Which is your go-to re-read book?

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The one you pick up when you're exhausted because it doesn't matter where you start or stop as you know it so well. The one you reach for when you're ill and can't concentrate on anything.

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fear and loathing in las vegas

I had no idea CM Owens had passed away. I loved her books!

Wizard and Glass. Book 4 in The Dark Tower series. It's being reunited with old friends. I've read it countless times.

It's so beyond its own hype now, but the Harry Potter books are comforting and familiar too. I'd probably pick up Prisoner of Azkaban first. Just before it all gets really dark/teen angsty.

Lord of the rings
Austen
His dark materials trilogy
Various trashy romance novels! 😆

VoH is my favourite-well Ayla's story anyway. Only started them about 10 years back because I was looking for a new series and they were on offer in WH Smith

Another vote for Night Watch (and some of the other Watch books too)

Diary Of A Nobody

Any of the Tales of the City series - Armistead Maupin

@PartiallySage why can you not do any more?

Oh yes, o love love love Tales of the City ❤️

China Court by Rumer Godden

Enchanted April, Pursuit of Love/Love in a cold climate/ Jeeves and Wooster/ A little princess /ballet shoes

I have a lot .

I am also now going to add 'The White Umbrella' ' to that list. I read it this weekend while miserable on bed rest it was just perfect.

Robin Hobb's realm of the elderlings is my comfort series. That and His Dark Materials

I re read His Dark Materials at least once a year, usually on holiday.

The chick- lit book I go back to is You had me at Hello by Mhairi McFarlane which is just about perfect as far as I'm concerned.

Any Sir Terry is always a welcome distraction but also Good Omens. I adore that book.

My Family and Other Animals or Birds, Beasts and Relatives - Gerald Durrell
The Thunderbolt Kid - Bill Bryson
What Katy Did
Little Women
Anna Karenina
A book called Bonheur de Dames by Emile Zola - it’s wonderful.

Actually have a few that i keep to reread , mostly from being a strange teen, including

Dracula - B. Stoker
Frankenstein-M Shelly
Edgar Allen Poe collection
Neuromancer- William Gibson
Time Machine-HG Wells
and a few outdoor books , cookbooks and garden books purely for inspiration

Ancient Evenings, Norman Mailer
A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
The Other Boleyn Girl, Phillipa Gregory
Tipping The Velvet, Sarah Waters
Winnie The Pooh and Paddington Bear

The Passage/The Twelve/City Of Mirrors, Justin Cronin
The Historian, Elizabeth Kostova
A Short History Of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson

Virginia Woolf by H Lee
Any Terry Pratchett but Guards or Wizards especially
The Chalet school books
Enid Blyton Adventure series
Five Children and It
Fanny and the Monsters
The Cir us is coming
One Hundred Years of Solitude

Oh and Kinflicks

Oh yes!

Wow! So many to look at. I've got some already. Haven't read Rebecca for a very long time, I'm not sure it survived all the moves. I thought I was going to be told I was a heathen for re-reading!

So many - I re-read a lot. Georgette Heyer, Patricia Wentworth's Miss Silver mysteries, Barbara Michaels, Dorothy L Sayers, Donna Andrews' Meg Langslow mysteries - when I was much younger, Lord of the Rings, but I'm more likely to listen to that now than turn the pages. Might make an exception soon.

The one I read over and over when my father had dementia was Lois McMaster Bujold's Memory. Other books by her as well, particularly Captain Vorpatril's Alliance and A Civil Campaign (dedicated to Georgette(Heyer), Dorothy (L Sayers) Jane (Austen) and Charlotte (Bronte). They're all fun, the whole saga, but Memory gave me something I needed in that time - I wore out three copies, and still read it fairly often. Not the first few chapters though, where our hero screws his life up (one read was enough) - I start once he arrives back in his home town and gets ready to find redemption. He has a splendid aunt and (eventually) lots of cats.

We are moving soon and having a mild declutter. Books we are absolutely keeping are all of Georgette Heyer, all of Dorothy L Sayers, all of Lois McMaster Bujold. GH in green covers, DLS in yellow - years of haunting secondhand bookshops and ebay! LMB have bought since first paperbacks and moved on to hardbacks as they appeared, some signed. I am also worried about wearing them out!

I really enjoyed every one of Angela Thirkell's books but have sent them to the charity shop. Fab but not cosy. Several authors I have loved I haven't loved enough to keep. I would put Terry Pratchett in that category, we had loads. For humour it is Wodehouse, would never part with any of his books.

I agree about Miss Silver. I can't remember exactly which one but there was one where the hero's old nanny takes charge of the bedraggled couple and bustles round offering some nursery type sustenance plus TWO HOT WATER BOTTLES. God I wish I had an old nanny.

I re-read most of Angela Thirkell at the start of lockdown. I used to find them enjoyable but be glad that class had died out/lost power. Am no longer so sure of that, which makes them a less reassuring read.

Won't part with the Mapp and Lucia books, Miss Read, Wodehouse, Mary Stewart.

My non-fiction re-read (re look at the pictures) since I was about six are the Ladybird What to Look For in Spring/Summer/Autumn/Winter books - still sound on nature, but the countryside life and ways the show in passing are long gone.