Books you have read more than once.

[vandermolen]

Animal Farm: Orwell

The Little Prince: St Exupery

The Compleet [sic] Molesworth: Willans and Searle

Most of the Tintin books

As this list is not looking very intellectual 

Crime and Punishment: Dostoevsky

Man for Himself: Erich Fromm

Man's Search for Himself: Rollo May

Dark Nights of the Soul: Thomas Moore

The Wisdom of Insecurity: Alan Watts

The Tao Te Ching: Lao Tze

[TheGSMoeller]

This is probably the book I've read the most. Not sure if a collection of short stories counts here, but this is one that is never out of reach (in fact it was literally just arms length away for me to grab and take this photo) and one of the 2-3 I always take when I go on a trip.

[springrite]

Tao Te Ching
Complexity
Dream of the Red Chamber

...and one of the Sutra book.

[Bogey]

Hobbit/LOTR
Doyle's Holmes
To Kill A Mockingbird

as a kid: Robinson Crusoe

[The new erato]

Lord of the rings - thrice.

Except for textbooks I seldom read books multiple times.

[Sergeant Rock]

The Bible (thrice from beginning to end)
Harold Bloom Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
Harold Bloom: The Western Canon
Henry Miller Tropic of Cancer
J.P. Donleavy The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B
J.P. Donleavy The Onion Eaters
J.P. Donleavy The Unexpurgated Code: A Complete Manual of Survival & Manners (the funniest book ever written, by anyone, anywhere)
Robert Klane The Horse is Dead (the second funniest book ever written)
Robert Heinlein Starship Troopers
Norman Spinrad The Void Captain's Tale
Vladimir Nabokov Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov Ada
John Barth Giles Goat-Boy
Thomas Pynchon The Crying of Lot 49
J.R.R. Tolkien The Hobbit (read it to myself, read it to my first wife, read it to Mrs. Rock)

John Berryman's poetry. I've read all his books dozens of times, but Love & Fame, Berryman's Sonnets and The Dream Songs are taken off the shelves the most

Many other poets are also on repeat: favorites include Yeats, Larkin, Eliot, Bukowski, Ferlinghetti, Conrad Aiken, Donald Hall.

Charles Rosen The Classical Style
Robert Simpson  The Essence of Bruckner
Malcolm MacDonald  The Symphonies of Havergal Brian (three volumes)


I enjoy military history. I won't bother to list the many books I've repeated.

Sarge

[Rinaldo]

Tolkien when I was a kid. The first Dune. Some Spenser novels by Robert Parker, Pale Kings & Princes being my favourite.

Thinking about this made me realize how sparingly do I return to a book even if I'd enjoyed it immensely. A recent exception was The Last Samurai (not to be confused with the crappy movie) by Helen DeWitt, a book about the joys of knowledge and one that I can't recommend enough. But it's hard not to recommend a book that mentions La cathédrale engloutie in the opening chapters.

[vandermolen]

Thanks for interesting replies - must look out for Proust's short stories etc.

[val]

"The Master and Marguerit"  (Bulgakov)

"Faust" (Goethe)

"The Structure of the Theory of Evolution"  (Stephen Jay Gould)

"The Anti-Christ" (Nietzsche)

"The first three minutes" (Steve Weinberg)

and most of the Dialogues of Plato (I always take two on my hollydays)

[offbeat]

Many read more than once - some i can think of....
The Artless Gambler - Roger Longrigg - a mixture of comedy and nostalgia about times disappeared
Bonfire of the Vanities- Tom Wolfe - an allergy of greed and vice
The World of Violence - Colin Wilson - a personal choice which first got me into the world of music
Wolf Solent - John Cowper Powys- so beautifully written its like a dream

to Vandermolin - i also read the little prince - a book for both children and adults so magically written and so sad in parts

[springrite]

I see I am the only Sutra reader around here.

[DavidW]

War and Peace
Crime and Punishment
A Tale of Two Cities
Dune
The Hobbit
Lord of the Rings
Ender's Game
Foundation
Dracula

[Florestan]

As a kid, most books by Jules Verne, Alexandre Dumas, Paul Feval, Swift's Gulliver's Travels and Defoe's Robinson Crusoe.

Since teenage-hood (is this a word?) until now, OTOMH and in no particular order:

The New Testament
Blaise Pascal - Pensees
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The Idiot, The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment
Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace, Anna Karenina
Anton Tchekhov - A collection of short stories
Ivan Turgenyev - Fathers and Sons
Henrik Ibsen - An Enemy of The People, The Pillars of Society, Nora
Miguel de Cervantes - Don Quijote
Charles Baudelaire - Les fleurs du mal
Umberto Eco - Foucault's Pendulum, The Name of The Rose, The Island from The Day Before, Baudolino
Edgar Allan Poe - Complete Poems and Short Stories
John Stuart Mill - On Liberty
Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn - Menace of The Heard, Liberty or Equality, Leftism Revisited
Wilhelm Roepke - The Economics of a Free Society, The Moral Foundations of The Market Economy
Benjamin Constant - Principles of Politics Applicable to All Governments
Edmund Burke - Reflections on The Revolution in France
Victor Hugo - Les Miserables, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, The Toilers of The Sea, Ninety-Three
Selma Lagerlof - The Story of Gosta Berling
Charles Dickens - A Tale of two Cities
Jaroslav Hasek - The Good Soldier Svejk
John Steinbeck - East of Eden
Miguel de Unamuno - A collection of essays

and all the Romanian classics in all genres (novels, poetry, drama).

Read once but scheduled for immediate re-reading: Goethe - Faust, Tolstoy - The Resurrection, Dostoyevsky - The Possessed

[DavidRoss]

I see I am the only Sutra reader around here.

Nope.

As if knowing my musical tastes isn't a big enough window into my soul....

Tao Te Ching
The Gospels
Bhagavad Gita
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
The Katha Upanishad
The Dhammapada
Merton's The Way of Chuang Tzu
(and a few other of his books, such as The Wisdom of the Desert)
Eshwaran's Meditation
Sockman's The Parables of Jesus
All of Tony Hillerman's mysteries!
Roy Ovington's Tactics on Trout
Gravity's Rainbow
Salinger's Nine Stories
Everything by Flannery O'Connor
The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings
Black Elk Speaks
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Committee of Vigilance
John Nichols's The Magic Journey and The Milagro Beanfield War
Alice Walker's The Color Purple
Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
Marc Reisner's Cadillac Desert
Everything by Raymond Chandler
The Hot Zone
and maybe one or two others. 

[Karl Henning]

The Bible (thrice from beginning to end)

And, man, some of the stretches in there are a severe chore to keep your eyes open through . . . .

Thread Duty:

Huckleberry Finn
The Hobbit/The Lord of the Rings
Moby-Dick
Leaves of Grass
Crime & Punishment
The Devils
Leave It to Psmith
The Code of the Woosters (a passel of Wodehouse, really)
Tales of a Traveller (a passel of Washington Irving, really)
Trout Fishing in America
A Confederate General in Big Sur
Water Music
White Noise

[Concord]

Not as many as I thought.

Melville: Moby Dick
Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
Hemingway: Sun Also Rises, Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls
Barthelme: Dead Father, Snow White, Paradise, The King
Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury, Absalom! Absalom!
Hammett:The Maltese Falcon
Vonnegut: Sirens of Titan, which I read straight through twice in a row.

Right now I'm rereading The Castle, but a new translation, so that might not count.

And I keep meaning to get back to Ulysses.

[Concord]

Wow ... I've always thought of myself as well read. But you guys are amazing.

[springrite]

I don't think I have read anything other than Complexity and some poetry books more than once after I turned 21. There are just too many books to read. I must have another 100 books on my shelf that I have yet been able to devote time to.

Wait, I did recently read Morton Feldman's book Give My Regards to 8th Street for a second time.

[Sergeant Rock]

The Code of the Woosters[/i] (a passel of Wodehouse, really)

I'm still making my way through the Jeeves books for a first time, but I imagine they'll make any future repeat list. Pure delight.

Sarge

[vandermolen]

Many read more than once - some i can think of....
The Artless Gambler - Roger Longrigg - a mixture of comedy and nostalgia about times disappeared
Bonfire of the Vanities- Tom Wolfe - an allergy of greed and vice
The World of Violence - Colin Wilson - a personal choice which first got me into the world of music
Wolf Solent - John Cowper Powys- so beautifully written its like a dream

to Vandermolin - i also read the little prince - a book for both children and adults so magically written and so sad in parts

Totally agree re The Little Prince.  It was my mother's favourite book too - so I have a very soft spot for it.