I re-read a ton.
Maybe 1/4 of the books I read in a year.
Sometimes more.
Taking “Do you have books you re-read regularly?” as a prompt, I commented the following:
I re-read the following each year:
- Ambergris (3 books), Vandermeer
- Area X/Southern Reach (3 books), Vandermeer
- Hyperion, Simmons
- Enders Game, Scott Card
- Flowers for Algernon, Keyes
Some others I’ll re-read every other year:
- Blood Meridian, McCarthy
- The Fountainhead, Rand
- Do the Work, Pressfield
- Call of Cthulhu, Lovecraft
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Pirsig
- Solaris, Lem
- Antifragile, Taleb
Why? I guess to recapture the feeling of that first read :)
Because they’re awesome.
Nod.
“Because they’re awesome” is enough of a reason.
The context above was scifi, but some non-fiction slipped in.
There’s also a ton of business and writing books I re-read often. Typically at the start of a project - to fire me up.
I also re-brainwash myself using books on topics like health and investing.
Perhaps these are books lists for another time.