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?

Wild swans. I love that book, I read it every year.

Rebecca.

Diary of a Nobody, still makes me laugh.
Diary of a provincial lady.
Just William books.
Something about 1930 ish books I find comforting

Secret History Donna Tartt
Old Man's War John Scalzi
All the novels of the world of the First Law by Joe Abercrombie
The Rivers of London series Ben Aaronovitch
I love Rivers of London so much I did an assembly about it for world book day. At school I mean I am a teacher. But I would talk about the books and the characters in other schools that's how obsessed I am.

The Shepherd’s life by James Rebanks. I love reading about rural life and the rhythm of the seasons.
also love The Wolves of Willoughby Chase - only discovered that as an adult, love rereading it.

Toast by Nigel Slater

@Squirrelsnut A traveller in time was my favourite book as a kid and I re read it once a year or so. Never met anyone else whose even heard of it!

Any Jeeves and Wooster
Catch-22
Any Discworld

Ghostwritten, David Mitchell
The Masterpiece, Emile Zola
Tess of the Durbervilles, Thomas Hardy
1984 , George Orwell
Animal Farm , George Orwell
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There are not enough lovers of Bujold around here. A Mumsnetter introduced me to them a few years ago and I adore them. Have you read her Five Gods fantasy series?

For reasons I can’t fully explain I must have read “The Razor’s Edge” by Somerset Maugham five or six times.

It’s simultaneously genteel and lurid, and most of the characters are fairly unlikeable. It’s also a fascinating window into a not-very-popular period of history.

The Shell Seekers and most of Maeve Binchy’s books.

Same here.I've read and reread all of Rosamunde Pilcher's books many many times,they're so comforting.

I'm on the last Fairacre book-also a comfort read,back to times gone by when life seemed to be simpler.

I have so many but Robertson Davies novels are my absolutely favourite books to re read. Also
Bad Blood by Lorna Sage
All of Austen
All of Mary Renault
Earthsea Novels by Ursula le Guin
Agatha Christie's autobiography

Just get a library card?

Any Rosamund Pilcher, all the Arthur Ransome Swallows and Amazon series and all the Dorothy L. Sayers Peter Wimsey detective novels (and Jill Paton Walsh's sequels).

Swallows & Amazons forever ........ and death to Captain Flint!!

Swallows and Amazons series, especially Peter Duck and We didn't mean to go to sea.
Trinity by Leon Uris
Covenant with Death by John Harris - the story of a Pals battalion in World War 1.
The Master mariner by Nicholas Montserrat - wonderful story and a real pity that he died before he could complete book 2.

A particular non fiction favourite is The Last Grain Race by Eric Newby. My son and I can quote chunks of this to each other, we love it so much. Also One Summers Grace by Libby Purves.

Neville Shute - the trustee from the tool room OR a town like Alice

Yes surely this?

I re read Georgette Heyer and PG Wodehouse plus a few other slightly more serious books. But most of the books on my shelves, however great, will never get re read and I get new ones from the library all the time.

If the library isn’t nearby you can get ebooks using the Libby app (if your library is a member).

Before I'd even ready any replies there's only one book I go back to time and time again; pride and prejudice.

The Chalet School
Any LM Montgomery - I have her complete works on Kindle. Currently rereading The Story Girl for the millionth time
The Vorkosigan Saga
Dorothy L Sayers
Dick Francis
Lord of the Rings

And Georgette Heyer. And Antonia Forest. And Jane Eyre. I re-read a LOT.

I’m a big fan of the Oxford English Dictionary. I first started reading it as a child, and whilst I might have put it down for periods throughout my life since, I find myself drawn back to it again and again.