Would you only visit a favorite city once? Enjoy a  delicious meal and then never eat it again? Meet a fascinating new person and then go your separate ways – forever? Of course not. So why should it be any different with books? In this episode, we discuss the many benefits (and a few potential pitfalls) of rereading and share some of our favorite experiences. What books do you return to most often?

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Books

• Arabesques, by Anton Shammas, translated by Vivian Eden

• Possession, by A.S. Byatt

• The Passenger, by Cormac McCarthy

• Stella Maris, by Cormac McCarthy

• In a Lonely Place, by Dorothy B. Hughes

• I Have Some Questions for You, by Rebecca Makkai

• The Great Believers, by Rebecca Makkai

• Doctor Thorne, by Anthony Trollope

• The Warden, by Anthony Trollope

• Barchester Towers, by Anthony Trollope

• Grand Hotel, by Vicki Baum, translated by Basil Creighton with revisions by Magot Bettauer Dembo

• The Hearing Trumpet, by Leonora Carrington

• Solenoid, by Mircea C?rt?rescu, translated by Sean Cotter

• Rereading: Seventeen Writers Revisit the Books They Love, edited by Anne Fadiman

• Ex Libris, by Anne Fadiman

• At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays, by Anne Fadiman

• Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, by Herman Melville

• The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkein

• The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkein

• Young Man with a Horn, by Dorothy Baker

• The French Lieutenant’s Woman, by John Fowles

• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams

• On the Road, by Jack Kerouak

• The Catcher on the Rye, by J.D. Salinger

• The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald

• Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen

• Emma, by Jane Austen

• Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen

• “The Piano Tuner’s Wives,” by William Trevor

• “An Idyll in Summer,” by William Trevor

• 2666, by Roberto Bolaño, translated by Natasha Wimmer

• Train Dreams, by Denis Johnson

• The Invention of Morel, by Adolfo Bioy Casares, translated by Ruth L.C. Simms

• Middlemarch, by George Eliot

• The Gormenghast Trilogy, by Melvyn Peake

• A Month in the Country, by J.L. Carr

• Stoner, by John Williams

• Butcher’s Crossing, by John Williams

• Augustus, by John Williams

• Nothing But the Night, by John Williams

• Bright Center of Heaven, by William Maxwell

• The Orchard Keeper, by Cormac McCarthy

• The Rings of Saturn, by W.G. Sebald

• The Emigrants, by W.G. Sebald

• Austerlitz, by W.G. Sebald

• Vertigo, by W.G. Sebald

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