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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    Intensity by Dean Koontz, when I was a kid, the outsiders by SE Hinton, and I’ve reread the book Son of a Grifter by Kent Walker quite a few times.

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    I think it’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower at maybe 6 reads? So nostalgic and always worth revisiting. Not to mention, it’s very easy to read, so that helps.

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    Demian by Herman Hesse. Although it’s not as impactful to me as the first time I read it, I enjoy the new interpretations I have with each read. I would find phrases that never struck me before but do when I read them. I pick it up almost yearly, and the annotations I left are sort of a great marker of where my head was at and see how my perspective changed.

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    I have to say terribly Twilight 13 times, i reread it every time there was a new book coming out and i was kind of obsessed with the book as a preteen. My paperback copy literally fell apart one day.

    For adult me Outlander i have at least 6 reads of since my first read at like 16. I only got through book 5 and every time i want to read more of the series i start totally over and never end up getting past 5.

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    It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vinzinni. sad to say it didn’t age that well but i’ve read it five times

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    I have read the Percy Jackson series atleast 5 times. Throne of Glass twice.

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    Catcher in the Rye. 4 times, 4 different books, 4 different decades. Have yet to read it , now 53, in this decade of life. First time at 16ish, again in my 20s, 30s & 40s.

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    It would have been a Thomas the tank engine book that I used to read a lot when I was little. Now that I have so many books that I haven’t read yet, I hardly ever read a book more than once