 Serban's favorite authors (at least one book read at least ten times)
Other books Serban enjoyed (read at least twice)
Henri Charriere - Papillon
Umberto Eco - Foucault's Pendulum; Baudolino
Mircea Eliade - Shortsighted Teenager's Novel; Bengali Night
Stefan Heym - The King David Report
Ursula K. LeGuin - Roccanon's World (one may argue it's a pretty random heroic fantasy, but it's the one that did it for me at the time)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Innocent Erendira
Ilya Ilf & Yevgeni Petrov - The Twelve Chairs; The Little Golden Calf
Jules Verne - Ok, this was rather long ago, so I can't be sure (a) that I haven't read any of the books ten times, or (b) which ones exactly I have read twice. But here's a guess: Five Weeks in a Balloon; A Journey to the Center of the Earth; From the Earth to the Moon; In Search of the Castaways; Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea; A Floating City; Around the World in Eighty Days; The Mysterious Island; Around the World in Eighty Days; Off on a Comet; Dick Sand; A Captain at Fifteen; The Vanished Diamond; Mathias Sandorf; Robur the Conqueror; Propeller Island. Around the same time, I may have read twice books by Alexandre Dumas (Senior), and a bit later Dersu Uzala by Vladimir Arsenyev.
Evelyn Waugh - A Handful of Dust (if you try to read it... don't judge this book by its cover - or even by the first half of it!)
And a book that is so much more than the previous ones, but, if sticking to quantitative methods, needs to be listed here:
Roberto Calasso - Ka
Serban's friends' blogs, pickies etc.
Radu Andrei Dobre (andreiard) (partly Romanian)
Music commentary
Muzici si faze (Romanian) - of music and moments
Only solitaire (George Starostin's music reviews) - of music and linguistics
Richard Leschen - of music and beetles
Nicholas Gotelli - of music and null models
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