Not including short story collections, poetry collections, anthologies, etc.
For me, I believe it’s Oroonoko by Aphra Behn because it was on the syllabus for three different classes that I took in college. Other than that, the most I’ve read a single book is twice, and that was Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon. I’ve read Dracula 1.5 times. Didn’t finish it the second time around.
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The only books I’ve ever reread are the Hobbit/lotr. I finished my 4th reread earlier this year. And I’ll do it again!
It, by Stephen King. I must have read that book almost 50 times and it just keeps getting better.
Little Women, The Handmaid’s Tale, and Too Kill a Mockingbird.
The Harry Potter series. Every time a new one came out, I re-read the whole series. And I still re-read it every few years now.
Goodnight Moon, or there is a Nightmare in my Closet. I read the m pretty much daily to my children.
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight - it’s fun and meta
The Alchemist or Catcher in the Rye. I like how my perspective of the characters change as I get older in the Catcher, and I always pick up on something different when I read the Alchemist.
The Color Purple.
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis. I’ve read it once every few years for the last 30 years. It’s my comfort book.
The Host by Stephanie Meyer
The Road Home by Ellen Emerson White.
Randomly picked it up from the library in middle school and must have read it like 8 times. Still own a hard copy of it in my personal library.
It’s an exploration of self doubt, healing and recovery. A journey through the personal growth and development of someone who decided to join the military because they wanted to become part of something, to be important, and it fractured everything they thought they knew about themselves.
It had a huge impact on my younger self.
To Kill a Mockingbird. Closely followed by Inferno, not the whole trilogy, just Inferno.
I don’t reread books a lot anymore for time reasons. Even if I like a book, I usually go digging into the authors body of work. Books that do get a reread also get a spot on my personal book shelf.
But then there’s the Percy Jackson series, esp volume 1 – it’s just comforting and sometimes I need to conjure the illusions of safety I had as a kid. Life is rough, but then there’s this nostalgic and affirming book of victories over fictionalized mythological monsters. I’ve lost track of how many times I reread this tbh.
I’ve read Harry Potter countless times, I used to read the whole series every summer break, it was just so comforting.
Apart from that I’ve also read “To kill a mockingbird” a good few times, I love the story, the narrative and the humour !
I’m also not in the habit of re-reading even my most beloved books. But I have made some exceptions: #1 of re-read novels is hands down: War and Peace. About 20 years ago, I was in the habit of reading it every Christmas season (not sure why - other than it’d generally be the longest continuous span of time I’d have free). Probably read it 5 times in that era. Before and since then have read it at least 2-3 more times. Last read was 2 years ago; so I’m likely going back to it soon. Second to that, in my younger years, I’d have to guess it would be either The Hobbit, Dune or the Chronicles of Narnia. Lastly, I’ve read One Hundred Years of Solitude, Anna Karenina & Great Gatsby at least 3x each.