What books you never get tired of reading?

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Extended Question:
What books that are not part of a series you have never got tired of reading?

Slaughterhouse 5

Fight Club

Catch 22

Naked Lunch

Cujo

Fahrenheit 451

The Long Walk

At the Mountains of Madness

i dont reread books often as i am constantly reading new books and read very quickly.

however there some i can think of that i would enjoy reading again.

mercedes lackey's valdemar series.

the hobbit.

tamora pierce circle of magic series

the bhagavad gita

the lotus sutra

marcus aurelius's meditations

thats all i can think of off the top of my head

American Tabloid
Post Office
Anything by H.P. Lovecraft
Breakfast Of Champions
Naked Lunch
Metamorphosis
Interzone
Cannery Row
Who Goes There?

I'm sure there are many others.

Hester - Margaret Oliphant
Charlotte's Web
Wuthering Heights
Villette
Jane Eyre
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
Ruth - Elizabeth Gaskell
Possession - AS Byatt
The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran
To Kill a Mockingbird
Little Women
Anything Judy Blume

quite a few, always in dutch though
comics too, re-read & reread, eg, asterix, lucky luke, tintin, (european/belgian comics)

i see the old editions are banned from the net, liking these was always frowned upon by random peeps


(the pipe-leader / the thinktank)

Anything by Jay M. Pasachoff.

I think I first read The Catcher in the Rye when I was 12. I re-read it every few years and every time I connect with it in different ways. That's the brilliance of it for me.

Also Five on Finniston Farm. Not one of the most well-regarded of Enid Blyton's mysteries but one I love because I found it in a cupboard in a visit to my grandfather's house and read it. So it reminds me of that but also they find the cellars of a long disappeared castle and this kind of awakened a few special interests in me - visual history, archaeology, exploring, forgotten places.

Of Human Bondage. When I first read it in high school, I thought "my Gawd, how can this guy be so stupid?"

I re-read it later in life, and realized that I had lived through it myself.

Albert Camus The Outsider
Franz Kafka The Metamorphosis

Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Mystery books by Mary Higgins Clark
Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
Tintin
Peanuts; since I was about 9 I always followed especially Snoopy and his bird hiker gang....

The Changes by Peter Dickinson. A very disturbing story about the people turning against machines that led to a BBC series..

The Bible
Tolkien's books
Asimov's Foundation series

There are very few books I have ever read more than once, especially as an adult. There's so many books I want to read for the first time I don't really have the time or interest to reread books. I read almost exclusively nonfiction so reading is not just fun, but also about learning new things.

Many years ago I read A Walk To Remember. I don't remember why as romance is generally not a genre I enjoy in book or film. Whims of a lovesick teenager I suppose? I got a cheap used copy and read it several times, even sticky noting a few favorite parts. I found it hopeful and inspirational. I think it appealed to an innocent part of me now long dead.

I never read a lot of fiction (I think my autism is a big reason why), but I think the Harry Potter series permanently damaged my interest in reading fiction - especially a series.