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

I’ve ordered the Sharon Krum mentioned upthread, cant wait!

When I heard they were making a movie of the book, that line came into my head

@Zebracat I hope you love the Thing About Jane Spring. I have bought it for so many people. Anything you’d recommend for me? I’m sitting on a balcony somewhere sunny today and have just finished my JD Robb. Fancy a change from murder

@Evelyn Beatrice. Definitely Eva Ibbotsen the Morning Gift.

Evelyn Waugh: Brideshead Revisited

Tolkien: The Hobbit

The Narnia books

Robert Graves: Goodbye to all That

Oscar Wilde: Dorian Gray

Dickens: David Copperfield

Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice

Aldous Huxley: Crome Yellow, also his essays and The Doors of Perception

Orwell: Essays

Bryson: Notes from a Small Island

Wodehouse: Jeeves and Wooster novels (not the short stories)

Woolf: Mrs Dalloway

Douglas Adams: Hitchiker’s Guide

Stephen Fry: Moab is my Washtub

That's a good point... if I'm feeling under the weather I find comfort in revisiting favourites from my childhood/early teens like Nancy Drew.

There's a line in the film You've Got Mail that I think of from time to time: "When you read a book as a child, it becomes part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your whole life does."

I recently stumbled back upon Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. and enjoyed it just as much as the first time I read it as a 12 year old. Looking forward to seeing the film.

Jane Austen
Antonia Forest
Maeve Binchey.

Jane Austen, always. Georgette Heyer, Dorothy L Sayers, the Cazalet Chronicles. The Patrick O'Brien novels about Aubrey & Maturin - currently listening to these as audiobooks borrowed free from the library. Anthony Powell 'Dance to The Music of Time'. And yes, Noel Streatfield and Swallows & Amazons, always comforting.

@IceCreamNuts I love that quote, thank you

Georgette Heyer, particularly The Grand Sophy, The Unknown Ajax. Josephine Tey The Franchise Affair and Jennifer Crusie, Welcome to Temptation, Faking it and Bet Me

All the Adrian Moles

The Queen and I by Sue Townsend

Time for Bed by David Baddiel

Are You Dave Gorman? By Dave Gorman and Danny Wallace

The collected Charlie Brooker columns for The Guardian

Lots of children's books in mine too

Heidi (my top comfort book by a mile)
The Silver Brumby books
All the Narnia books
Harry Potter
Any by the Bronte sisters

Narnia especially I find fascinating reading as an adult - picking up on all the Bible and religious references which went straight over my head as a child.

Chalet Scool
Blue Doors books by Pamela Brown
The Waterway Girls books by Millie Adams
The Shipyard Girls by Nancy Revell
East End Angels by Rosie Hendry
Mothers Day Club by Rosie Hendry

Diary Of A Nobody
The Enchanted April

Anything by Austen, but specifically Persuasion (obviously)
Maeve Binchy
PD James
Drina Ballerina series
Chalet school

Winter Solstice by Rosamund Pilcher
Nellie and Mollie series by Joan Jonker
The High House, a children's book set in Edinburgh

Patrick O'Brien's Aubrey-Maturin books. Historical adventure and the best friendship ever.

To Kill a Mockingbird and A Christmas Carol.

I echo a lot of what others have said
Anne of Green Gables, Agatha Christie, Little women, Goodnight Mr Tom. Also Joan Jonker and Daisy Styles.

Are the cazulet chronicles heart warming / cherry? I need something uplifting as a gift for a recently bereaved friend. No death/ grieving is an absolute requirement
I like the sound of the Cazulet ones and heard them mentioned on a good read
Thanks !

The Pickwick Papers. Especially Mr Jingle.