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?

Most by Agatha Christie

@Notgoodatpoetrybutgreatatlit yes, it definitely felt more diffuse and so less engaging to me. Am hoping this was a sort of setting stuff up novel rather than that he has run out of steam.

As per pp only onto a kindle fire. But kobo e reader can hold BorrowBox books. But it is a bit convoluted: you need to download an acrobat app called something like e-reader and then link your borrow box book to that app. Once your loans are downloaded you transfer them via usb cable to your e reader. This is our solution for teen so ‘phone doesn’t need to go upstairs and e books still available.

The Hearts Invisible Furies by John Boyle
Incendiary by Chris Cleve
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
The Book by Thief Markus Zusak

I'm short on space but keep one shelf for books I go back to and read again and again, ones I don't want to forget about. These are a few of my favourites

Cider With Rosie, Laurie Lee
Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy

@ChillinwiththeVillains if you join a library service that uses Overdrive you can borrow books directly onto a Kobo without having to hook up to Adobe Digital Editions. More and more library services are able to be joined online as well, so it doesn't necessarily have to be your local service.

@LadyPeterWimsey I didn’t know that. Thank you, that is really helpful.

Graham Green's Brighton Rock and most of Agatha Christie's

Agatha Christie, various ones.
A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean.
The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Harry Potter. I can pick up any book at any time on any page and pick up where I left off.

I've read and enjoyed all of those @wetwiped but I don't think i could read Incendiary again. Especially now I have a DS - some of the saddest moments I've ever encountered in a novel.

A Town Like Alice is one of my favourite books, and On The Beach is as haunting as Handmaid or 1984 in terms of dystopia. The NORMALITY of them all as they wait for the cloud to arrive... just so unsettling.

It’s a really interesting question, because not all books are suitable for re-reading. What is mean is, there are lots of books I’ve loved, yet have no intention of ever picking up again. So, for example, I loved Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, and also To the Lighthouse, yet doubt I’ll ever re-read them. I also enjoyed H. G. Wells’ War of the Worlds, Anthony Burgess’ Earthly Powers, Defoe’s Moll Flanders, etc, but know I’ll never re-read them either. Nor will I re-read Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Jude the Obscure, Women in Love, or Middlemarch. Why? I don’t know.

Yet Agatha Christie, the Sherlock Holmes books, P. G. Wodehouse, C J Sansom’s Shardlake books, Pride and Prejudice, A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, David Copperfield, Edward St Aubyn’s Melrose series, etc, I will re-read throughout my life. It’s strange. I loved Wilde’s Dorian Gray and Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited equally, yet I only want to re-read Wilde. I loved Kingsley Amis’ Lucky Jim and Wodehouse’s Right Ho Jeeves, yet I only want to re-read Wodehouse. I can’t explain it.

The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks

The title intruiged me and I bought a copy when I had some travelling by bus to do .

Parts of it made me heave though

(and Jill Paton Walsh's sequels)

Interesting. I thought The Attenbury Emeralds was dreadful. Convoluted plot (all those jewels), unbelievable series of murders and an anticlimactic ending - almost as if she didn't know how to finish it. Presumption of Death was goodish and I find I haven't read Thrones, Dominations, so on the list it goes.

The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald.

Little Women, Pride and Prejudice, Wuthering Heights, National Velvet and Circe

The heart of the family and The little white horse by Elizabeth Goudge
A little princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett (I think)
The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit (I think)
Anne of Green Gables
All Nevil Shute except Round the Bend which gets odd.
Heidi
Jane Austen, Middlemarch, Daphne du Maurier

Raymond Carver's short stories
The swish of the curtain by Pamela Brown
Marilynne Robinson's novels which should be more widely read in Britain because she's an amazing writer.
Joyce Grenfell's letters.
21 Charing cross road

Cold Comfort Farm
My Family and Other Animals
Murder Must Advertise and Gaudy Night (Sayers)
Ballet Shoes
Antonia Forest Marlow series
The Eyre Affair

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Jane Eyre (“reader, I married him…” is like a lovely sigh of pent up emotion)
Pride and Prejudice
The Railway Children
The Secret Garden
Little Women

I love these threads. I'm busy writing down titles

Little women. Lost count of the times I've read it. Feels like coming home 🥰

Love it and the dvd as well beautifully filmed.

Humphrey I love Bad Blood by Lorna Sage!! Thank you for reminding me!
also:
O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker
Auto da Fay by Fay Weldon
On rotation:
Lucky Jim
Shipping News
A.Place of Greater Safety
A Room with. a V
Dracula
The Naparima Girls High School Cookbook
JonathanStrange and Mr Norrell
Mudlarkingby Lara Maiklem
Rumpole(s)
Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow
The Crow Road
3 horrible books by Conn Iggulden about Genghis Khan