What books have you read twice?

My bookshelves are full of books I mean to read again, but there's always something new to read, a new author to try, and my 'to be read' pile is always growing! But I have read all Jane Austen several times and some of Dickens. Have you ever started reading a book and suddenly realised you've read it before?

Too many to mention all, but besides the classics (obvoiusly), these are a few I read over and over and always find something new to admire about the language, style, structure, plot, characters or ideolology (of the author and/or characters) .......

The Lacuna -- Barbara Kingsolver
Prodigal Summer -- Barbara Kingsolver
The Bone People -- Keri Hulme
Half of a Yellow Sun -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Highland River -- Neil M. Gunn
The Silver Darlings -- Neil M. Gunn

So many lovely books. What a pleasure it is to read them again.

I do enjoy picking up Miss Garnet's Angel by Salley Vickers for another read.
Always seem to find something new in it, another aspect.

Jane Austen. I had a boxed set of. Her books andreadthem over Andover. Sadly I've mislaid them after a few house moves.

Heritage by Abba Eban, history of the Jews , fascinating book,

Behind the Scenes at the Museum, by Kate Atkinson is my very favourite book and has been read many times. Also anything by Margaret Forster, who has sadly died.

All of Anita Shreve and Barbara Trapido
Frost in May by Antonia White
Anything by Vita Sackville West
All of Elizabeth Berg
We need to talk about Kevin Lionel Shriver
Saturday Ian McEwan
A lot if Emile Zola
Most of Bill Bryson some three times
Suite Francais Irene Nemirovsky
Anna Karenina went off her on the second reading.
Handmaids Tale Margaret Atwood. Creepy
A lot of Anita Desai
Never Let Me Go Japanese writer, can't remember
Snobs Julien Fellows
Joe Simpsons Mountaineering books
Jane Austin, everybody loves her
Too, too many more. My brain aches!

Love epic poems too. The charge of the light brigade, The lady of shallot etc
Favourite weepy poem The Highwayman.

The biography of Whoopi Goolberg absolutely love it and so hilarious. I bought in 1999 and still the funniest book I ever read. The book has no title just the pretty face of Whoopi

I read Flora Thompson's Lark Rise to Candleford several times, until I lent out my copy and didn't get it back! The TV series a few years ago was a great disappointment though.

I've read Lord of the Rings several times, also Jane Eyre and a book called 5 Smooth Stones.

Left off my to read again list "Life After Life" "Behind The Scenes at the Museum", "Atonement" and many of sadly departed Margaret Forster's and Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine's.

I read many of my childhood books twice, probably because I'd run out of books and would be waiting for the next one, but I remember reading many of them over and over, I hated being without a book, I still do. Among those would have been both the Alice books, Wonderland and Looking Glass, "Wind in The Willows", "The Water Babies", "Heidi", "What Katy Did" and umpteen Enid Blytons and as a teenager "Gone with the Wind". Now I'm in the lucky position to have lots of books lined up to read but if I didn't, I would revisit some of my best reads of the last few years, such as "Star of the Sea", "Middlesex", "The Blind Assassin", "The Crimson Petal and The White" and the "Poisonwood Bible" to name but a few.

All of Mary Renault's Alexander trilogy, and her Theseus novels 'The Bull from the Sea' and 'The King Must Die'. I've read and re-read them all over the years. I am set to have the same love affair with the books of Manda Scott.

The Lewis Trilogy by Peter May and just about to start for a third time .....

Rosamund Pilcher's "The Shell Seekers" and Maeve Binchy's books- all of them, numerous times. So sad that both of these ladies have passed away. I actually read most of the books in my library several times because I usually don't remember the endings
Best thing about being retired is that I can read as long as I like at night and not have to worry about the alarm clock going off in the morning.

Thanks Pat ! yes I liked the film too. The shipping news was also made into a film and that was brill and very well cast x

The Rainbow by DH Lawrence. I love the richness of the language but I don't always get what he is telling us. One day I will really understand it.

F77. The Accidental Tourist was written by Anne Tyler. The film version was good too.

Goodness knows how that happened!

All Jane Austen, more than twice; Middlemarch; Jane Eyre; The Wind in the Willows; Dorothy L Sayers's Lord Peter Wimsey detective stories; Steinbeck's Travels with Charely; quite a lot of Graham Greene. And any book I've had to teach, such as To Kill a Mockingbird, The Grapes of Wrath.

All Jane Austen, more than twice; Middlemarch; Jane Eyre; The Wind in the Willows; Dorothy L Sayers's Lord Peter Wimsey detective stories; Steinbeck's Travels with Charely; quite a lot of Graham Greene. And any book I've had to teach, such as To Kill a Mockingbird, The Grapes of Wrath.

All Jane Austen, more than twice; Middlemarch; Jane Eyre; The Wind in the Willows; Dorothy L Sayers's Lord Peter Wimsey detective stories; Steinbeck's Travels with Charely; quite a lot of Graham Greene. And any book I've had to teach, such as To Kill a Mockingbird, The Grapes of Wrath.

I just loved PURE by Andrew Morton and have read it 4 times ! Set in 17C Paris it is the story of the main characters attempts to re locate the Graveyard which is so full of bodies it is poisoning the air . A truly wonderful and unusual read .

The Five year diary by Bernice Rubins

The Shipping News by Annie Proux

The accidental Tourist ( can`t remember the author )

Silas Marner and Pride and Prejudice

I can't stop reading The Lady in the Van!