I LOVE that Nick Hornby series. It’s great. I also love that Robert Harris is his brother in law. He says they get along because they’re about equally successful as authors.
@@StephaniePatterson-jb5it Yeah! I don’t know why that series isn’t talked about more on Booktube, and I was a bit sad when they ended, but I’m glad to have found another fan! Thanks for sharing! 💛
My really big fantasy rereads are: Tolkien (Hobbit & Lord of the Rings), Susan Cooper (The Dark is Rising sequence) & Le Guin (the Earthsea multiverse). After them, all my treasured rereads are poets (many, many). Thanks for another fun video.
I have read A Christmas Carol multiple times too - but ten times fewer than you have! 😅 I think my most read books are the two Dirk Gently books by Douglas Adams, which I have read probably six or seven times each in the last 25 years. I know for certain I've read The Wind in the Willows four times, and Terry Pratchett's Wyrd Sisters four times too.
It's so awesome that you've kept a reading journal for so long. I've only kept one since 2009. This was a fun topic to think about. My most read book has to be All Creatures Great and Small. I read it a couple of times before I graduated from high school and two or three since then. After that it would be To Kill a Mockingbird and A Christmas Carol which I've read three times. I am currently on my third read of Pride and Prejudice. I don't normally reread books often, but I have reread nine books this year so far.
@@LaurieInTexas I have never read All Creatures Great and Small! Shame on me. I’m so impressed that you have reread NINE books this year. There’s also a rereading event in December, Remember December. I’m actually going to have reread a higher number of books than usual this year as well. Thanks for sharing with me! 💛
So much fun Kelly! It’s so incredible that you have a record of everything you’ve read over the years. I just realized that I read the first chapter of The Things They Carried in college and thought it was a short story too.
@@GinaStanyerBooks Hey Gina! How was your weekend? The Things They Carried is not very cozy, but it is one of the best books I’ve ever read. I hope someday you can return to it. Thanks for commenting! 💛
I reread so many books as a child and preteen, though I didn't keep track of just how many times I read Lois Lenski's novels, The Babysitters' Club series, the Little House series, Carolyn Haywood's books, and all the other books I devoured. I was supposed to read The Scarlet Letter my freshwoman year of high school (in an English class at the tenth grade honors level), but our teacher was too busy preaching about conch shells, dirty razors, red hunting hats, and 101 other purported allegorical symbols to get to a lot of the books and plays in our synopsis. I haven't yet read the book, but I have seen the classic 1926 film version with Lillian Gish several times.
I haven't kept records as long as you, but I'm positive that my #1 re-read book is The Scarlet Letter. I've loved it since High School, so I'm so happy to see it getting love here!
Hi, Kelly! I have understood the whole your video! I am not an avid reader, but I have read "The Goldfinch" several times. Greetings from Saint-Petersburg, Russia.❤
I’ve always been a constant rereader since I was young. I think it started with the Babysitter’s Club and Judy Blume. I couldn’t tell what the numbers might be because I just didn’t record any of my reading until the last 6-7 years and even now I’m not super consistent. In my teens and 20s I read the Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice numerous times. White Oleander by Janet Fitch and books by Christopher Pike were also in rotation. I’ve read Pride and Prejudice about 20ish times. I’ve read the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series many times (I’m currently rereading those). And I’ve read almost all of Poppy Z Brite’s fiction many times. This isn’t close to a complete list but I really love revisiting characters and stories that I love so I plan to keep adding to it.
I have not been a rereader and I can't think of one book I reread as an adult! Charlotte's Web as child numerous times. I plan on doing a buddy read of One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus with a friend. My daughter has reread the Harry Potter Series multiple times. She calls it the comfort of reading familiar things. I figure there are so many books I would like to read why reread??? I think I may have considered rereading A Tree Grows In Brooklyn again. I remember loving it and being brought to tears when reading it. And of course I picked up a used copy somewhere along the line. Big surprise. 😉😏😀
@@marciajohansson769 I would recommend rereading A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, but I also agree with you when there are so many books to read, it’s hard to reread! 💛
👋 Kelly. I wish I had kept a book journal, I only started one just last year. But I really should reread more, I started a project 2 years ago to reread assigned books from high school to see if the reading experience would be vastly different as an adult. (Of course it would be). My most reread book is probably Musashi I have history with that book and my enjoyment of it has never changed. I hold out every year for a new translation, thats the dream. Since I discovered booktube, its probably P&P is my most reread book I get endless enjoyment from it, by far my favourite Austen. Happy reading, have a great week. Go well friend.
@@nathanfoung2347 Nathan, better to have started late than never. Did you read Cloudstreet in high school? I am amazed you have read P&P so many times! I love that book too, but since joining Booktube I have discovered how much I enjoy so many other things! Thanks for sharing with me. Be well, friend. 💛
The book I've re-read the most is Pride & Prejudice, which I'm sure I've read more than 20 times in my lifetime. I first read it when I was 12 and periodically re-read it, but I didn't start recording my books until my 30s (1985). I used a little notebook, just recording title & author. I didn't record my re-reads in that notebook. In 2009 I started recording my books in LibraryThing, including the ones in my notebook from 1985-2009 and all my reads & re-reads since 2009. LT tells me I've re-read P&P 10 times since 2009 (including on audio). Probably #2 would be Jane Eyre, guessing 8-10 times. I wish I had started recording earlier like you did. It is fun to look back--my earliest recorded books in the 80s were mostly about children, as my kids were toddlers then!🤣
@@kathleencraine7335 Kathleen, twenty times is amazing! I wonder if I will ever get there. So many books, so little time! Thank you so much for sharing with me your own experience with me in terms of keeping track of what you have read. 💛
I definitely reread the Harry Potter books when they had first came out in paperback, I reread the Twilight Saga books by Stephenie Meyer, I reread the book City of Bones by Cassandra Clare, I reread the book Jock Row by Sara Ney.
I’ve also read HP multiple times (twice since 2020 actually) and since there are 7 books, I bet that’s why you felt like you’d read them the most. That’s ALOT of time to spend with characters. I don’t have any stats previous to late 2020 to get a true count, but I will share the books I routinely reread. A Christmas Carol, Wuthering Heights, Rebecca, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The Turn of the Screw, Ethan Frome, and Anne of Green Gables. All of these I tend to reread every few years. And in between - I often think about them. I’ve also noticed the past couple years, I am really interested in revisiting old favorites as much as reading new things. Great video and I LOVE that you have that information going back to 96 - what joy for a reader. I think Kate Howe mentioned keeping a journal of what her kids read and what she reads to them so that they can have it later and I really loved that.
@@readwritecollage Thanks so much Loretta for your enthusiastic comment! You’re right - I probably thought I had read them more times than I had just because I have spent so much time in that world. Happy reading, friend! 💛
I've only been tracking since 2012 and I think I re-read a lot less now than before I discovered booktube. I think I have read To Kill A Mockingbird at least 5 times, and some of those as an adult. As a kid/teen I read The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe a lot, and The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole.
@@booksimnotreading Mockingbird was one of the only books we had in the house so I read it when I was about 12. Adrian Mole is a series of comedic books which are classics in England, Secret Diary is when he is 13 and 3/4ths so is full of teenage angst , pretentiousness, and failing at romance. It's very funny.
Hi Kelly, what a fun video. I love your book journal. I've kept a reading journal, on and off, for the past couple of years, but I like the idea of just listing the books too. Might go back through goodreads and start doing that.
@@janepetrie1654 Hello Jane! So lovely to hear from you! I list the books by year and within each year by month. I don’t remember a lot of the books, but it is an easy snapshot of what was going on in my life at the time. My reading has dramatically changed over the years … maybe that’s a future video? 😃💛
Hey I've read Uzumaki by Junji Ito 3 times on every halloween year. It's a tradition. I also re read the dark half by stephen king a second time after 16 years when i first read the novel. 🙂❤📚
This is a fun video. I think I might steal the idea! My top two most reread are Wuthering Heights and The Body by Stephen King. Harry Potter is probably up there too.
Larry Niven's Protector 3 times, Ringworld twice. By Paul Kidd a trilogy of D&D books starting with White Plume Mountain which is as much fun as watching Guardians of the Galaxy. it's kind of hard to say how many times I have reread a given Choose Your Own Adventure book, but it's a lot, more than any other in fact. I have only read The Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant once but I sometimes pick through them, skim, and reread some of my favorite parts and have done this several times. Neuromancer, Snow Crash, Evening's Empires, all read twice. The novelization of the original Star Wars I must have reread fully 6 times, and about the same for Return of the Jedi. I think that's about it.
Impressive you read the Harry Potter series 3 times. There are some long books in that series. I can see how A Christmas Carol would be a good Christmas read every year. I've read Dracula and War of the World 3 times. I read most of the stories of H.P. Lovecraft 3 times
@@stuartgriffin1001 Very cool, Stuart! I’ve only read Dracula once. The Harry Potter books zip along, but I was relieved they were not the only books I’d read three times. 💛
Love this trip through your book journal! I only started tracking my reading in 2019, so I don’t have the stats you do (yet!!). I do know, however, that my most read book has to be Jurassic Park. I read it in middle school and lived it so much that when I got to the end, I went straight back to the beginning again! I must’ve read that book 30 or 40 times, easily. 😂 Reread it as an adult a few years ago and still loved it!!!
Hi Kelly! This was a fun video. I read Jane Eyre twice. I am not a reread but there are several books that I want to reread like To kill a mockingbird, A tree grows in Brooklyn and north and south. Happy reading my friend 💛
I need to reread Jane Eyre! I discovered it in 2007 but haven't been back to it yet. I think I've read North and South twice but maybe not ... I'm always ready to open up A Tree Grows in Brooklyn! That's such a comfort read for me. Hope you are feeling well, my friend! Thanks for sharing with me! 💛
Hey Kelly, Gosh...just seeing you show your journal and mention 1996 brings back a flood of memories! I was two years out of high school and traveled on a plane for the first time...grew a lot as a person that year. Was around that time I became a reader in a deeper way. I'd say a couple of Barry Stevens' books I've reread countless times, plus some by Alan Watts, Dick Sutphen...still have yet to reread a novel, though one day.... Not surprised at all on A Christmas Carol there. 🙂 Thanks for sharing these, much fun and you've got me thinking further.... -Carm & snoozy Rocky P.S. It was a little over a decade AFTER 1996 when I finally got e-mail! 🙃
Carm, you are such a kindred spirit. Any of those reread books you want to recommend to me? I did have an e-mail address before you, but that's because I was going to school. I still remember setting it up. Weird! Thanks for sharing your memories from 1996! That was also the year, I became a deeper reader or realized there was so much more to books than what I had previously been reading. Enjoy the last bit of the weekend with your sweet kitties!
@@booksimnotreading Oh yes! Barry's 'Don't Push the River' and 'Burst out Laughing'. They're rather non-linear, though still easy to follow, and her tone is very conversational throughout. Sweet too, how we became deeper readers around the same time. Oh, speaking of email....I forgot, I sent you one earlier this month, though don't know if it got to you.. Was just recommending a doc to you and Jason called 'The Booksellers'..though perhaps you've already seen it. My furz send snuggles to Blue.
Hi Kelly, I really love book journals. I started keeping a book journal in 2010. My Life With Bob [Book of Books] by Pamela Paul is really fun. She shares her life story in relation to her book journal. I have reread a number of books a couple times. I've read Sense and Sensibility three times. I'm pretty sure I've read Banner in the Sky by James Ramsey Ullman at least three times. And, I've read Surrender to Love and The Gift of Being Yourself three times each (both by David Benner). By far I've probably reread the Bible the most. In 2010 I started reading the whole bible through each year until 2022 when my daughter was born, and I had read it through at least once before that. It's hard to keep up that pace with small children. I think that is a total of fourteen times.
@@AmandaJHMorton Amanda, that is a great story of rereading! Thank you for sharing it with me. I don’t know how people with children of any age have time for anything! I do know once when I was little, my mom hired a babysitter to watch me and then she went into her bedroom, shut the door and read - so keep that in mind as an option! 😃 Granted, the price of childcare has gone up quite a bit since then. 💛
Ooh, Kelly! Feeling the generation gap with this one. Never read (and have no desire to read) any of the Harry Potter books. I was on the cusp of middle age back then and was reading a lot Graham Greene novels, The World According to Garp, The Handmaid’s Tale, The Bonfire of the Vanities, etc. There are few books that I’ve re-read: Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, The Great Gatsby, Rebecca, The Scarlet Letter, Sister Carrie, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Red Badge of Courage, The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome, The Reef, etc. Can you share with us who advised you to keep a book journal? I wish I had been encouraged to keep one. I didn’t keep one until I started watching Booktube in 2016. Haha, I was inspired to retroactively build a record of all the books I could recall having read up to that point (approx 450). As always, happy reading 📖👀
@@mame-musing You could remember 450 books you read before you started a book journal?!?!? My God, that’s amazing! So I started keeping a book journal because of my mom. She had a surgery, which at the time meant staying in bed for weeks, but now people are probably back to work right away. She read something like 12-16 books while she was recovering and she was so impressed that she wrote them all down in this old notebook. After that, she kept track in the notebook of everything she read. I don’t know if she still keeps track, but I hope someday to hold that old notebook in my hands because I am very curious as to what my mother was reading. It was several years before I started it, but I am so glad I did because I do not have your memory! 😂💛
@@booksimnotreading:Haha, I sure didn’t recall all those titles in one session. Over time every so often I’ll see a certain title that suddenly jogs my memory. I was surprised my number was only 450 but through the years i was reading a lot of magazine articles. I was pretty sure you would say you were inspired by your Mom or your Grandmother. That will be so interesting for you to eventually see what books your Mom enjoyed or truly disliked. Thanks for sharing journal keeping history. 😎
I am afraid I don't have any exact numbers.I read many of the Agatha Christie novels many times, (I don't have an exact numbers, sorry.) I too have read A Christmas Carol many times, it was a favorite of my Dad's and when I got my own copy of both my favorite of the movies and the novel, I began reading it every year, it has to be at the very least 20 times. I have read The Great Gatsby many times, (it is one of my top favorite novels.) I have read Jane Eyre and Agnes Grey many times. I have read all of the Jane Austen novels many times. I have read Ellery Queen novels several times. Little Women, Little Men and Jo's boys several times. That is all I can think of. Sorry no book journal.📚
Hi Kelly! Interesting subject--I was curious as to what has stirred you to read "A Christmas Carol" each year? It seems like it's struck a chord in a way that other books have not. I can't recall any books offhand that I've read more than twice so far, but this past week, I went back and re-read "Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce," an epic, historic poem by Robert Penn Warren. I read this about five years ago and thought it was 'okay' then, but this time I first read a summary of the subject matter (the Nez Perce War) online. What a difference that made in appreciating the poem! Especially with the proper nouns (people, places) and the actions being referenced. Reading often inspires my traveling, and now I want to check out the locations in the book (Idaho, Eastern Oregon, Montana)...Happy weekend! Best, Joe
@@gammaanteria I think A Christmas Carol is such a wonderful story - it’s a gem of a book about changing your life and the difference you can make in the lives of others. Thank you for sharing your recent reread with me. I’m glad it was a better experience the second time around! Happy reading, Joe! 💛
Thanks Kelly. I was wondering what your favorite books are and which books you've read the most times is interesting too. I've read A Tree Grows in Brooklyn I think twice. I heard about The Things They Carried from Sandy's 1001 Book Countdown and it sounded interesting. I read A Christmas Carol and I used to watch the Reginald Owens version every Christmas Eve. I've read Rebecca a few times and Jane Eyre twice. I've also read The Great Gatsby and To Kill a Mockingbird twice, at least. I've read Seventeenth Summer by Maureen Daly many many times. I started listening to an audio verison of it on Hoopla and had trouble getting into it and I could see why other people don't go for the book but I swear it gets better. I've been looking for male book tubers to follow and wonder if you could give a link to Joe Smith's channel. Thanks for a great video.
Jo Smith doesn't have a channel and she is a woman. There are lots of great booktubers who are men! I'd recommend Steve Donoghue, Aaron Read A Book and Art@Bookshelf Odyssey, but there are so many! 💛
Forgot to mention: I just got a book journal. It got it from Temu and it's smaller than I wanted but I also got a little camera to take pictures of the covers of books. I found out about the camera, etc. from watching Susan's Road Reads channel.
I'm not much of a rereader but i strive to be. I'm definitely rereading in December for Remember December. But the only book I've read more than twice (which i think is the max for any book I've reread) is the Bible at (3x straight through even tho I've read separate books here and there) In December i plan on rereading Station Eleven so that will be 3x and the companion novels will be 2x with the other books I've reread (To Kill a Mockingbird, 11/22/63, Jane Eyre, The Great Gatsby).
@@Thecatladybooknook_PennyD I have read the Bible twice. I am ready to return to it, but I don’t think I will ever read all of it again. Thanks for sharing! 💛
I LOVE that Nick Hornby series. It’s great. I also love that Robert Harris is his brother in law. He says they get along because they’re about equally successful as authors.
@@StephaniePatterson-jb5it Yeah! I don’t know why that series isn’t talked about more on Booktube, and I was a bit sad when they ended, but I’m glad to have found another fan! Thanks for sharing! 💛
I don't really reread as often as I should but mine would be Dracula, I read it every October, it never gets old!
@@Lake-Reads Hello! So great to hear from you! I am very impressed you read Dracula every October! I’ve read it once. Thanks for sharing with me! 💛
My really big fantasy rereads are: Tolkien (Hobbit & Lord of the Rings), Susan Cooper (The Dark is Rising sequence) & Le Guin (the Earthsea multiverse). After them, all my treasured rereads are poets (many, many). Thanks for another fun video.
@@apoetreadstowrite Thanks Phillip for sharing! 💛
Love your precious book journal!
Thank you so much!
I have read A Christmas Carol multiple times too - but ten times fewer than you have! 😅 I think my most read books are the two Dirk Gently books by Douglas Adams, which I have read probably six or seven times each in the last 25 years. I know for certain I've read The Wind in the Willows four times, and Terry Pratchett's Wyrd Sisters four times too.
@@genteelblackhole I love the Wind in the Willows! Thank you so much for sharing with me! 💛
It's so awesome that you've kept a reading journal for so long. I've only kept one since 2009. This was a fun topic to think about. My most read book has to be All Creatures Great and Small. I read it a couple of times before I graduated from high school and two or three since then. After that it would be To Kill a Mockingbird and A Christmas Carol which I've read three times. I am currently on my third read of Pride and Prejudice. I don't normally reread books often, but I have reread nine books this year so far.
@@LaurieInTexas I have never read All Creatures Great and Small! Shame on me. I’m so impressed that you have reread NINE books this year. There’s also a rereading event in December, Remember December. I’m actually going to have reread a higher number of books than usual this year as well. Thanks for sharing with me! 💛
So much fun Kelly! It’s so incredible that you have a record of everything you’ve read over the years.
I just realized that I read the first chapter of The Things They Carried in college and thought it was a short story too.
@@GinaStanyerBooks Hey Gina! How was your weekend? The Things They Carried is not very cozy, but it is one of the best books I’ve ever read. I hope someday you can return to it. Thanks for commenting! 💛
I reread so many books as a child and preteen, though I didn't keep track of just how many times I read Lois Lenski's novels, The Babysitters' Club series, the Little House series, Carolyn Haywood's books, and all the other books I devoured.
I was supposed to read The Scarlet Letter my freshwoman year of high school (in an English class at the tenth grade honors level), but our teacher was too busy preaching about conch shells, dirty razors, red hunting hats, and 101 other purported allegorical symbols to get to a lot of the books and plays in our synopsis. I haven't yet read the book, but I have seen the classic 1926 film version with Lillian Gish several times.
@@Ursulas_Odds_and_Sods As always, I enjoy hearing your thoughts. Thank you for sharing! 💛
I haven't kept records as long as you, but I'm positive that my #1 re-read book is The Scarlet Letter. I've loved it since High School, so I'm so happy to see it getting love here!
@@awebofstories Oh, wow! I know so many people who dislike it, but it was very influential on my reading life! Thanks for sharing with me! 💛
Hi, Kelly! I have understood the whole your video! I am not an avid reader, but I have read "The Goldfinch" several times. Greetings from Saint-Petersburg, Russia.❤
I’ve always been a constant rereader since I was young. I think it started with the Babysitter’s Club and Judy Blume. I couldn’t tell what the numbers might be because I just didn’t record any of my reading until the last 6-7 years and even now I’m not super consistent.
In my teens and 20s I read the Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice numerous times. White Oleander by Janet Fitch and books by Christopher Pike were also in rotation.
I’ve read Pride and Prejudice about 20ish times. I’ve read the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series many times (I’m currently rereading those). And I’ve read almost all of Poppy Z Brite’s fiction many times.
This isn’t close to a complete list but I really love revisiting characters and stories that I love so I plan to keep adding to it.
@@jennisrandom42 Wow, Jenn! You are quite the rereader! That’s amazing. Thank you so much for sharing that with me! 💛
I have not been a rereader and I can't think of one book I reread as an adult! Charlotte's Web as child numerous times. I plan on doing a buddy read of One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus with a friend. My daughter has reread the Harry Potter Series multiple times. She calls it the comfort of reading familiar things. I figure there are so many books I would like to read why reread??? I think I may have considered rereading A Tree Grows In Brooklyn again. I remember loving it and being brought to tears when reading it. And of course I picked up a used copy somewhere along the line. Big surprise. 😉😏😀
@@marciajohansson769 I would recommend rereading A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, but I also agree with you when there are so many books to read, it’s hard to reread! 💛
👋 Kelly. I wish I had kept a book journal, I only started one just last year. But I really should reread more, I started a project 2 years ago to reread assigned books from high school to see if the reading experience would be vastly different as an adult. (Of course it would be). My most reread book is probably Musashi I have history with that book and my enjoyment of it has never changed. I hold out every year for a new translation, thats the dream. Since I discovered booktube, its probably P&P is my most reread book I get endless enjoyment from it, by far my favourite Austen. Happy reading, have a great week. Go well friend.
@@nathanfoung2347 Nathan, better to have started late than never. Did you read Cloudstreet in high school? I am amazed you have read P&P so many times! I love that book too, but since joining Booktube I have discovered how much I enjoy so many other things! Thanks for sharing with me. Be well, friend. 💛
The book I've re-read the most is Pride & Prejudice, which I'm sure I've read more than 20 times in my lifetime. I first read it when I was 12 and periodically re-read it, but I didn't start recording my books until my 30s (1985). I used a little notebook, just recording title & author. I didn't record my re-reads in that notebook. In 2009 I started recording my books in LibraryThing, including the ones in my notebook from 1985-2009 and all my reads & re-reads since 2009. LT tells me I've re-read P&P 10 times since 2009 (including on audio). Probably #2 would be Jane Eyre, guessing 8-10 times. I wish I had started recording earlier like you did. It is fun to look back--my earliest recorded books in the 80s were mostly about children, as my kids were toddlers then!🤣
@@kathleencraine7335 Kathleen, twenty times is amazing! I wonder if I will ever get there. So many books, so little time! Thank you so much for sharing with me your own experience with me in terms of keeping track of what you have read. 💛
I suppose it speaks to the many times in my life when I needed a well-loved comfort read!!❤
@@kathleencraine7335 Nothing wrong with that! 💛
I definitely reread the Harry Potter books when they had first came out in paperback, I reread the Twilight Saga books by Stephenie Meyer, I reread the book City of Bones by Cassandra Clare, I reread the book Jock Row by Sara Ney.
@@monaedoyle3631 Hello! Thank you for sharing with me! 💛
I’ve also read HP multiple times (twice since 2020 actually) and since there are 7 books, I bet that’s why you felt like you’d read them the most. That’s ALOT of time to spend with characters. I don’t have any stats previous to late 2020 to get a true count, but I will share the books I routinely reread. A Christmas Carol, Wuthering Heights, Rebecca, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The Turn of the Screw, Ethan Frome, and Anne of Green Gables. All of these I tend to reread every few years. And in between - I often think about them. I’ve also noticed the past couple years, I am really interested in revisiting old favorites as much as reading new things. Great video and I LOVE that you have that information going back to 96 - what joy for a reader. I think Kate Howe mentioned keeping a journal of what her kids read and what she reads to them so that they can have it later and I really loved that.
@@readwritecollage Thanks so much Loretta for your enthusiastic comment! You’re right - I probably thought I had read them more times than I had just because I have spent so much time in that world. Happy reading, friend! 💛
I've only been tracking since 2012 and I think I re-read a lot less now than before I discovered booktube. I think I have read To Kill A Mockingbird at least 5 times, and some of those as an adult. As a kid/teen I read The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe a lot, and The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole.
@@AaronReadABook super impressed that you have read To Kill a Mockingbird five times! What is The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole? 😃💛
@@booksimnotreading Mockingbird was one of the only books we had in the house so I read it when I was about 12. Adrian Mole is a series of comedic books which are classics in England, Secret Diary is when he is 13 and 3/4ths so is full of teenage angst , pretentiousness, and failing at romance. It's very funny.
Hi Kelly, what a fun video. I love your book journal. I've kept a reading journal, on and off, for the past couple of years, but I like the idea of just listing the books too. Might go back through goodreads and start doing that.
@@janepetrie1654 Hello Jane! So lovely to hear from you! I list the books by year and within each year by month. I don’t remember a lot of the books, but it is an easy snapshot of what was going on in my life at the time. My reading has dramatically changed over the years … maybe that’s a future video? 😃💛
Hey I've read Uzumaki by Junji Ito 3 times on every halloween year. It's a tradition. I also re read the dark half by stephen king a second time after 16 years when i first read the novel. 🙂❤📚
Very cool! Thank you so much for sharing with me! 💛
This is a fun video. I think I might steal the idea! My top two most reread are Wuthering Heights and The Body by Stephen King. Harry Potter is probably up there too.
@@elizabethaliteraryprincess Go for it! I’d love to know how many times you have read all those books! Thanks for watching and commenting! 💛
Larry Niven's Protector 3 times, Ringworld twice.
By Paul Kidd a trilogy of D&D books starting with White Plume Mountain which is as much fun as watching Guardians of the Galaxy.
it's kind of hard to say how many times I have reread a given Choose Your Own Adventure book, but it's a lot, more than any other in fact.
I have only read The Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant once but I sometimes pick through them, skim, and reread some of my favorite parts and have done this several times.
Neuromancer, Snow Crash, Evening's Empires, all read twice.
The novelization of the original Star Wars I must have reread fully 6 times, and about the same for Return of the Jedi.
I think that's about it.
@@Montie-Adkins Montie, that’s great! Thank you so much for sharing with me! 💛
Impressive you read the Harry Potter series 3 times. There are some long books in that series. I can see how A Christmas Carol would be a good Christmas read every year.
I've read Dracula and War of the World 3 times. I read most of the stories of H.P. Lovecraft 3 times
@@stuartgriffin1001 Very cool, Stuart! I’ve only read Dracula once. The Harry Potter books zip along, but I was relieved they were not the only books I’d read three times. 💛
Love this trip through your book journal! I only started tracking my reading in 2019, so I don’t have the stats you do (yet!!). I do know, however, that my most read book has to be Jurassic Park. I read it in middle school and lived it so much that when I got to the end, I went straight back to the beginning again! I must’ve read that book 30 or 40 times, easily. 😂 Reread it as an adult a few years ago and still loved it!!!
@@Ms-Peepers-Reading-Corner Holy cow! I can’t believe you have read one book 40 times. That’s amazing! Thank you so much for sharing this with me! 🦖💛
Hi Kelly! This was a fun video. I read Jane Eyre twice. I am not a reread but there are several books that I want to reread like To kill a mockingbird, A tree grows in Brooklyn and north and south.
Happy reading my friend 💛
I need to reread Jane Eyre! I discovered it in 2007 but haven't been back to it yet. I think I've read North and South twice but maybe not ... I'm always ready to open up A Tree Grows in Brooklyn! That's such a comfort read for me. Hope you are feeling well, my friend! Thanks for sharing with me! 💛
Hey Kelly, Gosh...just seeing you show your journal and mention 1996 brings back a flood of memories! I was two years out of high school and traveled on a plane for the first time...grew a lot as a person that year. Was around that time I became a reader in a deeper way.
I'd say a couple of Barry Stevens' books I've reread countless times, plus some by Alan Watts, Dick Sutphen...still have yet to reread a novel, though one day....
Not surprised at all on A Christmas Carol there. 🙂 Thanks for sharing these, much fun and you've got me thinking further.... -Carm & snoozy Rocky P.S. It was a little over a decade AFTER 1996 when I finally got e-mail! 🙃
Carm, you are such a kindred spirit. Any of those reread books you want to recommend to me? I did have an e-mail address before you, but that's because I was going to school. I still remember setting it up. Weird! Thanks for sharing your memories from 1996! That was also the year, I became a deeper reader or realized there was so much more to books than what I had previously been reading. Enjoy the last bit of the weekend with your sweet kitties!
@@booksimnotreading Oh yes! Barry's 'Don't Push the River' and 'Burst out Laughing'. They're rather non-linear, though still easy to follow, and her tone is very conversational throughout. Sweet too, how we became deeper readers around the same time. Oh, speaking of email....I forgot, I sent you one earlier this month, though don't know if it got to you.. Was just recommending a doc to you and Jason called 'The Booksellers'..though perhaps you've already seen it. My furz send snuggles to Blue.
Hi Kelly, I really love book journals. I started keeping a book journal in 2010. My Life With Bob [Book of Books] by Pamela Paul is really fun. She shares her life story in relation to her book journal. I have reread a number of books a couple times. I've read Sense and Sensibility three times. I'm pretty sure I've read Banner in the Sky by James Ramsey Ullman at least three times. And, I've read Surrender to Love and The Gift of Being Yourself three times each (both by David Benner). By far I've probably reread the Bible the most. In 2010 I started reading the whole bible through each year until 2022 when my daughter was born, and I had read it through at least once before that. It's hard to keep up that pace with small children. I think that is a total of fourteen times.
I have been wanting to reread my favorite books, but I've been slow in doing so.
@@AmandaJHMorton Amanda, that is a great story of rereading! Thank you for sharing it with me. I don’t know how people with children of any age have time for anything! I do know once when I was little, my mom hired a babysitter to watch me and then she went into her bedroom, shut the door and read - so keep that in mind as an option! 😃 Granted, the price of childcare has gone up quite a bit since then. 💛
@@booksimnotreading Child care is expensive! Thankfully my in-laws are close by and are gracious enough to occasionally babysit for free.
Ooh, Kelly! Feeling the generation gap with this one. Never read (and have no desire to read) any of the Harry Potter books. I was on the cusp of middle age back then and was reading a lot Graham Greene novels, The World According to Garp, The Handmaid’s Tale, The Bonfire of the Vanities, etc. There are few books that I’ve re-read: Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, The Great Gatsby, Rebecca, The Scarlet Letter, Sister Carrie, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Red Badge of Courage, The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome, The Reef, etc.
Can you share with us who advised you to keep a book journal? I wish I had been encouraged to keep one. I didn’t keep one until I started watching Booktube in 2016. Haha, I was inspired to retroactively build a record of all the books I could recall having read up to that point (approx 450).
As always, happy reading 📖👀
@@mame-musing You could remember 450 books you read before you started a book journal?!?!? My God, that’s amazing! So I started keeping a book journal because of my mom. She had a surgery, which at the time meant staying in bed for weeks, but now people are probably back to work right away. She read something like 12-16 books while she was recovering and she was so impressed that she wrote them all down in this old notebook. After that, she kept track in the notebook of everything she read. I don’t know if she still keeps track, but I hope someday to hold that old notebook in my hands because I am very curious as to what my mother was reading. It was several years before I started it, but I am so glad I did because I do not have your memory! 😂💛
@@booksimnotreading:Haha, I sure didn’t recall all those titles in one session. Over time every so often I’ll see a certain title that suddenly jogs my memory. I was surprised my number was only 450 but through the years i was reading a lot of magazine articles.
I was pretty sure you would say you were inspired by your Mom or your Grandmother. That will be so interesting for you to eventually see what books your Mom enjoyed or truly disliked. Thanks for sharing journal keeping history. 😎
I am afraid I don't have any exact numbers.I read many of the Agatha Christie novels many times, (I don't have an exact numbers, sorry.) I too have read A Christmas Carol many times, it was a favorite of my Dad's and when I got my own copy of both my favorite of the movies and the novel, I began reading it every year, it has to be at the very least 20 times. I have read The Great Gatsby many times, (it is one of my top favorite novels.) I have read Jane Eyre and Agnes Grey many times. I have read all of the Jane Austen novels many times. I have read Ellery Queen novels several times. Little Women, Little Men and Jo's boys several times. That is all I can think of. Sorry no book journal.📚
@@sherrirabinowitz4618 No apologies needed Sherri! Thank you so much for sharing a bit of your reading journey with me! 💛
Hi Kelly! Interesting subject--I was curious as to what has stirred you to read "A Christmas Carol" each year? It seems like it's struck a chord in a way that other books have not.
I can't recall any books offhand that I've read more than twice so far, but this past week, I went back and re-read "Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce," an epic, historic poem by Robert Penn Warren. I read this about five years ago and thought it was 'okay' then, but this time I first read a summary of the subject matter (the Nez Perce War) online. What a difference that made in appreciating the poem! Especially with the proper nouns (people, places) and the actions being referenced. Reading often inspires my traveling, and now I want to check out the locations in the book (Idaho, Eastern Oregon, Montana)...Happy weekend! Best, Joe
@@gammaanteria I think A Christmas Carol is such a wonderful story - it’s a gem of a book about changing your life and the difference you can make in the lives of others. Thank you for sharing your recent reread with me. I’m glad it was a better experience the second time around! Happy reading, Joe! 💛
@@booksimnotreading I agree, it is a terrific story for those reasons!
Thanks Kelly. I was wondering what your favorite books are and which books you've read the most times is interesting too. I've read A Tree Grows in Brooklyn I think twice. I heard about The Things They Carried from Sandy's 1001 Book Countdown and it sounded interesting. I read A Christmas Carol and I used to watch the Reginald Owens version every Christmas Eve. I've read Rebecca a few times and Jane Eyre twice. I've also read The Great Gatsby and To Kill a Mockingbird twice, at least. I've read Seventeenth Summer by Maureen Daly many many times. I started listening to an audio verison of it on Hoopla and had trouble getting into it and I could see why other people don't go for the book but I swear it gets better. I've been looking for male book tubers to follow and wonder if you could give a link to Joe Smith's channel. Thanks for a great video.
Jo Smith doesn't have a channel and she is a woman. There are lots of great booktubers who are men! I'd recommend Steve Donoghue, Aaron Read A Book and Art@Bookshelf Odyssey, but there are so many! 💛
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Forgot to mention: I just got a book journal. It got it from Temu and it's smaller than I wanted but I also got a little camera to take pictures of the covers of books. I found out about the camera, etc. from watching Susan's Road Reads channel.
Oh, Betsy, I'm so glad you got a book journal! I love the idea of taking pictures of the book covers and putting it in the journal! 💛
I'm not much of a rereader but i strive to be. I'm definitely rereading in December for Remember December.
But the only book I've read more than twice (which i think is the max for any book I've reread) is the Bible at (3x straight through even tho I've read separate books here and there) In December i plan on rereading Station Eleven so that will be 3x and the companion novels will be 2x with the other books I've reread (To Kill a Mockingbird, 11/22/63, Jane Eyre, The Great Gatsby).
@@Thecatladybooknook_PennyD I have read the Bible twice. I am ready to return to it, but I don’t think I will ever read all of it again. Thanks for sharing! 💛