the ask@AAR: Who’s the author you reread the most?
We all have books we love and turn to when we need a comfort read. I suspect most AAR readers could name five to ten books they’ve read many times and we’ve talked about those here at the ask@AAR before. But what about authors? And does that change over time?
I started thinking about this when, feeling stressed, I began to read, skipping from book to book, my favorite scenes from Susan Elizabeth Phillips Chicago Stars series. This time, however, her prose just wasn’t doing it for me. I have to confess I was somewhat shocked at this. I’ve been rereading those books since I first discovered them well over ten years ago. I’m not sure why they didn’t work for me and my response to them may change yet again in a less menacing time.
Instead, I’ve been rereading Meredith Duran and Sherry Thomas. And, now that I consider it, I’ve always reread Sherry Thomas (her romances, not the Lady Sherlock series). There’s an ease, I think, in living in the past these days and these two authors are sublime wordsmiths.
How about you? Are there authors whose canon you turn to again and again? Why?
I just finished listening to Sherry Thomas’s My Beautiful Enemy, which I thoroughly enjoyed, and I also have reread just about every Meredith Duran romance novel, although I have a particular soft spot for A Lady’s Code of Misconduct. For contemporary romance, nothing beats Jennifer Crusie’s Welcome to Temptation.
Duran is just so good.
I need to reread Welcome to Temptation. For a long time, for some completely inexplicable reason, I thought Rachel Gibson’s True Confessions was the book people referred to when they mentioned Welcome to Temptation. (I think True Confessions is a hoot.) I only recently realized that I had the books switched.
I read the Crusie once years ago and it didn’t really register with me. Clearly I need to give it another go.
I forgot Lisa Kleypas. She has written some of the books I mostly remember and I just listened to Love in the Afternoon. I think I’ll reread some of her older ones from the Bow Street Runners next.
I’ve never reread much but in these times I’ve noticed the comfort of rereading, so I reread Mary Jo Putney, Mary Balogh, Anne Gracie, Garce Burrowes, Emily Larkin and Mimi Matthews as the only newer author.. And I’ve begun “rereading” in listening to audiobooks by these authors or filling gaps in their series I hadn’t read.
Who do I re-read the most? Mary Balogh – mostly her stuff before 2010
I’ve also re-read KJ Charles’ Society of Gentlemen novels many times.
I also occasionally re-read Jane Eyre, my first (romance novel) love.
As so many have said, re-reads for me are comfort reads. They are low stress as there are no surprises and you can look forward to, and relish, your favourite passages. My frequent re-reads are:
Georgette Heyer – Venetia
Stella Riley – all but mostly A Splendid Defiance
Sherry Thomas – all
Joanna Bourne – all
Madeline Hunter – her medievals
Ellen O’Connell – Eyes of Silver and Beautiful Bad Man
Julie Ann Long – What I did for a Duke
Mary Balogh – More than a Mistress
Loretta Chase – Lord of Scoundrels and Don’t Tempt me
Pamela Belle – Treason’s Gift
I am a huge re-reader. Among the ones I read most: Georgette Heyer, Patricia Briggs, Lois McMaster Bujold (sci-fi/fantasy), Anne Bishop’s Others series, Carla Kelly, Nora Roberts/JD Robb, Sharon Shinn’s Archangel series (sci-fi), some of Mercedes Lackey’s Valdemar series (fantasy – but I have favorites), some Ilona Andrews, Nalini Singh’s Guild Hunter series, some Elizabeth Peters, Carola Dunn’s Daisy Dalrymple series (cozy 1920s mysteries), Dorothy Sayers, and children’s writer Elizabeth Enright. Probably more that don’t come immediately to mind.
What I really wanted to mention, however, is the Georgette Heyer mystery audiobooks narrated by actress Ulli Birve. I think she’s Australian. I like the Heyer romance audiobooks but the narration is inconsistent from book to book. Ulli Birve is fantastic. I never get tired of listening to her, even with Heyer’s weakest mysteries. Also excellent is the Elizabeth Peters’ Amelia Peabody audiobooks narrated by Barbara Rosenblat, who’s wonderful. I would rather listen to her than to reread the books! And if you can find them, Dorothy Sayers’ Lord Peter books narrated by the late Ian Carmichael are really wonderful. He didn’t resonate with me playing the character for Masterpiece Theater, but I adore the audiobooks!
Oops…..that should read grouping series together
I reread! Right now I’m rereading Grace Burrows’ Rouges to Riches series starting with the first before I read the recently published one. So happy that Kindle has been group being serious together.
I’m also in the camp of “mostly re-read scenes, not the whole book”. The TBR is huge, we don’t live forever…
Still, authors I tend to like to re-read scenes of my favorite books by them include Nora Roberts (especially the Born in and Key trilogies), Sandra Brown (favorite older books like Long Time Coming or Honor Bound), Nalini Singh (mostly Kiss of Snow), Anne Bishop, Agatha Christie…
I also pass the pages of other books that might not be by these authors but it depends on my mood.
One sweet romance (which worked wonderfully for me) that I like to re-read when I rarely can is TLC by Barbara Delinsky because it’s not a big book and I love the heroine’s personality as well as the deserved romance. If I had to name a title I have re-read more often, that is Pride and Prejudice… when I was in high school I’d read it twice a year…
I do a lot of rereading, generally for comfort but sometimes wondering,”How did she do that?” My favorites recently are Loretta Chase, Jo Goodman, Madeline Hunter, Georgette Heyer, and Miranda Neville, but it varies from time to time.
I don’t know about other readers, but the books I reread are the ones where I like the characters, and that is doubtless the reason I liked the books in the first place.
Anyone else making a list of other posters’ rereads that you’ve never read? This is a real goldmine of recommendations, since they are books with enduring appeal. I like that some of the books listed may not be the “best” books ever written, but somehow get the whole package just right for the lasting comfort read. That’s how I feel about the Linnae Sinclair sci-fi rom books.
My most frequent re-read authors:
Georgette Heyer
Mary Balogh
Patricia Veryan
Julia Quinn
Carla Kelly
Reading “Sylvester” by Georgette Heyer right now, and am enjoying it so much — again.
I did a run-through of Heyer and Kelly books at the beginning of the quarantine last spring. One Kelly book I absolutely love that I rarely see mentioned is Beau Crusoe. It’s a surprisingly well-handled story of PTSD, and I love the characters.
I confess Beau Crusoe is one of my least reread Kelly books.
(I think because some of the survival behavior referenced freaked me out and hit a nerve when I first read it). I’ll have to give it another try.
It’s definitely uncomfortable at times, that’s for sure.
Your list has some of my favorite re-read authors, like Georgette Heyer, Carla Kelly, and Patricia Veryan. I don’t see Veryan’s mentioned very often, but I enjoy re-reading her books, especially The Golden Chronicles series. Mostly I enjoy historical romance that are far removed from current events, like Jayne Fresina’s and family-based series, like Lisa Kleypas’ Hathaways stories.
I hardly ever reread romance, since there are always new books to try and my romance tastes keep evolving (I know the books I enjoyed in the 2000s would just annoy me now). But over the last few years I have been rereading the Golden Age detective stories I first read as a teenager. Twenty-plus years later I can vaguely remember the general plot setup of the various Christie, Sayers et al books but not the details. On rereading I can appreciate the sleight of hand involved in misleading the reader, plus I love the social history and the deftness of the writing.
Your post resonates with me so much! I am a fan of Agatha Christie and read most of her books in my late teens. Now, a few decades later, I think I wouldn’t be able to remember who-dun-it anymore so if I read them now, they would be like new to me! Christie’s books are as much about character as plot and I think that is why they would appeal to a romance reader. My favorites were the Tommy and Tuppence novels then the Miss Marple books.
Since I do not watch television, I am an avid reader and rereader. This season I’ve reread Loretta Chase’s Carsington Bros; Lisa Kleypas’s Hathaway Sibs, Capital Theater, and Bow Street titles; and soon plan to reread Joanna Bourne. I’ve wanted to start The Bronze Horseman and seeing it mentioned here motivates me to keep it on the TBR list. I saw that the new Outlander title will arrive late this year and suddenly asked myself if I needed to reread the closest two in the series but 1000 pages is hard to skim :)
In the romance genre, LISA KLEYPAS, I think
I’m not a rereader for the most part, but there are 4 authors I reread-Lisa Kleypas, Julia Quinn, Tessa Dare and Kristan Higgins.
I reread Sherry Thomas and Penny Reid the most. I also like re-listening to Georgette Heyer – always struck by her humor!
I have a DIK collection on my kindle and I’ve been dipping into that this year. I’ve re-read lots of books and authors already mentioned but also some old favourites including
Eyes of Silver, Eyes of Gold (Ellen O’Connell)
The Milch Bride (JR Biery)
After the Kiss (Karen Ranney)
Lord Ruin (Carolyn Jewel)
Unforgiven (Anne Calhoun)
I’ve also had the time to re-read some series like
The Bronze Horseman (Paullina Simons)
The Dream Man Series (Kristen Ashley)
The Mackenzies (Linda Howard)
I’m now re-reading The Virgin River series – and it’s like a comfy pair of slippers…
Eyes of Silver…..Yes! I re-read that just last week.
I loved the whole series! I also really enjoyed ‘Dancing on Coals’.
I’m from the UK and whereas a lot of readers in the US love our ‘Dukes’, – I like reading stories about the settlement of America. I have really enjoyed reading books by Jo Goodman, Kaki Warner, Maggie Osborne, Sara Donati, Carla Kelly….literally another world!
Yes, I re-read this at least once a year!
I also love Beautiful Bad Man, that and Eyes of Silver are probably my two top favorites of hers.
Lisa Kleypas for me. her books are like a balm when i’m stressed or worried. reread the Hathaways when this whole mess started last year and it kept me sane
I love The Hathaways, it’s one of my go-to comfort reads.
I reread “comfort read” authors more than just about any other type, because it doesn’t bother me as much that I know how everything will play out – the strength of the story is in the cozy experience, not the surprises.
It used to be Catherine Anderson, but I find fewer and fewer of her books hold up on reread.
A good Carla Kelly book is like a cup of tea and a blanket for me, so soothing.
I forgot to mention Carla Kelly! I love her books.
I do not reread a lot of Marion Chesney, although I still have some of her books, but I do reread books a lot, including the other authors you list.
I find I learn a lot more about a writer’s style when I can binge on 20 or 30 titles in succession. Also, I am not a slow reader — so sometimes a reread is part skim, part savor, depending on the scene; other times, I just read rapidly. I have been hoarding books all my life and reading romances since the mid-1980s — I reread Heyer and Kleypas and Quick et al, but here are some others.
I reread a lot of Elizabeth Lowell, who I think is falling away in popularity because she does not appear to be writing any more. Other discontinued, dead, or possibly retired writers I reread include Robert Neill (The Elegant Witch/Mist over Pendle, Black William, Hangman’s Cliff), Jo Beverley (the Malloren books), Edith Layton, Joan Wolf, Roberta Gellis, Laura London aka Sharon and Tom Curtis, Catherine George, Anne McAllister (may still be writing), Carole Buck, Kristin James, Judith Duncan, and Anne McCaffrey.
Particular books that are not recent but I still reread occasionally include:
Living, active writers are people I reread more frequently these days — my tastes have changed, so that’s affected my reading. In addition to those Caroline listed, I would add Stella Riley, KJ Charles, and Grace Burrowes.
Like Wendy F, I have also been a re-reader all my life. However, I tend not to re-read an entire book but rather just my favorite passages. When I finish a really good book before bedtime, then the next morning the first thing I want to do is go through it again and read the parts I loved. Sometimes these are the funniest parts but most often they are the most emotional ones. I also may re-read passages of a book if I feel like reading but am too short on time to read a whole book (I tend to like to read a whole book in one sitting). This is comfort read territory – a pick-me-up to make me feel happy. Since I got a Kindle 4 years ago, it has been easier to re-read because of the great bookmark feature.
There are so many authors I have re-read over the years. In the past, these are some of the authors/books I have often re-read:
Judith McNaught (Almost Heaven, A Kingdom of Dreams, Paradise)
Lisa Kleypas (The Devil in Winter, all of the Hathaways, Dreaming of You)
Nora Roberts (the MacGregors, Chesapeake Bay saga, Bride Quartet)
Mary Balogh (Indiscreet, First Comes Marriage, A Summer to Remember, the Westcotts)
Kristen Callihan (Managed, Fall, Winterblaze, Evernight)
Kylie Scott (the Stage Dive series, Lies, Trust)
Over the past year, I discovered both Lily Morton and Sally Malcolm. I have now re-read all of their books multiple times. Other authors I discovered over the past year and re-read already are:
Briar Prescott (Project Hero, Rare)
Tal Bauer (The Night Of, Murder Between Us)
Jay Hogan (Powder & Pavlova, Up Close and Personal)
Annabeth Albert (Portland Heat series)
I agree that very high angst will keep me from re-reading a book, usually, but I make an exception for Carla Kelly. All the others are comfort reads, as in lovely not too stressful.
In order of frequency:
Carla Kelly, Sharon Lee & Steve Miller, Loretta Chase, Jayne Ann Krentz (her old old series stuff, too), Val Roberts (of Valmont Contingency etc.), Mary Balogh, Katherine Kingsley’s and Edith Layton’s regencies, Georgette Heyer…
As a few people said, also for me, SEP seems not to “work for me” anymore – I skip, might love a scene again, but then get stuck in a “no” place, = “I cannot enjoy this anymore”. Sad.
I reread pretty often when I’m stressed and have limited time to start a new book. The authors I reread the most are J.K. Rowling, Sherry Thomas, Mary Balogh, Lisa Kleypas, Laura Kinsale, Judith McNaught (guilty pleasure), Julie Anne Long, Charlotte Bronte, Jane Austen, Agatha Christie, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi.
I also love re-listening to Georgette Heyer audiobooks. My absolute favourite is Frederica, narrated by Clifford Norgate.
I’ve been a rereader all my life, right through from when I first learnt to read.
Pre-2020, when I was reading only HR, the authors that I reread most were Georgette Heyer, Eloisa James, Loretta Chase and KJ Charles.
During 2020/21, now that I’m reading mainly contemporary and suspense, the author that I have reread the most is Lily Morton. (Waves to Em!) I love her snark and all her familiar cultural references, and find a tremendous warmth in her books.
Other books/series that I have reread a number of times during the past year or so are Heated Rivalry, Any Old Diamonds, Boyfriend Material, and Honeytrap.
I re-read a lot. Partly because I’d go broke buying a new book every time I want something to read and partly because between writing + oft-stressful Day Job there are many days when my brain wants to be occupied/distracted but by something familiar so it doesn’t have to work too hard.
Many-times-reread: Dick Francis (all); Ngaio Marsh (all); Carla Kelly (many); Elizabeth Peters (many); Mary Jo Putney (some); Mary Balogh (many); Laurie R. King (many); KJ Charles (all); Alexis Hall (all); Cat Sebastian (many).
Am currently engaged in a complete read of E.J. Russell and can already tell some of those will be in the re-read rotation. :-)
Some years ago I spent 6 months away from home, working in Kiev. I took along personal reading material because it was going to be next to impossible to find fiction in English. I packed up the early Rachel Lee Conard County books and read them many times. Also my complete set of Georgette Heyer books went with me. Valerie Fitzgerald’s Zemindar went along for the ride and all of Anya Seton, Jane Austen and Charlotte and Anne Bronte got packed into the big box of books. And one or two of Jilly Cooper’s books went as well (I needed Rupert Campbell-Black with me!!). I’d read all of these books, many of them numerous times but in thinking about what I needed to have with me for 6 months in a country where I didn’t know the language, and hadn’t hope of learning it well enough to read for pleasure in 6 months, I spent a couple of days thinking really hard about what to pack up. I was comforted on those long winter nights when it was -30 deg C having something familiar to read. TV was pointless as I couldn’t understand a word and the radio (BBC World Service) was on my shortwave portable radio when the relevant satellite was passing over the country for a couple of hours.
PS to Carrie G – agree 100% about Envy by Sandra Brown!!
Oh! So glad to meet a fellow Envy fan! If you haven’t listened to it on audio,you may want to give that a try. I love Victor Slezak’s narration.
I love those early Conard County books. Wish they were available in eformat. And yes, Rupert Campbell Black. Scrumptious
I’ve always reread a lot (about a third of my reading for many years), though in recent years the proportion of my reading that is rereading has gone down. I recently sorted & parsed data from the reading log I have kept since late 1975, so I have some reasonably solid answers (http://www.ccrsdodona.org/markmuse/reading/mostread.html).
By author name, my top 5 are:
Books, Readings, (Genre) Author:
35 277 (r) Heyer, Georgette
75 225 (r) Krentz, Jayne Ann
37 193 (r) Quick, Amanda
34 185 (r) Garwood, Julie
44 160 (s) McCaffrey, Anne
When you combine AKAs, JAK is definitely the top, with 492 readings of 156 books.
My 10 most reread individual books are:
28 A Rake’s Reform (r) Holbrook, Cindy (1995-2019) *****
26 Ravished (r) Quick, Amanda (1995-2021) *****
24 Agent of Change (s) Lee, Sharon & Miller, Steve (1988-2009)
24 Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen (s) Piper, H. Beam (1977-2015)
23 Black Sheep (r) Heyer, Georgette (1993-2018) ****
23 Carpe Diem (s) Lee, Sharon & Miller, Steve (1989-2009)
22 The Secret (r) Garwood, Julie (1995-2015) ****
22 The Mad Miss Mathley (r) Martin, Michelle (1995-2019) *****
22 Conflict of Honors (s) Lee, Sharon & Miller, Steve (1988-2009)
21 The Lion’s Lady (r) Garwood, Julie (1995-2020) *****
Ravished is probably my most reread Quick/Krentz book.
I’m definitely a “rereader”. Comfort reads in particular, but also just favorites.
Lisa Kleypas, Joanna Bourne, Carla Kelly and Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick are probably my most revisited. With Kleypas I will sometimes reread a whole series of hers like The Hathaways.
I also have favorite Linda Howard books I reread and a couple of Nora Roberts that are true comfort reads for me. I will go back and revisit an old favorite to see how it stands up or if it was just really enjoyable and life is particularly stressful or I’ve been in a book drought.
If it’s a long series with waits between books and a complicated story with a big cast or ongoing mystery, sometimes I will do a reread to refresh what went on.
Updating my list of most reread books rather than just authors:
Lisa Kleypas: The Hathaways and The Wallflowers series
Joanna Bourne: My Lord and Spymaster and Forbidden Rose (but all of them really)
Carla Kelly: Marrying The Captain trilogy, With This Ring, The Lady’s Companion, Miss Whittier Makes a List (and a bunch of others)
Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick: Ravished and Perfect Partners (many others)
Nora Roberts: Dance Upon The Air and the whole Three Sisters Island Trilogy
Linda Howard: Open Season and Mackenzie’s Mountain
Bec McMaster: Kiss of Steel and the whole first bluebood series.
My favorites ti revisit are Julie Anne Long, Joanna Bourne and C.S. Harris, Also Anne Calhoun. This year seems to have been a re-read year.
Which is your favorite Calhoun?
Uncommon Passion for sure
Mine too!
How I miss Anne Calhoun. She left several threads dangling when she stopped writing. I really want Caleb & Jo’s story (introduced at the end of TURN ME LOOSE), but at this point, I’d just like to know Calhoun is doing ok. She was amazingly prolific from 2010 to 2017; then she abruptly shut down all her social media and stopped publishing.
I am definitely a re-reader, and it’s not always the very “best” books, but the books that are comfort reads. So very good, but high angst books,probably won’t be re-read or re-listened to. So I’ve re-visited several Linda Howard, some Jayne Anne Krentz/Amanda Quick, and several Sandra Brown, especially Envy, which I do think is a great book.
On the other side are the great books I go back to, like Jane Austen and Georgette Heyer. Like Caz, I tend to re-listen more on audio than in print,so the quality of the narration has a big impact. The Talisman Ring by Heyer, narrated by Phyllida Nash, is one I’ve revisited 4 or 5 times over the past 12 years. I already know Stella Riley is going to be one of those authors, too. I only found her work last summer, and I’ve already listened to the entire Rockcliffe series twice, and will definitely be listening to romantic historicals like A Splendid Defiance again in the near future.
I’ve re-read every Linnea Sinclair sci-fi romance at least 4 times, and will again. I haven’t found and author who writes those kinds of books with the same quality or consistency yet.
I’ve revisited some Jennifer Crusie books, like Bet Me and The Cinderella Deal.
I tried to relisten to Susan Elizabeth Phillips’ Chicago Stars series again this past spring. I enjoyed them the first time or two back 7 or 8 years ago, and Anna Fields was such an incredible narrator. This time, though, I kept DNFing them, so I gave up. I didn’t like her characters at all anymore, male or female. I kept hitting situations were I was just, “Big nope!” My sensibilities have obviously changed.
What makes the Sinclair books so stellar?
That’s a tough question. I love how she world-builds–it’s smooth, interesting and consistent, but not overly complicated or overwhelming. Her characters are fairly typical romance/action characters, but they are still well done and worth rooting for. One of her main characters for the first two Dock Five series, Gabriel, is a more complex character than most. Her secondary characters are solid, and her plots are enjoyable. These are definitely romance books set in space, but she uses the space setting extremely well and that makes them more interesting to me.
I think it’s the whole package. They have good characters,enjoyable plots and solid world-building. Maybe not 5 star-the-best-thing-ever-written, but fantastic comfort reads that I go back to again and again. It’s one of those situations where it isn’t always the A+ reads that become my personal Desert Island Keepers. :-)
I agree. I think she strikes a nice balance between plot and character, which is hard in sci-fi. I also like her heroines, who certainly CAN kick butt, but aren’t the Kick Butt ™ heroine archetype.
I like that distinction! Well put.
I agree. I love Linnea Sinclair for the reasons you have mentioned. I wish the earlier stories were available on audio as well.
I agree, if something is high stress even if it was great it’s less likely it will be amongst my rereads.
I agree too! Some of my favourite books are actually not ones I reread often, because it usually requires a lot more time and mental energy to appreciate them. I reread romance novels a lot because it gives me a nice warm, fuzzy feeling when I’m feeling stressed or down.
I’m not much of a re-reader either, although I have found myself re-reading passages of Cat Sebastian’s work now and then. Her writing style is delightful, the premises are interesting, and her believable integration of queer characters in an HR setting is sublime. At times, her MM love scenes can fall a little too heavily into the heteronormative pattern expected in m/m romance, but that generally doesn’t make them less hot. Currently, I am working through her catalog, having already read seven of her books. Reading so many books by the same author even for the first time is unusual for me, so that’s a high complement.
On that note, The Lawrence Browne Affair should definitely be adapted as some kind of historical gay mystery series or something. A reclusive bear of an earl and his dainty, faithful secretary who was once a con artist? Tell me that doesn’t have TV series potential written all over it…
Lily Morton!
And I re-read specific series’ or titles that I love: Him & Us duology; Society of Gentlemen; Game On; The Hating Game, for example.
I’ve already relistened to Him, and will listen to Us again soon. I also relistened to Morton’s Rule Breaker just recently and I loved it the second time around, too. I can see myself rereading the entire Mixed Messages series more than once.
I have a number of what I think of as “reliable comfort re-reads”—and sometimes I’ll re-read the entire book and other times just parts; some books I’ve re-read so often, I know certain passages word-for-word. I love reading new books, but sometimes you just need that feeling you get reading a book you’ve already read before. Probably the author I’ve re-read the most is Kati Wilde, especially GOING NOWHERE FAST, THE MIDWINTER MAIL-ORDER BRIDE, FAKING IT ALL, BREAKING IT ALL, and my all-the-feels favorite, SECRET SANTA (which I can read at any time of the year, but always try to get a re-read in before Christmas every year). Wilde hits all my catnip centers: her heroines are smart, resourceful, and brave, but often find themselves in difficult situations through no fault of their own; her heroes tend to be rough-around-the-edges alphas without being alpha-holes; the sexy-times are hot, but emotional; there’s usually a painful breakup that will gut you (GOING NOWHERE FAST has the “best” breakup scene ever—it utterly destroys me and I cry every time I read it, even knowing the couple will get back together); and there’s usually a theme cleverly threaded through the arc of the story. There are individual books that I’ve probably re-read more times (Sierra Simone’s PRIEST, Julianna Keyes’s TIME SERVED, Rachel Reid’s HEATED RIVALRY, Kate Canterbary’s FAR CRY, Jill Sorenson’s RIDING DIRTY, Anne Calhoun’s TURN ME LOOSE) than individual Wilde titles, but Wilde is definitely the writer whose entire catalog I’ve re-read the most often.
I rarely re-read tbh; mostly because my reviewing schedule is usually pretty packed and if I do have time to read something else, I want to read something new. But even in the days before reviewing, I rarely re-read books because, again, there were so many other books I wanted to read! The only author I can actually remember re-reading is Stella Riley – I bought both A Splendid Defiance and The Marigold Chain back in the 80s and re-read them both a few times.
I re-listen to audiobooks more than I re-read though – most recently I did a re-listen of books 1-3 of Annabeth Albert’s Hotshots series and some of her Out of Uniform books. My re-listens are mostly determined by the narrator rather than the author though – I’ll usually decide that I want to listen to X (I’ve been on an Iggy Toma kick recently – hence Hotshots!) rather than that I want to listen to it because of the author or storyl
I hardly ever re-read books, even though I have have shelves full of old books. Just too busy finding a new fix to take the time going back to them.
The books I have re-read are mainly books I read back when I first started reading, and this is done mostly for nostalgic reasons.
Actually I have re-read three whole romance books as well, but these were from authors I no longer read. They were books that left an impression when I first started reading romance, but the re-reads sadly were a bit disappointing.
I don’t re read a lot. So many books, so little time. Lol. However I have re read KJ Charles’s Society of Gentlemen several times. Also Widdershins by Jordan L Hawk. Oh, and I started to re read the Badari Warriors series by Veronica Scott. Only the first 3 so far