If you could only choose one book...

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What would it be? What book can you read again and again, without being bored, and maybe getting something new from each time?

My vote would go to To Kill a Mocking Bird.

Lord of the Rings for me, just has the ability to transport me away from day to day problems.
I obviously have lots of problems as I read it numerous times

Gone with the wind

The sunne in splendour

Can I have Austen's complete works, or is that cheating? Or King's Dark Tower series?

If I can only have one book, I'll have a poetry collection I think - now, which one?

Jane Eyre.

Sometimes it's a love story, sometimes it is about religion, sometimes magic, sometimes the nature of childhood, sometimes education theory, etc.

Got to be A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khalled Husseini for me - or am i allowed two? Because I struggle to choose between that and Jennie by Paul Gallico.

These are the only two books that I have read more than once.
Unless you count Black Beauty which was my absolute favourite as a a child.

The Great Gatsby for the final paragraph which is my life quote.

ignoring that it says only one

Testament of Youth.

Hard one.....
Maybe
P.s I love you -cecila ahern

or

Goodnight beautiful - Dorothy koomson.

The Year of the Flood.

Although I would be devastated to only be allowed one tbh!

An equal music by Vikram Seth.

One Hundred Years of Solitude. One of the few books I'll happily read again and again.

Something long and complicated!
Lord of the rings.
The stand.
David copperfield.
Too hard.....

Anna Karenina

Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel García Márquez.

The Secret History - Donna Tartt.

Another vote here for Donna Tartt's The Secret History. You could probably read it twenty times and discover new layers in it every time.

I can't think of any books I've reread

I'm always scared I won't enjoy it as much and then it'll be ruined in my memory as being a great book. Only the first reading can be the best. IMHO.

Agree 'The Secret History' or 'Cold Comfort Farm.' Brilliant! Hard to choose just one though...

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon. Fantastic historical fiction with some time travel thrown in!

Mine would be To Kill A Mockingbird as well. It is the only book today that I have read more than once, I re read it once a year and watch the film over and over.....

Flowers for Algernon. Read it age 14 have read it again about once a year since. Still weep like a child at it.

Barbara Kingsolver Poisonwood Bible - brilliant.

Jamaica Inn or Wuthering Heights... Or Lorna Do one. Anything about strong women, criminal men and lonely moors it would seem!

Three Men In A Boat by Jerome K. Jerome. Been making me laugh for 45 years. I never tire of it.

1984 - George Orwell.

Orrrr The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom

Though do realise I will have to kill you for taking the rest of my books away.

Would either have to be Lord of the Rings (I read it every couple of years) or the complete Jeeves and Wooster, never fails to make me laugh no matter how times I read it.

If I can pick a series, then Harry Potter as I truly adore them and read the full set again at least once a year. Plus, I could share them with my dc.

If it had to be just one single book, then Little Women (again, hoping that I could share it with dd).

The Cleft by Doris Lessing