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non ya book i re-read the most: cloud atlas, the help or fly by night (which is more aimed at middle schoolers i think, but a great read for everyone!)

haha, i forgot to mention jasper jones by craig silvey and game of thrones by geroge r r martin

I am so sorry I haven't answered this before! I haven't read The Help, but I've heard it's really awesome!

Wow, have you read all of the Game of Thrones books?

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Moloka'i by Alan Brennert. I just love that book.

Oh wow, Moloka’i looks like a heart-wrenching book.

Rachel Kalama, a spirited seven-year-old Hawaiian girl, dreams of visiting far-off lands like her father, a merchant seaman. Then one day a rose-colored mark appears on her skin, and those dreams are stolen from her. Taken from her home and family, Rachel is sent to Kalaupapa, the quarantined leprosy settlement on the island of Moloka’i. Here her life is supposed to end—-but instead she discovers it is only just beginning.

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One series I luv re-reading is the Once Upon a Time series but its a fanfic so I don't think it counts? but its good. Its for Hellboy and I love it. The writer is on book 12. Its for adults. The girl is like 30 and its fantasy because there's all kinds of cool fairies from all over the world.

FRIEND I LOVE FANFIC. I have some that I will reread all the time. Or reread to get out a reading slump. My favorite is Secrets by Vorabiza (it's Draco/Harry), it's just so good.

So fanfic is totally great. This is the second time I've heard about this fic, I guess it must be really great! 

Here's where you can read it, and here's the summary:

Wolves in human skin. A Beast and a lost maiden. A sanctuary in an oncoming storm. A prince of Elven blood. Sacrifices, debts, honor, and oaths. Ten long, beautiful years, and all the stories that fall within them. Dedicated to the world of LA Knight's Prince Nuada/OFC story, "Once Upon a Time," and related work written for it by other authors.

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The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides, it's such an enigmatic and melancholic book, I love it!

The Virgin Suicides was so good!

The shocking thing about the girls was how nearly normal they seemed when their mother let them out for the one and only date of their lives. Twenty years on, their enigmatic personalities are embalmed in the memories of the boys who worshipped them and who now recall their shared adolescence: the brassiere draped over a crucifix belonging to the promiscuous Lux; the sisters' breathtaking appearance on the night of the dance; and the sultry, sleepy street across which they watched a family disintegrate and fragile lives disappear.

Seriously, this book is so fabulous, everyone should read it. Clearly, tw for suicides, though.

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I reread Pride and Prejudice every year, at least once. I think that everyone does, though.

Nope, I read it for the first time last year, and that will probably be the last for me! I'm glad you like it so much. (I probably watch the movie that often, though, lol.)

Pride and Prejudice

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." So begins Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen's witty comedy of manners--one of the most popular novels of all time--that features splendidly civilized sparring between the proud Mr. Darcy and the prejudiced Elizabeth Bennet as they play out their spirited courtship in a series of eighteenth-century drawing-room intrigues.

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The Black Jewels by Anne Bishop is my most reread series ever, and it's adult dark fantasy. I love them all they're so awesome!

I have got to read these books. I love Anne Bishop so much so I really want to love that series, too!

Daughter of the Blood

The Dark Kingdom is preparing itself for the fulfillment of an ancient prophecy--the arrival of a new Queen, a Witch who will wield more power than even the High Lord of Hell himself. But this new ruler is young, and very susceptible to influence and corruption; whoever controls her controls the Darkness. And now, three sworn enemies begin a ruthless game of politics and intrigue, magic and betrayal, and the destiny of an entire world is at stake.

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ooh a reader just posted about Nora Roberts and it made me remember that I've read the "In The Garden" trilogy by her a couple of times so far - it's my favorite and I've reread Wanderlust by Daniele Steel a couple of times so far as well (also my favorite by her) - they are my "go to" fluff novels when I'm in a reading stump or if I just want "filler" books. :-)

NORA ROBERTS I love her. I haven't actually read her Garden series! I keep meaning to but I never buy them when I see them at my used bookstore. My favorite series by her... oh man, I love so many of them! I think right now it's the Chesapeake Bay saga. Or possibly the Three Sisters Island. Or maybe the Bride Quartet. I can never decide, lol.

I've only read two books by Danielle Steele, and of the two Liked H.R.H. more. It's super cute.

Wanderlust

Orphaned young, Audrey has grown up caring for her eccentric millionaire grandfather and her demanding younger sister, Annabelle, who assume she will always be there for them. Sheltered yet restless, responsible beyond her years yet hungering for experience, Audrey is hopelessly bound until she herself makes the daring decision to leave. As the 1930s unfold, alone, camera in hand, she will shock friends and outrage family as she plunges headlong into the wider world.Crossing the Atlantic aboard the luxurious Queen Mary, Audrey meets James and Violet Hawthorne, who will draw her into a sophisticated circle of artists and expatriates. And it is they who will introduce her to Charles Parker-Scott, in who Audrey will come to recognize a twin soul, a man propelled by relentless curiosity and driven by conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. Together they will spend an exquisite summer at Cap d'Antibes, then board the Orient Express on an adventure that will carry them to a remote outpost in China. But at the farthest reaches of this journey Aubrey must choose again. Japan has attacked China. Charles knows he must return to Europe at once. But Audrey becomes involved with a besieged orphanage and decides to remain in China without Charles, caring for the abandoned children until help arrives.In time Audrey will return to America with a daughter of her own. While she must come home to San Francisco to confront a world irrevocably changed by time, she finds she cannot stay. From prewar Germany to London during the Blitz, from a wrenching reunion with Charles to a war zone in North Africa, again and again she must choose between the dictates of her conscience and the yearnings of her heart. For Audrey Driscoll and the men and women whose lives touch hers, wanderlust is the inescapable element. Born at a time when women were expected to stay close to home and fulfill traditional roles, Audrey is compelled to follow the thread of events that will destroy the complacency of the past and shape the future. From Europe to China, from San Francisco to North Africa, she is irresistibly drawn into a man's world of conflict, discovery, and danger.

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Funny story while that was my prompt I can't think of any adult book that I've reread yet! Oh wait the Mitford series by Jan Karon, I've read that twice. It's a fluff series that makes me want to live in a small mountain town. But I know I want to reread The Picture of Dorian Gray, & for some reason I picture me rereading it over and over again as an old woman LOL. I also want to reread The Blessing Stone by Barbara Wood. I'm really looking forward to seeing other readers answers

Oh no! 

At Home in Mitford

It's easy to feel at home in Mitford. In these high, green hills, the air is pure, the village is charming, and the people are generally lovable.Yet, Father Tim, the bachelor rector, wants something more. Enter a dog the size of a sofa who moves in and won't go away. Add an attractive neighbor who begins wearing a path through the hedge. Now, stir in a lovable but unloved boy, a mystifying jewel theft, and a secret that's sixty years old.

This sounds super cute and fluffy and like a relaxing read, tbh. Kind of like the Amish romance novels I used to read.

The Blessing Stone sounds really fascinating, writing about generations of people that all have the stone. It reminds me of People of the Book

Millions of years ago, a meteorite fell to earth and a beautiful blue stone shattered from it. One hundred thousand years ago, a girl named Tall One found the crystal on the African plain---and it formed her destiny, as well as the destiny of generations to come. From ancient Israel to imperial Rome, medieval England, fifteenth-century Germany, the eighteenth-century Caribbean, and the nineteenth-century American West, the destiny of the stone and the history of the world unfold. Each story is full of the betrayals and obsessions of the human heart, and the quests of the human spirit. In The Blessing Stone, Barbara Wood has both told the intimate details of her characters' lives and created a sense of the epic sweep of human history.

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