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  • " When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton. "

  • HHGTTG Tue trilogy of 5 I've read through maybe 5 times now. Unfortunately I think the last time was a mistake as I really struggled after the first 2 books and didn't enjoy them like I once had.

  • The entire series of Culture books by Iain M Banks, they're just phenomenally written.

    Others I've reread at least twice:

    Frank Herbert's DUNE series

    Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash

    The Thievesworld anthology series

    Alastair Reynolds House of Suns

    William Gibson's Jackpot books

    • Neuromancer might be my favourite cyberpunk book of all time but so far Jackpot has failed to hook me.

      • I've liked the Jackpot series, but I absolutely adore the Sprawl series. I also loved the bridge series.

      • The appeal is Gibson's writing, he's developed a lot in the intervening decades. IMO he's a much better writer these days than he was at the start of his career. The plot of the Jackpot books might not hook you as much as the sprawl but his writing is great.

        Check out Ian McDonald's River of Gods and Cyberabad Days if you liked Neuromancer, those are in the same vein and exceptionally well imagined. Skip the novella titled Vishnu at the Cat Circus until after River of Gods, it spoils everything set in the India 2047 setting (it's the last thing in the Cyberabad Days collection.)

  • Ascendance of a Bookworm series by Miya Kazuki (Light Novel) and on every reread i discover something new that was forshadowed.

    There is whole instance dedicated to that series.

    1. H.G. Wells’ Time Machine
    2. Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide
    3. J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter
    4. Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451
    5. Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club

  • Metro 2033

    The Kingkiller Chronicle

    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (all five)

  • I have read hitchhiker's guide four or five times, also the next two books. I've listened to them as audiobooks at least 10 times I'm not exactly keeping track but I used to have that on as my driving music.

    I read snow crash twice and listened to it probably about a dozen times years ago. Now that I have teenage kids I'm not quite as impressed by its treatment of people in the book.

    I've read most of the popular Cthulhu lure more times than I will freely admit.

  • Ascendance of a Bookworm, shoutout to !aoblightnovel@bookwormstory.social

    I’ve never been one for reading. Even for books with movies I love, I always found reading books myself a chore.

    But when I saw the Ascendance of a Bookworm anime, I wanted to know what was going to happen after the season ended. This lead me to the Manga, which was behind at the time, then the light novel.

    The word is rich and it has a depth that isn’t daunting. The character you meet feel like they have their own lives, and the sheer number of side stories which isn’t about our main character is wonderful.

    This was the series the made me get an eReader just for the books and the many spin offs. And I now preorder it to get the prerelease chapters to get my bookworm fix every mynesday.

    The translation work is amazing the story is my cup of tea, and I will recommend it to those who want something new.

  • Read X times Title

    2 Everybody Lies

    3 Storyworthy

    3 The Design of Everyday Things

    3 Think Again

    2 Beyond Command and Control

    3 Good Strategy/Bad Strategy

    2 First Break All the Rules

    3 Never Split the Difference

    2 Antifragile

    2 Fooled by Randomness

    2 Skin in the Game

    2 Black Swan

    2 Talking To Strangers

    3 Call Center Management on Fast Forward

    4 The Effective Manager

    2 Atomic Habits

    2 Never Eat Alone

    2 An Economist Walks Into a Brothel

    2 The Tipping Point

    3 Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes

    7 Powerful

    3 Effective Hiring Manager

    7 The Total Money Makeover

    2 Dare to Lead

    4 Great at Work

    7 The 4 Disciplines of Execution

    5 Unlearn

    2 The Hard Thing About Hard Things

    2 The Best Service is No Service

    9 The Effective Executive

    5 Financial Intelligence

    2 Understanding Complexity

    2 How to be an Antiracist

    2 Deep Work

    2 Happier Now

    2 The Fearless Organization

    3 Algorithms to Live By

    3 Four Thousand Weeks, Time Management for Mortals

    3 Thinking in Systems

    2 Multipliers

    2 The Scout Mindset

    2 High Conflict

    2 The Prince

    2 Not Nice

    2 The Value of Everything

    2 Born a Crime

    2 Freakonimics

    2 Human Sigma

    2 Getting Things Done

    3 Rework

    2 Linchpin

    2 White Fragility

    2 Complexity

    2 Parenting with Love and Logic

    2 The Five Temptations of a CEO

    2 21 Laws of Leadership

    2 Failing Forward

    2 Our Iceberg is Melting

    2 TNIV Bible

    2 Graveyard Shift and Other Stories

    2 The Dictators Handbook

    2 The First 90 Days

    2 Where the red fern grows.

  • There are many. The Idiot and Crime & Punishment both by Fedor Dostojevskij among the others.

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