What books have you read twice?

All of Mary Renault's Alexander trilogy, and her non fictional The Nature of Alexander. I greatly admire the depth of her knowledge of Alexander the Great and his campaigns and she really knows how to tell a good story. Always worth a re-read. Also her Theseus novels. Unputdownable!

The Bean Trees - Barbara Kingsolver - and most of her books

The Golden Notebook -Doris Lessing

I see this is an old thread but some topics will go on for ever like our reading.

angmhay I too have read Wuthering Heights many, many times but I've never counted. Also Alice in Wonderland, Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations to name some others. This year I reread 'To Kill a Mockingbird' before going to see the play in Manchester.

Wuthering Heights. From my first reading of it as a young girl, I have read it 13 times over the years!!!

Daffydil. What a pleasure to read of someone else who loves My Friends. There are 21 books altogether and I read all of them every year. The final one is called Letter From Reachfar. It is a collection of questions often asked of the author who gives comprehensive answers so that you know how much is autobiographical. I feel I know her intimately, and planned to write to her one day. I was sad to find that she died in the 70s. I quoted her at my Mother's funeral." That which we love we cannot lose." You have a lot of pleasure ahead. Enjoy.

Gosh!, I first read to kill a mockingbird as part of my English lessons at school and have always named that as one of my favourites I wonder how many of you read it at the same time?. My favourite reread books are the kite runner which I have read countless times and for easy going off to sleep reading I will always pick up a year in Provence or the olive grove both lovely peaceful books, the most memorable book to me though is a crack in forever which made me sob a beautiful book but I couldn't reread it as it really did upset me!

Brief Candles, Happy Returns, Come and Go and the Far Traveller all by Manning Coles. Light hearted, funny stories about a pair of ghosts. I read them when I was young and hunted for them in every second hand bookshop I could find, then discovered that they had been reprinted in USA with a different author's name.
Also The Roselynde Chronicles, Knights Honour and other history books by Roberta Gellis. I read the whole series every now and again and am swept back to the time of Richard the Lionheart.

I have read a lot, more than once,
Wuthering Heights
Gone with the Wind,
Animal Farm
Shane
Green Darkness
Wind in The Willows
Beatrix Potter
Winnie The Pooh
Alice in Wonderland, to name a few

Always re-read the classics have just finished yet again, Wuthering Heights, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Agnes Grey. Currently reading Mansfield Park. Will re-read any Charles Dickens and read his Christmas stories at said time.Love lots of modern novels but somehow find the classics comforting.

Oh Ariadne, I love the Women's Room and you have prompted me to re-read it (for maybe the 4th time?): yes, it certainly had impact on me the first time around. I also love 'The Long Weekend' by Robert Graves and Alan Hodge. It is a good thick book that documents the social history of the years between the 2 World Wars. It covers such a range of topics that there is something to interest everyone.

Another favourite (which speaks to my love of computers) is 'Accidental Empires' by Robert X. Cringley. It tells the story of the rise of MicroSoft and Apple and the characters behind two of the world's biggest companies. It is written in such a relaxed style I felt like I was learning while being entertained - always a good thing.

I recommend reading Diary of a Nobody by the Grossmiths more than once. It is even funnier the second, third or fourth time around. Sue Townsend's Adrian Mole books are excellent for reading more than once as well. I'm glad auntbett reminded me of Rumer Godden. I used to love her books when I was much younger, now I will read them again.

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.
Katherine by Anya Seyton.
I'm pleased to see that a lot of us have read Mockingbird! I love that book!

Anything by Anne Tyler or Rumer Godden. I just take any one at random and think I must have read most of them at least 2 or 3 times.

Years ago I read a series of novels by Jane Duncan with the title My Friend (followed by a name). I decided to re-read them a few years back and was disappointed to find they were out of print so I was pleased to find they have just been re-issued mainly I think for the e-book market and I have thoroughly enjoyed reading the first two and intend to read them all. They are available in paper back too at a price but at the usual Kindle prices.
Anyway I can recommend them to anyone looking for a good read.

I didn't realise this thread went back to 2013 until tonight nightowl

Mervyn Peake. And book three, Titus Alone, foreshadows the use of small drones as spy planes, if I remember correctly.

I forgot "The Gormanghast Trilogy" I read it twice before I started to enjoy. Sadly I've also forgotten who wrote it

Lovely to be reminded of all these books!! Re read ALL the What Katy Did books on my kindle last year; there are sequels which never reached UK! Little Women and it's sequels and March the book about Mr Carr and the Civil War...................I think we could all go on all night

Agree with much already offered - To Kill a Mockingbird, Jane Eyre, Great Expectations, all of Austen
Of recent authors, I loved Jane Gardam' trilogy Old Filth, the Man in the Wooden Hat and Last Friends - read them all and reread them again quite soon afterwards and thoroughly enjoyed (and gained from) the second reading. Saw Jane Gardam (now 88) with Penelope Lively at the Edinburgh Book Festival in August - brilliant.

The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker that won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction. Amazing book!

Also Agatha Christie and P G Wodehouse tho think I'm growing out of them now.! Reread some childrens classics like Katy series too and Children of the New Forest but didn't feel the same.

I Capture the Castle; and Miss Garnet's Angel more times than I can count.

I read Gone with the Wind under the Morrison shelter in 41. If I read it again I ll be listening for the enemy planes overhead!

all of Dickens, many times over, he is my Default go to
Trollop again many times
Winney the Pooh should be required annual reading for everybody over the age of four

Little women, good wives, joes boys and little men read and re read so many time
Plus watched the films. I love any romance or humerus
books as long as it's true to real life and not to fancy full