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What are your comfort reads - books that you can read over and over again?

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harpomarx · 21/06/2008 22:03

You know, those books that you have been reading for years, have old dog-eared copies of and will pick up when there is nothing new that takes your fancy.

Mine are:

Almost anything by F. Scott Fitzgerald, but especially The Beautiful and Damned.

Betty MacDonald - The Egg and I etc

Nancy Mitford Pursuit of Love, Love in a Cold Climate etc

J. D. Salinger Catcher in the Rye

Cold Comfort Farm

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peggotty · 21/06/2008 22:15

Wuthering Heights
Jane Eyre
Harry Potter
His Dark Materials trilogy

francagoestohollywood · 21/06/2008 22:15

Mine are:

any book by Natalia Ginzburg (an Italian writer, not sure she is known in the UK)

some short stories by katherine Mansfield

Janina David's A square of sky

and when I was a child "little women" and the diary of Anna Frank, I kept on reading it

Califrau · 21/06/2008 22:14

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stitch · 21/06/2008 22:13

any terry pratchett
the time travellers wife
clan of the cave bear
river god
colony, by the guy who wrote red dwarf, his name escapes me.
from fields of gold

OverMyDeadBody · 21/06/2008 22:13

harpo that's why I have to keep reading them, the first time they just tend to go straight over my head, but now that I've read them umpteen times they are like old friends (you know, the type that where really hard to initially make friends with but once you put the effort in it was worth it!)

AbbeyA · 21/06/2008 22:13

Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
Georgette Heyer-(Regency period)

cmotdibbler · 21/06/2008 22:11

Frederica, Venetia, The Grand Sophy - Georgette Heyer

Daddy Long Legs

Onions in the Stew, Plague and I - Betty McDonald

Veronica at the Wells

Any Terry Pratchett, but the years and years one is Equal Rites

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harpomarx · 21/06/2008 22:10

yours sound more challenging than mine, omdb!

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OverMyDeadBody · 21/06/2008 22:07

the road less travelled by M. Scott Peck

Any of Paulo Coelho's books

The Elegant Universe by Sam Greene (I think)

Kafka on the SHore by Haruki Murikami