If you are re-reading a book at the moment what is it?

I'm currently re reading Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
It's rare that I re read a book, there's only a handful of books that I would read again, but this is one of my all time favourites

Ditto!
Well not actually re reading it now but its my favourite book and oneof the few I've read multiple times

I like to do a series from start to finish again if I've run out of new things to read. It's most often Pratchett (although I'll do a 'theme' rather than the lot - so all of the Watch books, or the Witches, etc), or Harry Potter.

I'm a bit pernickety about reading series' though - even if I'm not enjoying them that much I'll still have to buy and finish the lot. I spent a lot of time and money reading the Cazalet Chronicles hoping that something would happen. It didn't.

I reread Wolf Hall earlier this year, and got so much more out of it. I loved it. I will probably reread Bring Up the Bodies at some point too. Waiting anxiously for part 3 from Hilary Mantel :)

I love retreading too. It's very comforting and you know it's going to be excellent!

My favourites are
Pride and prejudice.
The God of small things.
The Northerm Clemency.
Any Kate Atkinson.
A Fine Balance

I'm just about to reread Wolf Hall for the first time.

Really enjoying the Gaudy Night series again , many thanks for posting that link

I recently re-read To Kill A Mockingbird. There was so much I'd forgotten and so much I reinterpreted since the controversy over Go Set A Watchman.

I'm another serial re-reader of Dorothy L Sayers.

I don't reread in chronological order, just on which one is nearest when I have a stressy 'I need comfort food moment'!

I think the absolute best is Murder Must Advertise - although that may be because I've always been interested in the psychology of advertising, which this novel addressed quietly along the way.

The other author I re-read chronically is Georgette Heyer. Not all of them by any means, but her comedy romances remain the absolute best of their type, and guarantee a smile on face as one dozes off .

Other books I've re-read...

Shardlake series by CJ Samson. Also Dominion and Winter In Madrid. All because I wolfed them down first time and they benefited from being savoured second time around.

Some (but not all) of Lindsey Davis' Falco novels.

Mid period Ngaio Marsh.

And mid period Agatha Christie.

Earlier Patrick O'Brian.

I reread To Kill A Mockingbird not long ago, as it was on the GSCE list for my dtds and I wanted to sound intelligent when they asked about it. I'd forgotten how good it was!

Most disconcerting to help formulate essays about something I'd last studied 30 years ago...

I have to say I loved reading World War Z

I am re-reading Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson right now. I don't re-read many books, only the ones I have found it hard to let go of (emotionally).

So I have re-read a lot of Howard Norman books and will soon need to re-read John Connolly's The Book of Lost Things.

'shoo fly don't bother me, shoo fly don't bother me, for I belong to somebody''
Love the cloning of joanna-may, must have read it at least four times. Currently re-reading the diamond bikini by Charles Williams. Made me laugh a lot the first time I read it. Doesn't now but it is still agreat story well worth reading.

The Potato Factory by Bryce Courteney. I love it. I've read it quite a few times and always seem to discover something new in it. Actually just googled it because I couldn't remember the author and found out it's a trilogy...happy days!!

I'm currently reading a series of books which I haven't read before.

But I re-read a lot. Some books are just too good to only read once. Anna Karenina, The Mill on the Floss, A House for Mr Biswas and The Grapes of Wrath spring to mind as ones which can be read over and over again and always have something new to discover. I love reading a new book and knowing I'll read it again before too long.

My favourite easy comfort reads are books I've read since childhood. Anne of Green Gables, The Secret Garden, The Children Who Lived in a Barn, What Katy Did, etc.

Thanks gnome, am actually a librarian by training, so chronological suits my finicky ways

daisydalrymple, if you do retry the LPW then the order in my post is the chronological order. Of course you can read them in any order you like!

It is interesting how many re-readers are also speed readers.

My DH is very dyslexic as a result he cant scan read. He has to read with care. He seldom re-reads as he has gets every last morsel out of a book on the first hit!

And To Kill a Mockingbird. I re-read it about every two years.

Forgot to add that I also read The Hogfather and Wintersmith in the period from the winter solstice to Christmas every year. Helps me get in the festive mood.

I re-read a lot, but have built up such a collection of books that I have great gaps in between the readings. I often re read a series if there's a new one coming out, so I've reminded myself of everything before reading the new one. Sometimes I read a new release in a series and THEN go back to the start and read the series again.

I'm currently reading the Kim Harrison Dead Witch Walking series. I do love a fantasy book.

I am waiting a good while before re reading all my Pratchett books. I read them so much that they are like old friends and I like to get the point that I don't really know what's coming next before reading the books again.

Gaudy Night is one of my all time favorites, too. I have read it probably 5 or 6 times. There's also a 1980s TV series that has some flaws, but with the wonderful Harriet Walter as Harriet Vane. It's on YouTube.

I also love to re-read books. Favourites are Agatha Christie, the Cadfael series, Harry Potter, Far From the Madding Crowd, The Solitaire Mystery and Chocolat.

Have just finished re-reading Rebecca and Jamaica Inn. Sometimes it's easier to settle down with a familiar story than try and concentrate on something brand new.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

I've read all of the others loads of times - easily over 100 for the first few - but the last one I think I've only read two or three times.

It's interesting to read as an adult.

Some kindred spirits on this thread!

I re-read:

Laura Ingalls Wilder
James Herriot
Adrian Mole
Jane Eyre (every three years or so)
The Woman in White
All Jane Austen (although Mansfield Park and Northanger Abbey, my least faves, rarely)
The God of Small Things - mean to re-read it

I re read Somerset Maughan and i also skim read occasionally. My mind thinks of other things when I read and I can resolve problems. It's quite hard to explain, but it only works with books I've read before.

It's quite nice to pick up an old friend and settle down with it, knowing it's going to be a good story and I'm not wasting my time. As such:)

Gaudy Night is one of my favourite books of all time.

And The Singing Sands.w

Thanks gnome I might give one of those a go then!