Do you ever re-read a book?

SheilaSue Did you know that the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society is coming out on film - this summer, I think?

inishowen, your Ballet Shoes comment reminded me that last summer I found a complete set of theMalory Towers books on a charity stall. Well ... I had to, didn't I? Took me right back to my childhood. I loved those stories and so-o wanted to be Darrell.
Should point out though that re-reading them and, knowing what I know now about how to write a good story, I realise that they weren't that well-written - lots of repetition and over-use of the word 'said'. Still I enjoyed a good wallow in the past.
Now I'd love to find a set of the Chalet Girl Series by Elinor Brent-Dyer.

The whole of the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon.

If you have Amazon Prime the first 3 series are available and they are very true to the books. In fact I might start rewatching the series too. You can’t get too much of a good thing.

Tulip Fever Deborah Moggach
Mum's List. St John Greene

I rarely read a book or watch a film twice. I just hate to already know what's going to happen. There are exceptions. Old films or maybe a book I'd read many many years earlier. But hubby can watch the same film several times. And been in the throes of re-reading his Terry Pratchet collection.

I re-read books for two reasons. 1. It's been so long I've forgotten a lot of the story and 2. You can often get more out of a book the second time around.

I have been known to re-read a book but not often

I loved Dervla Murphy’s books which I read many moons ago. I particularly liked ‘ Where the Indus is Young’. Must get a copy to reread. What a a lady, travelling independently and with little luggage apart from her bike!

I've re-read many, many, books, many, many, times. I'm such an avid reader, and a fast one, that acceptable authors don't churn out new ones fast enough for me. I shall certainly still be re-reading the Discworld novels until I physically can't (and I've read most of them at least half a dozen times each!) Quite often if a new book in a series I've enjoyed comes out, I'll re-read the others from the beginning in order to prolong the pleasure.

I agree Peardrop-more on my 'to read' list from here now.
My go to favourite is Marcel Pagnol's trilogy about his childhood-I'm pretty sure you can get it in English. Just gorgeous.
Was sick of hearing about Homer's Odyssey on University Challenge so thought Mmm why not have a go? It's 24 books! Lol!
Like the time I ordered Victor Hugo's Les Miserable from local library when musical first came out. It was 4 books of the smallest print! And at a time when I was working and raising DDs too-had to take those back!

All the time.

The one that I reread most as a young teenager was Flowers for Algernon.
Now I reread my books when I have nothing else to read. My eyes get tired very easily so that I can't read as much as I used to so I am not even getting around to reading new books.

Just written out list of books recommended here-43 books and some of them series! Better get started!
Thank you all for your contrbutions.

Yes. I often re-read after some years. When I was a child I would read again straightaway if I liked the story! My all time favourite then was ‘All the Mowgli
Stories’ An unabridged anthology from Kipling’s Jungle books. I was given it as a 9th birthday present and I adored it. I fell in love with Bagheera ( directly responsible for my later taste in men?) and cried at his parting with Mowgli.

Not usually. I might start re-reading one but then the story comes flooding back and I stop.
The only book I have enjoyed reading cover to cover several times is The Alchemist - Paulo Coehlo. Parts of it touch me deeply. It reminds me of the song Nature Boy.

My all time favourite 'Jane Eyre' never disappoints and I've re-read it a few times, likewise 'Coming up for Air' by George Orwell.
I loved the film 'Random Harvest, which is a great old B&W weepie and longed to read the book. When I eventually tracked it down I have to say that I was a bit disappointed as the film-makers had changed many details and even wrote the book from another point of view.

OurKid1, the Malory Towers series and The Chalet School series were also my favourites when I was a girl, together with The St Clare's stories. Very dated now but how I loved them then.

I've been decluttering slowly, and I started with the books. So I have very few on my shelves now, but the ones I have I can pick up anytime. The Harry Potter series. The Lord of the Rings series. The Wind in the Willows. Several Dan Brown (am reading his latest, Origin. It doesnt disapoint). Yes to Annie Proulx.

I read Lord of the Rings as a teenager and seem to recall it took me forever. However, when the Peter Jackson trilogy was announced I thought I should reread it first before seeing the films and was surprised at how quickly I skipped through it.

I'm quite a Sci Fi fan so reread my favourite book every decade-the End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov. It has such a clever ending and, although I do know it by now, I still enjoy the book.

My favourite book from long ago was I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith.. I have read it several times, my daughter and granddaughter loved it too.

As I child I re-read many of my books......Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women", "Eight Cousins", "Jo's Boys" "Little Men" etc. Then there was "Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain (aka Samuel Clemens) "The Secret Garden" by Frances H Burnett, "Ballet Shoes" by Noel Streetfield, "Red Curtain Up" by Beryl Gray and "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville.

As an adult, I've also revisited "The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexander Dumas, Leon Tolstoy's "Ana Karenina" and "The Godfather" by Mario Puzzo

Recent re-reads have been "The Alienist" by Caleb Carr (in anticipation of upcoming series) and Ken Follet's "Pillars of the Earth" (ditto for series). I also go back to "Game of Thrones" (George Martin) from time to time, but mostly to sort out certain characters and events.

Has anyone read one of my favourite books - ‘A Little Life’ by Hanya Yana.... At 750 pages it would take some stamina to re-read, even though it was brilliant!

Yanagihara. Just Googled it! Don’t you love how Google has become a verb?

Do I re-read a book?
All the time.
That is why I have four bookcases and counting.

I only keep books that I know I will want to re-read! Some of them are old friends and re-reading Jane Austen, Dorothy L. Sayers, Dornford Yates, etc. etc. is just like meeting old friends again. My oldest book-friend is the bear with very little brain, aka. Winnie-the- Pooh and I have had my copy since long before I could read. I have no recollection of being given it, but I do remember Daddy reading it to me when I was four, but that was not the first reading of it.