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?

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By grand Central station I sat down and wept

My ultimate comfort book Is The Secret Garden and I just bought myself the most gorgeous version when I was in Liberty last week.

The all souls books by Deborah Harkness I re-read quite a lot as well.

There is one by Maeve Binchy called Echoes which I read when I need to feel cosy and safe.

I'm a big re-reader.

I've read these multiple times since I was a teen:

All of the Norah Lofts novels - I re-read Gads Hall nearly every year
All of the Eva Ibbotson novels
Jeeves and Wooster novels
Agatha Christie
Some Maeve Binchy
Joanna Trollope
Anthony Trollope - my copies of some of them are falling apart - especially Barchester Towers and The Last Chronicle of Barset - oh and Can You Forgive Her?

There is nothing like opening an old familiar book, knowing how comforting it is going to be.

The Woman in White. Pacey page turner even tho I know exactly what happens next!

Wolf Hall. So believable.
From childhood, Ballet Shoes and the Gemma series. Read them so many times.

@AudiobookListener I find Cormac McCarthy's writing very beautiful. Even though his subjects are dark. It's almost got a biblical rhythm and definitely poetic. I wrote a thesis on it too!

"He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it."

I reread a lot - my internet is crap and insomnia means I need to read something on my kindle. Hence I go for books that are not too interesting that I can't fall back to sleep.

Wide awake I love books that had me so enthralled I missed my tube stop eg crime and punishment and a hundred years of solitude and those that disturbed me and were current to a younger me - Ian McEwan and Iain banks.

I’m a big re-reader - also listen to certain books on audio multiple times:
Sabriel series by Garth Nix
Jane Austen - usually reread or listen once annually
Jane Eyre - think I’ve read this about 10 times
Random Georgette Heyer when unwell - so comforting
Anne of Green Gables - also a comfort read
A suitable boy - have read it three times and could see myself doing so again, it’s so rich and dense I get more from it each time

Ooh and A Little Princess and The Making of a Marchioness by Frances Hodson Burnett - more comfort reads

We are book kindred spirits!

Oh What a Paradise it Seems by John Cheever

The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell

A Dance to the Music of Time
South Riding
Lots of others mentioned above.

Possession is another book I've read several times. A literary mystery and a romance, a bundle of rediscovered love letters, starts in a library - it's got everything.
Also, for everyone who lives du Maurier's Rebecca, there is Rebecca's Tale, a follow up written by Sally Beauman which is actually wonderful.
Also another recommendation for The House On the Strand (time travel, LSD,).

I've pressed the thanks button a lot, but I know I've missed some people, so thank you EVERYONE.

@Wendyway76, I’d recommend Rebecca West’s The Fountain Overflows trilogy for that same sense of sinking into a complete, brilliantly-evoked world — an Edwardian childhood in a shabby-genteel family in South London with brilliantly-vivid characters, child prodigies in music, a genius but neglectful father, poltergeists, a murder case, then WWI and after.

With the caveat that West never finished it, despite working on it for most of her life on and off, so the second two volumes were incomplete and put together posthumously, and one lingering mystery is never solved (apart from an editor’s note referring to West’s notes.)

I can never recommend it strongly enough.