Do you ever re-read a book?

I have many favourite books.
Wind in the willows many many times!!!
All Terry Pratchet disc world novels
Lord of the rings and the hobbit.
I must be a big kid at heart.?

i have so many books and i prefer to buy them in a series. these i will read and reread many times always finding something new.
i have all sir terry pratchett's discworld series and couldn't tell you how many times i've read them.
i also have the roman series by simon scarrow, the alfred the great series by bernard cornwell and several others which also includes the harry potter series - all of which are good reads.
no need to visit a library as i've got my own.

The Book of EST by Luke Rhinehart. This is a reconstruction of the famous EST seminar created by Werner Erhard, a course which totally changed my life -when I get stuck in life and am hurting, I open this book and drink deeply of it's incredible wisdom in taking total responsibility for my life. Fabulous book, fabulous seminar.

The Land of Spices by Kate O'Brien - I have lost count of how many times I have read it!

I also read the Miss Read books if I am ill or convalescing - so restful.

I re-read Doris Lessing’s Golden Notebook a few weeks ago. I had loved it in the in the late 60’s when I first read it and I was first in love and it really spoke to me (!) but found it deeply irritating and rather boring this time round. Didn’t finish it!

I have favourites that I re-read over and over again, for the stories they tell, the wonderful writing, the characters:

The Forsyte Saga - John Galsworthy
I Capture The Castle - Dodie Smith
The Church of England Novels - Susan Howatch
The Cicero Trilogy - Robert Harris

Louise Penney's Inspector Gamache novels, set in Quebec, are fast becoming firm favourites too.

I re-read loads! Including recently Lucky Jim, and several of Barbara Pym and Anita Brookner.
Others I've re read more than once over the years include all the Palliser series (Trollope), his Barchester Chronicles, all of Jane Austen, except Mansfield Park - never did care for that one - and many others too numerous to mention.

No wonder our bookshelves are all stuffed! Though I do take a lot - the ones I don't love enough to keep - to charity shops.

Sometimes its been so long that the novel is virtually new again. I once re read A Clergyman's Daughter (George Orwell) after what must have been 30 odd years.

I re read a couple of neville Shutes books a few decades ago and I do fancy visiting them again. Generally I don’t re read books. I don’t keep them either. Once read they can go. Just as well because I’ve got around 70 and 20 on kindle waiting to be read. I really hate to lower the tone (a lot of you read the classics) but Ive read the Godfather three times, pure escapism.

What a good anology mollie. It made me giggle!

sar53 Birdsong (Sebastian Faulks) is my all time favourite too. Though I haven't enjoyed his other books as much.
I've re-read many favourite books over the years - lots of the ones mentioned here.
They become different books every time strangely!

I never re-read a book. I give them to charity shops as soon as I've finished them. However I recently came across my copy of Ballet Shoes which I loved as a child. I'm thinking of reading it again to see why I loved it.

As a Georgette Heyer fan, I've read most of her books several times, and still laugh out loud at the humour.

I never have time to re-read books as there are so many others out there just waiting to be read. I always carry a book. I have a kindle but it just isn't the same as flicking those lovely pages!

I will revisit an excellent book...why wouldn’t you.? How can anyone NOT go back for a second bite of Bill Bryson’s ‘Note From a Small Island’...read it...you’ll howl with laughter. Nothing much in my life makes me laugh anymore...but this book. Wow.

I rarely re-read a book because there's always an new one to be discovered.

I've read Charles Dickens books several times and I just love reading Life of Pi. Also Daddy Longlegs was a favourite when I was a child and I reread it recently and still enjoyed it.

Daddy longlegs! I read that when we were on holiday when I was a teen. it was on the bookshelf of the holiday cottage. I'd like to read it again.

There is one book I loved and read again and again, regret giving it away, but the title was something like the potato pie jersey club, can’t remember, if some one knows what I mean please remind me.
Set after the 2nd world war in the Channel Islands.

I think it is ' The Guernsey Potato peel Society' Sheilasue

Captain Corelli - read it loads of times. Most of Thomas Hardy. Me Before You- Jojo Moyes. Tolkien.
Actually I re-read a lot of books. it is like meeting up with an old friend. Now they are all on my Kindle I don't have sagging book shelves to worry about either.

Gosh Eloethan, you sound just like me. In fact I could have written your post right down to A Secret History being my favourite book!!

I'm re-reading the Poldark novels at the moment. Up to book 9 so far ...
I keep all my Marian Keyes, Bill Brysons and Maeve Binchys to re-read and do so probably every couple of years.

I so agree with you, MOnica. I re-read Middlemarch every time I had a baby (3 times, in the days when they kept you in bed longer...) and have just finished listening to the wonderful Juliet Stevenson reading it on Audible - all 35 hours of it! And now ditto with Daniel Deronda. And have recently joined the George Eliot Society. What an amazing woman!

I re-read books and cannot let go of any book I have really loved. I have two favourites by the travel writer Dervla Murphy, one is called Full Tilt about cycling from Dublin to India which had been a childhood dream. The other is Where The Indus is Young about a 3 month trip with her 7 year old daughter. (She is an unmarried Irish mother). Has anyone else read any of her books.

Don’t often re-read by choice but do often re-read when I don’t remember until I’m part way through, then I’ll have to continue and enjoy.
Every time there is a thread like this you ladies mention lots of books I haven’t read, I list them and place my order. Half a dozen more on the list this morning, thank you.