What is a book that you will gladly read again?

I've read Terry Pratchett's Night Watch three times, currently reading The Color of Magic for the first time and then I'm going to re-read Mort
I've read Ellen Raskin's The Westing Game three times, but that was for school. Pretty good children's mystery book, though

Neuromancer moves faster than some movies. Absolutely worth rereading

Lockstep by Karl Schroeder Hard sci-fi about how a intergalactic empire being run without developing any faster than light technology.

The Martian. I’ve read it twice, and would love to read it again. It’s so good.

There are so many, but here are a few from the top of my head:
The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien.
The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien.
Time Enough For Love, Robert A. Heinlein.
Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein.
Don Quijote, Miguel de Cervantes.
Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri.
Dune, Frank Herbert.
Paradise Lost, John Milton.
Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke.
The Riftwar Saga, Raymond E. Feist.
- Most of those hold up.
  Time enough for love did not imho.
  Need to look at rift war.
  
  Yeah, "Time Enough For Love" ended up on that list mostly because it's so different. That made an impression on me when I read it in high school, in the way of "Huh, I guess it's actually possible to write a book like this". It had a lot of interesting ideas but the narrative sprawls around pretty wildly.
  Riftwar Saga basically takes Tolkien's Middle-earth setting and mixes it with our own world's Middle age cultures, plus magical stargates and an invasion from an another world. It's not a ripoff in any way, it carries it own story proudly but the similarities with names from Tolkien's works was a bit distracting at first. These were the first books I was able to read entirely in original English in my early teens.

A few I've read at least twice and will definitely read again at some point:
Catch 22
Infinite Jest
The Windup Bird Chronicle
The Handmaid's Tale
Full 5 part Hitchhiker's Guide trilogy
His Dark Materials Trilogy (plus the Book of Dust series, if we ever get that last one!!)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Brave New World
Slaughterhouse Five
- Hitchhikers guide part 1 is worth it for the forward alone not to mention the book itself
- It's 2025 and I'm reading Slaughterhouse Five again. So it goes.
  
  Poo tee weet 👍
- Poo too weet
- I believe the last book of dust is slated for this year unless I’m mistaken
  
  Yeah, I think so, but I think it was also slated for 2024, and possibly even 2023! It'll come, and I'd rather he takes his time to get it right, but still, very impatient! 😁

The Malazan Book of the Fallen saga is so long that I tend to forget most of the plot of the earlier books by the time I finish.
- But does that mean you'll gladly read through again? I'd rather take notes of notable events...

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
by Robert M. Pirsig

I have all discworld books, I would definitely reread most of them. I just reread The Hail Mary Project.
- I’m going through the Discworld series for the first time right now. I’m going in chronological order but when I finish I’ll probably go through them again eventually but I think I’ll do series instead in bunches. I’m already looking forward to rereading the Watch series back to back.
  
  I've just read the first one and the one about the printing press. There's a lot!
  
  On my third pass right now. Skipped a couple of the first novels, but I love the original order. Got feels for all the series, but I like the perfect way he kept them mixed up.
  "Oh shit! Another witches book!"
  "Back to the Watch! NICE!"
  "Rincewind? Hell with it, those are all funny as hell."
- Third run through Discworld in the past 2 years. My god, been trying to think how to explain to my best friend. I lack the words.

Synchronicity because I just put a book on hold at the library that I'm going to read again. It is called "Galileo's Dream" by Kim Stanley Robinson, and it's half historical fiction, half science fiction about: "what if future humans living on the Galilean moons of Jupiter discovered time travel and needed Galileo's help?"

The bone comic book omnibus from Jeff smith Bone omnibus amazon link
The book is basically Tolkien+Disney, it is aimed at a kid audience but it tackles some heavy topics that adults will enjoy, its great because it tackles metaphysics a lot in ways that are interesting for all ages.

Project Hail Mary was amazing. Can't wait for the movie too.
- I’m glad you enjoyed it. I think I must be one if the few people on the planet who didn’t care for it.
  
  Same here, didn't vibe with the main character's constant complaining and whining
- There will be a movie‽‽‽
  
  Coming out next march
  Story spoiler: ::: spoiler spoiler "No voice actor for rocky has not been announced" - A voice actor for... musical notes? :::
  
  It's got Ryan Gosling cast as the main, I think?

I'm on my 13th or so read of Blindsight. Think I've unpacked it all, finally. I feel like a fruitcake having read it and *Echopraxia" so many times, but damn they're deep.
Not a fan of all of Watt's novels, but those two feel like he packed something to think about into nearly every single sentence. Easy read if you want to go fast, or, take your time and dig in. Never read a novel(s) that could go both ways.
Fuck me. Just talking about it is getting me hype for another run.
Blindsight:
"I brought her flowers one dusky Tuesday evening when the light was perfect. I pointed out the irony of that romantic old tradition— the severed genitalia of another species, offered as a precopulatory bribe—and then I recited my story just as we were about to fuck.
To this day, I still don't know what went wrong.”
Echopraxia:
“Fifty thousand years ago there were these three guys spread out across the plain and they each heard something rustling in the grass. The first one thought it was a tiger, and he ran like hell, and it was a tiger but the guy got away. The second one thought the rustling was a tiger and he ran like hell, but it was only the wind and his friends all laughed at him for being such a chickenshit. But the third guy thought it was only the wind, so he shrugged it off and the tiger had him for dinner. And the same thing happened a million times across ten thousand generations - and after a while everyone was seeing tigers in the grass even when there were`t any tigers, because even chickenshits have more kids than corpses do. And from those humble beginnings we learn to see faces in the clouds and portents in the stars, to see agency in randomness, because natural selection favours the paranoid. Even here in the 21st century we can make people more honest just by scribbling a pair of eyes on the wall with a Sharpie. Even now we are wired to believe that unseen things are watching us.”

Infinite Jest. Takes about like 2 years to read though lol.

Clemens p suter’s two journeys series.

Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy

The Murderbot diaries.
This is also an awesome thread. I see a lot of books I love and a lot that I'm interested in.
- Murderbot series is a mixed bag. Some of the books are great fun. Others read like filler to me. Wondering what you think about casting of Alexander Skarsgård in the upcoming tv series? Personally I think he’s way too old for the part.
- The Bobiverse recommendations seem to go hand in hand with Murderbot. Read both series back to back, didn't know what I was missing.
  
  I hadn't heard of the bobiverse before. I look forward to checking those out. It sounds like a neat premise.
- While I enjoyed the first book, and might pick up the others, I wasn't as impressed, and wouldn't put it on any reread shortlist. What did I miss?

Several that others have already mentioned, and:
The Golden Age Oecumene, by John C Wright
The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox, by Barry Hughart
Any and all of The Culture novels
The Hobbit, and TLotR trilogy. Used to read them every summer, for about twenty years.
Armor, by John Steakley. Sadly, the only sci-fi novel he ever wrote, and one of only two books he ever authored, IIRC.
The Jean le Flambeur trilogy by Hannu Rajaniemi, which is on my list to read again this year.
A Wizard of Earthsea trilogy, which I'm about to read again as soon as my wife finished them.
The Chronicles of Narnia, which I used to read frequently when younger. I'm almost afraid to pick them up again now, for fear that they won't be as good (for an adult) as I remember.
- John Steakley was a full time ghost writer so he wrote a lot of other books but not under his name.
  He was working on a draft of Armor 2 when he died. I think I still have a copy of his first draft of chapter 1 somewhere. It's to bad it will probably never be finished or published.
  
  I've heard that, about that first chapter. He, and Iain Banks, are two writers I'm particularly sorry about having had their times cut short.
- Love the culture series! Communism..... In space!!! Though I'd say to anyone who hasn't read them yet to skip the first and come back to it. It's a great novel, but it smells like the 80's. Was my first read in the series and it turned me off to the rest of them until years later when I have the series another chance
  
  IMHO, post-scarcity is really the only way communism works. And it's not true communism in the Culture; people still own things - artifacts, art, themselves. And it's also not communism in the Marxist sense, where the workers own the means of production, because there isn't a working class and production is largely automated. It's some sort of post-Communism thing we don't have a name for. Or, maybe we do, and I just don't know it?

The Dark Tower series. All of them
- Don't ask me silly questions, I won't play silly games I'm just a simple choo-choo train, and I'll always be the same I only want to race along, beneath the bright blue sky And be a happy choo-choo train, until the day I die
- Yes. Another good series; some better than others - I personally liked the first the most - but I think they're all important pieces of the story.
  Definitely on my "read again" list, although I only discovered and read them all a couple of years ago; maybe next year.
- That series was amazing and I'm still mad they tried to cram it all into a single movie.
  
  That was definitely pitchfork worthy. I haven't even seen it and I never will.
- The gunslinger is def up there for me
- It got awkward when King decided to be a character in his own story. But aside from that I really enjoyed them.

Adam Levin's The Instructions
Ecclesiastes
Philip K. Dick's Galactic Pot-Healer — actually most Dick outside of A Scanner Darkly
Neal Stephenson's... well, anything, but especially Zodiac, Anthem, and Diamond Age
Brian Daley's Requiem for a Ruler of Worlds
Margaret Atwood's The Year of the Flood and The Blind Assassin
Anything by Ursula LeGuin, ever
Hugh McLeod's Ignore Everybody
Lloyd Alexander's Prydain series
Douglas Adam's Hitchhiker's Trilogy
- Adam Levin's The Instructions
  I have that on my shelf, but have only read the first chapter or so, I think, just couldn't get into it. Bought on a whim, partly because of how huge it was!
  I take it it's worth another shot?
  
  If you only read the pool scene, you didn't really get into the meat of the book. That said, if the content of the pool scene was a big turn-off for you, there will be several other scenes throughout the book that will also be big turn-offs.

Lord Of The Rings.
He Who Fights With Monsters.
Thrawn.
The Hunt For Red October.
The Cardinal of the Kremlin.
So many I will give another listen to.
- Just because this is the first post that I see that mentions LoTR, I'll throw in
  The Silmarillion
  Children of Hurin
  Beren and Luthien (personal favorite)
  The Fall of Gondolin (incomplete, but incredible)
  These are all Tolkien works and I could read them over and over.

Most of The Culture series

A Long Way to a Small Angry Planet - Becky Chambers
- I loved that one.

Speaker for the Dead
Eisenhorn
Count of Monte Cristo
The Emperor of All Maladies
Moby Dick
Lords of Silence
All Honorable Men: History of the war in Lebanon
Adams and Victor's Principles of Neurology
The Biology of Cancer (Weinberg)
Japan to 1600
History of Medieval Russia (Martin)
The Baltic: A History
On War (Clausewitz)
The Back Channel
Timbuktu (Villiers)
Sorry if this is too many, just looked at my book app for ones I keep reading.
Edit: Fuck it, I'm having fun. Here are a few more I remembered while roasting a bowl.
Dune
Amulet of Samarkand
Venice (Madden)
The Golden Compass
First and Only (Abnett) - read the first omnibus
Harrisons Manual of Medicine 18th ed
Gomorrah (Saviano)
The Gunpowder Age (Tonio)
The Money Illusion (Sumner)
- Speaker for the Dead
  Interesting! I enjoyed it much less than Ender's Game, but they were such different books it doesn't surprise me that someone else would prefer it.
  Moby Dick
  Right‽ Such an amazing read. It does take a bit to get into the cadence, I find, but so worth it.
  
  I loved Enders Game, Enders Shadow and Speaker for the Dead. It had a great emotional importance to me. Especially Enders Shadow, it was one of the first books I read that properly described starvation. I went through a lot as a child, and Beans story of a starving, smart, small kid really resonated with me in the period after my own tribulation. I don't think Shadow has the same impact on people without some of my experiences, so I chose to use the main arc and I've always felt that Ender would rather be remembered as The Speaker more than anything else. Probably silly, but I'm fine with that. In short, I agree, Enders Game is the better book. Speaker is just the pay off.
  Moby Dick has always infuriated and enthralled me. I read 5 pages, hate myself. Start reading again in 15 minutes because I can't get it out of my head.

Just done a reread of these and would gladly reread again.
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (all 5 books in the series)
They are short enough that you could easily read all of them in a couple months at a steady pace.
- That's a good series, too. Another set of books I used to re-read every few years, but got out of the habit.

Nobody has yet mentioned A Gentleman in Moscow, so I will. It's fairly recent, but I know I'll read it again in a couple of years.

I’m not a big rereader, but at some point I’d like to read through the expanse and the locked tomb again

The Dispossessed
Left Hand of Darkness
- Yeah. Ursula Le Guin always surprises me; when I re-read her books, they're often better than I remember.

Books. Multiple.
The Practice Effect by David Brin. It's an isekai (it's not anime, but it's an isekai) where things get MORE useful when you use them, reversing entropy.
Sentenced to Prism. MC is sent on a mission to a world inhabited by silicate based life forms. Shenanigans ensue. Mildly autistic coded MC.
Resurrection Inc. The dead are resurrected as mindless zombie robots. Sometimes it goes wrong and the dead regain their memories. The MC does. Hijinks ensue.
edit - more
Mistborn Chronicles - an orphan gets super powers in a very messed up world. A group recruits her for a heist.
- Loved Sentenced to Prism! I loved the plot of the Mistborn Chronicles, but I struggled a bit with the audiobook narrator. Maybe I should actually read them…
  
  I read them and flew through them, despite being a slow reader. The second arc though (Wax and Wane) is one of my favorite series ever. It’s set in the same universe, just centuries in the future and is basically a western. They’re great fun to read. Would recommend.

Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

I plan to reread all Clive Barker novels a second time, at some point in my life. His prose is just so unique and has an effortless beauty about it that I've yet to find in another author.
Plot can only really draw you in once... when you already know what happens in a story it doesn't have the same pull it had the first time. But prose has a lasting appeal, one that can be revisited. The indescribable quality of the way that words can make you feel is unique to the relationship between reader and writer.
- So you didn’t let Mr B go?
  
  Fittingly enough, that was the first of his novels I read and will likely be the first one I reread.

World War Z has hit differently after major life stages: College, marriage, kids, global pandemic, etc.
- It’s too bad the zombie tv universe is flooded at this point. I’m hoping in ten or twenty years we get a premium streaming channel anthology show based on the stories in this book. The movie they made from it had so little to do with the novel.

The Sandman Slim series
https://www.goodreads.com/series/46424-sandman-slim
And
The Dresden Files series
https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=The+Dresden+Files+series
- Dresden files are so good! Dead beat is my favorite
  
  I want another Dresden Files show. That would be great.

I should probably give The Illuminatus! Trilogy another read.
- OMG, that's going into this year's list! Thank you!
- I read it every couple of years. Such a good read.

The bridge trilogy.

Also, I keep meaning to make time to re-read some required reading books from HS: Where the Red Fern Grows, Call of the Wild, Flowers for Algernon. It's probably all going to be painfully YA, but I've thought about the stories often over my life, and they deserve a re-read.

Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
I re-read it a few times already, and even though written in the 50s it holds up quite well (except for the total absence of computers). Its a brilliant read. Edit: to clarify, I meant the societal trends he projected are quite fascinating. Also the transition to a post scarcity society. It's not very prophetic obviously. :)

Snow Crash Rendezvous with Rama Foundation (all of them) Moonwalking with Einstein (non function about memory champions)
- Snow Crash
  I should read that again, although I burned myself out in cyberpunk decades ago.
  Rendezvous with Rama
  Another classic to add to the re-read list! It's been years.
  Foundation
  Yeah. This one is the one I most sympathize with. I used to read the original trilogy every few years; I don't think any of the subsequent one(s?) were worth the first read. I need to read them again just to bleach the Apple abomination out of my mind.
  
  Have you ever read the Caves of Steel? I had never read it before until recently but it's really cool.

Malazan Book of the Fallen.
- The black company had some good reread value, at least the first three! If you havnt read em, you absolutely should.
  
  Nice suggestion! I have read them, and they're really good, but I haven't found myself rereading that series like I have with Malazan!

The philosophical strangler by Eric Flint, absolutely.

The Count of Montecristo.

Too many to count. Foundation trilogy, anything by Heinlein, Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke or various other classic sci fi writers, any Conan book or story, any Jeeves book or story, The Mote in God's Eye by Niven & Pournelle, Mary Lasswell's Mrs. Feeley books (pretty obscure), anything by HP Lovecraft...

Easier to say which books I WOULDN'T read again.
The Art of War in the Middle Ages. Just interminable.
There was another book, I can't recall the name of it unfortunately. It was about ethical non-monogamy but went into such blatantly STUPID territory that I classed it as "should not be set aside lightly, it should be thrown with great force."
One of the more stupid statements was about how gangbang porn is prevalent (multiple men, one woman), but the inverse doesn't exist. I was like "Fuck off, you aren't looking very hard then..."
Edit My wife assures me it was "Sex at Dawn".
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_at_Dawn

'The Count of Monte Cristo' is one I look forward to reading every few years.

I am Legend - reading it again just now.
- Great choice! I wish they would have followed it exactly for the movie

Considering I am currently rereading the Stormlight Archive - I’ll go with that.

Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud. A comic book about comic books, cartoons, sequential art, and art in general.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Understanding_Comics

Witcher, I've read it at least once every two/three years for the last 18 years and it's still entertaining.
- Planning my second read-through. What a work of art
  
  Indeed. And what fascinates me the most is how well it holds up after so many years, there's no other book that's still so engaging for me, especially given I'm a very different person than I was 18 years ago.
  Sapkowski's writing is awesome.

I'm a big rereader in general, but occasionally a book will grab me so hard that I finish it & begin again right away. I've had two of those in the past year:
Moonbound by Robin Sloan
Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford
- I was like that when Jurassic Park came out. I read it at least a couple of dozen times.

A Clockwork Orange The Ware series by Rudy Rucker Heartstones by Ruth Rendell Coal by J. Jason Grant Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
- A Clockwork Orange
  I haven't read it because I'm afraid I won't like it as much as I do the movie. It happened with Jeeves & Wooster. I'd seen the series before I picked up the first book, and the Jeeves described in the book was so different from Stephen Fry - who was Jeeves, in my mind, that I just couldn't enjoy the books.
  
  It is sufficiently different to piss you off at first, but it’s a really good read.

There’s some good (and also some inexplicable to me) books here already so I won’t mention any of them.
I’ll choose P. G. Wodehouse. Although he’s more famous for Jeeves and Wooster I much prefer his Blandings stories. Such sublime, perfection.
His writing seems so effortlessly easy but others who have attempted to emulate it have all fallen ugly, leaden, clumsy and short of his comic genius.

Kokoro.
Also have vague plans to reread Der Zauberberg
Likely also will reread V. and the Count of Monte Christo at some point.

The Diary of Edward the Hamster 1990–1990
its short so suitible for a quick reread & even for people who dont like books
its like a childbook in the amount of text but more for adults

NOS4A2

Books that I have already read more than once:
The Stranger by Camus The Woman in the Dunes by Abe Kobo The Fisherman by John Langan