What books have you read twice?

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.

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.

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.

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'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.

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 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 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.

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!

It had the same impact on me Ariadne.

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.

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.

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

'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.

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!

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

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

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!

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

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.

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!

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.

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

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

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