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Your 'comfort' book(s)

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JaffaCake70 · 29/04/2023 21:32

Not necessarily your favourite book, but which book(s) do you go back to time and time again and never tire of?

For me it's:

To Kill A Mockingbird

Any Adrien Mole (I still laugh out loud nearly 40 years after first reading them).

1984

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Mycathatesmecuddling · 30/04/2023 01:49

I re read quite a few books each year, but if I'm ill I always go for Georgette Heyer and my particular favorite is The Grand Sophy

MessyRaptor · 30/04/2023 01:24

Mine would be Little women and Rebecca.

I'm surprised that others choices are so similar

mackthepony · 30/04/2023 01:22

James Herriot

Luredbyapomegranate · 30/04/2023 01:21

Oh
Good Omens
Mrs Harris

Luredbyapomegranate · 30/04/2023 01:18

Cazalet Chronicles
Olivia Joules
Eat, Pray Love
jeeves and Wooster
Jilly Cooper
Shardlake
Pride and Prejudice
The Country Girls
Maeve Binchy Circle of Friends
The Rosie Project
Marion Keyes
Jojo Moynes
Tony Parsons
David Nicolls
Gatty’s Tale
Susan Cooper
Ballet Shoes

and weirdly, Tana French

apapuchi · 30/04/2023 01:06

Jane Eyre for me, too.

daisydalrymple · 30/04/2023 00:30

Anything by Agatha Christie for me.

TobiasForgesContactLense · 30/04/2023 00:29

Miss Read books
Daphne du Maurier novels

Wbeezer · 30/04/2023 00:28

@merrymelodies that's one of mine too, I have my Grannies old copy.

Rasputinsbeard · 30/04/2023 00:25

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier and a children's book called Dragon Summer by Ruth M Arthur.

merrymelodies · 30/04/2023 00:16

Katherine by Anya Seton

Violinist64 · 30/04/2023 00:13

Miss Read, the Miss Marple books by Agatha Christie, Tom’s Midnight Garden.

Inthebathagain · 29/04/2023 23:57

Flowers in the Attic by Virginia Andrews
The Partner by Tom Grisham
Gridlock by Ben Elton

Lolly86 · 29/04/2023 23:54

MrsSkylerWhite · 29/04/2023 22:52

Jane Eyre. Though it’s my favourite, too.

Same 😊

MrsPelligrinoPetrichor · 29/04/2023 23:53

Anything by Daphne Du Maurier

Anything by Maeve Binchy

The Poisonwood Bible

MrsSkylerWhite · 29/04/2023 22:52

Jane Eyre. Though it’s my favourite, too.

Brefugee · 29/04/2023 22:51

Lord of the Rings
Ivanhoe
Reflex (Dick Francis)
one of the earlier (up to about number 12) Stephanie Plum books (Janet Evanovich)
Any of the Discworld novels
Any Georgette Heyer Regency novel

Taytocrisps · 29/04/2023 22:49

Anne of Green Gables
Little Women