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What books do you re-read regularly?

161 replies

Snorerephron · 30/04/2026 23:06

I've got some book vouchers that have been lurking in my wallet since Christmas, and I would like to use them to purchase a few books.

I mainly buy books second hand and pass them on, or get library books, as I have far too many books already. So if I am buying books I want to know they will be ones I am likely to read over and over again

So my question is what are your favourite books to re-read regularly?

(I like classics, literary novels, funny novels, good contemporary fiction)

I'd ideally like to get a few books but really beautiful editions of them -decent hardbacks

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MagpiePi · 01/05/2026 08:15

Terry Pratchett’s Discworld
John Le Carré
Evelyn Waugh

DisplayPurposesOnly · 01/05/2026 08:13

A couple of Jane Smiley ones - Duplicate Keys and The All True Travels And Adventures of Lidie Newton

Some Terry Pratchett ones, eg Mort, The Truth, the ones with Moist von Lipwig

Jane Austen - Emma, Persuasion

A few children's books - The Children Of Green Knowe, The Little White Horse, The Warden's Niece, the later ones from Little House On The Prairie

Read multiple times but not read for ages American Psycho, The Secret History

MadisonAvenue · 01/05/2026 08:13

The only one I re-read is To Kill A Mockingbird.

ElizabethVonArnim · 01/05/2026 08:10

Dorothy L Sayers and Agatha Christie roll around every ten years or so; Jane Austen every now and then; Cold Comfort Farm; Jane Eyre; The Enchanted April and Elizabeth and her German Garden; Howard’s End; Rebecca.

Currently re-reading my way through Georgette Heyer, being consistently re-impressed by how well researched and well plotted they are, but not remembering a single word of them from the last time I read them.

FizzingAda · 01/05/2026 08:01

Lord of the Rings
Manda Scott's Boudicca series
All of Maeve Binchy
the Brontes
Daphne du Maurier
That's just for starters! I have so many books, they hold up the walls of the house, they are my constant friends, and are often revisited.

Icanflyhigh · 30/04/2026 23:22

Cara's Land by Elvi Rhodes is one of my all time favourites.

ghostyslovesheets · 30/04/2026 23:21

Behind The Scenes At The Museum

The Kitchen Gods Wife

Life After Life

my comfort books 📕

IwouldifIcouldreachit · 30/04/2026 23:19

Katherine by Anya Seton. I've read it at least once a year for nearly 40 years.
The Secret History
Little Women
Circe
Ballet Shoes

Beamur · 30/04/2026 23:14

Jane Austen
Nancy Mitford
DH rereads the Lord of the Rings

Arran2024 · 30/04/2026 23:12

I regularly reread The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford- it's my all time favourite book. Btw one of the main characters is a soldier in a fashionable regiment but that's a minor detail - it's not a book about wars or fighting.

MermaidofRye · 30/04/2026 23:11

Mapp and Lucia series by E.F. Benson

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