A book you can read over and over again?

[JennaTooIs]

I don't have a lot of room for books so I'd like a few goodens I can reread. What are yours?

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith and On Green Dolphin Street by Sebastian Faulks.

I reread the Laura Ingalls Wilder books.

Anything by Jane Austen

I have a pass it on philosophy with books. I never expect them back. I think they should be free flowing and have as many readers as possible. This would maybe give you space to read wider? Or could you get to the library, or get a Kobo / Kindle? I hate to think of a person who is limited to reading only things they would keep and read again!

Why not just buy a book when you want to read one and give the one you have read to a friend or a charity shop. I don't have any space for books but there are very few I would want to continually re-read.

Anything by Jane Austen, Terry Pratchett or (if you like sf) Lois McMaster Bujold.
I have read all three often enough that their characters live rent-free in my head and I will quote at length if even slightly relevant.

Stig Abell, the editor of the TLS, said he’s re-read Pride and Prejudice 120 times!! Whenever he is ill or down, it’s his go-to. It’s funny, because Abell is a young, cool looking guy, who you’d expect to prefer William Burroughs or J G Ballard, or some edgy author like that. It just shows the spell Austen still casts.

I have a shelf for what I call my ‘golden books’ meaning the ones I constantly dip into and re-read, the ones that always comfort or cheer me up. I case anyone is interested (and there’s no reason why they should be!), they are:

Dickens: David Copperfield
Wodehouse: Right Ho Jeeves
Fermor: A Time of Gifts
Woolf: Orlando
Sherlock Holmes
Tolkien: The Hobbit
The Wind in the Willows
Bloom: The Western Canon
Waugh: Brideshead Revisited and Decline and Fall
Aldous Huxley: Crome Yellow
George Orwell: Essays (especially his lit crit and his essays on the countryside)
Kipling: Kim
Dorian Gray
Boswell: Life of Johnson (abridged)
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Pride and Prejudice

William Goldings "Lord of the Flies"

I have 3 copies and Spark Notes dotted about .
I can pick it up , open at any page and see something new , even though I've read it more times than I care to remember

It's a heartbreaking tale

Both of these!
Plus The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy.

Gosh, reading 'Lord of the Flies' once was enough for me. No way I'd be going back to it!

I re-read Wodehouse, Just William or Maeve Binchy. Though these days I'd more likely scroll through MN than comfort read 🫤

Rosamunde Pilcher is my comfort reading, either The Shell Seekers or winter solstice. Also The Children of Green Knowe. Other than that I don’t have many I’d read over and over.

Everyone else on this thread has far more high brow taste in books 😆

The Pursuit of Love. I will never get tired of it. It has added sparkle to the very worst times of my life.

I can't stand Jane Austen books and I live in Bath too! Honestly I don't see the appeal .

All of Maeve Binchy's short stories and novels. Love em!

Bonjour Tristesse by Francois Sagan, I think I e read about 5 times, and The Collector by John Fowles I've read about 4 times, also Daphne Du Maurier short short collections The Birds and The blue lens I've read over and over.

Ballet Shoes

A Circling Star by Mara Kay.
A Traveller in Time by Alison Uttley.
Wuthering Heights.
Rachel's Holiday.

I re-read Sarum by Edward Rutherford a hell of a lot.

Don’t judge me - All the Flower in the Attic books.

Birdsong, on green dolphin street by Sebastian faulks. Anything by jo jo moyes. I think it depends on what sort of books/genre you are interested in???? My book collection varies from horror to murder mystery to romance!!! Your local library usually has a good selection

The Cazalet Chronicles. I have them on my Kobo and re-read them every couple of years.

The Poldark novels by Winston Graham are wonderful.

P & P
Three Men in a Boat
Diary of a Nobody
Catch-22 ( just my fave chapters)
Bonfire of the Vanities
Various Poirot & Marple depending on mood or what's trending on Reddit

As you can see, humour mainly and all lightweight

I was just coming on here to say The Shell Seekers or Winter Solstice. I have lost count of the number of times I’ve read them.