The TBRR List...

[Raf]

Unlike my TBR (To Be Read) list, I also have a growing (To Be Re-Read) list. Works whose content has stayed with me over the years that I want to re-experience. If I ever get the time.

Some of my top to be re-reads are:

James P. Blaylock - 3 Novel Series by Blaylock. "The Last Coin", "The Paper Grail" & "All the Bells on Earth". Some writers are just wordsmiths. His prose and characterizations just make it joy to read. Blaylocks heroes are typically quirky and oddly normal. His villains are scheming evil wannabes that sometimes come off as bumbling fools. You can't help from liking them. AKA Boris & Natasha bad.

Jitterbug Perfume - The best novel Tom Robbins ever wrote IMO. So far anyway...I'm a couple of books behind.

"Gospel" by Wilton Barnhardt - a global romp through the major world religions. Love the writing and characters in this one.

John Steinbeck's "Sweet Thursday" & "Cannery Row".....the books that the movie "Cannery Row" were based on. I get the Steinbeckian urge again whenever I see that movie again.

"Shogun" by James Clavell.

What's in your TBRR pile?

 

[Westy]

I have heaps - probably around 80% of what's on my bookshelves, because I usually only buy books that have re-readable value. But a few from the mix:

Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons

Asian Saga series by James Clavell (so agree on Shogun)

The Scar and PSS by China Mieville

Imajica and Weaveworld by Clive Barker

Dune, The Name of the Wind, The Exorcist, The Day of the Jackal...

 

[Agent Cormac]

My TBRR pile is pretty non-existent because I've read all my favourites three or four times:

*Most of Neal Asher's earlier books
*Peter Hamilton's, too
*Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time
*Pretty much everything Joe Abercrombie has written
*A few of Iain M Banks's Culture novels (not fond of all his SF novels)
*Frederick Forsyth's novels (I'm a fan too, Westy)
*I don't own a copy any longer, but I'd like to re-read Neil Gaiman's American Gods,

However, my TBR pile is growing as I find new favourite authors and buy up their books. Thing is, there are so many books out there...

 

[Westy]

Thing is, there are so many books out there...

Agreed! So many books, so little time...

 

[Hobbit]

...and so many suggestions here, too!

It's always a balance for me. I love reading stuff as they come out, but love going back to reread old favourites. And I also really appreciate having the luxury of just picking one up at random to reread, just because...

Being of a certain age, these days I am reading books that I read 30-40 years ago, and I know I read, but can remember very little about. There are some surprises there - both good and bad!

But here's a couple, for now:

Ash: A Secret History by Mary Gentle. Complex stuff that pays rereading.
All the Bond novels by Ian Fleming
Helliconia by Brian Aldiss.
Tad Williams' Dragonbone Chair (and the books afterwards)
Magician by Raymond Feist
Song of Ice and Fire... but that one can wait a few years longer...

I am still determined at some point to get past book 3 (or was it 4?) of Wheel of Time... but they don't really count as rereads...

 

[Agent Cormac]

I am still determined at some point to get past book 3 (or was it 4?) of Wheel of Time... but they don't really count as rereads...

Book 4 is my favourite out of the entire series. As I'm sure you're aware, Hobbit, the series has its ups and downs in terms of not so good and good instalments, but that's to be expected in a 14 volume series. A shame that Jordan didn't live to finish the series. At the time, however, I used to question if he ever could.

 

[Raf]

Joe Abercrombie?...now, see..that's kind of what I was looking for. Novels that some folks think are worthy of re-reads that I've never delved into. Authors that I might have missed along the way.

My main problem with The Wheel of Time? Randall Thor never grew up. He was a child from book 1 to the...the last book I read. 4? 5?. In situations that would have forced adulthood on most children (i.e Game of Thrones) he remained the boy king. While everyone around him grew into responsibility.

 

[Agent Cormac]

Fully agree; the WOT isn't perfect and there's plenty that could've been improved on. But for myself, it was one of the first epic fantasies I read so I had to finish it and, despite some of its weaknesses came to love it, warts and all.

Joe Abercrombie isn't perfect either but his characters grabbed me, those and his grim sense of humour. Some of those characters: Logan Ninefingers, Caul Shivers, Monza Murcatto and Sand dan Glokta are some of the best I've found in fantasy.

 

[Windshadow]

I to dip back into old favorites, Prattchet and Heinlein among others. but this year has been one of reading the newer long-form series of 10 to 20 shorter books that can be read in 4 or 5 hours each and tent to come out every few months... It is nice to pick up a series like these as they are already longer than 4 or 5 books long. This way you don't get the problem of an author who writes a good or interesting bit of world-building setting up what looks to be a good series and no further books are forthcoming.

This has happened with my favorite book of 2015. no new books in 6 years. https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Scul...fa2-b002e52e7228&pf_rd_r=XGHN7B0NY3Z19TJN3PEN