What books have you read twice?

Glad someone's as adept at the technology as me.

The books I reread tend to be my 'comfort' reads. Things like Jane Austen and Mapp and Lucia. Otherwise I prefer a new reading discovery. My DH is continually rereading his books, and as some of these are thriller types iI find that hard to understand. If there is a new volume of a series out like the Samson Sharlake series he will start at number 1 before he reads the new one!

Yes, I suppose I do reread some books again years later as original post said. When I have completely forgotten them or if they are a reading group choice. But my comfort reads are the ones I turn to time and time again.

The two Mrs Grenvilles I have read this several times and so has my daughter

I've re-read Gerald Durrell's ' My Family and Other Animals' (and the others in the series) so many times they've fallen apart.
Luckily they've been republished so I'm buying them again.

Truly unashamed laugh out loud nostalgia.

Lots of books I re-read as "comfort" books, usually humorous. I love Diary of a Nobody, Three men in a Boat, (and on the Bummel) Damon Runyon stories, Pickwick papers.
I also re-read Dr. Zhivago as the first time I kept getting the russian names mixed up.

I have reread Stephen King many times, have read everything he's ever written he's a genius but such a weird mind. Jane Eyre lots of times the first time I read it I was about 10 and was terrified, can't stand Jane Austen hardly finished some of hers once and that was only because I had to in school, so boring! All of Phillipa Gregory's series about the Tudors always find details I missed, am fascinated by this period in history. Also Topsy and Tim and Blackberry Farm first to my children and again to my grandchildren, all original books some of which are now out of print. My absolute favourites are the Chalet School books by Elinor M Brent Dyer

Going off thread here but I really miss Maeve Binchy's books can anyone recommend any other authors like her.Have read Little Women once as youngster then as "grown up " still a favourite

Recently, What the Ladybird Heard - many times
As a child, Black Beauty, Ballet Shoes, Bobsey Twins
I had a copy of novel about a woman in the U.S. who upped sticks and left her family when she received a small inheritance, to go off and buy a smallholding. It would come out when I too felt the urge to disappear. A friend enjoyed it so much, she hung onto it to read it again and it vanished into her huge collection. Don't remember the name or author!

What an amazing discussion. Am off to the library this week to try get some of these out. Some I've read before but so long ago I could definitely do with a re-read. I'd love to reread To Kill a Mockingbird before reading the new one.
tinaf1 I really enjoy Maggie O'Farrell's books which are sort of similar in style to Maeve Binchy - I love her books too. Otherwise, on the other end of the scale the other Irish woman who writes - oh, what's her name, she's famous! - Lucy O'Sullivan is getting Married etc. grr- if I remember I'll post again.
suzieq Ditto for What the Ladybird Heard! Many many times!

Thanks gammon will give Maggie O'Farrell a try

Just found this thread and had to add the Alice Munro stories. There aren't that many but they are so good.
Margaret Atwood of course- early ones. I have problems with the Oryx and Crake series.
Always preferred Alice Through the Looking Glass to A in Wonderland and still do.
I recently re-read The Alexandrian Quartet by Lawrence Durrell- I adored this when i was 19- not so sure now.

Harry Potter all seven of them. back to back through twice. several times.

Little Women.
Pride and Prejudice

Planning to read both of these again soon now I have reading glasses as they were cheap copies with small print.

I'm not diverting the thread honest but I'm wondering if any of you book lovers has an inkling about this book which was recommended to me when I was in Sicily. I know the name is On Proserpine's Isle and the author 's first name is Marietta . I couldn't read what they had written for the surname.
I can't add to this thread about books I read twice because I only read twice by accident either I haven't made a note of the title or it's a reprint with a name change. In the US I've pounced on books by a favourite author only to find that they publish in the US with a different title.

This could take a while! Austen, Dickens, Mary Stewart, Georgette Heyer, Dorothy L Sayers, McCall Smith (Mma Ramotswe, Scotland Street), J D Robb, Pat McIntosh (Gill Cunningham series), Maeve Binchey, the Sister Fidelma series, Ian Rankin, and so many more. I too am a fast reader and love going back to books I've enjoyed - they are truly old friends. I read the first chapter of 'Gone with the Wind' and was so fed up with Scarlett that I put the book away and I have never gone back to it or seen the film. Oh, all the Christies and Ngaio Marsh too.

I take most of my books to Oxfam, the PDSA or Scope once I've read them but my very favourites I keep and I have read these more than once:

I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb)
Driving in the Dark and Stolen (Deborah Moggach)
The Accidental Tourist, St Maybe, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (Anne Tyler)
Rebecca and My Cousin Rachel (Daphne du Maurier)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
The Orchard on Fire (Shena Mackay)
All Anita Brookner books
The Secret Self - Short Stories by Women

and many more.

When I read Black Beauty or Goodnight Mr Tom to my children (or grandson), I still found it difficult to read through the tears.

Leaving aside the children's books, I often go back to books I've read before. I've just re-read all of the Dorothy Sayers mysteries and last year it was all of Marjorie (sp?) Allingham. Now I'm on Ngaio Marsh. Apart from the ones I read every year, Austen, Dickens, Jane Eyre, The Mill on the Floss. I'm very fond of Vanity Fair as well. And most of Bennan's list as well!

Stansgran

Its On Persephone's island: by Mary taylor Simetti, an a 'Merican who married an Italian.

I too loved it and we went to Sicily as a result, lovely place..

To revert to OP I have recentlly re read Molly Kaye trilogy on her childhood in India.

I have a set of them here and a set in India, the time of the Raj on which may of her stories are set

I posted but everything shut down and disappeared. Thank you very much for that I'm off to google and order. You are very kind. I like MollyKaye and met her sister here as I believe they were family friends of a local GP . I also like Rumer Godden. She grew up in India.

If I re-read all the books I have enjoyed, would I have time to read all the new ones just waiting to be devoured?

Stansgran

We are lucky with 3 retirement homes nearby, with discerning readers, so the books come to the local charity shops@ £1 a pop.

I rarely buy new now, but Matthew Fort writes well on food in Sicily was bought online

Ariadne and night owl I still have my original copy of The Women's room and Bleeding heart. You've given me a nudge to read them again.

I still haven't re-read the Women's Room littlemissactive despite my 2013 post saying I would . But Bleeding Heart I find heartbreaking. It raised all sorts of questions for me when I first read it, and it still resonates in all sorts of ways.

If I had to write a list it would probably crash the internet - I rarely only read a book once , you get so much more form a second & subsequent reading.

You'dbe better off asking me what books I've only read once

Kate Mosse- Labyrinth, Sepulcre, Citadel/ Ken Follet- Pillars of the Earth; Many of Patricia Cornwell's - Im one of those people who love to re-read books and watch films time and again (as well as reading and viewing new ones). Some people just don't like doing this but I do.