What's your comfort book?

[Ellisisland]

The book you return to again and again. I have just finished reading three new quite heavy books and fancy re reading something that I've enjoyed before so hoping to pick your collective brains

I love Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day!

P&P, of course, and anything by PG Woodehouse. I laugh out loud every time.

Yes to Armistead Maupin, Mignonette! Would highly recommend.

Also Laura Ingalls Wilder, Persuasion and Barbara Trapido for me - I have revisited Brother of the more famous Jack and The travelling hornplayer many times .

Wolf Hall
Bring up the Bodies
(Anyone know when the next one is due?)
Brideshead Revisited
Any Jean Plaidy

Pg Wodehouse
Bill Bryson
Lindsay Davis

Another one for malory towers, st clares and famous five. Also chalet school, swallows and amazons series, the jill books and anything by noel streatfield.
I also like agatha christie, the miss silver books by Patricia Wentworth and Stephanie Plum. Harry potter is also good but have ruined them for myself by reading them too much.
All these books got me through my anxiety and depression after my parents died. My exh used to laugh at me for reading kids books but they got me through.

I re-read lots - I only keep the books I want to read again and I have a lot of books in my house.

My favourite comfort book is Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman which I've read at least 10 times and it still makes me laugh out loud.

Oh and any Discworld. I want to move there.

Persuasion
Love in a cold climate & the pursuit of love

Ooh, Good Omens! Discworld! Yup, always head back to them over and over and over!

Also love the vampire trilogy by Christopher Moore - "fucksocks"

The only thing that rankles is why she didn't take up Captain Cholly-Sawcut's kind offer of a job instead of messing about in Pony Jobs for Jill and then settling for life as a secretary.

I've never been able to figure that out - I've always found Pony Jobs very frustrating for that reason. It is my least favourite of the books.

To kill a mockingbird
little women series - makes me feel like i should be a bit more patient and "good"!
Lisa jewell books - ralphs party, Vince and joy, one hit wonder but all of them
the welsh sister books Marian keyes eg watermelon
i have just read all of Deborah gearys witch books on kindle and can see these being re read again and again. A lovely comforting read

To Kill A Mockingbird
Little Women
Good Omens
It
American Gods

Oh and Discworld - especially the Watch series and the witches. I think I'm related to Nanny Ogg.

hermann hesse Steppenwolf. once a year (at least) since 1973.

Nancy Mitford yes, just recently re-read Pursuit of Love.

Read Have His Carcase before Christmas as any proper book was just too stress.

The Stand.
The Hobbit.
The Fiend Next Door.
Charlotte's Webb.

Mapp and Lucia books by E.F.Benson are wonderful, set in small town England and very witty. They are so comforting to read and always make me feel happy

Thank you aimees
I must get hold of Mapp and Lucia again as I haven't read them for years decades .

My amazon wish list is getting longer !

Ah, I'm clearly not original as my favourites are all on here already.

Barbara Pym, especially Some Tame Gazelle, Crampton Hodnet and Less Than Angels.

E F Benson, the Mapp and Lucia series.

EM Delafield, Diary of a Provincial Lady.

India Knight recommended Forever Amber by Kathleen Turner as a book to curl up with when she did a webchat a few years back. It was winter and just what I needed at the time so i ordered a copy up. Whoop, whoop was I in for a treat. It's a real bodice ripper set in 17th Century which (I think) was banned when it first came out. Think Jilly Cooper but set against the Great Fire and the Plague. Amber is this amazingly resilient heroine who I loved throughout. The book goes on and on but I just didn't want it to end. My mum burst out laughing when I told her what as I was reading - apparently it was my grandmother's favourite book when it first came out in the 40s - she used to hide it under a cushion because it was seen as being so racy!

Iirc, there's a reference to Forever Amber in The Women's Room, when the heroine finds a copy in the house where she is babysitting. She was accordingly Awakened. I haven't read it but have always vaguely intended to look out for a copy.

Bib

I loved The Womens Room and Myra's reading mania resonated with me. I read The Womens Room aged thirteen and whilst a lot of it was beyond my experience at that age, picking it up and re-reading it every few years always results in fresh insights.

Myra read 'The Well Of Loneliness' too but there's nothing comforting about that book.

I like the sound of Forever Amber.

I love re reading Persuasion, P and P and S and S.