Which is your go-to re-read book?

Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day
Georgette Heyer - I'm on my third copies of a few of them, I read them until they fall apart
PG Wodehouse - even the daft obscure ones are hilarious and make me feel better
Jane Austen - most often P&P, S&S and Persuasion
Good Omens (also on third copy)
Anne Of The Island
Discworld, especially the Watch and Moist books.

Little Women
A Summer Crossing
I Capture the Castle
Captain Corelli's Mandolin (so I can also do cathartic crying)
The Secret Garden

A Little Princess and The Secret Garden by Francis Hodgson Burnett.

maeve binchy books for me

To Kill a Mockingbird, I have read it at least twice a year, every year, since 1976.

Pride and prejudice.

I thought I was going to be told I was a heathen for re-reading!

I re-read a lot, especially during the first lockdown, because mentally books I knew pretty much by heart were all I could cope with.

Also
Ngaio Marsh
JD Robb - the Eve Dallas series

Georgette Heyer
Dorothy Sayers Lord Peter Wimsey books
PG Wodehouse Jeeves and Wooster or Blandings books
Jane Eyre
The Lido - LIbby Page
The Blindfold Horse - Susha Guppy

I think having an actual book to read is part of the reassurance. I know I can read eg Georgette Heyer online for free but I need to hold a physical copy.

My non-fiction re-read (re look at the pictures) since I was about six are the Ladybird What to Look For in Spring/Summer/Autumn/Winter books - still sound on nature, but the countryside life and ways the show in passing are long gone.

I re-read most of Angela Thirkell at the start of lockdown. I used to find them enjoyable but be glad that class had died out/lost power. Am no longer so sure of that, which makes them a less reassuring read.

Won't part with the Mapp and Lucia books, Miss Read, Wodehouse, Mary Stewart.

We are moving soon and having a mild declutter. Books we are absolutely keeping are all of Georgette Heyer, all of Dorothy L Sayers, all of Lois McMaster Bujold. GH in green covers, DLS in yellow - years of haunting secondhand bookshops and ebay! LMB have bought since first paperbacks and moved on to hardbacks as they appeared, some signed. I am also worried about wearing them out!

I really enjoyed every one of Angela Thirkell's books but have sent them to the charity shop. Fab but not cosy. Several authors I have loved I haven't loved enough to keep. I would put Terry Pratchett in that category, we had loads. For humour it is Wodehouse, would never part with any of his books.

I agree about Miss Silver. I can't remember exactly which one but there was one where the hero's old nanny takes charge of the bedraggled couple and bustles round offering some nursery type sustenance plus TWO HOT WATER BOTTLES. God I wish I had an old nanny.

So many - I re-read a lot. Georgette Heyer, Patricia Wentworth's Miss Silver mysteries, Barbara Michaels, Dorothy L Sayers, Donna Andrews' Meg Langslow mysteries - when I was much younger, Lord of the Rings, but I'm more likely to listen to that now than turn the pages. Might make an exception soon.

The one I read over and over when my father had dementia was Lois McMaster Bujold's Memory. Other books by her as well, particularly Captain Vorpatril's Alliance and A Civil Campaign (dedicated to Georgette(Heyer), Dorothy (L Sayers) Jane (Austen) and Charlotte (Bronte). They're all fun, the whole saga, but Memory gave me something I needed in that time - I wore out three copies, and still read it fairly often. Not the first few chapters though, where our hero screws his life up (one read was enough) - I start once he arrives back in his home town and gets ready to find redemption. He has a splendid aunt and (eventually) lots of cats.

Oh yes!

Oh and Kinflicks

Virginia Woolf by H Lee
Any Terry Pratchett but Guards or Wizards especially
The Chalet school books
Enid Blyton Adventure series
Five Children and It
Fanny and the Monsters
The Cir us is coming
One Hundred Years of Solitude

The Passage/The Twelve/City Of Mirrors, Justin Cronin
The Historian, Elizabeth Kostova
A Short History Of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson

Ancient Evenings, Norman Mailer
A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
The Other Boleyn Girl, Phillipa Gregory
Tipping The Velvet, Sarah Waters
Winnie The Pooh and Paddington Bear

Actually have a few that i keep to reread , mostly from being a strange teen, including

Dracula - B. Stoker
Frankenstein-M Shelly
Edgar Allen Poe collection
Neuromancer- William Gibson
Time Machine-HG Wells
and a few outdoor books , cookbooks and garden books purely for inspiration

My Family and Other Animals or Birds, Beasts and Relatives - Gerald Durrell
The Thunderbolt Kid - Bill Bryson
What Katy Did
Little Women
Anna Karenina
A book called Bonheur de Dames by Emile Zola - it’s wonderful.

I re read His Dark Materials at least once a year, usually on holiday.

The chick- lit book I go back to is You had me at Hello by Mhairi McFarlane which is just about perfect as far as I'm concerned.

Any Sir Terry is always a welcome distraction but also Good Omens. I adore that book.

Robin Hobb's realm of the elderlings is my comfort series. That and His Dark Materials

Enchanted April, Pursuit of Love/Love in a cold climate/ Jeeves and Wooster/ A little princess /ballet shoes

I have a lot .

I am also now going to add 'The White Umbrella' ' to that list. I read it this weekend while miserable on bed rest it was just perfect.

China Court by Rumer Godden