Do you have a comfort book?

[MarieJeanne]

Do you have a book that you regularly reread or is your literary comfort blanket?
Mine is The secret diary of Adrian Mole - the first one

Slugsalettuce, echoes is an unrecognised masterpiece imo!

I think mine would have to be Pride and Prejudice, though some of the novels of Carol Shields would come a close second - Republic of Love, Happenstance, Mary Swann. And then Hitchhiker's Guide.

There are also some books of poetry which probably fit the definition of 'comfort reading' even more closely for me (Eliot, MacNeice, various anthologies).

IT-Stephen king

Waving to MonkeyMess - by the time I get to Larry 's analysis of the Dodo/ Alecko confrontation I have a stitch from uncontrollable giggles.

Jilly Cooper Rutshire series. The first four especially.

And Harry Potter.

My adult choices - Emma, or My Cousin Rachel.

The ones I loved as a child and still love now - The Moomin books - I love reliving that childhood feeling of being drawn into this strange and magical world, and there is so much love in the books.

Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice. Only books I read again and again, except for Of Mice and Men for work!

Pride and Prejudice.

Pride and Prejudice.

Or Winnie the Pooh. It has so much wisdom in it!

Yet another vote for Pride and Prejudice.

And Ballet Shoes, which takes me right back to how much I enjoyed it over 40 years ago when I read it for the first time.

Not a classic but I also really like Other People's Marriages by Rosie Thomas - not my usual taste in reading but very good of its kind .. a spookily accurate reflection of a few marriages I've observed in RL.

And Brother of the More Famous Jake by Barbara Trapido bears a few rereads.

The More Famous Jack .. I have been recommending it wrongly for years

On audio I love the Dean Koontz thriller House of Thunder. Mel Foster's amazing narration soothes me to sleep at night. And I mean that in a good way.

The adolescent Adrian Mole diaries

To Kill A Mocking Bird