Which books can you read again and again without getting bored?

[Frasersmum123]

Mine are

Cat's Eye
Little Women
Harry Potter (Especially the last two)

[Monkeygi]

ALL the Little House on the Prairie books, ditto Little Women, Miss Read... Actually I reread all my books on a regular basis- they're like old friends I suppose. Plus I read really, really fast and I'm running out of books from the library etc! The only ones I don't read, to my shame, are ones bought in a fit of 'self-improvement' and which have never been read beyond the first page (Tolstoy, Dostoevsky etc etc...) Oh and Diana Gabaldon. Love those.

[becklespeckle]

Harry Potter definitely, all any of them
Robert Jordan's 'Eye of the World' series
Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

Erm, loads and loads actually!

Used to read and re-read Virginia Andrews' Flowers in the Attic when I was 10 or so.

Only ones I find I don't re-read are chic-lit ones, I like them but not enough to re-read.

[becklespeckle]

Oh, and The Very Hungry Caterpillar!

[ComeWhineWithMe]

Harry Potters

IT & firestarter Stephen King

Angelas ashes

Eleven hours Paullina Simons .

[kitstwins]

My desert island books....the ones you can pick up off the bookshelf and open on any page and just start reading. They include: -

Vanity Fair - Thackerey
Behind the Scenes At The Museum - Kate Atkinson
His Dark Materials Trilogy - Philip Pullman
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Brother Of The More Famous Jack - Barbara Trapido
Penmarric - Susan Howatch
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
The End of Mr Y - Scarlet Thomas
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
When Will There Be Good News - Kate Atkinson
Forever Amber - Kathleen Windsor
A Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhyss
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Persuasion - Jane Austen
The Chyrsalids - John Wyndham
A is For Alphabet - Sue Grafton (her alphabet crime series)
Tender is the Night - F Scott Fitzgerald
The Observations - Jane Harris
I am Charlotte Simmons - Tom Wolfe

I could go on forever...

[Seeline]

The ones I have read and re-read are those by Delderfield - A Horseman Riding By series, The Swann Family series and The Avenue Books. I love them and find something new in tehm everytime.

[fryalot]

The Catch Trap by marion Zimmer Bradley

Any mystery novel that I have forgotten the ending of

[atowncalledalice]

Lolita - Nabokov
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
Junky - William Burroughs
Midnight Cowboy - James Leo Herlihy
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
Soul Music - Terry Pratchett

[costagirl]

Anything by Margaret Attwood, especial y the Robber Bride and Alias Grace. Any Anita Shreve books, Chocolat, that Ian McEwan one about a hot air balloon, (brain crap today).

[eekamoose]

The Kenneth Williams Diaries

Harry Thompson's biography of Peter Cook

Toast by Nigel Slater

All of Bill Bryson's books

[costagirl]

Enduring Love, the one about the hot air balloon! Yes, def Bill Bryson.

[Fleurlechaunte]

The Twilight Books
Jilly Cooper always makes me giggle
I re-read Pride and Prejudice about once a year.
Also Harry Potter

[LilianGish]

Nancy Mitford - Love in a Cold Climate and The Pursuit of Love. Brideshead Revisited.

[bran]

I've been thinking about reading the Twilight books, I'd never heard of them before the film came out but now lots of people are talking about them as old favourites.

Pride and Prejudice - Austin
A place of my own - Michael Pollan (it really soothes me when I'm stressed)
Welcome to Temptation - Jennifer Crusie (essentially the same story as P&P but modern and very funny)
Various other Jennifer Crusie books
The Chasm City series - Alastair Reynolds
The Hellfire Club - Peter Straub
Ayuamarca and Hell's Horizon - Darren O'Shaugnessy (now re-released under the pen name D B Shan, otherwise known as Darren Shan the children's writer)

[Fleurlechaunte]

Twilight books are buy one get one free in WHSmiths at the moment.

[FiveGoMadInDorset]

Pride and prejudice
Maeve Binchley
Jilly Cooper
Isabelle Allende
Tom Clancy

[shivermetimbers]

lord of the rings
hitchhikers guide to galaxy
the shopaholic books

[LadyGlencoraPalliser]

All of Jane Austen
And Anthony Trollope
And George Eliot
William Trevor's short stories
And Elizabeth Bowen's
Georgette Heyer's Regency romances (but not her detective books)
Angela Thirkell
Lord of the Rings
All of Rosemary Sutcliff
And Elizabeth Goudge
Cynthia-Harrod Eagles' Morland books
Drina Ballerina
The Wells Series
Chalet School

[HolyGuacamole]

Robert Harris - Pompeii

Love it!

[mrsmaidamess]

The Bell Jar -Sylvia Plath

Any of the Ramona Quimby children's books by Beverly Cleary

Anything by Anne Tyler.

Cat's Eye

Any Nigel Slater book, cookery or autobiographical.

[bran]

I'll check out WH Smith, thanks Fleur.

[janeite]

Jane Austen with an "e" (sorry but it makes me go all funny when I see it with an "i" ) - all of them. I re-read them every year.

"Ballet Shoes" and "Charlotte Sometimes" for childhood nostalgia.

Harry Potter

Bill Bryson - especially "The Lost Continent"

The Lord Of The Rings

Of Mice And Men - I teach it every year and never, ever, get tired of it. I think along with P&P it is almost certainly one of the best books ever written: except for the giant rabbit bit, which is a bit silly.

Nigella "How To Eat" : I rarely cook from it but like reading it.

[bran]

Sorry about the 'Austen' - I've clearly been spelling it wrongly my entire classic-reading life. Only about 30 years or so then, perhaps nobody else has noticed.

[LightShinesInTheDarkness]

'Rebecca' - I wait for my favourite bits like rooting round in the Quality Street tin for the flat toffees!

I know just what they are going to be like every time, but they are just always so good!

[alicecrail]

Jilly cooper (all the riders series)
All the Harry potter books