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A book you can read over and over again?

131 replies

JennaTooIs · 13/03/2023 16:49

I don't have a lot of room for books so I'd like a few goodens I can reread. What are yours?

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tourdefrance · 13/03/2023 20:43

Toast by Nigel Slater

Chickenkorma64 · 13/03/2023 20:40

The Shepherd’s life by James Rebanks. I love reading about rural life and the rhythm of the seasons.
also love The Wolves of Willoughby Chase - only discovered that as an adult, love rereading it.

Notgoodatpoetrybutgreatatlit · 13/03/2023 19:39

Secret History Donna Tartt
Old Man's War John Scalzi
All the novels of the world of the First Law by Joe Abercrombie
The Rivers of London series Ben Aaronovitch
I love Rivers of London so much I did an assembly about it for world book day. At school I mean I am a teacher. But I would talk about the books and the characters in other schools that's how obsessed I am.

NecklessMumster · 13/03/2023 19:37

Diary of a Nobody, still makes me laugh.
Diary of a provincial lady.
Just William books.
Something about 1930 ish books I find comforting

Pieceofpurplesky · 13/03/2023 19:37

Rebecca.

Mateyduck · 13/03/2023 19:32

Wild swans. I love that book, I read it every year.

Neverthecornflakegirl · 13/03/2023 19:31

Orcubed · 13/03/2023 18:26

Rosamunde Pilcher is my comfort reading, either The Shell Seekers or winter solstice. Also The Children of Green Knowe. Other than that I don’t have many I’d read over and over.

I was just coming on here to say The Shell Seekers or Winter Solstice. I have lost count of the number of times I’ve read them.

MidgeHardcastle · 13/03/2023 19:30

P & P
Three Men in a Boat
Diary of a Nobody
Catch-22 ( just my fave chapters)
Bonfire of the Vanities
Various Poirot & Marple depending on mood or what's trending on Reddit

As you can see, humour mainly and all lightweight

beguilingeyes · 13/03/2023 19:25

The Poldark novels by Winston Graham are wonderful.

stringbean · 13/03/2023 19:20

The Cazalet Chronicles. I have them on my Kobo and re-read them every couple of years.

shellyleppard · 13/03/2023 19:18

Birdsong, on green dolphin street by Sebastian faulks. Anything by jo jo moyes. I think it depends on what sort of books/genre you are interested in???? My book collection varies from horror to murder mystery to romance!!! Your local library usually has a good selection

DuvetDownn · 13/03/2023 19:13

Don’t judge me - All the Flower in the Attic books.

devildeepbluesea · 13/03/2023 19:11

I re-read Sarum by Edward Rutherford a hell of a lot.

Squirrelsnut · 13/03/2023 19:09

A Circling Star by Mara Kay.
A Traveller in Time by Alison Uttley.
Wuthering Heights.
Rachel's Holiday.

catinboooots · 13/03/2023 19:06

Ballet Shoes

Cotswoldmama · 13/03/2023 18:59

Bonjour Tristesse by Francois Sagan, I think I e read about 5 times, and The Collector by John Fowles I've read about 4 times, also Daphne Du Maurier short short collections The Birds and The blue lens I've read over and over.

DoIWantThis · 13/03/2023 18:55

All of Maeve Binchy's short stories and novels. Love em!

Crikeyalmighty · 13/03/2023 18:34

I can't stand Jane Austen books and I live in Bath too! Honestly I don't see the appeal .

februarysunset · 13/03/2023 18:31

The Pursuit of Love. I will never get tired of it. It has added sparkle to the very worst times of my life.

Orcubed · 13/03/2023 18:28

Everyone else on this thread has far more high brow taste in books 😆

Orcubed · 13/03/2023 18:26

Rosamunde Pilcher is my comfort reading, either The Shell Seekers or winter solstice. Also The Children of Green Knowe. Other than that I don’t have many I’d read over and over.

EarringsandLipstick · 13/03/2023 18:16

Gosh, reading 'Lord of the Flies' once was enough for me. No way I'd be going back to it!

I re-read Wodehouse, Just William or Maeve Binchy. Though these days I'd more likely scroll through MN than comfort read 🫤

RenoDakota · 13/03/2023 18:15

mdh2020 · 13/03/2023 16:53

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith and On Green Dolphin Street by Sebastian Faulks.

Both of these!
Plus The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy.

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 13/03/2023 18:14

William Goldings "Lord of the Flies"

I have 3 copies and Spark Notes dotted about .
I can pick it up , open at any page and see something new , even though I've read it more times than I care to remember

It's a heartbreaking tale

JoonT · 13/03/2023 18:07

I have a shelf for what I call my ‘golden books’ meaning the ones I constantly dip into and re-read, the ones that always comfort or cheer me up. I case anyone is interested (and there’s no reason why they should be!), they are:

Dickens: David Copperfield
Wodehouse: Right Ho Jeeves
Fermor: A Time of Gifts
Woolf: Orlando
Sherlock Holmes
Tolkien: The Hobbit
The Wind in the Willows
Bloom: The Western Canon
Waugh: Brideshead Revisited and Decline and Fall
Aldous Huxley: Crome Yellow
George Orwell: Essays (especially his lit crit and his essays on the countryside)
Kipling: Kim
Dorian Gray
Boswell: Life of Johnson (abridged)
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Pride and Prejudice