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My b-i-l was asking me this weekend if I ever read a book twice. I told him yearly I read Jane Eyre. Today I was driving and thinking about all the characters I do enjoy revisiting. I have begun reading The Charlotte Years and Rose Years so I am thinking of rereading all the original Little House books. 
What are some books you all read again and again?
Just curious....
Marybeth 
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Redwall
Mossflower
Winnie the Pooh
The Wheel on the School
Heidi
Anne of Green Gables
The Hobbit
The Chronicles of Narnia
A Christmas Carol
Across the Puddingstone Dam
Little House in the Big Woods
The Princess and the Goblin
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Anne of Green Gables series
Agatha Christy books
The Caine Mutiny
Christy
Mrs. Mike
Caddie Woodlawn
The Secret Garden
Cheaper by the Dozen
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
A tree Grows in Brooklyn
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
All of a-Kind Family
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Oh, yes,I forgot:
Jane Eyre
Pride and Prejudice
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I tend to repeat the old British mysteries:
- Agatha Christie
- Dorothy Sayers
- Josephine Tey
- G. K. Chesterton's "Fr. Brown"
And then there are Jane Austen books (particularly Pride and Prejudice and Emma), some of Chesterton's non-Fr. Browns, and CS Lewis.
I also re-read some of my education books -- Real Learning, Literature Alive, the Catherine Levinson books, and Designing Your Own Classical Curriculum.
Some I will read (and reread) to my littles are
- Little House series
- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
- Anne of Green Gables
- the EB White books
- the Burgess nature books
- Narnia books
- the Hobbit
That should keep us all busy for a while!
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Gone With the Wind
All Things are Lights
all Diana Gabaldon books
something by Stephen Ambrose and by David McCullough
something by Anne McCaffrey
Childrens' Literature:
The Giving Gift (Power-Waters)
Journey for a Princess (Leighton)
Judith of France (Leighton)
all the Laura Ingalls Wilder books
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
something by Ann Rinaldi (not always the same book)
Number the Stars
The Winged Watchman
The Borrowed House (Van Stockum)
Calico Captive
all the John Christopher Tripod books
all the Betsy-Tacy books
You might guess that I have made a point to collect all the books I loved when I was young. I still love them. Except for the Tripod books, I have noted a common theme in all the books I've scrounged up...faith. I'm glad to note as an adult that I had decent taste when I was young.
I'm reading a lot of classic kid books to my children this year...thank you, everyone, for reminding me of such great titles as The Boxcar Children! We just finished The Marvelous Adventures of Alvin Fernald and are now reading The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
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Many, many books...
But I have read Narnia yearly since I was eight!
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I've always been a big reader but I was late in reading anything great. So I've always had the feeling that there are too many good books I missed earlier in life to be reading any twice!
Nevertheless, I'm rereading Willa Cather: First Death Comes for the Archbishop and now Shadows on the Rock. I would love to read a short story collection called the Last Ugly Person by Roger Thomas again. I'll probably eventually read some of C.S. Lewis's books again, especially The Great Divorce.
Then of course there's the ongoing cycle of re-reading aloud:
Narnia
the Hobbit
EB White
Little Britches
Little House
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Yes, I am notorious for re-reading again and again. I read Little Women at least 7 times and memorized the poems in it. I think it is because I so identified with one of the characters. I also re - read many of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's books. I really enjoyed reading and re-reading Thomas B. Costain's books.
I've also re-read a number of histories like the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.
Of course, I re-read a lot of children's literature as I enjoy it and have many to share it with.
Janet
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With my girls:
Narnia
Little House
Lissa's Little House
The Secret Garden
A Little Princess
Anne of Green Gables
Charlotte's Web
Little Women
For me:
All of the above
All my C.S. Lewis books
Father Elijah
The Little Prince
My Antonia and O Pioneers
The Great Gatsby
Fire Within
Emily Dickinson's poetry
plus the tons I'm leaving out ....
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The Velvet Room
Shadow Castle
Narnia series
The Hobbit
Little House Series
All by Maria Von Trapp
James Herriot books
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Secret Garden
Stuart Little
Anne of Green Gables series
Little Women
Gone Away Lake and Return to Gone Away
I keep going back to favorite spiritual reading, such as:
I Believe in Love
Story of a Soul
Holiness for Housewives (or Praying While You Work)
I'm finding the list could go on forever. Reference books I reread also....depending on what "unit study" I'm doing...pregnancy, fertility, liturgical year books, cookbooks, Montessori, CM methods...which reminds me I need to get my copy of "Real Learning" back from my sister to reread....
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Oh, yes! My copy of "Real Learning" has been with a friend for about nine months. I should just buy another copy!!!! I never was able to read it the first time around (only had it a few days when I loaned it) which is why I joined the CCM group and forum. Maybe one of these days I will be able to read it. 
Marybeth
PS I have to confess to rereading Bridget Jones and Bridget Jones Edge of Reason. I do like Bridget so much!! She cracks me up!
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LOTR
Little Women
Gone with the Wind
James Herriott books
Diana Gabaldon books
A Christmas Carol
Narnia
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I re-read lots of books, especially books on home education.
The series I have read and re-read the most would be the Little House series, without a doubt.
Leonie in Sydney
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My mother used to say that that was one of the best things about growing old, that you could re-read all your old favorites and enjoy them all over again (having forgotten them by that point! )
I'm not sure where I would begin on a list of favorite books. Like Jenn, I read lots of reference books and homeschooling books, loved the Maria von Trapp books and Mary Reed Newland books for liturgical year "reference", currently into what I call "insight" books like "God on the Quad" by Naomi Shaeffer Riley, and "Last Child in the Woods" that is being discussed on the Nature thread or "The Restoration of Christian Culture" ( a fourth or fifth run re-read-what a great book!).
But then, I'll tear the blanket with non-fiction and go on a rampage of fiction or mystery, usually one author at a time, exhausting all their available books. It's probably about time to restart all the "Master and Commander" series by Patrick O'Brien. Wonderful books. All-time favorite mystery series would have to be the Lord Peter Wimsey series by Dorothy Sayers. (I wanted to name my first-born Peter Wimsey but my husband but his foot down on that.)
And of course, one of the best things about homeschooling has been discovering/rediscovering great children's books! I've re-read "Little House on the Prarie" several times and never fail to be moved by it (I took my kids to LIW's house on the prairie in Kansas and proceded to burst into tears!!!) By the way, Jenn, is "The Velvet Room" you mentioned the one by the woman with three funny names (Keatley? Zeatley? Sneadley???), about the girl whose family works as migrant laborers? If so, I have to say that I absolutely LOVED that book. SOmehow, that image of the velvet room, that place of comfort and safety (after going thru the dark house to get there) has stuck with me since childhood.
I don't know about you all, but I typically have several books going simultaneously. Probably not a very good habit!
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Kelly wrote:
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Yes, Zilpha K. Snyder. Amazon has some great reviews.
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Ditto!!! Drives my husband crazy!
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Ah yes, Zilpha K. Snyder...I KNEW there was a "Z" in her name somewhere! I went over and checked the reviews on Amazon and was surprised to see how that book seems to have attached itself to the imagination of so many then-girls-now-grownups in the very same way! The dark corridors, the lush comfort and safety of "the velvet room", the BOOKS! Time to go ferret out my old copy (especially now that I see used copies going for upwards from $65!!!).
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I think the appeal of The Velvet Room is also at the age we read it...pre-adolescent/adolescent years are a bit hard and sometimes lonely at times.
I had asked one of my sisters her all-time favorite fiction book, and she replied with the same title. As she is my youngest sister and goddaughter and I had many times "directed" her reading, that response just filled me with joy!
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