What are your favourite re-reads?

cynic

Bustle released a list of 15 most popular re-read books at Goodreads (check out the article here). There are a few classics there along with Harry Potter, of course.

I personally believe you get something new out of the book each time you read it. Do you re-read books? Or believe in "Too many books, too little time"? What are your favorite re-reads? Do share.

Mousetrap

I realize that I haven't read many books in my lifetime because I'd much rather reread my favourites again and again. It's not easy to list out the books that I like to reread because there are so many. I'm yet to discover a non-fiction book that I wanted to read again.

As for the list, I'm surprised that 'Lord of the Flies' is there - that book was quite disturbing.

Rushcourt71

Among the classics-

1. Sherlock Holmes

2. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

3. Famous Five

4. Sense and Sensibility

5. Pride and Prejudice

Among Self Help Books

1. How to make friends and influence people

2. How to activate both sides of the brain

3. Improve your conversations

4. Body language: how to be a human lie detector

5. How to talk to strangers

Among Political books

1. Debt: The First 5, 000 Years

2. The Merchant Kings, when companies rule the world

3. Inglorious Empire: What the British did to India

4. Tyrants: History's 100 most evil despots and dictators

5. The new rulers of the world by John Pilger

Business/Commerce

1. The Retail Revolution: How Wal Mart created a brave new world

2. Adwords, Secret hacks revealed

3. The power of customer service

4. Scientific Advertising by Claude Hopkins

5. Motivation for entrepreneurs

Miscellaneous

1. Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus

2. Why men and women can't be friends

3. The case for free trade and open immigration

4. The Thriving Introvert

5. The law of honesty

Biographies

1. The Secret Life of Houdini

2. Lenin the Dictator

3. The Life and Times of Rasputin

4. Graywolf by Harold Armstrong

5. Aleister Crowley: man, myth, magick

Copywriting

1. Million Dollar Copywriting Secrets

2. Billion Dollar copywriting

3. Persuasion: The ultimate copywriting superpower

4. Online copywriting

5. Copywriting sourcebook

soothsayer

Pride and Prejudice
To kill a mockingbird
The entire series written by Georgette Heyer and Agatha Christie

Meself

Mahabharat.


I don't think I will ever get enough out of that mega book!

cynic

Rushcourt71 14-8-2018 06:33 PM
Among the classics-

1. Sherlock Holmes

Wow! That is quite a list. Thanks for sharing.

I am quite intrigued by "Body language: how to be a human lie detector".

cynic

Mousetrap 14-8-2018 06:11 PM
I realize that I haven't read many books in my lifetime because I'd much rather reread my favourites ...

I totally get you. Reading is not a number game, but the joy of it. I recently came across an article on how Goodreads tends to rub it in that you are not reading enough, and the whole FOMO. Quite interested to know the club's view on it.

Rushcourt71

cynic 15-8-2018 03:27 PM
Wow! That is quite a list. Thanks for sharing.

I am quite intrigued by "Body language: how to  ...

Thank you for your interest.

I was not sure what mods and other users would think of my list, but being a born risk taker, I took the chance anyway.

I could have added more, but I wanted to test the waters first and besides there was not enough space to add in all of my favourites. The list was not comprehensive as I was juggling with other responsibilities at the time. I am currently writing a review of another book (about Houdini) for the book review section, so when I am finished I will see if I 'might' post that as well. I say 'might' because I may also find another book more interesting instead later as well.

As to the book you mentioned, 'Body language': how to be a human lie detector', if there is a demand, I may write a review in the book review section. I would rather keep you intrigued by revealing nothing about it so I can keep the suspense until I finish my review. I have the book in my kindle device, so someone else will have to find it from the net and put it on the site if users want to read it.

I hope you and the other users are not offended by my style of directness and my different approach on the forum, but I like to be an 'out of the box' kind of activist.     

cynic

Rushcourt71 15-8-2018 06:32 PM
Thank you for your interest.

I was not sure what mods and other users would think of my list, but ...

As long as you are civil with fellow members, there is no issue.

Do share your reviews whenever you can. Quite interested in reading them.

jhsurti

In the non-fiction series, the books that I would like to re-read are not many - The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins and A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking.

Non-fiction that I have and will re-read:

1. And There Were None - Agatha Christie
2. Not A Penny More Not A Penny Less - Jefferey Archer
3. The Day of the Jackal - Frederick Forsyth
4. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
5. Sacred Games - Vikram Chandra (I am currently re-reading this)
6. Papillon - Henri Cherriere
7. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky