What books have you read twice?

Sorry, but I remember giving Lord Peter Wimsey a go years ago, found him very boring.

Flickety, nice to see another Lord Peter Wimsey fan!

Yes! no fan of Madame Bovary, especially when we had to study it in French- so tedious.Have re read Silas Marner and love the image of the child with the golden curls - it's my grandson! I love Thomas Hardy too.

Flickety B I'm glad you said that about Madame Bovary, I hate it with a passion!
I read everything I like twice or any number of times actually.

I almost always read books more than once, unless they are so harrowing I cannot face another read, 'To Kill a Mocking Bird' and 'Schindler's List' fall in that category. Or I found the characters/plot so irritating I couldn't face reading them twice, both Madame Bovary, Wuthering Heights fall in that category

Authors I read again and again and again include Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Anne Bronte, Anthony Trollope, Georgette Heyer, John Buchan, and Dorothy Sayers.

I have recently re-read all the "Herries" books by Hugh Walpole and Howard Springs "Shabby Tiger" & "Rachel Rosing". I have all the Poldark novels lined up to read again next!!

Oliver Twiist David Copperfield, Jane Eyre, Rebecca, To Kill a Mockingbird and many more. There are just some books that are like old friends and you want to visit them, time and time again.

'The Bean Trees' and 'Pigs in Heaven' by Barbara Kingsolver.
I'd read them again but I've lent them and can't track them down.

Silas Marner by George Eliot and Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy!!

Nellie, agree with you about Wild Swans, its quite an emotional ride yet satisfying in its way - there is a sort of resolution and you feel at peace with it. I loaned my copy (always silly) never got it back and can't remember who had it!

Wild Swans is still one of my favourites. It's not a happy yarn but the depth of understanding it gives to China's recent history is amazing.
My then teenage DS stayed up half the night not able to put that one down.
Historical factual and totally engrossing; the sign of very good writing.

Books I have read before? Those I have already had out of the library and only about half way through realise I have read before.

flower oh yes, I have read that one a lot too - another book that opens one's eyes.

Have reread all the John Grisham books

TYPO: Meant WILD SWANS!!!

White Swans, was transported to China and couldn't put the book down.

Any Hamish MacBeth, very easy reading and amusing

Thats's Not My Truck!!!!

A Kind of Loving - Stan Barstow
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Most of Anne Tyler's earlier books
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
I Know This Much is True & She's Come Undone - Wally Lamb

London a Biography by Peter Ackroyd totally absorbing.
I have read "Going on a Bear Hunt" (Michael Rosen) so many times for grand daughter Amelie, I know it by heart but they are wonderful words.

Quite a few - sometimes I even remember that I have read them before.

The lion, the witch and the wardrobe
The magic faraway tree.

Several times for myself, several times to my children and umpteen times to children in my classes at school

All of Jane Austen's books - except the little stories and the unfinished one, Sanditon.
Great Expectations. Dombey and Son. Christmas Carol ( I read it every year in the week before Christmas)
Jane Eyre
Most of the Morse books
All of the 'Lord Peter Wimsey' books - yes I never mind knowing who did it!
But I didn't want to re-read the Wallander ones knowing how they worked out - funny that.

number me too!

nightowl no I haven't, but I will! Also "The Officers' Wives" - Sam sort of thing, and I was one, so it really resonated.

I have reread most Charles dickens novels, the hobbit and the lord of the rings also. I have lost count of how many times I have read where,s spot and dear zoo !!!!!!!!!!! x

I agree about 'The Women's Room' Ariadne. I still have my copy and it's overdue for a re-read. Have you read 'The Bleeding Heart' by the same author? That is a book I have read many times and I get far more from it now than I did when I first read it 30 years ago. It makes me cry every time.

I re-read Little Women, Good Wives and Little Men recently, last time I read them, several times over, I was about 11 or 12. I found them just as enjoyable this time around. Have also read Tom Sawyer a couple of times.

So many great ideas to pick up and read, or read again. When my sister died last year, she left me a few precious items, but the gift that she knew would mean everything to me, as it had to her, was her entire collection of Daphne Du Maurier's books. I've got Frenchman's Creek on my dressing table to read next, and enjoyed Rebecca a few weeks ago. I never tire of reading such lovely books.