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

daisydalrymple my favourite Lord Peter Wimsey stories are the Harriet Vane ones:

• Strong Poison
• Have His Carcass
• Gaudy Night
• Busman's Honeymoon

By this point the LPW silly ass-ness had gone.

Other favourite re-reads are the Josephine Tey books. I particularly enjoy re-reading The Franchise Affair.

I enjoy Agatha Christies particularly the Miss Marple stories. I love the sense of period (putting the maid on board wages!)

Oh, gladly fatrascals (didn't dare shorten that name...)

My favourite golden age whodunnits, i hope that covers the 20s and 30s include Dorothy L Sayers, Margery Allingham, Ngaio Marsh and (for me, to a lesser extent) Agatha Christie.

I'm sure there are many more...

I love rereading, as I have an appalling memory and as often as not, it's like reading them for the first time.

Right now I'm rereading Memoires of a Revolutionary, by Peotr Kropotkin, it is absolutely brilliant. He was such a kind and intelligent man and the writing really flows.

I dont understand re-readers, or skimmers/scanners!

Skimmers/scanners - what's the point?

Re-readers - who on earth do you find the time? I have loads of time on my hands but I still don't get around to reading all the books I'd like to read once, never mind re-reading some things several times.

I am currently reading The Tea Planters Wife. Set in Sri Lanka in the 20's. It's good so far.

Not2, glad to see someone else who liked 'Big Brother'. I loved it and will definitely read it again.

Harry Potter followed by Northern Lights.

Anne of Green Gsbles to Rilla of Ingleside.

Agatha Christie.

Woman in White.

Foucaults Pendulum.

I have a pile of books to read, but I love my old favourites.

I've just finished a really upsetting novel so now I'm going to have to retrieve a Poirot just to calm down and drop off to sleep

PG Wodehouse too

A serial Agatha Christie re-reader here too!

I re-read stuff ALL the time. DH thinks I'm odd. I re-watch films and TV programmes too.

I was just thinking about which book I have re-read the most. I reckon it's between I Am David and The Blue Castle.

I want to go back and read most of the books on this thread now.

I have a whole shelf of books I reread on rotation in between new books. There is something indescribably comforting about familiar words and passages; the places they take you and feelings they evoke. Sometimes I am desperate to read a particular story or page of text to recreate the feeling. I am a book junkie!

Many of my favourite rereads are Agatha Christies. Pretty much all Poirots. There is little so relaxing as a whodunnit where you know who dunnit. Finding new clues and remembering the details is delicious.

Other reread favourites:
Katherine
A Town Like Alice
The Cloning of Joanna May
The Day of the Triffids

I re read regularly, particular favourites are:
Great Expectations
Rebecca
Pride and Prejudice
All the Harry Potters

Stupid spellchecker!!!!

Wilbur Smith not Winnie!
Nearly as bad as jolly cooper on another thread

I re- read a lot

James Herriot
Adrian Mole
Winnie Smith Egyptian series
Frost books
Prime suspect

I love re-reading books and am about to re-read Frenchman's Creek for possibly the 20th time (but the first time for five years or so). Like a PP, I tend to speed read so often pick up nuances the second time around or go back through & look for clues I missed. Life of Pi is a good example of that. I thought there was something a bit unusual about his companion in the boat but hadn't worked out what it was at all.
Hassled - I am a long way off retiring but am already looking forward to re-reading everything I possess when I do!

Jaimx86 I haven't read that book, but anything connected with Prince gets my attention!

I reread things all the time. I'm a speed reader so I don't necessarily get all the nuances the first time around, so rereading is actually really rewarding.

I'm currently working my way through the whole Outlander series again, in preparation for the next series on Prime.

Sgtmajormummy As you like White Teeth, I'm wondering if you've read The Black Album by Hanif Kureishi? To quote The Guardian, 'The Black Album is a sprawling book about late 80s London, taking in radical Islam, ecstasy – and Prince'. I've read it several times and highly recommend.

Sense and Sensibility. For about the 900th time.

Ida - i also love The Map of Love & have re-read it several times.

Last Summer I re-read Zadie Smith's White Teeth, not only because it's a great rambling story with very close-to-the-bone characters, but because I wanted to see how British Muslim society looked almost two decades ago.

I occasionally read a book through twice, so I can stay in the "alternative life" and savour it without needing to find out what happens next!

I can always re read Michelle paver dark matter, a genuinely creepy ghost story and James meek the people's act of love.

I reread a god in ruins on holiday, a beautiful portrayal of a man's life, just a shame I can't stand kate atkinson.

Also reread a love song for Queenie Hennessey... I didn't expect to enjoy it so much and I sobbed both times I read it.. Ask did a god in ruins too!

I re-read a lot of books. Right now I'm re-reading Game Change about the 2008 US presidential election.

I re-read the Starbridge novels on a regular basis, especially Scandalous Risks. I love Howatch's writing and how she draws her characters.

On re-reading books - when my father was about 60 he announced that he didn't want to be given books anymore, he was just going to re-read the ones he had (he had a lot of books - serious amounts). And I thought he was crazy not to want to experience new authors etc., but the older I get the more I see his point of view. He died a few years later so I'm glad he had spent the time revisiting the books of his past - there's a lot to be said for it.