What books have you read twice?

As a child, I read Anne of Green Gables many times, also What Katy Did and Little Women - loved them. As an adult A Town Like Alice and How Green Was my Valley, and not forgetting, Gone With the Wind. Like many of you, I have a book on the go at all times, enjoying Douglas Kennedy, Nicki Gerrard and many more, but don't tend to re-read any these days. Too many others to read!

'The Island' Victoria Hislop. I had read this book twice when our son and daughter-in-law asked us to join them in a trip to Crete two years ago. We stayed in a small boutique hotel (which, I admit, we would never have chosen ourselves, but it was perfect). Our room overlooked 'Spinalonga', the last Europen leper colony, which closed in 1957. If you've read the book you will know exactly the view we had and the process for accepting new patients onto the island.
We walked to the next village where the boats set off to take new people onto the island. We went across on the ferry and were dropped off exactly as it would have happened, walked through the grant stone arch, saw the original massive room where new inmates would be screened (and disinfected) before being allocated a room/bed on the island.
Right from getting on the ferry, up to the time we came back, the hairs on the back of my neck stood up; it was one of the most emotional experiences I've ever had.
I could go on even more, but, read the book, and if you ever have the opportunity to go to Crete, think about the Leper colony, read the book, and share it with others.

All of Jane Austen
Middlemarch (several times)
I capture the castle
The leopard

Too many to list but Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm I've re-read since childhood, I wouldn't part with my copy.

At the moment I'm reading Maeve Binchy's books again.

Like Cosafina I'll be trawling thru the posts to try out some authors I haven't read before.

I have read Lark Rise to Candleford about 10 times, likewise all of Caro Frazers books especially the 'Caper Court' series. I have also read all of Miss Reads books many many times also Cider with Rose by Laurie Lee.
Another author I love is Sarah Challis, 'The Lonely Dessert' especially I have read about 5 times. My most recent favourite is Rosamund Pilchers 'Winter Solstice' and 'The Shell seekers, September and others all read about 5 times or more.
I just love reading a book that I like, over and over again.

It had the same impact on me Ariadne.

Oh, you clever lot. I've been trying to remember which ones I've read more than once, but my memory is so bad I haven't a clue. I get them out of the library you see. Sometimes the plot seems sort of familiar - but it doesn't matter as I can never remember the ending!

The Far Pavilions by MM Kaye. A wonderful story which transported me in my early 20's when life was difficult. I remember sobbing when I finished it! Have re-read twice since and still love it.

I love rereading my books. My particular favourite novelists are Anita Shreve (I love The Pilot's Wife), Joanna Trollope, Kate Atkinson, Maggie O'Farrell and Helen Dunmore. I can highly recommend a recent new read The Farm by Tom Rob Smith. Not my usual style but I thoroughly enjoyed it and have already consumed it twice!

The Clan of the Cave Bear. By Jean M. Auel
The Valley of Horses. By Jean M. Auel
The Mammoth Hunters. By Jean M. Auel
The Plains of Passage. By Jean M. Auel
The Shelters of Stone. By Jean M. Auel
The Land of Painted Caves. By Jean M. Auel

She only wrote six books and I re read them every couple of years.

i'm constantly re-reading a good 90% of my books. i think i've read most of that 90% at least six times and i fully intend reading them again and again.
when sir terry pratchett died earlier this year i started reading the series right from the start and am now waiting for his last book to come out in paperback.
i do like a series of books by favourite authors and, when i know another book is due, i start reading the series right from the start so i can get the best out of the new book.

I am a chronic re-reader. Easier to say which ones I haven't!

However these are among the most frequently picked up.

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
All of James Villas's food writing volumes.
MK Fisher- all of them.
Calvin Trillin- all of them
Bailey White- all of her books (LOVE LOVE LOVE HER)
Swamplandia by Karen Russell
American Ghosts by Janis Owen

The What Katy Did series
Darling Buds of May by HE Bates, likewise his Walk in the Woods
All of Michael Lee Wests books, both fiction and food memoir.
American Pie by Pascale Le Draoulec
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty (a recent read)
The Undertakers Daughter by Kate Mayfield (a recent read)
Roger Deakin- all of them
Mark Cocker's Crow Country
Most of Richard Mabey / Lewis Stempel's landscape writing.

Fannie Flagg's Never Get to Heaven - heartwarming, easy to read.
The Ya Ya Sisterhood trilogy by Rebecca Wells (not as fluffy as the film!)
Sons and Lovers by Lawrence
The Cornbread Nation southern food writing anthologies
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Nan Graham's short stories and anthologies of memoir-lite
The Never Open Desert Diner by James Anderson (a new discovery)
Carsick by John Waters

I've read The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini a couple of times and will do so again.

It really opened my eyes to life in Afghanistan.

Also read 101 Dalmatians at least eight times as it was my son's all time favorite book at bedtime. Hope to read it to my granddaughter soon.

Reread many classics including Rebecca, Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice, Little Women and its sequels, all books I had read as a teenager and wanted to revisit.
In the last 10 years I found Diane Gabaldon and the Outlander series of 8 magnificent books, book 9 being written at the moment. She transported me to another world and I have re-read all books 3 times in order. The detail in the books means you find something new every read and the characters have recently been brought vividly to life in the TV series, shown on Amazon Prime. If you have t heard of these books, look them up on Amazon- you won't be disappointed.

The Cider House Rules by John Irving
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr

Although I haven't re-read it yet (lent it to DD who promptly lost it) I'd also go for The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver.

Looking forward to combing through all the posts here for reading suggestions! I enjoyed the Kate Morton that someone on here asked about recently, and have just finished another Jodi Picoult before moving on to Wolf Hall.

Kate Mosse- Labyrinth, Sepulcre, Citadel/ Ken Follet- Pillars of the Earth; Many of Patricia Cornwell's - Im one of those people who love to re-read books and watch films time and again (as well as reading and viewing new ones). Some people just don't like doing this but I do.

If I had to write a list it would probably crash the internet - I rarely only read a book once , you get so much more form a second & subsequent reading.

You'dbe better off asking me what books I've only read once

I still haven't re-read the Women's Room littlemissactive despite my 2013 post saying I would . But Bleeding Heart I find heartbreaking. It raised all sorts of questions for me when I first read it, and it still resonates in all sorts of ways.

Ariadne and night owl I still have my original copy of The Women's room and Bleeding heart. You've given me a nudge to read them again.

Stansgran

We are lucky with 3 retirement homes nearby, with discerning readers, so the books come to the local charity shops@ £1 a pop.

I rarely buy new now, but Matthew Fort writes well on food in Sicily was bought online

If I re-read all the books I have enjoyed, would I have time to read all the new ones just waiting to be devoured?

I posted but everything shut down and disappeared. Thank you very much for that I'm off to google and order. You are very kind. I like MollyKaye and met her sister here as I believe they were family friends of a local GP . I also like Rumer Godden. She grew up in India.

Stansgran

Its On Persephone's island: by Mary taylor Simetti, an a 'Merican who married an Italian.

I too loved it and we went to Sicily as a result, lovely place..

To revert to OP I have recentlly re read Molly Kaye trilogy on her childhood in India.

I have a set of them here and a set in India, the time of the Raj on which may of her stories are set

Leaving aside the children's books, I often go back to books I've read before. I've just re-read all of the Dorothy Sayers mysteries and last year it was all of Marjorie (sp?) Allingham. Now I'm on Ngaio Marsh. Apart from the ones I read every year, Austen, Dickens, Jane Eyre, The Mill on the Floss. I'm very fond of Vanity Fair as well. And most of Bennan's list as well!

When I read Black Beauty or Goodnight Mr Tom to my children (or grandson), I still found it difficult to read through the tears.