Your 'comfort' book(s)

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Not necessarily your favourite book, but which book(s) do you go back to time and time again and never tire of?

For me it's:

To Kill A Mockingbird

Any Adrien Mole (I still laugh out loud nearly 40 years after first reading them).

1984

Anne of Green Gables
Little Women

Lord of the Rings
Ivanhoe
Reflex (Dick Francis)
one of the earlier (up to about number 12) Stephanie Plum books (Janet Evanovich)
Any of the Discworld novels
Any Georgette Heyer Regency novel

Jane Eyre. Though it’s my favourite, too.

Anything by Daphne Du Maurier

Anything by Maeve Binchy

The Poisonwood Bible

Same 😊

Flowers in the Attic by Virginia Andrews
The Partner by Tom Grisham
Gridlock by Ben Elton

Miss Read, the Miss Marple books by Agatha Christie, Tom’s Midnight Garden.

Katherine by Anya Seton

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier and a children's book called Dragon Summer by Ruth M Arthur.

@merrymelodies that's one of mine too, I have my Grannies old copy.

Miss Read books
Daphne du Maurier novels

Anything by Agatha Christie for me.

Jane Eyre for me, too.

Cazalet Chronicles
Olivia Joules
Eat, Pray Love
jeeves and Wooster
Jilly Cooper
Shardlake
Pride and Prejudice
The Country Girls
Maeve Binchy Circle of Friends
The Rosie Project
Marion Keyes
Jojo Moynes
Tony Parsons
David Nicolls
Gatty’s Tale
Susan Cooper
Ballet Shoes

and weirdly, Tana French

Oh
Good Omens
Mrs Harris

James Herriot

Mine would be Little women and Rebecca.

I'm surprised that others choices are so similar

I re read quite a few books each year, but if I'm ill I always go for Georgette Heyer and my particular favorite is The Grand Sophy

The Earth's Children series by Jean M Auel. I have lost count of the times I have read them.

Same here.

also Anne of Green Gables - currently reading Rilla of Ingleside.
Coming Home and The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher.
Jane Eyre

I love Rebecca too 😊

Middlemarch, because all the drama comes from small things.

Vanity Fair, because I love how spirited Becky Sharp is when everything is against her.

I read mainly biographies and autobiographies. I'm obsessed with old Hollywood, especially the silent era.

Favourites include:

Swanson on Swanson

Running Wild (Clara Bow)

Vamp (Theda Bara)

Silent Snowbird (Alma Rubens)

Anything by Michael G Ankerich

Penny Vincenzi books

All of the Jane Austen.

I remember myself anchored to Sense and Sensibility when I was terrified by a crisis my son was going through at university. Sometimes literally afraid to stop reading because of the thoughts that would crash in. But even in that situation it gave me such comfort and pleasure.