10 Library Books Most Frequently Read More Than Once (PHOTOS)

We asked HuffPost Readers to tell us which books they reread the most. But we also wondered which library books people most frequently reread. It wasn't easy to find the answer. Agroup of panelists used their knowledge of reading habits and publishing trends to compile a list. The following list is not ranked and excludes religious books.

Some of these were already on your list of favorite books to read more than once. Any surprises here? Let us know.

1 of 10

"The Lord of the Rings" J.R.R. Tolkien

1 of 11

First Slide

Previous Slide

@

10 American Heroes You Didn't Know About

8 Legendary Same-Sex Couples (PHOTOS)

Self-Diagnosis Book: 11 Nasty Ailments You Might Have (PHOTOS)

Eating Badly: 7 Consequences Of Fast Food

gadgets/slideshows/225673/slide_225673_962522_small.jpg

The 9 Craziest 'Bachelor' Contestants (WATCH)

Processed Food: 9 Nasty Truths About The Meals You Eat (PHOTOS)

comments(116)

Total comments: 116 | Post a Comment

1 of 11

This Reread

Rank #2  |  Average: 4

Never read it, never want to This is one of mine, too!

• 
  1
• 
  2
• 
  3
• 
  4
• 
  5
• 
  6
• 
  7
• 
  8
• 
  9
• 
  10

Top 5 Rereads

loading...

Top 5 Rereads

UserName

 | Become a fan

Picked These as the Top 5 Slides in the Slideshow

loading...

Top User Slides

← Prev|Next →

 | Become a fan

Picked These as the Top 5 Slides in the Slideshow

loading...

Users who voted on this slide

← Prev|Next →

loading...

Comments

[manelady]

07:04 PM on 03/30/2011

So many of the noted books are on my shelf. Although I am an avid Kindle reader, there are still certain books I need to live with. The good thing about an ebook is that you can read the ones you really don't keep and save some money for the truly great ones in hardback.

[jacksager924]

04:55 PM on 03/26/2011

Anything by Douglas Adams... I have read all of his books, even the Dirk Gently ones, at least six or seven times.

[Spock]

01:17 PM on 03/16/2011

I've read Watership Down five times.

I'd read more often by my copy fell apart. :(

[tinaterrific]

11:59 AM on 03/14/2011

Definitely Pride and Prejudice. I've worn that book out.

[Tails]

02:33 PM on 03/09/2011

Heart Of Darkness?

Les Mis?

[Rita R]

03:50 PM on 03/08/2011

Add Machiavelli to the list. I picked up "The Prince" recently and found that every single word could apply to our current political scenarios.

[macgyver51]

10:04 AM on 03/08/2011

Good to see Lord of the Rings on the list. As someone who is not at all a fantasy reader, the fact that I read the trilogy+Hobbit twice a year is still always the highlight of my literary year.

[Annieke]

08:09 AM on 03/08/2011

As a young girl I loved Anne of Green Gables. They are not for sale in Dutch and in the pre-internet era they were hard to come by in The Netherlands. My father bought them at a business trip to the US and although I was only nine at the time and did not have English lessons yet in school (we started at ten with English), I read them anyway, a dictionary at hand.

Anne tought me English, or at least the basics.

[Ayn Ranaway]

08:01 AM on 03/08/2011

what, no Infinite Jest? Come ON people...

[writeit]

07:41 AM on 03/08/2011

It's so refreshing to read that people are still reading hardcopy, as well as E, books. I know the whole digital, social networking, E-Book thing is awesome but there's something to be said for holding an actual book in your hand while reading it. I know this sounds weird (whatever), but I have also always loved the smell of a new book as I opened it to begin reading, even as a really young kid. The spectrum of favorites is also pretty impressive. As one post stated, "Great list. Read them all." Ditto! My top favorites, (there are so many); Flaubert's Sentimental Education; Faulkerner's, Light In August; Gabriel Garcia's, One Hundred Years of Solitude; Crane's, Red Badge of Courage; Naomi Klein's, Shock Doctrine; Dan E. Moldea's, Dark Victory; Ronald Reagan, MCA, and The Mob; John Perkins's, Confessions of an Economic Hitman... just to name a few. Good night... I mean morning, everyone, again! Have a good one.

[Skyhawk]

12:19 AM on 03/08/2011

No Sherlock Holmes?

[Annieke]

08:05 AM on 03/08/2011

Or Agatha Christie?

[jwald1]

11:39 PM on 03/07/2011

Catcher in the rye?

[jwald1]

11:36 PM on 03/07/2011

I was shocked not to see East of Eden, or Grapes of Wrath. No Steinbeck????

[ESerafina42]

12:11 AM on 03/08/2011

I guess he's not fashionable at the moment, but he may be again the way things are going, that Commie. :)

[rickthaluddite]

10:36 AM on 03/08/2011

I had a prof in university (in the early 90s) tell me that Steinbeck wasn't an important writer-- this was in a 20th century American Literature class. What a dork.

[chic chick]

02:48 PM on 04/15/2011

Found this randomly today (4/15/11)! after following another link. Agree with you about Steinbeck. Have you ever read Sweet Thursday (sequel to Cannery Row)? To me, it is his best. He's my favorite author ever, I own East of Eden and Grapes of Wrath and re-read them every few years.

[Spirited Away]

11:36 PM on 03/07/2011

Not on the list, but I love William Faulkner's Light in August. It is a beautiful book, though a grisly murder is part of its plot. I also like Margaret Atwood's, A Handmaids Tale. It's a speculative fiction and surreal and troubling novel. I do like Jane Austin and the Lord of the Rings. In non-fiction, I like Kevin Phillips and his books Bad Money, and American Theocracy.

[msinmo]

12:11 AM on 03/09/2011

I've found somebody else who loves Light in August! Remember the passage with Hightower sitting in front of the window? I must have read it twenty times--so beautiful and so powerful. Fulkner is always a challenge, but worth the effort. I read many of his passages over and over trying to figure out exactly how he does what he does, but it's just magic.

[cuzimacheater]

11:23 PM on 03/07/2011

I'm just reading To Kill A mocking Bird now. I wish I had read it as a kid. It really seems like a nook you could read and find new appreciation for at different stages of life. I'd like to re-read one day at Atticus' age.

[msinmo]

12:23 AM on 03/09/2011

You are right about this book. It is a novel that just keeps on giving. You will understand it a lot more now (or at least differently) than you would have as a kid--at least I got more out of it as a adult reader. I've read it four or five times in the last 30 years, and each time I find more in it.