Novels worth reading more than twice.

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I'm currently rereading a book from my childhood "Little Katia" by E M Almedingen which I've read perhaps 20 times. I love the feeling of rereading but I've only read a very few novels more than twice. I've properly read Jane Eyre 9 times and Day of the Trifids about 5. Some Jane Austen I've read 3 times, as well as all the Sherlock Holmes stories and Robinson Crusoe. These are all books I first read as a child. Now I'm looking to expand my repertoire.

Which novels are worthy of multiple rereads?

Thank you everyone, I've got some great ideas and will be starting with A Month in the Country. I'm very impressed with @Nothingeverything but personally I think once is enough for W&P!

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

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.

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

We need to talk about Kevin

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

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

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 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.

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.

@Carouselfish OMG how could you read The Road more than once? When I read it, I really could not stop listening and had to finish it in one go. I was exhausted and never 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.

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.

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.

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.

Middlemarch, War and Peace, Dance to the Music of Time, What I Loved by Siri Hustdvedt, Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner. All of Doris Lessing. Rebecca West The Fountain Overflows and the rest of that trilogy.

I had completely forgotten about The Month in the Country and have just ordered it.

Wally Lamb's She's Come Undone I've read probably three times. I've read and reread all of Armistead Maupin's Tales of The City series and I've just read A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth got the second time.

The Wolf Hall trilogy. I've read the books three times so far and learn something new at each re-reading.

I'm following for inspiration and in awe.

I cannot do it. I've always wondered about this. My brain sort of rejects it. I read a great deal. Two or three books a week. Always have done. If I start something I have read before, it makes me almost panic and I have to stop.

Weirdo yes.

I couldn't tell you about a book now, but if I started it it's like it zooms back into my brain.

Great thread idea.

Agree with Tales of the City

Also Wuthering Heights and all Dickens.

@hari27 weirdly similar here. I've read most of these books, but only once!

Ahem Jilly Cooper's polo and rivals are probably the books I've re read most when a bit down or sick.

@robovacsareepic I am not alone!

Same with anything. It's so strange. You could give me a book with cover hidden and I would either read it or start to feel stressed

Perfume was a great shout!
Any Jack London
Any Sarah Waters
How about The Clan of the Cave Bear series?

A Prayer for Owen Meany. So good.

Revations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich. I also love listening to the audio book read by David Barnes on Librivox. He has such a gentle voice.

The Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis. Also lovely to listen to. Also David Barnes, I think.

The Woman in White
Rebecca
Any Anita Brookner