I’ve heard that many people reread books and I’ve never done it until now (I’m 40,F). I’m rereading Shantaram. I remembere how much I loved it when it first came out and I just got an intense wish to submerge into GDR’s world again. I have forgotten so many details and I’m absolutely enjoying reading it for the second time.
Which books have you picked up again?
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Not right now, but in a few weeks I’ll be re-reading the Harry Potter series (a little annual tradition of mine).
I mostly dip into my favourite books, rather than re-read them from cover to cover. _Judas Unchained_, by Peter F. Hamilton is an old favourite. I mostly re-read the chapters where Ozzie Isaacs and his friends follow the Silfen paths. _Wolf Hall_, by Hilary Mantel is also a favourite. I can open it at any page and find something of interest. I have no favourite chapters with this book.
Shantaraam, based out of my city – Mumbai! OP, you should visit.
I read the Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson at least once a year. It’s my emotional support series between the hard science and the dream of a utopian society (not a spoiler, it gets talked about from the beginning). Also re-read Harry Potter every few years and the Coldfire trilogy by C.S. Friedman because I just like their magic systems and they’re good books.
Once in a while I re-read Remarque. The older I get, the more interesting ideas and wisdoms I discover.
Currently reading Infinite Jest again
Currently rereading The Secret History as I’ve thought about rereading it every time I’ve picked up a new book since I finished it last year.
East of Eden
I loved the first half of Shantaram but then it started to bore the life out of me when I read it about 10 years ago – might give it another shot. Currently re reading The Goldfinch, and it’s just as good the second time round.
I am re-reading Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
I just finished rereading John Updike’s Rabbit series. The books definitely hit differently when you’re in your fifth decade than when you’re in college, when I first read them.
Most of them. 25-50% of the books I read are rereads.
I don’t reread very much. I will pick up Moby Dick every so often (3-4 years). I recently re-read Book of the New Sun to readalong with a podcast that is analyzing it. I am thinking of re-reading Brothers Karamazov sometime in the next year or so since, as I did not really enjoy it upon my initial read a decade ago (despite enjoying other Dostoevsky novels) and think that maybe I just need to try a different translation.
I’m waiting for a copy of Elantris by Brandon Sanderson to pop up at my library. I kinda want to do a full Sanderson re read but I’ve got too many books I haven’t read on my wishlist. Maybe next year.
Shōgun by Clavell. I read it more than 20 years ago. Got on a Kindle sale recently but opted to subscribe to Audible and listen while I exercise.
I started rereads this year for the first time.
There are some series I have only read thr first part of a long time ago and never had thr chance to read their sequels. So this year I reread them and thank I continued to the sequels.
First I’ve reread Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (then I jumped to Through the Looking glass).
Now I’m rereading Metro 2033 before I can continue with it’s sequels (Metro 2034 and Metro 2035).
When I’m done, I’m planning to reread the first Dune than continue with it’s sequels.
I like to re-read Jane Eyre every few years because it’s one of my favorite books. I’ve also started listening to audio books of other books I’ve read to experience them in a new way. I’ve done that with Persuasion by Jane Austen as well as Pet Sematary and The Shining by Stephen King.
I plan on re-reading The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings this holiday season.
Currently rereading Brave New World with my husband – it’s his first time, actually. So it’s been really fun.
Also have a couple of my teenage favorites going. Rereading the Wicca/Sweep series by Cate Tiernan, and the Everworld series by K. A. Applegate.
Either The Great Gasby or LOTR
I don’t reread books as much as I would like (a few favorites have been read multiple times) but recently I realized I’ve read so many books and i forget so much from them even ones I really enjoyed which makes me a bit sad.
I have not started it yet but I recently bought All quiet on the Western Front after watching the latest movie and I want to reread that again. I was not really satisfied with the movie but I did love the book.
Just reread Jeffrey Archer’s “Kane and Able.” Last week I reread East of Eden.
The *Red Rising* series, getting ready for *Lightbringer*.
Redwall series
Currently rereading The Expanse, in audiobook form this time. Highly recommend
Ulysses. I understand more of it and can follow it much better now, but I still get very little.
Go e with the Wind is my favorite book. I have read it 4 or 5 times. Other books I have re-read: John Dies at the End, Pillars of the Earth, and Tale of Two Cities. Maybe Outlander book 1 also but I don’t remember.
This year I reread Jane Eyre with a group, for calling it one of my favorites I don’t read it enough. I also reread all of V.E. Schwab’s Shades of Magic series for tomorrow’s new release. I’m a mood reader so I’m sure something will strike my mood for a reread in Fall for cozy reading time.
Rereading The Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb. I’ve always said it’s my favourite series, but I’ve never actually reread it. I’m so surprised to find myself loving it, maybe even more than the first time I read it.
*The Shipping News*, by E. Annie Proulx. It’s complex enough that you can read the characters in various lights and sympathize with them in different ways each time you read it. The first reading was before I had children and was in a happy relationship, so I felt sorrow for Quoyle. Now, as a parent and in an unhappy relationship, I feel kinship to the man.
*The Shining*, by Stephen King. I read it as straight horror when I was a teenager, but when I learned that King meant it as a metaphor for alcoholism, I reread it in that light; my father died young from alcohol addiction, and my mother is a functional alcoholic. The book hits differently and is a form of self-therapy.
The entire Dark Tower Series . Finally reached BoOK 8 ( marked 7 because Stephen king snuck in The wind in the keyhole after publishing the series !)
Well I’m rereading Twilight. And it’s still silly but fun.
This has been a bit of a rereading year for me. Currently on A Gentleman in Moscow
Rereading Nevil Shute’s books—just finished On the Beach for the 3rd time and I feel like I get something new out of it every time. I tend to read too fast because I want to know what happens so rereading is a necessity for me so that I catch stuff I might have overlooked the first read-through, or pick up on specific sentences that hit different once you know the ending.
Just finished round 2 of The Wheel of Time.
I re-read books all the time. It’s probably becuase I ha e such a bad memory that I can’t remember what happens. It’s a bit sad but I save alot of money on books! Re-reading Walden right now, halfway through and I am slowly remembering that I dont really enjoy it as much as I had hoped. Writing is a bit too poetic and superfluous for my tastes. The man had some interesting thoughts though. I guess that’s what happens when the mind has time and space to wander.
I love rereading books. It’s like slipping into a warm bath while visiting an old friend that makes you soup and cookies…. that sounds weirder than I meant. But anyway, this Christmas I plan on revisiting “The Golem and the Jinni” It’s so beautifully written and wholesome and everything wonderful for a cozy winter day. Synopsis below
Chava is a golem, a creature made of clay, brought to life by a disgraced rabbi who dabbles in dark Kabbalistic magic, created to be the wife of a man who dies at sea on the voyage from Poland. Chava is unmoored and adrift as the ship arrives in New York harbor in 1899.
Ahmad is a jinni, a being of fire born in the ancient Syrian desert, trapped in an old copper flask, and released in New York City, though still not entirely free.
Ahmad and Chava become unlikely friends and soul mates with a mystical connection. Marvelous and compulsively readable, Helene Wecker’s debut novel The Golem and the Jinni weaves strands of Yiddish and Middle Eastern literature, historical fiction and magical fable, into a wondrously inventive and unforgettable tale.
I’ve been re-eeading The Master and Margarita several times in different languages. One of my favorite books
Animal farm
It’s my poison almost
Nothing currently, but I’ve read Stephen King’s “The Shining” 3 times over my lifetime (42yo M). There is something about that book that is amazing. I both want to and don’t want to live in that hotel.
In my 40s, I re-read all the classics I was forced to read in high school and didn’t enjoy.
In my 60s, I’m re-reading childhood favorites.
I should reread it again soon, but I’ve read The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy 3 times now. It’s my comfort blanket (towel?) of a novel. It’s so clever and hilarious, it’ll forever give me the warm and fuzzies.
I haven’t reread a ton of books (maybe only 2 or 3 ever?) But these are a few books on my “to be re-read” list:
Catch-22, Joseph Heller
The Garden of Small Beginnings, Abbi Waxman
Recursion, Blake Crouch
Lily and the Octopus, Stephen Rowley
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, V. E. Schwab
The Secret History, Donna Tartt (I actually just read this one but it’s in my re-read pile)
The Princess Bride, William Goldman
The Neverending Story, Michael Ende
I’m 40(M) and I started to reread books I read when I was around 20ish years old. Wanted to see if my opinions changed now that I’m older. Started with a few Kerouac’s and right now I’m reading Lord of the Flies.
I reread “the very hungry caterpillar” about 5 times a day.
I have a two year old.
Just finished rereading all of Lord of the Rings. It gets better each time
What a coincidence, I literally restarted a book a couple of hours ago and I rarely do this.
I decided to do it because I realised that for years I wasn’t enjoying certain books as much as I could have because I read right before bed when my mind was too tired to focus and allow me to lose myself in a book. I’ve now realised I can enjoy books way more with a fresh mind. It sounds so trivial but it took me ages to figure this out.
The book I’m rereading is The Left Hand Of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin
On the topic of Shantaram, my partner (who is a non-reader) made her way through a quarter of that book before getting distracted and never to return to it.
And testament to her saying she enjoyed it and wanting to finish it, she carries it everywhere we go (holidays, moving house, to work, everywhere), that its now becoming a running joke – “have you got your keys, wallet, Shantaram?” etc.
And it’s a bloody big book.