Books You Can't Stop Reading

[Joywitch M. Curmudgeon]

I like this thread much more than that embarassing "who did you have 
a crush on when you were young and stupid" thread.

Here are the books I've read 10 or more times:

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle (I've never really liked any of 
her other books)

All of the Pern books by Anne McCaffrey (I'm surprised that I'm the 
only one to have mentioned these so far.  I read the entire series -- 
must be about 12 books by now, and a new one recently came out -- 
about once a year.  It seems like the type of universe that HP fans 
would like.)

The Object of My Affection by Steven McCauley  (One of the funniest 
books I've ever read.  I am madly in love with half the characters.)

Robert Heinlein's "juvenile" works.  While the stuff he wrote for 
adults includes some classic sci-fi, such as "Stranger in a Strange 
Land," I much prefer the stuff he wrote for young people.  I must 
have read "Space Cadet" 20 times.  I also love Between Planets, Red 
Planet, The Rolling Stones, Farmer in the Sky, Time for the Stars, 
The Star Beast, and Tunnel in the Sky.  Another interesting Heinlein 
book is Starman Jones, from which I'm pretty sure Gene Roddenbury got 
a lot of his ideas for Star Trek.  Heinlein wrote great sci-fi -- 
sexist, often preachy about Heinlein's half-baked libertarianism, 
but "must read" stuff for sci-fi fans.  Stay away from most of his 
adult stuff though, unless you enjoy reading books whose main 
characters are always horny, ugly old men who for some inexplicable 
reason are extremely attractive to beautiful, sexy, young women.

There are also a lot of mysteries I've ready over and over again, 
most of them by Agatha Christie and Dick Francis.  Also, a mystery 
called Double Negative by David Carkeet.

The Secret Garden -- I think that's by Frances Hodgson Burnett 	
	
Oh, and of course Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and a few other 
Roald Dahl books like Matilda, James and the Giant Peach, & The 
Witches

I'm sure there's more, but I'll stop here.

--Joywitch