Oscar Wilde once said, "If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all." The process of rereading often allows us an opportunity to notice aspects of the book that escaped our attention during the first read, while reminding us what made us love it the first time. With that in mind, we've compiled a list of books that beg to be reread. From Pauline Kael's electrifying film essays in I Lost it at the Movies to the laugh-out-loud antics of Gary Shteyngart's The Russian Debutante's Handbook, these books will leave you asking for seconds and thirds.

Angels in America: Gay Fantasia on National Themes by Tony Kushner
A Distant Mirror: A Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara Tuchman
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor
A House for Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul
A Land More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Alice James: A Biography by Jean Strouse
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
Ansel Adams: An Autobiography by Ansel Adams
Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Brooklyn: A Novel by Colm T’ib’n
Call It Sleep by Henry Roth
Cheating at Canasta by William Trevor
Collected Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov
Continental Drift by Russell Banks
Diane Arbus: A Biography by Patricia Bosworth
Diary of Anais Nin 1931-1934 by Anais Nin
Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
Down These Mean Streets by Piri Thomas
Drown by Junot Diaz
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Fences by August Wilson
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange
Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera
Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet
God's Fool by Mark Slouka
Heir to the Glimmering World by Cynthia Ozick
Hell's Angels by Hunter Thompson
House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
I Lost It at the Movies by Pauline Kael
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Ironweed: A Novel by William Kennedy
Just Kids by Patti Smith
Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig
Little Disturbances of Man by Grace Paley
Lost in Yonkers by Neil Simon
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
Naked Lunch by William Burroughs
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan by Jill Lepore
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
Nobody's Fool by Richard Russo
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
One Writer's Beginnings by Eudora Welty
Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books by Aaron Lansky
Passage to India by E. M. Forster
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
Possession by A.S. Byatt
Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert Caro
Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow
Random Family: Love, Drugs, and Coming of Age in the Bronx by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
Schroder by Amity Gaige
Secret History by Donna Tartt
Ship of Fools by Katherine Anne Porter
Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones
Slaughter-House Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Sula by Toni Morrison
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
The Dead and the Living: Poems by Sharon Olds
The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri
The Dollmaker by Hariette Arnow
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge by David McCullough
The Guggenheims: A Family History by Debi Unger, Irwin Unger
The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Family’s Century of Art and Loss by Edmund de Waal
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh by Vincent Van Gogh
The Lover by Marguerite Duras
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
The Russian Debutante's Handbook by Gary Shteyngart
The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
The Voyage of the Narwhal by Andrea Barrett
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Time's Arrow by Martin Amis
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Townie: A Memoir by Andre Dubus
Triangle: The Fire That Changed America by David Von Drehle
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Utopia Parkway: The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell by Deborah Solomon
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
We the Animals by Justin Torres
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin