Worthy Re-Reads

Hugh Hewitt wonders what modern novels are worth re-reading (hat tip: Evangelical Outpost.) Here is a partial list of the books that I've read two or more times, and I keep finding myself going back to them over and over again. Ok, some of them are neither novels nor modern... Tough cookies!

• The Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan
  
• To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
  
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
• Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
  
• Macbeth - William Shakespeare
  
• Hamlet - William Shakespeare
  
• The Merchant of Venice - William Shakespeare
  
• Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
  
• Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
  
• Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
  
• Cyrano de Bergerac (the Anthony Burgess stage play translation is brilliant!)
• The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkein
  
• The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkein
• Mere Christianity - C.S. Lewis
  
• Surprised by Joy - C.S. Lewis
• The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis
• The Great Divorce - C. S. Lewis
• Be Yourself and God's - Richard C. Halverson (sadly, this gem seems to be out of print)
  
• Traveling Mercies - Anne Lammott
• Operating Instructions, A Journal of My Son's First Year - Anne Lammott
• Rabboni, Which is to Say Master - W. Philip Keller
• A Shepherd Looks at Psalm 23 - W. Philip Keller (I can' t count how many copies of this and Rabboni that I've bought and given away & bought again...)
  
• Calvary Road - Roy Hession (ditto this one)
  
• We Would See Jesus - Roy Hession
  
• When I saw Him - Roy Hession
  
• The Writing Life - Annie Dillard
  

Books I want to read again, but sadly are still packed in boxes in the basement until we can get some more bookcases:

• John Adams - David McCullough
  
• Truman - David McCullough (It amazes me to think Mr. McCullough writes on a circa WWII manual typewriter!!)
  

And finally, books that make me want to throw them against the wall, because every stinkin' time I open them, they have something to say about something I'd rather not think about:

• The Christian in Complete Armor - William Gurnall (Careful with this one, it's industrial strength. You won't be left standing. I don't think I made it through book III. I am a worm!)
  
• The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis (Hate to think I fall for the tricks so easily!)
  
• The Writing Life - Annie Dillard (I was hoping this book would convince me I have no business being a writer. It didn't. Argh!)
  

That's a woefully incomplete list, but those are the books that first came to mind. What books do you read over and over (other than the Bible?)