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In reply to the discussion: Do You Have a Fictional Book That You Have Read Several Times? [View all]Saviolo
(3,284 posts)The Dark Is Rising sequence by Susan Cooper - British young adult series of novels that touches on Arthurian legend and all sorts of amazing stuff. I wore out a copy and had to re-buy. (books in series: Over Sea Under Stone, The Dark Is Rising, Greenwitch, The Grey King, Silver on the Tree)
The Jurisfiction or Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde - Hysterically funny and extremely literate series about a woman named Thursday Next who works for the UK SpecOps division in charge of literary forgeries (LiteraTec) and discovers the ability o enter fiction itself. Clever, funny, and utterly charming. (books in series: The Eyre Affair, Lost in a Good Book, The Well of Lost Plots, Something Rotten, First Among Sequels, One of Our Thursdays is Missing, The Woman Who Died a Lot)
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie - One of the best pieces of magical realism I've ever read. Stunning in its scope and texture. I love lots of his novels (Shalimar the Clown, The Enchantress of Florence, The Moor's Last Sigh), but I've never returned to them as much as Midnight's Children.
The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte - Turned into a really quite terrible movie starring Johnny Depp that excised an entire subplot (to the story's detriment), but the novel is a fun little literary mystery with two plotlines that are cleverly intertwined.