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Yes, but rarely enough that the instances stand out in my mind. I've read LOTR a couple of times, The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Martian by Andy Weir, a textbook called Art and Visual Perception because I am a fucking nerd. It's very likely that I'll read Midnight in Chernobyl again, Spillover by David Quammen (predicted the Covid pandemic 10 years early!), and anything by Erik Larson or James Gleick. Those books are great.
But LOTR is the only fiction I've ever read more than once
Midnight in Chernobyl was so good! A good companion to that one is Voices from Chernobyl which is first-hand accounts from the people who were there. It’s haunting and viscerally honest and an excellent read.
I loved Spillover too, though monkeys and bats make me much more uneasy now after reading it.
Bats have become legitimately terrifying after reading Spillover. So cute, so apocalyptic