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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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SummerLightning · 30/01/2023 22:36

The name of the wind
The morrigan crow books
The mirror of her dreams by Stephen donaldson
A little princess!

StellaOlivetti · 30/01/2023 22:35

PGWodehouse and Agatha Christie for comfort. And I re-read The Well of Loneliness every year or so (and cry in a different place each time).

MyBloodyMaryneedsmoreTabasco · 30/01/2023 22:31

Katherine by Anya Seton.

AnnotherReader · 30/01/2023 22:29

Emma by Jane Austen
Bath Tangle by Georgette Heyer
or any Agatha Christie

PartiallySage · 30/01/2023 22:27

I no longer do this really 😔

But I used to always turn to Laura Ingalls Wilder, the later ones, and James Herriot.

Also PG Wodehouse.

Pocketfullofdogtreats · 30/01/2023 22:27

Rebecca
A Christmas Carol

Hawkins002 · 30/01/2023 22:26

Biography of Leonardo da vinci
And different books about cold war espionage

MoreOfADogPerson · 30/01/2023 22:25

Oh yes, any Terry Pratchett but especially the Watch and the Witches ones

MoreOfADogPerson · 30/01/2023 22:24

Ooh, great thread idea, some of my favourites already listed.

Dorothy L Sayers - Gaudy Nights
Cold comfort Farm
I Capture the Castle
The Dark is Rising series
The Weird stone of Brisinghamen and The Moon of Gomrath
The Grand Sophy
Alice in Wonderland

LydiaBin · 30/01/2023 22:24

Rachel's Holiday and The Forsyte Saga.

stormelf · 30/01/2023 22:23

The Night Watch or Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
A little love song by Michelle magorian

BringOnFebBankHoliday · 30/01/2023 22:22

Pride and Prejudice 🥰

MrsElm · 30/01/2023 22:22

The Time Traveler's Wife

clary · 30/01/2023 22:20

Dorothy L Sayers Lord Peter Wimsey books
Emma or Pride and Prejudice
Great Gatsby
Agatha Christie (lots of them)
What Katy Did
Narnia tho not The Last Battle
oooh Yy Pursuit of Love or Love in a Cold Climate
yy also Howards End

BobbyBleu · 30/01/2023 22:20

The Great Gatsby

Redcrayons · 30/01/2023 22:19

Rachel’s Holiday mostly.

Fingerlimes · 30/01/2023 22:16

And wolf hall

Fingerlimes · 30/01/2023 22:16

The woman in white

Bernadinetta · 30/01/2023 22:15

Wolf Hall (whole trilogy)

SmileWithADimple · 30/01/2023 22:14

The Pursuit of Love or Pride and Prejudice.

Enko · 30/01/2023 22:14

Mammoth hunters. By Jean Auel

BCBird · 30/01/2023 22:13

Persuasion. OMG.want the true love without the torturous wait🤣

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.

SuffolkBargeWoman · 30/01/2023 22:11

These Old Shades by Georgette Heyer

tantrumingcoldchild · 30/01/2023 22:10

Howard's End

Also Rebecca

Slightly related, I watch the classic BBC Pride and Prejudice miniseries when I am down