A book you can read over and over again?

I tend to re-read certain passages rather than entire books. A few favourites:

The speech Gussie gives in P G Wodehouse’s Right Ho Jeeves
The dialogue between Bertie and Jeeves
The dialogue bits in Dorian Gray, especially those involving Lord Henry
The scene in Pride and Prejudice where Lizzie is bullied and fights back
The scene where Pip is nursed by Joe in Great Expectations
David’s journey to London in David Copperfield
The Anthony Blanche scenes in Brideshead Revisited
The Treebeard chapter in Lord of the Rings
George Orwell’s essay on the toad, and his essay on Dickens
The chapter in Evelyn Waugh’s Decline and Fall where Paul first arrives at the school
The bit in Kipling’s Kim where Kim and the Llama walk the great road
Patrick Fermor’s description of walking through the snow in Germany while reciting poetry
The opening chapter of Anthony Burgess’s first Enderby novel
The opening to D H Lawrence’s The Rainbow
Any lyrical descriptions of the English countryside in Thomas Hardy or D H Lawrence

That was in reply to @LadyPeterWimsey

Yep, devoured the first six the start of last year and know I'll be reading them again. Given how many awards LMB has won she really should be better known.

Me too! On The Beach haunted me for so long after reading. I wouldn’t say it’s comfort reading for me though.

My go to “I feel shit I need to be absorbed in another world and not think about anything,” type books are:

Jane Eyre
Summer Sisters by Judy Blume (read it every year since I was 12, same age as the main protagonist - now thirties and older than her at the end when she’s an adult 😭)
Back Home by Michelle Magorian
The Wind in the Willows
Watership Down
On Green Dolphin Street
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
His Dark Materials trilogy
Jilly Cooper - the short ‘woman’s name,’ books eg Harriet, Prudence etc!

I am currently reading a few chapters a night of The Faraway Tree to my daughters and it’s bringing back so many cosy memories of my childhood! Love comfort reading ❤️

Oh I think the re-reading is good, I always notice thing s I didn’t notice the first or second time!

@kirkandpetal I came on to say the same thing 😅 also the same books, except I do like jump (Riders and Polo are the best by far)

Have you tried Fiona walker? Very similar

I also have a soft spot for rural historical romance, especially Audrey Howard but some Catherine Cookson novels (The girl, tilly trotter, tide of life) get read several times a year.

Off to hang my head in shame at my lack of literary sophistication.

I blame being made to read boring shite in my English literature degree!!

Yes, it’s brilliant!

Wuthering Heights
Pride & Prejudice

Life of Pi

Have you seen the Room with a View movie? I mean the Helena Bonham Carter one? God, it’s SO good.

Little Women - Louisa May Alcott

Books I have reread again and again and again and again:
The Secret History
Most of the Peter Wimsey books especially Gaudy Night
Good Omens
Hitchhikers Guide
Terry Pratchett especially Guards Guards and Sourcery
The Lord of the Rings
The Illustrated Man
Georgette Heyer especially Bath Tangle
Loads of children’s books including The Dark is Rising, Children of Green Knowe, Anne of Green Gables, Little Women, The Enchanted Castle, The Secret Garden….

Some of the books I’ve read more than four or five times
Pride and Prejudice
Wuthering Heights
Morvern Callar
Wise Children
Girlfriend in a Coma
Various Jeeves and Woosters

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is a great book to go back to. I always appreciate it more with each read.

I’m shocked at how many Hardy fans are on here. His books are all so depressing.

For pure joyous comfort it’s definitely all the Harry Potter books

A Room With A View, E M Forster.
Haven't read it for years now but did several times when I was younger. Still my favourite novel.
I don't have much space nowadays either. I buy books second hand and pass them onto my daughter. If you have another reader in your life it's a good system.

Judge me all you like....Jilly Cooper.

Riders, Rivals, Polo especially.

Rebecca
A Christmas Carol (only at Christmas though!)
The William books
But I get a new book from the library once or twice a month. Sometimes I'll fancy reading something and they'll get it in for me for £1 if they haven't got it. I recommend you do that. There weren't any novels in my house growing up - thank goodness for the library!

I know right? I’m not even saying mine! 😂

Ooh I'd forgotten about Bill Bryson. My favourite re-read is The Lost Continent

Little Women and Tom's Midnight Garden.

No book, no book whatsoever for a long time

I’m following this thread to find some books. I used to read constantly, never without a book, however I can’t remember the last book I read. I miss reading

Pet Semetary by Stephen King is my favourite but I could re-read all of his many times and have.

World War Z by Max Brooks.

Too many to list, I read A LOT of books twice

You can't get library ebooks (Borrowbox I think) to load onto a kindle, can you? I would love to be able to do that.

Anything by Sue Townsend in fact, The Queen and I is an eternal favourite of mine.

Bridget Jones and Adrian Mole

Diary of a Nobody
Cold Comfort Farm