There are a lot of great books, but most of them I read only once. There are, however, several that are very smooth or funny and I like rereading them again and again. Such examples would be "Pride and Prejudice" or "Huckleberry Finn". What are your favorite multiple readers? ;)
2007-09-20 18:54:35 · 31 answers · asked by Kaytee 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
The Prince and the Pauper
Dante' s Inferno
2007-09-20 19:01:55 · answer #1 · answered by boyplakwatsa.com 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've read On the Road by Jack Kerouac and The Catcher in the Rye by Salinger many, many times, but mostly that was when I was a teenager. So I'm not sure how many re-readings I will do on those now.
I think the Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald is probably the one that I will continue to read the most because it is such a good example of true quality literature (symbolism, motifs, etc). And because it's so short. I find it amazing that Fitzgerald, who wrote in such a more long-winded and descriptive style than some of his contemporaries (i.e. Hemingway), could write such a concise novel with so much literary merit.
2007-09-21 15:06:01 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Scarlet Letter and The Blithedale Romance by Hawthorne
Moby Dick, Bartleby and Billy Budd by Herman Melville
Huckleberry Finn and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Sound and the Fury and others by William Faulkner
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Cider House Rules and others by Jonathan Irving
The six novels of Jane Austen,
Tom Jones and Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding
Humphrey Clinker by Tobias Smollett
Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
2007-09-20 20:31:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Anything by Jane Austen or E.M. Forester! I don't know if you'd consider them classics, but when in Junior High and High School I would read The Chronicles of Narnia, The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings trilogy every summer. The Scarlet Letter, Jane Eyre, Les Miserables and Moby Dick are pretty high on my list as well! What can I say? I just love to read!!!!
2007-09-20 19:44:03 · answer #4 · answered by Celtic Dragon 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm a chronic rereader, among which class-wise Treasure Island tops the list. I also like to reread The Jungle Book and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
2007-09-21 03:08:11 · answer #5 · answered by BlueManticore 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Any Jane Austen
Most Edith Wharton
Willa Cather's Death Came for the Archbishop
I do need to read Gabriel Garcia's One Hundred Years of Solitude again
2007-09-21 03:33:39 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Sherlock Holmes series by Conan Doyle. I have read the entire set through several times, and every once in a while when I'm chill-in on my patio with an ice cold beer I'll pick one up and start it all over again.
2007-09-20 19:02:23 · answer #7 · answered by aswkingfish 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Dante's Divina Commedia
Faulkner's The Bear
Steinbeck's East of Eden and Grapes of Wrath
2007-09-20 21:57:35 · answer #8 · answered by Maria Rosa V 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wuthering Heights
2007-09-20 19:01:23 · answer #9 · answered by Jenna 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jane Eyre, Anne of Green Gables, Little Men, Little Women, and Tom Sawyer are my perennial favorites.
2007-09-20 22:32:34 · answer #10 · answered by sugarbabe 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Lord of the Rings (yes, it's a classic), Jane Eyre, Hamlet, Ben Hur, To Kill a Mockingbird
2007-09-20 19:01:27 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋