times. It gets to the heart of what it's like to be a teenage girl but later you read it for the family dynamics.

And I've read A Month in the Country lots of times because it's so beautiful and because I always feel like it might end differently.

Austen, Cold Comfort Farm, but my all-time comfort read is Vanity Fair, I re-read it every couple of years... If I have to go to hospital or on a scary trip, that's what I take to ground myself. Much as Flora Poste takes the Abbe de Fausse-Maigre's Pensees, in fact...

11.22.63 by Stephen king I urge you to read for a really great story