What books do you re-read regularly?

[Snorerephron]

I've got some book vouchers that have been lurking in my wallet since Christmas, and I would like to use them to purchase a few books.

I mainly buy books second hand and pass them on, or get library books, as I have far too many books already. So if I am buying books I want to know they will be ones I am likely to read over and over again

So my question is what are your favourite books to re-read regularly?

(I like classics, literary novels, funny novels, good contemporary fiction)

I'd ideally like to get a few books but really beautiful editions of them -decent hardbacks

Harry Potter.

Read them all 3 times in English and twice in French

Terry Pratchett
Jeeves &Wooster
Lord of the Rings

I love these ones! I'd add Human Croquet - some very dark themes but told so brilliantly. It really turned me on to magical realism as a genre.

Love this book.

Love Human Croquet as well !

Green dolphin country

I capture the castle

My friend Flicka

A town like Alice

Gilead

Middlemarch

I like her other stuff as well - especially The Bone Setter’s Daughter

But I like the way mother and daughter have grown apart and how the discovery of her mums history and how that explains the things the daughter finds annoying about her mums history and family. Similar reasons why like Behind the scenes.

We all have different tastes in life

H P Lovecraft
Zola
Daphne Du Maurier
Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon
Idols of Perversity by Bram Dijkstra - I must have read it 100 times

Have you come across the Folio Society, @Snorerephron ? I think it works by subscription, but they produce really lovely hardback editions of the classics.

Also the Everyman collection- less artistically produced than Folio Society but really nice well-bound volumes.

Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen's Union.
Daniel Kahneman, Thinking Fast and Slow.
Jeffrey Bernstein, 10 Days to a Less Defiant Child.
Dorothy L Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey books.
Everything Donna Leon has written.
Pride and Prejudice.
Terry Pratchett, Making Money and Going Postal.

Blimey. I haven't read My Fiend Flicka for years, and it's on the shelf. Must dig it out.Also Thunderhead and Green Grass of Wyoming.

Rupert Everett’s autobiography ‘Red Carpets and other banana skins’
Moon Tiger - Penelope Lively
Phillipa Gregory (‘The White Queen’ got me through a bad breakup)
The Lives of Lee Miller - Anthony Penrose

I got Hunger Games on Audible from your post and I’m hooked!

My list is almost identical apart from Slow Horses. My Antonia Forest novels are falling apart I've reread them so many times.

Yes! My dad is basically addicted to folio society so I have bookcases full of their books . This is a rare chance to treat myself though although his taste is pretty good!

People have already said The Secret History and I Capture The Castle, but my other one I didn't see listed is 84, Charing Cross Road. Absolutely wonderful comfort reading.

And of course various Jilly Coopers, however old fashioned they are.

Most of Mary Wesley’s books and the Shell Seekers as recommended by many others

I reread them all last year. I absolutely adore them. They’re so peculiar and vivid.

I hardly re read (how do people have time for this?) but when I was younger - Jane Austen, Wodehouse, Adrian Mole.

I will add
love in the time of cholera
middlemarch

I’m surprised by people saying The Sea, The Sea. I found it unreadable!

The Bronze Horseman Paullina Simons
Wuthering Heights
Jane Eyre
Talking of Horses Monica Dickens

I spend chunks of my life bedbound. Reading is pretty much all I can do at those times.

Great to hear that! :) The books are very underrated in my opinion. The story has many levels.

Yes - forgot to say Mary Wesley. Brilliant comfort books.