Is there ONE book....

[tobee]

that you wish you could read for the first time again? Off the top of your head. Or is that too hard? For me, tonight, it would be Diary of a Provincial Lady and subsequent volumes.

[HollowTalk]

For me it would be Cold Comfort Farm. I daren't re-read it, though, in case it doesn't live up to my memories of it.

[MrsRhettButler]

Gone With The Wind
I can't remember a time I hadn't read it so must of been very young, I'd love to read it now for the first time, I wonder if I'd love it the same... or more
I've never read Diary Of A Provincial Lady so I have the chance to give it a go

[MrsRhettButler]

Have! *must have

[Sleeperandthespindle]

The Count of Monte Christo

[Jaimx86]

The Bell Jay

[YvaineStormhold]

Bring Up The Bodies.

Superb.

[Jaimx86]

Jay?!
The Bell Jar

[Boogers]

The Wrong Boy by Willy Russell. Wonderful book.

[FrogTime]

Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes

[Sosidges]

The Count of Monte Cristo

[AgentProvocateur]

A Fine Balance.

[EsmesBees]

Loads. I often feel jealous of people on here reading great books for the first time. Mine are Brideshead Revisited and Hitchhikers' Guide.

[southeastdweller]

The Goldfinch.

[DigestiveMuncher]

Mine are local girl missing and the murder house!!
But because they both have such good twists that if I was to read them again I would know what was coming.

[HappydaysArehere]

I agree with Gone With the Wind.
Before that was Little Women and Good Wives. The pleasure they gave me was without parallel.

[MrsRhettButler]

We have the same taste Happy although I've not read the Little Women books for so long that it would be like reading them again, other than the fact that I know Jo doesn't marry Laurie!
I remember being so annoyed when she wouldn't and then coming to the realisation that she was right
No, I take it back, it would never be like the first time again.

[MrsRhettButler]

Just as an aside I've started The Count Of Monte Cristo as a result of this thread.

[MapMyMum]

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

[tobee]

Oh yes I agree about Woman in White. Still have Count of Monte Cristo and Gone with the Wind to read for starters. Hooray!

I think it's Diary of Provincial Lady right now because I'm yearning to get into an amusing, multi volumed book that's set in an a different world, but with modern day resonance. Keep on trying and trying to get into something else to take me away from it all but it everything's been a bit meh for a while.

[Sadik]

I love the Provincial Lady, but I'm happy I first met her as a teenager - she feels like a comfortable friend I've known all my life :)

I wish I still had Georgette Heyer books I hadn't read!

[onlyslightlyinterested]

The Thorn birds by Colleen McCulloch, and A kind of loving by Stan Barstow. Oh , and Yes by Barry Hines

[mmack]

Gone with the Wind for me as well. Nothing compares to it.

[SwedishEdith]

I went to buy The Count Of Monte Cristo today because of this thread. It's massive!

[DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen]

The Poisonwood Bible

[FastWindow]

Yes sosidges Monte Cristo. Such a three course meal of a book. With sorbet, coffee and classy cigars.