Books you have owned more than 1 copy of?

@CheerfulBunny Adrian Mole and the Riders/MWMHJ series are some of my absolutely favourites!

Most of the Jane Austen ones, I have a few collections of them and then I buy cheap copies to read when out and about as well.

I’ve had a few copies of Goodnight Mr Tom as this was my favourite childhood book.

@Uricon2 I am also on my third copy of down & out in Paris and London due to lending it out.
I don’t particularly like my current edition, and this thread has reminded me that a friend wanted to read it anyway.

What excellent taste you have 😊

Multiple copies lent out and never got back (don't mind, feel I'm spreading the goodness) George Orwell Down and Out in Paris and London, Wilfred Owen Collected Poems and Gerald Durrell Corfu Trilogy.

Midnight in the garden of good and evil

@PestoHoliday I have two copies of each of LMM's Emily books - one for me, one for DD. And a first edition DH doesn't know i bought

Two sets of the first 12 Chalet School books again one for me and one (paperback Armadas!) for dd.

Many duplicate kids books where I've thought "I loved that as a child", brought it home for dc and found i still had my childhood copy. And/or DH had the book on his childhood shelf too.

Also duplicates of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings - caught out by the 90s fashion for massive beautiful hardback editions that are too heavy to actually read.

And the inevitable ones republished with different titles, including some horribly edited and dumbed down Jean Ure books.

I collect the Clothbound Classics but had many of them in cheapo form from my uni days

Secret seven......read them over and over as a child as didn't have many books and I was a bookworm. Bought them for my sons and they are still on book shelf of my 34 year old🥰

Crimson Petal and the White, Persuasion, Jane Eyre, The Brontes, Charlotte Sometimes, The House that Sailed Away, When Marnie was There.

I’ve got about 200 editions of Alice in Wonderland.

Other books though
Several copied of The Five People You Meet in Heaven have passed through my hands, because I give them to people to read/love/pass on. Also The Handmaid’s Tale.

Softback Danny Champion of the World for the kids. I love this story, and years later bought a first edition hardback from an Oxfam bookshop.

I sent stacks of paperbacks to the charity shop when I first got my Kindle. Then some years down the line, I decided to do my Master's (in literature) followed by my PhD (ditto) so now I'm up to my ears in physical books again. You can't get everything you want in ebook editions and physical books are better/easier for referencing. Plus the idea of doing high level research in literature without using actual books was miserable. On the other hand, I've got musculoskeletal problems and I try to keep down the size and weight of my bag. You can't beat an ereader for helping with that and my Kindle is always busy.

So I've got multiple (especially ebook and paper) editions of books by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Wilkie Collins, Patrick Hamilton, Edith Wharton, Henry James, Daphne du Maurier, George Eliot, E. Nesbit, May Sinclair, Elizabeth Bowen, Charles Dickens and probably a lot more if I think about it.

Two copies of all HP books, one set for the kids & one set for me to keep pristine.
Two copies of Pride and Prejudice; one that's at least 35 years old & falling apart through use and one that's a beautiful illustrated version at least 20 years old - it's close on A3 size, so too big to actually read comfortably. Plus it's on my kindle.
In fact I have a fair few books that I have paper editions of, and have on kindle.

i have two copies of a book that has my first name as the title. I'd forgotten about that one. I'll keep both as it's quite a slim book and they were gifts.

I have 6 copies of one of those flower fairy books as EVERYONE thought they were being original giving Dd the one with her name on (very much of the early 2000s).

I have a copy and first edition of a book with my namesake as the title, so can't complain really.

An uninspiring thriller paperback I bought in the supermarket about 5 years ago, not realising I had already bought it and read it about two weeks previously! Both copies went to the charity shop.

'Watership Down' - one paperback, one third edition with the beautiful first edition style dustjacket.
'Minnow on the Say' - on copies two and three, both hardback, one with dustjacket
'The Snowgoose' - paperback was owned concurrently with nice hardback but got rid of former in decluttering.
'My Family and Other Animals' - ditto

I have two copies of Patrick Fermor's A Time of Gifts. One is a cheap paperback, for reading in the bath, and the other is a beautiful hardback that I use sparingly.

I also have three copies of P. G. Wodehouse's Right Ho Jeeves. Again, one is a cheap paperback for reading in the bath. Another is also a paperback, but I like it and don't want to crease or damage the cover. I also have a hardback, which, again, I use sparingly.

I have two copies of Aldous Huxley's Chrome Yellow. Both are paperbacks, but I love the original paperback cover and can't find a replacement, not even on Amazon. So I use the other paperback with a rubbish cover and smaller print. I have loads of hardback copies of Aldous Huxley's novels and essays that I bought in a secondhand shop that was closing down, many of them first editions. Some of them are gorgeous. I even have three hardbacks of Huxley's novel Eyeless in Gaza. If I ever make a good friend who likes Huxley, I will gift them one or two of those copies.

I have two copies of Evelyn Waugh's Decline and Fall, and I have his Sword of Honour trilogy in both a single volume and as individual copies.

I have more than one edition of the same works by George Orwell, Dickens, Jane Austen and Douglas Adams. Oh, and I have three copies of Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray. I got a problem I tell ya.

Jane Eyre
Wuthering Heights

Dracula (i found the most beautiful one in the Cabinet of Curiosities in Haworth)
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

I don't have duplicate copies but I do buy physical copies of books I've enjoyed on Audible, or if I've listened to a BBC radio version of something. I like to have them to see the words on the page and to remind me of them as it's easy to forget what you've listened to, unlike a physical book you've read.

I'm the opposite of some of you on here who are getting rid of paper copies!

Bit lowbrow compared the the previous posters but I've had multiple copies of the Adrian Mole diaries and Jilly Cooper's Riders and The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous 😄

Two copies of Invisible Women - one for me, one for loaning out

Three copies of Anne Of The Island, two copies of the rest of the Anne books - one set for me, one set for my daughter, and my original Island that I read so often the pages started falling out so I had to replace it.

I'm on my second or third copies of several of my favourites that I have read until they fell apart.

My original copy of The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco fell to bits because I read it many times so I bought a new edition by Vintage with a very pretty cover

Famous Five - got mine, my brothers, my sisters.... we obviously weren't into sharing these books!

Rebecca - saw a fabulous cover... it made me buy it.

My DC were born in the 90s so I ended up buying two copies of GOF so they could read at the same time.
Otherwise I very rarely re-read and I've got rid of 90% of my paper books. I bought Rivals on kindle to re-read because I couldn't see the print on my 1988 copy.