Which books do you reread every year?
Which books do you reread every year?
On the Road is required March reading. Your summer hasn't started until you've read it.
Franny and Zooey
Invisible cities at least once every year
Leopardi's cantos at least once every two months
Only the Bible
I've been reading the Lord of the Rings the past few years. I'll count the Canticle for Leibowitz too because its become one of my favorites and I plan on reading it again and probably again.
Ulysses
>O patria mia, vedo le mura e gli archi
>E le colonne e i simulacri e l’erme
>Torri degli avi nostri,
>Ma la gloria non vedo,
>Non vedo il lauro e il ferro ond’eran carchi
>I nostri padri antichi.
Moby Dick, Picture of Dorian Gray, The Iliad
The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. Currently reading The Hobbit.
Re-read in its entirety, most years:
>Hamlet
>Adventures In Card Play, Sharpen Your Tactics (Bridge, Chess respectively)
Read extensively from:
>Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas
>Crow (Ted Hughes)
desu I never reread just because there's too many books I've yet to read
Watchman
nfinite Jest
Siddhartha by Hesse, 6th year in a row now soon, always in march/april
None.
Watchmen
Nothing in its entirety but I dip into Blood Meridian, The Name of the Rose, Jesus’ Son, Lonesome Dove and Moby Dick from time to time.
I don't specifically reread The Red and the Black yearly, but I do reread it quite often. Absolute favorite.
Jesus' Son is underrated.
Human, All Too Human
A random thought:
I wonder if Zipf's Law applies here?
In other words, suppose you ranked all the books you read by amount of time you spend reading them.
Would it be that you spend about half as much time on #2 as on #1; about 1/3rd as much time on #3 as on #1; etc?
This might be slightly complicated by the fact that some works take a lot longer to read than others. Perhaps if you did it by "number of times I've read this work" rather than "number of hours I've spent reading this work"; or some weighted combination of the two.
Zipf's Law keeps cropping up all over the place so I wouldn't be surprised.
War and Peace
Beyond Good and Evil
Does watchmen have good reread value?
Faust
great choice, always a good reread
surprisingly yes.
Not every year but most years:
Anna Karenina
Don Quixote
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
The Lady with the Little Dog
Hamlet