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?

For real comfort (I'm taking that to mean easy) reading I always turn to Maeve Binchy.

Which is very to admit in public.

Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy
Spike Milligan's War Diaries

Me too ChaosTrulyReigns! They have lovely wrinkled pages from being slopped around in the bath so much. . I think they are fab 'easy' reads.

PG Wodehouse
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Stephen King

What an odd little collection

I do like a bit of Joanna Trollope, too. The early ones, for preference.

Notes From a Small Island by Bill Bryson, just started it for the umpteenth time last night. Also The Lost Continent.

Re-reading Harry Potter books comforted me through the 24hr nausea of 'morning' sickness.

Although they are not fiction, so feel free to ignore me!

I read the Harry Potters all snuggled up in my bed and I'm not even embarassed about it-lol!

Little House on the Prairie
Noel Streatfield
Enid Blyton
Anne of Green Gables
LM Alcott

Nothing I love better than snuggling up in bed with one of these and some chocolate :)
(Doesn't happen since DS was born though...)

Yy to marzipan animal, except for Enid Blyton. Was an EB addict as a child but really cannot read her now!

Old fashioned children's books do it for me -

Little Women and the rest of them (I especially love the one where Dan comes back and falls in love with Amy's daughter - it makes me weep every time)

What Katy Did and the rest of them

Ballet Shoes

Charlotte Sometimes

Daddy Long Legs

An ancient copy of Blyton's The Secret Island

Famous Five

For slightly more grown-up comfort:

Anything by Austen except Mansfield Park, which makes me want to hurt people

Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day

A book I have which is basically a history of sweet making/eating

Nigella's How To Eat

Oh and yes to the Harry Potters and to Bill Bryson. :)

I'm another Harry Potter-er! They really are a comfort read for me, like snuggling down in a lovely bookey cashmere blanket! (I've never owned anything cashmere, I am just imagining)

I have also just re-read Brideshead revisited, and am watching the TV adaptation on DVD - I am being transported back to the early 80's when it was first on - you can see how the programme influenced the fashions of the time (remember early Spandau Ballet / Duran Duran / haircut 100 with 1920's cricket gear, oxford bags and brogues...) sorry, I digress.

If you mean the TV adaption with the strangely twitchy and skinny Sebastian, I thought it was excellent. Sebastian was nothing like I imagine him but I thought whoever the actor was, he was really good.

Oh sorry - I see you're talking about the 80s one - have never seen it. Love your little fashion wanderings though. :)

Tales of the City series

Austen

Black Dagger Brotherhood

Sally Lockhart mysteries

Mary Wesley - particularly The Camomile Lawn

Little House on the Prairie

Trebizon series

John Irving

VI Warshawski detective stories by Sara Paretsky

Darling Buds of May

Kate Atkinson

Meg Cabot

Anne of Green Gables

Bit of a mix there!

The audio book of brideshead revisited read by jeremy irons is FABULOUS!!! I have burnt many a dinner listening to it.

Georgette Heyer

PG Wodehouse

BelligerentGhoul..Daddylong legs was that the one about the girl in boarding school writing letters to her guardian or someone, I remember that from when i was younger and loved it

Yep - it's wonderful. :)

must try to find it again that is a comfort read, though at the mo i am enjoying Kathy Reichs, quite the opposite

I think it's really interesting how many people are suggesting the same books, especially the classic children's ones. I wonder if the list will be similar in 20 years time? Maybe age is a factor?

Joanna Trollope is a definite comfort read.
A bit of fluff in between worthier stuff. Get me!
Have just finished The Help and can't er help but feel very let down by the ending.........thoughts anyone?