Sorry if this has been done before, but I'm a bit curious. What are your absolute, can-read-them-over-and-over, tried and true favorite books? Usually when someone says something's their favorite with a reason or two, you can get some good recommendations.

My personal favorite is Anna Karenina. I read it when I was 17 and more or less have read it once a year since. My close second would be War and Peace and after that there's a big gap in quality until you get to my third.

I'm thinking fiction, but if you read some VCR manual you felt was horrifyingly riveting feel free to say so.