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Which is your go-to re-read book?

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DinDjarin · 30/01/2023 20:59

The one you pick up when you're exhausted because it doesn't matter where you start or stop as you know it so well. The one you reach for when you're ill and can't concentrate on anything.

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Namechange567775 · 07/02/2023 21:30

Also going to throw in The Dark Tower series. I’ve read the whole lot three times through and they’re just incredible.

Namechange567775 · 07/02/2023 21:29

Rebecca for me too!
Also whichever Harry Potter book has the big Christmas feast in it - when I’m tired and want to be in bed I have that but specifically open on my kindle - makes me feel so warm and toasty and happy!

ilovesushi · 07/02/2023 21:22

@tobee yes to all of those! Certain Barbara Pym novels I can read again and again.

ilovesushi · 07/02/2023 21:20

Jane Austen novels particularly Persuasion. I try not to read it too often as I don't want it to become overly familiar. I still haven't visited Lyme Regis as I worry it won't live up to the book. I don't think I have read Mansfield Park since A-level which really put me off. Might try it again, but Fanny Price was very underwhelming.

DeanVolecapeAKAelderberry · 07/02/2023 19:52

Which reminds me of E M Delafield's Provincial Lady novels because in the third one, A Provincial lady in America the protagonist insists (to her host's surprise) on going to just that house with pretty much just that reaction! - maybe 90 years before your trip.

Carriemac · 07/02/2023 19:44

Little women . It's my daughters favourite as well, and last year we went to concord to visit Louisa Maut Alcotts house
It was a perfect day

TheresOnlyOneWayOfLife · 06/02/2023 23:04

Another one for Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City series.
Love, love, love.

Arrrrrrragghhh · 06/02/2023 22:15

Sorry - “This is your life” by John O Farrell . Not so much a fan of Tony Parsons but they are on the shelf together.

Arrrrrrragghhh · 06/02/2023 22:14

A Country Child by Alison Uttley - my Christmas choice

John O Farrell - The Best A Man Can Get.
Stephen King - Pet Semetry mostly. In the bath.

Mollyplop999 · 06/02/2023 21:18

Wuthering Heights
The Bronze Horseman
Talking of Horses
James Herriot

Dareisayimonetoo · 06/02/2023 21:10

Any Gil McNeil, The Only Boy for Me, Needles and Pearls and all her other ones.

totally laugh out loud, read all of them during chemo sessions and had to lend them to the nurses afterwards.

also love re reading the Childrens books I kept, Frances Hodgson Burnett, and many others.

loved Rebecca but avoided the film for years as didn’t want to wreck my own imagination of it, accidentally watched it the other week, not knowing the title and quite enjoyed it.

Hijinks75 · 06/02/2023 20:59

A walk-in the woods, BillBryson

HuntingoftheSnark · 06/02/2023 20:07

I love how many times Rebecca has been mentioned. That's one of mine too. Also:

A Passage to India
The Portrait of a Lady
The Wasp Factory
The Bell Jar
East of Eden
No More Meadows
The Greengage Summer

Enko · 06/02/2023 19:59

user375242 · 06/02/2023 15:48

This is mine too. Any of the series, but this one is my favourite.

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It's amazing series I just love it. Nice to see others loving it too.

MadMadMadamMim · 06/02/2023 17:56

The Little White Horse, by Elizabeth Goudge
The Dark is Rising series by Susan Cooper
Weirdstone of Brisingamen - Alan Garner

All of these take me back to childhood. Depending on how fragile I'm feeling, also Milly Molly Mandy and Dear Teddy Robinson (if I'm very low)

Slightly weary and fed up and I'm another Georgette Heyer reader.

howdoesatoastermaketoast · 06/02/2023 17:26

ok the ones I find myself going back to are mostly guilty pleasures, easy and quick to read. Delightful in their familiarity.

The thread that binds the bones - Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Dark cathedral - Freda Warrington
The Southern Vampire Mysteries (True Blood series) - Charlaine Harris
Emma, P&P & S&S but anything by Austen really

lucyhobbit · 06/02/2023 17:18

It depends on my mood, but I reread an awful lot, it helps with my anxiety because it's like snuggling under a comfort blanket.

Jane Eyre
The Hobbit
The Lord of the Rings
Jeff Wheeler's Muirwood stories
Anything written by Diane Greenwood Muir
Harry Potter series

user375242 · 06/02/2023 15:48

Enko · 30/01/2023 22:14

Mammoth hunters. By Jean Auel

This is mine too. Any of the series, but this one is my favourite.

Bookist · 06/02/2023 12:11

Winter Solstice by Rosamund Pilcher
Village Diary by Miss Read
A Country Child by Alison Uttley
The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper

Ladybird69 · 02/02/2023 03:06

The shell seekers by rosamunde pilcher. Read it once or twice a year absolutely love it. Also love clan of the cave bears series as said by others too

Jayneisagirlsname · 02/02/2023 02:46

MissHavishamsMouldyOldCake · 30/01/2023 22:13

Anne of Green Gables and Anne of the Island.

Find both of them so comforting.

After those two it would be Persuasion.

I think I might be you!

Add in Little Women and it's confirmed 😁

StartupRepair · 02/02/2023 02:07

Another one for Sayers, Mitford and I Capture the Castle. I read Cold Comfort Farm aloud recently to Dd(20) who was in pain recovering from surgery. I wasn't sure how it would have aged but we both loved it.
I reread all the Cormoran Strike novels when I was in bed with Covid last year.

tobee · 02/02/2023 02:02

Ooh and Sherlock Holmes - especially the long stories

tobee · 02/02/2023 02:01

Wow amazing how many of these are mine too!

Charlotte Sometimes
Cold Christmas
Bullerby Children books

Dorothy L Sayers - Harriet Vane ones
ABC Murders
PG Wodehouse
Excellent Women

Rebecca and Howard's End but to listen to; read by Anna Massey and Edward Petherbridge respectively

And Alan Bennett non fiction writings

Buttalapasta · 01/02/2023 20:46

Anything by Thomas Hardy.

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