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- 1. Animal Farm by George Orwell
2. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes [1]
3. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley
4. I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette Mccurdy
5. Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris
6. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe [2]
7. Cosmos by Carl Sagan
8. The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins [3]
9. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
10. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander [4]
11. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
12. Billions and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium by Carl Sagan [5][6][7]
13. Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide to Atheism by Richard Dawkins
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50076596
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47452253
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48326741
[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49539535
[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49751771
by chistev - A few:
- Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (thrice)
- The Color of Distance by Amy Thomson (twice)
- Fox 8 by George Saunders (twice)
by drakonka - Dave Duncan, A handfull of men.
It is the second series in the same world, and all the people have grown up. The kids became parents and think like responsible adults. It talks in an adult way about quite a few horrific events, without overdoing it. It gave child me an idea about what the difference actually was.
Apart from that, it had an interesting magic system.
by hyperman1 - J.R.R. Tolkien: The lord of the Rings (lost count)
Philip K. Dick: Ubik, Flow My Tears The Policeman Said, A Scanner Darkly, etc. too many to count (many more than twice)
William Gibson: everything at least twice
Neal Stephenson: Snow crash (three times, I think)
Clifford D. Simak: City
H. P. Lovecraft: everything at least twice. There is a French compilation of The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, The Silver Key, and Through the Gates of the Silver Key that I've read countless times. I've used two editions and I'm at my third.
Maurice G. Dantec: Babylon Babies (three times)
Possibly many others.
by johncoltrane - Frank Herbert Dune, book, there is a graphic novel of the latest edition which I glanced through. Machiavelli The Prince Sun Tzu The Art of War Epictetus The Enchiridion Tao Te Ching- different editions The Odyssey in variety of formats, illustrated, graphic novel, book The King James Bible-- Different pieces at various points. Proverbs many times. Lewis Carroll-- Alices Adventures In Wonderland, book, annotated editionby NishanStepak
- Elizabeth Hand's Winterlong, probably 3-4 times.
Most of Raymond Chandler and Dashiel Hammet I've read multiple times. I've read Brautigan's Dreaming of Babylon a bunch of times too.
All of William Gibson. Miyazaki's Nausicaä of The Valley of Wind, in various languages. Stephen Cosgrove's Muffin Muncher, I couldn't say how many times I must have read that (It appears they've now changed the title to Muffin Dragon).
I've read The Soul of a New Machine a couple of times too. The Hitchhiker's and Dirk Gently's trilogies a few times.
Stefano Benni's Baol probably half a dozen times. And Acts of The Apostles by John FX Sundman a bunch too. Oh, and a few of Martin Gardner's books. And Smullyan's To Mock a Mockingbird.
And most probably also many others. Most of my books are now in boxes or have been gifted away, though.
by genezeta - When I was working as a machinist making gears, I read through the books I had from the 1632 Series by Eric Flint on rotation, by the time I got back to a story, there were new details I'd notice, over and over.
The books stayed there because I got Covid back in 2020, and I didn't get back to pick them up. Since Eric's death, the series is in some sort of limbo, and my attention span isn't what it used to be with Long Covid. 8(
I miss Mike Sterns and the whole world he moved to, though.
by mikewarot - Walter Tevis - Mockingbird (I’m not sure how many times)
Is from the 80s but re-reading lately with everything that is going on with AI it sounds more real than ever.
by pietrofmaggi