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If you could only choose one book...

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SuperScribbler · 28/05/2013 15:11

What would it be? What book can you read again and again, without being bored, and maybe getting something new from each time?

My vote would go to To Kill a Mocking Bird.

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Shoesoffatthedoor · 04/06/2013 22:29

The War Of The Worlds by H G Wells

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EarlGreyTeabag · 04/06/2013 22:25

Katherine by Anya Seton.

It was my grandmother's favourite book & she gave me her copy. I must've read it a dozen times since I was a teenager.

Caoilainn · 04/06/2013 22:23

The Adventures of Hummy and Dummy. Been reading it or having it read to me for as long as I can remember!

I re read every book I have, unless they are truly awful. Tara the Otter, the Alice's and anything by Beatrix Potter spring to mind.

TheBookofRuth · 04/06/2013 22:21

My Family and Other Animals. No matter how many times I read it it never fails to make me laugh like a loon.

sonlypuppyfat · 04/06/2013 22:18

i completly agree about Jane Eyre it is the most perfect story, but my go to book when bored is The Valley of Horses by Jean M Auel

Taffeta · 04/06/2013 22:17

The Cleft by Doris Lessing

MortifiedAdams · 04/06/2013 22:15

If I can pick a series, then Harry Potter as I truly adore them and read the full set again at least once a year. Plus, I could share them with my dc.

If it had to be just one single book, then Little Women (again, hoping that I could share it with dd).

Prawntoast · 04/06/2013 22:15

Would either have to be Lord of the Rings (I read it every couple of years) or the complete Jeeves and Wooster, never fails to make me laugh no matter how times I read it.

LalyRawr · 04/06/2013 22:13

1984 - George Orwell.

Orrrr The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom

Though do realise I will have to kill you for taking the rest of my books away.

Louise1956 · 04/06/2013 22:12

Three Men In A Boat by Jerome K. Jerome. Been making me laugh for 45 years. I never tire of it.

notanyanymore · 04/06/2013 22:10

Jamaica Inn or Wuthering Heights... Or Lorna Do one. Anything about strong women, criminal men and lonely moors it would seem!Blush

ohnonotanotherone · 04/06/2013 22:03

Barbara Kingsolver Poisonwood Bible - brilliant.

chirpchirp · 04/06/2013 15:08

Flowers for Algernon. Read it age 14 have read it again about once a year since. Still weep like a child at it.

pillow1999 · 04/06/2013 14:41

Mine would be To Kill A Mockingbird as well. It is the only book today that I have read more than once, I re read it once a year and watch the film over and over.....

kiwigirl42 · 04/06/2013 14:39

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon. Fantastic historical fiction with some time travel thrown in!

driftwoodsands · 04/06/2013 14:24

Agree 'The Secret History' or 'Cold Comfort Farm.' Brilliant! Hard to choose just one though...

ChewingOnLifesGristle · 04/06/2013 10:15

I can't think of any books I've rereadConfused

I'm always scared I won't enjoy it as much and then it'll be ruined in my memory as being a great book. Only the first reading can be the best. IMHO.

bimblebee · 04/06/2013 10:11

Another vote here for Donna Tartt's The Secret History. You could probably read it twenty times and discover new layers in it every time.

BunnyLebowski · 29/05/2013 16:14

Anna Karenina

Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel García Márquez.

The Secret History - Donna Tartt.

Smartiepants79 · 29/05/2013 16:14

Something long and complicated!
Lord of the rings.
The stand.
David copperfield.
Too hard.....

ceramicunicorn · 29/05/2013 16:10

One Hundred Years of Solitude. One of the few books I'll happily read again and again.

PeterParkerSays · 29/05/2013 16:09

An equal music by Vikram Seth.

JackieTheFart · 29/05/2013 16:07

The Year of the Flood.

Although I would be devastated to only be allowed one tbh!