Favourite books you've read more than once?

[Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant']

Name up to five books that you've read more than once (for pleasure / because you like them, not because it was necessary for school or what have you).

Mine are -

The Wasp Factory - Ian Banks

Choke - Chuck Palahnuik

American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis

[NoOneIsIllegal]

"A People's History of the United States"

"A People's History of the World"

"Anarchism and the City"

[Deicide]

The Communist Manifesto.. I've got that shit pretty much memorised. It's a classic.

A few others are ''Manufacturing Consent'' by Chomsky, ''Anna Karenina'' by Tolstoy and ''The Castle'' by Kafka. I've also read ''Candide'' by Voltaire several times. And then there's a few Lithuanian books, which most of you have probably never heard of, so I'll omit them.

Although I'm not a big fan of fiction, but Kafka and Tolstoy are geniuses, so they're an exception. I mostly read academic jargon.

[bricolage]

everything is illuminated

[l'Enfermé]

Well besides Socialist/Leftist literature, and some philosophy, I really enjoy re-reading Russian classics. Mostly Dostoevsky, his entire body of work. But usually I have no time for that.

[Drowzy_Shooter]

A book called blue fingers. It was about this kid who became a ninja. I like to say that it's the book that got me in to reading.

[AdamWebster]

Well I was brought up with Harry Potter, so I've read them multiple times each :P
And books by Terry Pratchett are always fun enough to go through several times each

[RedSonRising]

I've read the Lord of the Rings about 3 or 4 times, as a teen. Not sure how I did that.

[TheGodlessUtopian]

I am not a big fan of re-reading books since I always have other books to read... but, I have read The Seventh Tower a couple times; great teen book!

[Landsharks eat metal]

Catch-22 I have probably read at least 20 times now
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy not quite as many times.
With both of these books I'm still noticing new things every time I read them.

[Prometeo liberado]

Trinity by Leon Uris. Made me pick up my shit and go to Ireland.

[x359594]

Over the last 40 years I've re-read Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg, The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac, Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell, Gasoline by Gregory Corso and Living My Life by Emma Goldman.

[Ethics Gradient, Traitor For All Ages]

I also have a hard time rereading books since I have a continuous stack of new books I want to read but I must have read Darkness At Noon about 10 times. The dialogue between Rubashov and Ivanov always moved me.

[Franz Fanonipants]

Blood Meridian is a book i reread every year

[Book O'Dead]

By Ursula Le Guin: Lathe of Heaven, The Dispossessed
By John Fowles: The French Lieutenant's Woman, The Magus, A Maggot

Just to name a few.

[Os Cangaceiros]

I read "The BFG" by Roald Dahl probably about 10 times as a kid.

[Os Cangaceiros]

Actually I think that I re-read almost all the Dahl books that I've read. He's probably my favorite fiction author.

[Ostrinski]

The Bible

Huey Newton's Autobio

I generally don't re-read books. If I need information from one and can't find it I'll look it up online.

[smellincoffee]

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis by Max Shulman is a battered old favorite. It's a collection of short stories about a guy named Dobie, generally introduced as a college freshman, and which lampoon college life in the 1940s. Dobie's interests vary on the story, but he's a smart-ass intellectual whose mouth and eye for the ladies get him into trouble time and again. I like his pretensions.

The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life Makes it Hard to be Happy is one I've read three times since buying it last year. Yeah -- three readings in one year. It's that kind of book for me. James Howard Kunstler's The Geography of Nowhere is similar.

[My copy of The Rainmaker by John Grisham is exceedingly well-worn; I've read it too many times to remember over the years. If I'm in the mood to read a little fiction for a few minutes, I'll pick it up. Doesn't matter where I start: I've read the book so many times I know the story. This particular novel is one of Grisham's few written in the first person, about a bankrupt young attorney fresh out of law school who takes on a massive insurance company that is screwing its poor, uneducated clients.

And of course, I've read and re-read all of Isaac Asimov's Black Widower mystery collections again and again.

[CommieTroll]

I don't really read fiction as much as I used to but books I always find myself going back to surely for the joy of reading are ''The Rum Diaries'' by Hunter S. Thompson, ''Of Mice & Men'' by John Steinbeck, ''To Kill A Mockingbird'' by Harper Lee, ''Fight Club'' by Chuck Palahniuk and ''Catcher In The Rye'' by J. D. Stalinger. Those books are a nice break from heavier reading sometimes.