What do you 'comfort read'?

[BoattoBolivia]

When I am fed up, tired or just need something non-challenging, I comfort read books that I know may be nonsense, but make me feel good. My favourites are anything by Elinor M Brent-Dyer, LM Alcott, Terry Pratchett or Lord of the Rings. Anyone else have comfort books?

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Chalet School and Discworld here too. Also Jane Austen, Rudyard Kipling, Bill Bryson, anything I can nick off my sisters bookshelves.

PG Wodehouse is my top cheerer-upper
Also Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams

I don't think they're nonsense though!

Chalet school v good. Also Antonia Forest books which you might have guessed from my name :)

Unashamed chick lit lover too. Also Miss Read

My feel good reads are:
PG Wodehouse

Katherine Mansfield's short stories (well some of them)

Anything by Natalia Ginzburg (I know her books by heart)

India Knight.

I also love re reading Posy Simmonds graphic novels

Chalet school v good. Also Antonia Forest books which you might have guessed from my name :)

Unashamed chick lit lover too. Also Miss Read

Chalet School here too!

Peter Hamilton and Sophia Kinsella as well - limited selection of books here :(

Oooh, forgot Douglas Adams! Looks like we need a Chalet School addicts support thread!

Nah there's a whole forum for that.

Ok Snap, fair point! Always steered clear of those as I know I would get totally addicted!

What's the problem being addicted?! There's some seriously good fanfic on there though - a couple of people have even had fill ins published. It's like a whole world of extra CS comfort reading.

I don't think they are rubbish but when I just want to relax into a book the James Herriot ones always do the trick for me and take me right back to my childhood.

Iknow none of them are nonsense, but other people often don't understand me! Obviously on here, amongst friends, ignore the nonsense comment!

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Elizabeth Jane Howard's Cazalet Chronicles

Why is there a tube of canesten here?

I have no idea, but if you stick it in advanced search, it seems to be spreading itself around everywhere!!!

Was wondering about the thrush....

I read Bridget Jones, early Marian Keyes, Stuart Maconie and Bill Bryson.

Also oddly, gory homicides. Slaughter/Kava/Cornwell etc.

Georgette Heyer are my go-to re-read. I love them. I now restrict myself to buying new ones for when I go on holiday. I will be really sad when I have read them all. I also made DH move them to the front row of the bookshelves for easier access when I'm sad/unwell/down/in the mood for a bit of Regency fluff

Yay for Enid Blyton, Chalet School, Trebizon, Drina books, Judy Blume...'comfort reads' since I was young, still hold the same for me now.

Otherwise, I like maps.
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Armistead Maupin and Kate Atkinson are always my go to authors.

Twilight series

Crime novels/thrillers, preferably formula ones where you pretty much know how it is going to pan out like the Jack Reacher ones or Dick Francis.

For nostalgia I can't beat re-reading Nevil Shute, A Town Like Alice or In the Wet.

All the Little House on the Prairie books for me!!