My Top Five Most Reread books

My top five most reread books.

This list started as a favorites list but that was too hard to figure the criteria. Would it be books that affected me emotionally? Characters that stuck with me the longest? Worlds that I wished I lived in and didn’t just get to visit?

I couldn’t do it. It felt wrong to pick one over another. When I’ve tried to list them in the past the titles always change depending on my mood or the person I’m conversing with. But right now I’m alone, in a fairly good mood, and thinking hard about the books I’ve REREAD the most in the last 3 decades (I’m 41 so Superfudge wasn’t considered. Of course there would be no contest.)

5. Lightning by Dean Koontz- I loved the Idea of a guardian angel showing up to save the day when ever life went bad. The romantic in me liked the whole falling in love with a women through reading her books and seeing how beautiful her words were even though life had contained so much ugly.

4. IT by Stephen King- This is two stories in one, the return to Dairy but also their childhood in Dairy. When I think of this story what always comes to mind first is the dam building scene. I remember doing that in little creeks when I was a kid. It’s funny how I think of the moments where the kids are just being kids and not the moments when the kids are being stalked by the murderess demon-clown Pennywise.

Looking forward to watching the new movie. The trailer looks good. But it’s a thick book. Hard to translate to the screen.

3. The Harry Potter Series by J.K.Rowling— I view the series as one long story so that’s why I listed it as one book. But of them all I think that The Order of the Phoenix is my favorite. I didn’t like it that much on my first read but after the book settled, and I went on to the next, and then the last, I felt I understood Harry’s actions and reactions much better. I also loved the D.A meetings (Neville Longbottom and Luna Lovegood really found a place in my heart).

2. Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card— What I think about most when this book comes to mind is the battle room and Dragon Army. I wonder how many more times I will get to read this book before I die. I will wish one more I’m sure.

1. The Witching Hour by Anne Rice— This one beats out Ender’s game only because it’s the only book I’ve ever reread so many times that the pages streamed off my nightstand as if to say I give up. The cover and spine eventually disintegrated in my hand. Each and every page loose from the binding. This book remains the only one that I completely and thoroughly wore out.

In ten years, I wonder if I’ll wear out another copy of The Witching Hour? Or will there be a story yet to be published that will turn to dust in my hands and become my new number one most reread book? Both– If I'm lucky.