Which is your go-to re-read book?

[DinDjarin]

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.

I think having an actual book to read is part of the reassurance. I know I can read eg Georgette Heyer online for free but I need to hold a physical copy.

Georgette Heyer
Dorothy Sayers Lord Peter Wimsey books
PG Wodehouse Jeeves and Wooster or Blandings books
Jane Eyre
The Lido - LIbby Page
The Blindfold Horse - Susha Guppy

I thought I was going to be told I was a heathen for re-reading!

I re-read a lot, especially during the first lockdown, because mentally books I knew pretty much by heart were all I could cope with.

Also
Ngaio Marsh
JD Robb - the Eve Dallas series

Pride and prejudice.

To Kill a Mockingbird, I have read it at least twice a year, every year, since 1976.

maeve binchy books for me

A Little Princess and The Secret Garden by Francis Hodgson Burnett.

Little Women
A Summer Crossing
I Capture the Castle
Captain Corelli's Mandolin (so I can also do cathartic crying)
The Secret Garden

Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day
Georgette Heyer - I'm on my third copies of a few of them, I read them until they fall apart
PG Wodehouse - even the daft obscure ones are hilarious and make me feel better
Jane Austen - most often P&P, S&S and Persuasion
Good Omens (also on third copy)
Anne Of The Island
Discworld, especially the Watch and Moist books.

Anything by Thomas Hardy.

Wow amazing how many of these are mine too!

Charlotte Sometimes
Cold Christmas
Bullerby Children books

Dorothy L Sayers - Harriet Vane ones
ABC Murders
PG Wodehouse
Excellent Women

Rebecca and Howard's End but to listen to; read by Anna Massey and Edward Petherbridge respectively

And Alan Bennett non fiction writings

Ooh and Sherlock Holmes - especially the long stories

Another one for Sayers, Mitford and I Capture the Castle. I read Cold Comfort Farm aloud recently to Dd(20) who was in pain recovering from surgery. I wasn't sure how it would have aged but we both loved it.
I reread all the Cormoran Strike novels when I was in bed with Covid last year.

I think I might be you!

Add in Little Women and it's confirmed 😁

The shell seekers by rosamunde pilcher. Read it once or twice a year absolutely love it. Also love clan of the cave bears series as said by others too

Winter Solstice by Rosamund Pilcher
Village Diary by Miss Read
A Country Child by Alison Uttley
The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper

This is mine too. Any of the series, but this one is my favourite.

It depends on my mood, but I reread an awful lot, it helps with my anxiety because it's like snuggling under a comfort blanket.

Jane Eyre
The Hobbit
The Lord of the Rings
Jeff Wheeler's Muirwood stories
Anything written by Diane Greenwood Muir
Harry Potter series

ok the ones I find myself going back to are mostly guilty pleasures, easy and quick to read. Delightful in their familiarity.

The thread that binds the bones - Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Dark cathedral - Freda Warrington
The Southern Vampire Mysteries (True Blood series) - Charlaine Harris
Emma, P&P & S&S but anything by Austen really

The Little White Horse, by Elizabeth Goudge
The Dark is Rising series by Susan Cooper
Weirdstone of Brisingamen - Alan Garner

All of these take me back to childhood. Depending on how fragile I'm feeling, also Milly Molly Mandy and Dear Teddy Robinson (if I'm very low)

Slightly weary and fed up and I'm another Georgette Heyer reader.

It's amazing series I just love it. Nice to see others loving it too.

I love how many times Rebecca has been mentioned. That's one of mine too. Also:

A Passage to India
The Portrait of a Lady
The Wasp Factory
The Bell Jar
East of Eden
No More Meadows
The Greengage Summer

A walk-in the woods, BillBryson

Any Gil McNeil, The Only Boy for Me, Needles and Pearls and all her other ones.

totally laugh out loud, read all of them during chemo sessions and had to lend them to the nurses afterwards.

also love re reading the Childrens books I kept, Frances Hodgson Burnett, and many others.

loved Rebecca but avoided the film for years as didn’t want to wreck my own imagination of it, accidentally watched it the other week, not knowing the title and quite enjoyed it.

Wuthering Heights
The Bronze Horseman
Talking of Horses
James Herriot