Novels worth reading more than twice.

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I'm currently rereading a book from my childhood "Little Katia" by E M Almedingen which I've read perhaps 20 times. I love the feeling of rereading but I've only read a very few novels more than twice. I've properly read Jane Eyre 9 times and Day of the Trifids about 5. Some Jane Austen I've read 3 times, as well as all the Sherlock Holmes stories and Robinson Crusoe. These are all books I first read as a child. Now I'm looking to expand my repertoire.

Which novels are worthy of multiple rereads?

Twilight, Harry Potter, Fifty Shades of Grey.

I re read them every time I am stressed as I love knowing the ending of things.

Agree with The Stand, The Color Purple, and To Kill A Mockingbird. I've also read The Secret History a few times.

I have a few that I've read multiple times.

Wuthering Heights
His Dark Materials trilogy
The Passage trilogy by Justin Cronin
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
I am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes

Sometimes if I'm going through a stressful or worrying time I'll listen to one of them on audio book. I find it comforting.

Love that book

I listen to books, my favourites that I have read-listened to are
Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozie Adiche
Vernon God Little - DBC Pierre
Small Great Things - Jodie Picoult
The Vanishing Act Of Esme Lennox - Maggie O'Farell

Maeve Binchey
Rosemary Pilcher

Seven Sister - Lucinda Riley - I shall provably revisit these at some point

Middlemarch
Persuasion
Jane Eyre
A Suitable Boy
The Cazalet series
Aubrey- Maturin series
A Time of Gifts & Between the Woods and. the Water
Wolf Hall trilogy
The King Must Die & The Bull from the Sea

And from childhood but still loved:
Anything by KM Peyton
LM Montgomery Anne books
Gobbolino the Witches Cat

We need a Desert Island Books thread!

A fine balance. Rohinton Mistry

I've loved reading these posts.

I used to reread the Narnia Chronicles again and again.

I've reread the St Mary's Institute stories by Jodi Taylor two or three times - especially the first three

Some of those already listed (Sir TP is my comfort re-read, obv) , but I don't think anyone has mentioned Possession yet - that's one of the handful of books that I sped though and then had to read again straight away,

I used to reread the Narnia Chronicles again and again.

I loved reading all sorts of 'classic children's books' to DD (though I didn't bother with The Last Battle).

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara King solver

Rebecca by DDM

Oh my goodness - I loved this book and it comes to my mind often. Don’t think I could bear to reread though, just so unutterably sad.

Ones I have reread are A Place of Greater Safety, Hillary Mantel and The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy

I often go back to Sidartha by Herman Hesse and
The Prophet by Khalil Gibran. I've read Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt twice, partly because I couldn't remember all of it. And The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. And many others....

We need to talk about Kevin
Brideshead Revisited
The cider house rules
The shell seekers
Jane Eyre

I forgot Possession! I haven’t reread it in years, and now I want to immediately.

I'm going to have to stop opening these mumsnet book threads. Each time my tbr list grows enormously!

Foster by Claire Keegan

Another vote for the Maeve Kerrigan series by Jane Casey. With every re-read I spot something new about the crime plot and the sub-plot(s).

Great thread! So many to add to my list.

I find it hard to re-read too, the only books I've read more than a couple of times in adulthood are the Bill Brysons. There are just too many new books waiting to be read! Although I think I used to re-read as a girl/young teen because some of the classics I know inside out, Little Women, Little House on the Prairie series, Ballet Shoes etc. Also the James Herriot books.

So when I do re-read it tends to be after about a 20 year interval. In the last couple of years Persuasion, Anne of Green Gables, The Shell Seekers. I have just downloaded The Day of the Jackal (99p on Kindle today) as I was obsessed with Frederick Forsyth and the like as an older teen.

I've re-read The Count of Monte Cristo numerous times. As well as To Kill a Mockingbird.

My normally re-reads for those cold, wet, winter days are the "cosy" ones like Narnia, His Dark Materials

Oooh A S Byatt - the quartet is fab too the one that starts with the virgin in the garden

The Diary of a Nobody
I Capture the Castle
Jane Eyre
The Shell Seekers

Though I can’t forgive the Fridge Incident…😪

Another vote for Vanity Fair...read so many times.

Also "I don't know how she does it" by Alison Pearce.
I read it and recognized myself and cried...since have read it many times, as I have got older I recognize myself in the protagonist and wonder why on earth I felt /behaved like that...there is a sequel but it's not so good.

The Maddaddam trilogy by Margaret Atwood

@Regalia agree, awful. She writes so well though, you really feel as though you're in it.