What books do you re-read regularly?

I think you might be me, with the exception of Kate Atkinson and Hamnet which I haven’t read. I’ll search those out as you clearly have exquisite taste!

I am currently re-reading Patrick Fermor’s A Time of Gifts. The first half of that book is heaven.

I also re-read Wilde’s Picture of Dorian Gray every year, and Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway.

Terry Pratchett, especially the Witches and Vimes.

Kate Atkinson, pretty much all of them especially the Jackson Brodie ones.

Hamnet, I will re-read in a while.

All the Wolf Hall books - I think I’m three times through so far.

Stephen King - but only the old ones, the newer ones are one-hit-wonders.

How lovely for you to discover that @Serenissimissima. Reading Nevil Shute's books evokes childhood memories of my grandfather, also dead some years now, and of the happiness and simplicity of my early childhood. I'm not sure why.

I love A Town Like Alice.
I discovered when reading his autobiography that Nevil Shute and my (long dead) Grandfather were boyhood friends- it made me very happy.

@IlovetoKnitandRead I also think of some books like you do - as old friends. Nevil Shute's books make me feel like that.

Mine are a varied bunch. I adore War and Peace and try and re-read it every couple of years. The Shell Seekers gets read every year. At Christmas I always read The Long Winter by Laura Ingall Wilder and three from Miss Read, Village Christmas, A Christmas mouse and No Holly for Miss Quinn. I also try and read The Magic Apple Tree by Susan Hill every year. I often return to my favourite HE Bates, A Moment in Time and Fair Stood the Wind for France. I see all these books as old friends and as someone suggested earlier, it really is like wrapping yourself up in a warm, soft duvet.

Ha yes they've got a nerve. I did wonder if it was AI but I think it's just a young person. As far as I can tell most of the years' old versions have been ditched by Audible and replaced with their own actors. The older ones have some very fine performances. I listened to Sylvester, read by Judy Franklin, and it was wonderful. Some nice ones by Phyllida Law too. I would much rather read but it's nice to find a few alternatives.

I haven't read These Old Shades and was stumped trying to work our what a 'berry boned cane' could possibly be. I had to download a sample of the opening paragraph. You were absolutely right to ditch Audible on the basis of this mispronunciation, @TeaAndStrumpets . There's no excuse.

To save time for others in the same boat, the Duke's cane was beribboned.

The first paragraph describes the Duke of Avon sauntering down the street carrying a " berry boned cane"

It took me a while to work out what it should have been! Georgette would be spinning, she was so meticulous.

She only once sold the film rights to a book, and she and her family were very disappointed in the results.

I think some of her books are well suited to dramatisation, and visually could be wonderful. But I wouldn't trust any writer or director to do it in the true spirit of the books, with the proper lightness of touch.

This has been brought home to me recently while I've been having my cataracts done. For the first time in my life (in my 70s now) I have had to choose some audiobooks. Obviously I turned to Audible for convenience, listening to a sample of These Old Shades. The first paragraph describes the Duke of Avon sauntering down the street carrying a " berry boned cane"

On that basis, Audible can whistle for my money. I have bought some second hand audio books from eBay with competent narrators.

Agree with others on Georgette Heyer, Dorothy L Sayers as top comfort reads. I will add Lois McMaster Bujold as well...I have read her books many times. (She is a big Georgette Heyer fan!)

Yes - forgot to say Mary Wesley. Brilliant comfort books.

Great to hear that! :) The books are very underrated in my opinion. The story has many levels.

The Bronze Horseman Paullina Simons
Wuthering Heights
Jane Eyre
Talking of Horses Monica Dickens

I’m surprised by people saying The Sea, The Sea. I found it unreadable!

I will add
love in the time of cholera
middlemarch

I hardly re read (how do people have time for this?) but when I was younger - Jane Austen, Wodehouse, Adrian Mole.

I reread them all last year. I absolutely adore them. They’re so peculiar and vivid.

Most of Mary Wesley’s books and the Shell Seekers as recommended by many others

People have already said The Secret History and I Capture The Castle, but my other one I didn't see listed is 84, Charing Cross Road. Absolutely wonderful comfort reading.

And of course various Jilly Coopers, however old fashioned they are.

My list is almost identical apart from Slow Horses. My Antonia Forest novels are falling apart I've reread them so many times.

I got Hunger Games on Audible from your post and I’m hooked!

Rupert Everett’s autobiography ‘Red Carpets and other banana skins’
Moon Tiger - Penelope Lively
Phillipa Gregory (‘The White Queen’ got me through a bad breakup)
The Lives of Lee Miller - Anthony Penrose