What are your comfort reads - books that you can read over and over again?

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You know, those books that you have been reading for years, have old dog-eared copies of and will pick up when there is nothing new that takes your fancy.

Mine are:

Almost anything by F. Scott Fitzgerald, but especially The Beautiful and Damned.

Betty MacDonald - The Egg and I etc

Nancy Mitford Pursuit of Love, Love in a Cold Climate etc

J. D. Salinger Catcher in the Rye

Cold Comfort Farm

If I'm anxious etc I have to read something like Bill Bryson or Wind in the Willows.

Jane Eye
Rebecca
Harry Potter
Anne of Greengables
Little Women

I haven't read the Chrysalids in ages,but read it several times

I have only read the No1 ladies Detective Agency series once but could imagine reading them again.

Jane Austen
Little Women
Anne of Green Gables
Harry Potter
The Mapp and Lucia books by E.F Benson
A Christmas Carol by Dickens
Silas Marner by George Eliot.

Christine by Stephen King.

I have read it dozens of times and it still never ceases to thrill me! It's much better than the film they made of it.

Oh yeah I like Carrie by Stephen King too!

another one for Cider With Rosie......and also for A Christmas Carol which i have read every December for the last 8 years, but have been known to read in the middle of summer too when my mood needs lifting.

Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones, Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl and a collection of Sherlock Holmes.....

The Compleet Molesworth
The Blue Door series - Pamela Brown
Little Women

Sorry if I am repeating anyone but here goes..

Pratchett (Guards or Witches)
St Clare's (ah Mamzelle Abominable!)
Daddy Long Legs
Ballet Shoes
Toast (Nigel Slater)
Little Women
To Kill A Mockingbird
Darling Buds of May
Rebecca
Adrian Mole
Harry Potter
Any Jasper Fforde
Cold Comfort Farm

Feel like tucking myself up in bed and reading them all back to back now...

Anne of green gables
Time and time again

Rebecca

Love love love it!