I read a lot of books, but most of them don’t really merit a second go-around. I do have a few that I’ve revisited multiple times over the years though.
Moby Dick
Sherlock Holmes (novels and short stories)
Dune by Frank Herbert
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
Alice In Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass
Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer
no others come to mind at the moment.
What are your re-readables?
I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve read these*:
The Hobbit / The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien
Dune / Dune Messiah / Children of Dune, by Frank Herbert
There are others I’ve read multiple times, but those are the ones I go back to again and again.
[* I stopped counting long ago, but it’s easily more than 20 times each.]
oh snap! i have been through all the dune cycle now maby three times, dune itslf i must have read about 7 times
Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
Lots of Anne Tyler’s books: Saint Maybe, The Clock Winder, Searching for Caleb
The Laughing Sutra by Mark Salzman
The Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling
*Terry Pratchett’s “Discworld” books
*edited to correct my omission of this entire series, most of which I’ve reread many times
Field guides: plant keys, bird keys, herp keys, terrestrial arthropod keys, cookbooks(kitchen field guides). Harry Potter but only one time for the seventh volume and about six or seven times for all the others.
I usually read library books. I’ll only buy a
fiction book if I know I’m going to read it
more than once. Here’s some I have bought,
which therefore meet the topic’s requirement:
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Coyote Blue and Lamb by Christopher Moore
The Last Legends of Earth by A.A. Attanasio
The Agony and The Ecstacy - Irving Stone
Yes I Can - Sammy Davis, Jr. with Jane and Burt Boyar
Three Years To Play - Colin McGinnis
Season of the Witch - James Leo Herlihy
Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley
The first book that I read twice was To Kill a Mockingbird. That and other books that I’ve read too many times include:
Everything by Kurt Vennegut
Everything by John Steinbeck
The early works of Tom Robbins
The Women’s Room
All the Book of Lists & The People’s Almanac
The Drifters, The Source, & Cheseapeake by James Michener (everything else just once.)
The second time I read On the Road by Jack Kerouc, I thought he should have gotten a job and quit freeloading.
That’s all I could think of for now. And the sad thing is, I’m a very slow reader.
When I’m ill I re-read Kipling.
Short Stories by Saki.
Short stories by Somerset Maugham.
Anything by William Gibson
Anything by Terry Pratchett.
The Stand, Stephen King. I think I’ve read it at least 3 times now.
“The Outsiders,” by S. E. Hinton.
These days, it is rare for me to read an entire book, much less re-read it.
-Mark Helprin’s “Winter’s Tale” and “A Soldier of the Great War”
-Mark Twain’s “Letters to the Earth” & “American Drolleries”
-Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey/Maturin serial novels
-“Tyll Ulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks”
-Eiji Yoshikawa’s “Musashi”
… and yes, William Gibson’s “Burning Chrome”.
The Chronicles of Narnia (CS Lewis) - first read The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe when I was about 7 years old. I’ve read the series about once every 1-2 years (at least) since then.
The Stand (Stephen King) - Read it 3 or 4 times, probably will again some day
Outlander (Diana Gabaldon) - read this one several times. I’ve read the whole series through twice (except for the latest just out last year, read that one only once so far).
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy trilogy (Douglas Adams) - my go-to books when I need to be cheered up.
I read 101 Dalmatians by Dodie Smith every year that I was in elementary school.
Nowadays, I’m planning to reread more things than I’ve actually reread.
However, I have read two different abridged versions of Les Mis in French, and the entire thing in English.
I just read the McCollough book John Adams, on which the television special was based. I don’t know if I will read it again, because it’s long, however it was more interesting than good fiction and an educationin the foundational politics of our country. The television special was excellent, this is much much better. I got to hang out in the 18th century, which actually turns out to beat Hogwarts.
Cold Mountain, by Charles Frazier
all the Hermann Hesse stuff
The Tin Drum, by Gunter Grass
authors: dickens, arthur conan doyle, james herriot, c.s lewis, lewis caroll, tolkien (NOT LOTR), diana gabaldon (outlander series), astrid lindgren, beatrix potter, a.a milne, j.m barrie, j.k rowling, t.s eliot (thanks jayhawk!)
more unknown authors: sarah-kate lynch, barbara samuel/barbara o’neal (same person), judi hendricks
the list could go on but those are the firm favorites 
yes childrens classics remain a firm favorite …
Berti - just curious what Tolkein you like that’s not LOTR. While I love LOTR, I’m also a fan of Tree and Leaf, Smith of Wooten Manor, etc.
Winter’s Tale is definitely a book I’ve read multiple time.
Hitchhiker’s Guide Series
TS Eliot & Yeat’s Poetry
Barry Hughart’s Series (Bridge of Birds, etc.)
Tea with the Black Dragon
Princess Bride (the Morgenstern version not William Goldman’s trash)
Little Big by John Crowley
jayhawk : I found LOTR too tough. Hobbit is my all time favorite but also his other books like farmer gilles of ham, roverandom and his other childrens books.
I like his childrens books better
thanks for the heads up for TS eliot. my favorites are his cat poems.
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Traditional Gaelic Bagpiping 1745 - 1945 by John Gibson
Scottish Fiddle Music of the 18th Century by David Johnson
The Discovery of King Arthur by Geoffrey Ashe
Only the first is fiction. All four are complicated enough that you kind of need to read them at least twice to understand all the connections.