Which books can you read again and again without getting bored?

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Mine are

Cat's Eye
Little Women
Harry Potter (Especially the last two)

Sherlock Holmes stories
William books
Bridehead Revisited
Lord of the Rings (though I do skip lots)
Arthur Ransome's books
The MIdnight Folk and The Box of Delights
Little Women and the rest of the series
Most of John Buchan, esp the Hannay books, Huntingtower, the Free Fishers
All of O Douglas's novels

I re-read books a lot

Lightshines - you are welcome to all of the flat toffees from our Quality Street this Christmas. I love your analogy re: Rebecca.

Effie - how did I forget "Brideshead revisited" - in fact: it's due for a re-read.

Sorry Bran - you are forgiven: have a flat toffee.

Terry Pratchett and PG Wodehouse for the way they use the language, the way they take the cliche (either of phrase or situation) & turn it into something new & funny.

To Kill a MockingBird for its perfect drawing of time, place and character.

Also Jane Austen, Nevil Shute, Antonia Forest, Arthur Ransome, Monica Edwards and the Narnia books for a return to childhood favourites,

Thanks janeite. I studied Austen at school, I wonder if I was using the correct spelling then. I think the English teacher would have corrected me if I'd got that wrong, although I was pretty lax about actually handing in my homework so perhaps she never saw me using the wrong spelling.

I answered a question on Persuasion in my Leaving Cert in which I may have mentioned the author's name, it's probably a bit late to be worrying about that now though, isn't it. Specifically, 24 years too late.

oh yes, PG Wodehouse - esp the short stories. 'Excelsior' still has me laughing on the zillionth read

'Fortunes Rocks' has some flat toffee moments as well!

My Cousin Rachel - Daphne du Maurier
Agree with Brideshead Revisited - though I skip the depressing bits

Any of the Susan Howatch series about the Church of England. I'm addicted to re-reading!

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Wispabarsareback, I love that CofE series! They are fabulous, aren't they? I just re-read the entire series for the umpteenth time late last year.

Good Omens - Terry Pratchett

Ooh I forgot Bill Bryson. I love his description of travellers Olympics.
Also forgot To Serve Them All My Days. I still cry at the sad bit even though I know it's coming. One of the best things about rereading is knowing when the boring bits are coming up and skipping them!
Have just started rereading the Jodi Picoult books too.

Captain corelli's mandolin, can read over and over!

Mary Wesley
H. E. Bates
Maeve Binchy(for when I'm feeling maudlin)

Anne of Green Gables

I have been re-reading James Herriot since I was little and never tire of them.

Jilly Cooper & Katie Fforde for when I don't want to think.

The Sheltering Sky

A town like Alice.

The Bible.

Stick Man, Room on the Broom, Snail on the Whale, (hate the Gruffalo though!).

Cold Comfort Farm! I return to it over and over again. Whenever we see a farm person doing something incomprehensible in a tractor, we nod wisely and say: "Oh yes, he's busy scranletting."

Dorothy Dunnett, particularly the Lymond Chronicles. I have re read them 5 times and still getting my head round the HOUGE plot!

Also Terry Pratchett, any of the guards or witches.

And also Chocolat, love reading that one around Easter.

I hate creepy books but Dracula is absolutely gripping. It terrifies me and I cannot put it down.

Cold Comfort Farm - fantastic. One of my favourite books, I always cletter the dishes, I just wish I had a twig to do it with . I am always quoting the end bit to DP - the bit which says like all really bossy women, she adored being told what to do.

I do reread all my children's books (I mean my books from when I was a child) but some just make me squirm now (e.g. Good Wives which I reread recently).

One of my favourite books is Evelina by Fanny Burney, very sharp stuff. Love Vanity Fair too. And any John McGahern book you could reread twenty times, slowly and marvelling-ly.

any Austen
any Balzac
any Robertson Davies
any Jasper Fforde

Cold Comfort Farm
To Kill a Mockingbird
Whit, Iain Banks
The Business, Iain Banks
The Speed of Dark, Elizabeth Moon

There are lots more