What books have you read twice?

Have just retread for the umpteenth time 'in this house of Brede'
I find it very uplifting when I'm down.
Think I'd like to join an Abbey!

Me too, anno! And most of Dickens and Hardy too. They are always there on the bookshelves, and on my Kindle, and such a pleasure to revisit. You can sort of sink into them.

All of Jane Austen, many times.

The ladybird well loved tales little Gingerbread man C 1979 edition. Times beyond count when DD was a bit over a year old it was her very favourite. I must try it on her son when he is a bit older.

I have re-read some Barbara Pym recently. I don't do a lot of re-reading though. Unless I get it from the library and about halfway through the book and come to realise I know it.

I'm about to start on Book 3 of Game of Thrones, A Clash of Swords.

Absolutely love them. Books you can "live" in.

I have read all Mary Stewart's novels (not the historical ones), including This Rough Magic, The Moonspinners, Wildfire at Midnight and Thunder on the Right, countless times - my paperback editions are now ripped and faded but to me they are matchless, even if written mostly in the late 50s and early 60s. Just the right blend of adventure, feisty girls, romance, and her descriptions of places and geographical details are brilliant. I blame the film (1966) The Moonspinners, starring Hayley Mills for getting me started on this author! (and I too love Greece, just like her)

I love the Song of Ice and Fire. I'm not I could read them again though, Oldgirl. It's all a bit grim. I hope he manages to finish it. Can't wait to find out what happens.

I read the Song of Ice and Fire series, George R R Martin, it is the Game of Thrones series on sky Atlantic. Since series 3 started I find I can't remember all the characters and plots so have started again.....6 very large books!

So right Absent and it can work bith ways. As a teenager I read 'Catcher in the Rye' and thought it wonderful. I tried to re-read it again a few years ago and just couldn't get past the first two chapters.

I agree that books can seem very different when read at various stages in life. I couldn't bear Henry James when I was a young woman and considered all his novels boring beyond belief. Many years after leaving university I grabbed a novel off my bookshelves on my way out of the door to catch a train and only once I was on my way to wherever I was going did I realise that I had picked up Portrait of a Lady. As it was a long journey, to my extreme annoyance I had no choice but to reread a Henry James novel. I was completely mesmerised and transported with pleasure. As soon as I got home again I read my way through his entire works.

Most of Daphne du Maurier books, as well as classics read in school such as Jane Eyre and Great Expectations. Three Men in a boat is much loved as also D H Lawrence's Women in Love. HE Bates Love for Lydia and Fair Stood the Wind for France.
Classics will always stand the test of time.
I enjoyed Trains and Boats and Planes by Killen McNeill so much that I read it again after a very short space of time & recommend it highly.

Agree with may of the above- To Kill a Mockingbird, Rebecca,

RF Delderfields Avenue Story, and Spring Madness of Mr Sermon
Neveille Shute- A Town Like Alice & On the Beach
Poldark Series - many times !
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a day - Winifred Watkins - dont judge it by the hideous film

If you like a laugh - Busters Diaries by Roy Hattersley = very funny and always worth a read. or Liz Jensen, My Dirty Little Book of Time

Ah yes, Aka. But I downloaded lots of the really cheap novellas and novels when I first got my Kindle. I tried to be organised and put the ones I'd read straight into an archive folder. Then when I had to replace my Kindle, everything from it downloaded onto the new one in one big folder, and I found myself re-reading most of them....

Maggiemaybe me too. But since I got a Kindle it now informs me that I've already downloaded a certain book. My reaction is always 'have I?'

As others have said, loads - usually only realising three-quarters of the way through that they're vaguely familiar. The worst is, I read lots of gory thrillers, and rarely remember who the murderer is, let alone the motive.

KatyK commiserations on your childhood. I remember Angela's Ashes as unrelentingly grim, and what I took most from the film was that it never stopped raining.

I reread Wuthering Heights after watching the recent film ,which I did not like-felt I had to recapture the story as it was written.

The Hobbit and The Wind in the Willows, several times with my DSs. Likewise the Elephant and the Bad Baby! I have taught 'Mockingbird' a number of times so obviously had to re-read it, and would never tire of it. I hope the same could be said of my students. Likewise Jane Eyre. I resort to Jane Austen in times of stress, particularly Persuasion. But there are so many new books to read...

I love re-reading favourite books - it's like putting an old, warm, much-loved cardy on! I've been re-reading Alice in Wonderland ever since I was a child, also Lord of the Rings at regular intervals. However, the books of Barbara Pym are the ones I turn to whenever I need cheering up, those and Terry Pratchett's Discworld series.

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I reread Terry Pratchett books a lot, particularly at bed time.

The Musician's of Bremen and the Fierce Bad Rabbit were the ones I had to read to children every night for about a hundred years.

Years ago, I read The Enormous Turnip, and Tess and the Magician endless times over to 2 of my grandchildren, they were their favourite stories.

numberplease....don't apologise.......it is all rather quaint and old fashioned.....like me!

I have read Angela's Ashes by Frank Mccourt a few times. It is a very harrowing account of Frank's poverty stricken childhood in Ireland. My own childhood was not dissimilar although not quite as bad as his, so I totally related to it.

I've read the Three Billy Goats Gruff hundreds of times. One day I'm going to change the ending and let that troll gobble up Big Billy Goat. I think they're cheating anyway and taking advantage of something with obvious learning disabilities. And as far as Little Red Riding Hood goes, if the wolf did eat her up then that would be a lesson in not talking to strangers. Finally Goldilocks ought to be charged with Breaking and Entering (though not necessarily in that order) and electronically tagged.

Middlemarch,
James Woodforde: the Diary of a Country Parson,
The Barchester and Palliser novels by Anthony Trollope
The Diaries of Samuel Pepys
The Old Wives Tale and the Grim Smile of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett