RE: Which Novels Have You Returned To And Read Several Times In The Course Of Your Adult Life?
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Thanks, @thatcryptodave ! I ought to have included The Stranger, by Albert Camus as I've read it at least three times.
I like your choices. I read Fahrenheit 451 a couple of years ago. I've read quite a bit of Jack London but not The Star Rover. If I read anything by John Wyndham it would have been at school, but the film version, I guess that would be "Village of the Damned" made quite an impression on me back in the day!
Have you read any of J. G. Ballard's novels? If not, I think you might enjoy them.
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I've been meaning to read The Stranger for a while now as well. And I never made that connection between The Chrysalids and The Village of the Damned! Is that true?
I should add The Time Machine by HG Wells to my list, which I've read three times now. I've never read any of Ballard's work, no, but I'll give it a look. My favourite books are actually the heavy human stories like Love in the Time of Cholera and Anna Karenina, Silas Marner... Dickens... but I don't usually end up reading them more than once. Isn't that funny?
To clarify, the Village of the Damned is the film version of The Midwich Cuckoos.
I read The Time Machine when I was about 18, but my favourite H. G. Wells book is not a novel at all, but his "Little Wars," all about setting down some rules for playing war games with toy soldiers, and an account of such a battle, quite possibly played with his friend J. K. Jerome.
Those "heavy human" novels take a lot of digesting! Much as I love Dickens, I can't say I've read many of his novels more than once either.