Rainer Maria Rilke sums it up succinctly when he writes of re-reading books:
The enjoyment of them and the gratitude only grows ever greater, and one's way of looking at things becomes somehow better and simpler, one's belief in life deeper and one's life more blessed and more significant. (Letters to a Young Poet, 1903)What books do you re-read? Books that I find myself re-reading the most:
C.S. Lewis
The Great Divorce
The Screwtape Letters
The Seeing Eye (essays)
The Grand Miracle (essays)
The Four Loves
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
William Shakespeare
King Lear
Soren Kierkegaard
A Kierkegaard Anthology
Emily Brontë/ Charlotte Brontë
Poems and short stories
G.K. Chesterton
Orthodoxy
The Ball and the Cross
Madeleine L'Engle
Walking on Water
Lauren Winner
Girl Meets God
Mudhouse Sabbath
Tara Leigh Cobble
Here's to Hindsight
Crowded Skies
Orange Jumpsuit
Carolyn Weber
Surprised by Oxford
Emily Dickinson
Poems
The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse
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