Books you've read at least twice

Actually, I'm just in the midst of rereading some favorites...like:

The Time Machine

Lost Horizon

Catcher in the Rye

Red Shift (by Alan Garner)

The Member of the Wedding

I have read the first two chapters of Rook Endings by Levenfish and Smyslov about ten times.  Every time I decide to study the rest of the book, I always end up studying the first two chapters again.

I went through Logical Chess a few times, until finally wringing out all there was to be had.

Think Like a GM. A good one for cheering one towards an ordered thought process, though not so practical in actually helping the player achieve that goal.

Best Lessons of a Chess Coach. Some great examples to follow in that one, and it's pretty simple to digest.

Of course some more text-driven chess books that as a chess history fan I have read many times.

Lord of the Rings a bunch of times but not in recent decades, if you except listening to all 48 hours of the audio book, which I finished a few months ago.

I also read my differential equations textbook a number of times over because it was a block of pretentious nonsense.

Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess, maybe 7-8+ times

Oh, chess books?  I've read a ton of chess books twice.

I just picked up Silman's Complete Endgame Course and have a feeling I'll be reading it more than just once.

Also going to pick up Streetfighting Chess now to show support for fellow Chess.com member...

Short list:

Logical Chess by Chernev;

Chess Master vs. Chess Amateur by Euwe;

Simple Chess by Stean;

Best Lessons of a Chess Coach by Weeramantry;

Winning Chess Tactics for Juniors by Hays;

I have a 35 book library with many I still have yet to read once.

Anything by Vonnegut is great.

Except that one that he himself admitted sucked.

I read all of Vonnegut's books in about a year and a half. Mother Night, The Sirens of Titan, Slaughter House Five, Player Piano, etc. I was 18 - 19. Then I read all of Kerouac. I went through a Kafka phase like that, but I don't read like that anymore. On the Road (Kerouac) I read more than once, and The Subterraneans and Dr. Sax.

Logical chess move by move irving chernev. and Petrosian VS the Elite both very good books.

Haven't done it yet, but I fully intend to read Seirawan's "Winning Chess Tactics" and "Winning Chess Strategies" a couple more times.

I have a couple compilations of his short stories, published and unpublished. Some of them are excellent. Some of them - from his first years as a writer - were mediocre but you can still see his writing style and knack for "holy shit that's deep" moments emerging.

I read Winning Chess Tactics once. I found it a bit disappointing: too few examples. My current tactics book, Chess Tactics for Champions, I will read at least 2, and maybe 3 times as there are 25 or 50 examples per motif, plus additional problems on mate in 3 and mate in 4.

At least two that AndyClifton mentioned... Alan Garner's Red Shift & H.G.Wells' The Time Machine (plus a lot of his short stories).

Other multiple reads, off the top of my head: George Orwell's 1984, L.P.Hartley's The Go-Between, C.S.Lewis' The Magician's Nephew (my favourite of all the Narnia books), several sci-fi books by Iain M. Banks (Transition, Matter, Excession, State of the Art), Douglas Adams' Hitchkiker's Guide, G.K.Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday, Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time, John Varley's Millennium & Titan trilogy, many of J.L.Borges' short stories, T.H.White's The Sword in the Stone, and Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat.  

Yes, a fascinating piece of work. It explains how the Russians were able to exploit an alien to discover the real secrets of chess. The alien married the great grandmother of the author and fathered a series of well known players like Smyslov, Bogoljubov, Bronstein and Krasneperov.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Smileys People (and the rest of the series too)

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!

Men of Mathematics (E.T. Bell)

East of Eden

It is said that the alien has been inhabiting earth for over 4000 years and is still wandering in the streets these days.

Hey, you're the first one I've ever encountered who knew about Red Shift!  Even though I think it's awesome, my stupid library doesn't even have it. 

Also loved The Go-Between.  And another one in a similar mood (although unfortunately it's burdened by a terrible resolution):