The Novel you read the most...

[23skidoo]

There are several books I've returned to multiple times. I usually re-read The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson once every 5 years because I always pick up new things each time.

Shogun by James Clavell I have read several times now and it's an oddity because it's such a massive book, yet I can often read it in less than a week if I'm not too busy with work.

I have read the Harry Potter series twice and am looking to do so again next year.

I've also read the Ian Fleming James Bond canon cover-to-cover twice, with some individual books like From Russia with Love being read more than once.

Other than that, 1984 by Orwell is another book I return to occasionally.

I've got a few other books that I haven't read in going in 25 years in some cases that I'm thinking of revisiting.

Alex

 

[Kirby]

I typically don't re-read fiction, but I have read Lawrence Block's The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams a couple of times to get the narrative feel for a story I was writing at the time.

 

[John Clark]

Dune is high on the list, but I've probably read some of the Honorverse books by David Weber and some of the earlier Tom Clancy novels more.

 

[Admiral2]

Most books by Tom Clancy, but especially Red October, Cardinal of the Kremlin, Debt Of Honor and Rainbow Six.

 

[nvek86]

Probably one of Tolkien's books or Adams'. I can't think of any others I read more than twice, as others have said there are too many books out there to read.

 

[J.T.B.]

There are too many unread books out there for me to do a lot of re-reading, but here are a few that I have to revisit every few years:

Huckleberry Finn
Moby Dick
Lord Jim
Catch-22
The Grapes of Wrath



Justin

 

[Harvey]

Hard to say. Probably Arthur C. Clarke's 2010: Odyssey Two, although I haven't re-read a lot of fiction.

 

[Starbreaker]

I've read Orion by Ben Bova and Dune twice. That's really about it.

 

[cardinal biggles]

Walter M. Miller Jr.'s A Canticle for Leibowitz, and Peter David's TNG novels Vendetta, Q-in-Law, and Q-Squared.

 

[monodox]

'Moonseed' by Stephen Baxter - a well thought out 'end of the world' novel with a number of set pieces that put Roland Emmerich to shame.

 

[Gov Kodos]

'The Lord of the Rings' it is a joy, along with the Silmarilion. The other is 'The Count of Monte Cristo' I first read it in an abridged French edition in high school French class and have loved it ever sense. Edmond dante's story is filled with hubris, pathos, heroism and human frailty and goodness that it is a joy to revisit.

 

[cultcross]

A Christmas Carol - I re-read it annually around now, it is one of my favourite books and I have a copy my grandmother was given as a child in 1917.

 

[Kail]

Two that come to mind are "Before they were Beatles", and "All for the Union" by Elisha Hunt Rhodes. I'm read them both many times, and love them both, but for different reasons.

 

[Theodore Jay Miller]

I've re-read Replay, by Ken Grimwood, a number of times.

 

[indianatrekker26]

A Christmas Carol - I re-read it annually around now, it is one of my favourite books and I have a copy my grandmother was given as a child in 1917.

I read that every christmas eve night before going to bed. It's a quick, classic little read perfect for every christmas eve.

I also read the star wars Zahn trilogy quite a bit every year. Just like re-watching the movies all the time.

 

[Ometiklan]

Normally, I am a sci-fi guy, but the novel I have read the most is easily "The Deed of Paksenarrion". I tend to read it about once a year when I am looking for an awesome fiction read in between slower historical or political fare (and I generally will also read "Surrender None" every couple of years).

As for sci-fi, Dune is probably the top of the list of re-reads, though the Space marines trilogy (the first 3 books of the bigger series) by Ian Douglas is an occasional revisit.

 

[C. Cole-Chakotay]

I've re-read the Left Behind series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins several times. I don't have any particular book I go back to on a regular basis.

 

[trekkiebaggio]

The Odyssey. I read it about five times in a few years, but I haven't picked it up for a while.

 

[HighteeHeller]

I re-read books quite a bit, and then read them again.

Dune is in the first spot, ive read them every couple years for the last 20 years.
The Rama series comes in at a pretty close second, followed by The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Mary Stewart's King Arthur series, and many more that ive read more then a handful of times, but not as many as the above.

Hmm, might be ready for a Rama re-read. Just finished the Dexter books, and have nothing on the go right now.

 

[Shurik]

I've read Mikhail Bulgakov's "A Dog's Heart" and "Master and Margarita" more times than I can count, same goes to several other Russian classics.
When I was a kid, I used to re-read stuff by H.G. Wells, Jules Verne, Robert Louis Stevenson and Arthur Conan Doyle a lot, because those were about the only serious early sci-fi/adventure books I could find in a local library.