1. Probably the book I have read and re-read the most is Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. I first read it in Junior high and then re-read at least once a year for the next 6 or 7 years and I read it again this year for the favorite re-read square. I even have an audio version that I listen to from time to time. It is such a well written story that I find new things to think about and ponder over each time I read it.

2. Wheel of the Infinite by Martha Wells is so good. Every year, the Wheel of the Infinite must be painstakingly remade to ensure peace and harmony. And every hundred years, the Wheel and the world become one. But now a black storm ravages the beautiful mandala, and a woman with a shadowy past -- an exile, murderer, and traitor -- has been summoned back to put the world right. For if Maskelle and the swordsman Rian cannot stop the Wheel's accelerating disintegration -- then all that is what and will be...will end I first read it in high school and have re-read it a few times since then. I just love the plot and the main protagonist. Maskelle is an older woman who is an outcast. There is not a lot of fantasy out there that evolves around an older woman (if you know of any please rec them to me). Maskelle is a fully fleshed out protagonist who has regrets because of her past, and a mission to save her world whether those in power want her help or not. As I have gotten older the more I appreciate Martha Wells writing a book like this one.

3. Persuasion by Jane Austen. I also read this one in high school and there is just something about it that brings me back to it again and again. I think it is because it is about getting a second chance to be with the one you love. Plus it is so well written.

Fantastic! I am ashamed to say I don't think I've read Jane Eyre... must remedy that!

You totally should. It has such a lovely complex great heroine.

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Jane Eyre is on my list too, one of my absolute favourites.

It is so great! Such a lovely complex heroine.

1. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen, which I'm currently re-reading for the re-read square. Even as a young child first reading it I connected very strongly with Elinor.

2. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. Another book with a strong female protagonist that spoke to me.

3. The Complete Sherlock Holmes Collection by Arthur Conan Doyle. I first read the whole collection when I was about 9 and then promptly re-read it as soon as I'd finished. And then again until the copy I was reading fell apart - I learnt to be much more careful with books after that! I think I'm probably due a re-read.

I love all three of these books. Elinor is a gem who I think is underappreciated in the Austen fandom. (I have already gushed about Jane Eyre.) I have loved Sherlock since I read his books as a child, it is another one I have returned to again and again. I love all the book/movie/tv incarnations.

1. Harry Potter: I read the whole series twice in French, thrice in English and once in Italian ;-)

2. "The Unbearable Lightness of being", Milan Kundera: I've read it thrice and it's typically the kind of book you understand in different ways as you grow older!

3. "The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe", C.S. Lewis: as a child, this one of my favourite book and I read it a few times! Then as a young adult, as I started to be able to read novels in English, I re-read it and that's when I discovered it was part of a series so I re-read it with the other novels.

The Harry Potter series - Have to count them as a whole, because you could easily fill up all three choices with these books.
The Outsiders - First read when I was in junior high, and to me, the story still holds up today.
How The Grinch Stole Christmas - A childhood favorite that I reread every year.

1. The Lord of the Rings trilogy - J.R.R. Tolkien - first read when I was maybe 12 and then a handful of times since then until the films came out. Then I re-read it each time a new film came out and for a few years after. Still love it.

2. The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough - adore this book and can pick it up and read it just about any time.

3. The Patrick Melrose Novels by Edwards St Aubyn. Read these first of all at the end of last year and have read them again this year. Set to become an oft-read favourite. The recent TV series has deepened my appreciation for them.

The Warlord Trilogy by Bernard Cornwell (The Winter King, Enemy of God, and Excalibur). It's a historical fiction take on King Arthur, with no magic but lots of dark age battles and politics. In fact, this reminds me I must be due another re-read soon... :-)

The entire Harry Potter series. Every time a new book came out I had a tendency to re-read all the previous books before reading the new one, so I've read the early books quite a lot more times than the later ones.

Jurassic Park. Because... dinosaurs!!!!