Do you ever re-read a book?

I've also re-read Anita Brookner's A Closed Eye and Brief Lives. Throughout her books there is an air of melancholy and rarely, if ever, a conventionlly "happy ending" but I find them very real in characterisation and so poignant.

She died in 2016 and I often wonder if that ever-present sense of melancholy and stoicism was a reflection of her own life.

Because I speedread, I am happy to reread books, especially ones by Marian Keyes and Bill Bryson.
I’m always happy to read a Hercule Poirot murder!

My favourite book is 'Birdsong'by Sebastian Faulkes, the only book I have ever deliberately read more than once. I occasionally start a book and realise that I have read it before.

I re-read some of my favourites many times.
eg Pickwick Papers, 3 Men in a Boat/ on a Bummel, Diary of a Nobody, Short stories by I B Singer etc.
I intend to re-read Dr. Zhivago but haven't mustered up the energy yet.
I also love Chehkov's short stories, have them in various paperbacks, and re-read them often.

In the interest of full disclosure, I should say that I am rereading a book for my next book group meeting. Little Women.

We reread Jane Eyre last year, many of us for the first time since we were teenagers. It certainly takes on a different meaning when you're older and hopefully wiser.

I rarely re-read, but I have done so with the ‘Comoran Strike’ novels by Robert Galbraith (JK Rawling) - twice! They are so, so good

I too love "Goodnight Mr Tom" anniebach and it will be no chore - when my younger grandchildren are older - to read it to them again. There is one bit where I really had trouble reading it to my other grandson because I was so choked up.

I do reread books if I find a really good one . Anything by Annie Proux (not sure if that is the right spelling)
Pure by Andrew Morten is my go to when I need to get lost in a book , it is so well written and unlike anything I have read before . Any novel about old China ie Anna and the secret fan , all about being a girl , foot binding and marriage 100 +years ago . I tend to go for books which imo are well written rather than something which has a good story , I dislike romance and thrillers .

There is more to a book than the story. That is why any book I read, unless I really dislike it gets re read. For me Wuthering Heights was a one read story and I only read it once to get the English teacher off my back.

I almost never reread a book, not when there are so many others out there waiting to be enjoyed!

The exceptions are books for my book group when I may have read it previously and I need to freshen my memory.

One book I used to read again and again was The Loving Spirit by Daphne du Maurier. Despite that, I can't recall what it is about apart from fishing boats being involved!

I not only reread stories but I tell some well-learnt stories(particular novels and a particular film) to myself a way of getting to sleep.

I do read books again, sometimes several times. I know people say they remember the story from the first time so why bother but I say why not? You wouldn’t have one bit of cake and then refuse to eat it again because you can remember what it tasted like! If it’s a well written book then no doubt you’ll find things in it that you didn’t appreciate the first time round so it’s worth another go. I’ve a whole list of favourite books that I’ve enjoyed a second or third time round and no doubt I’ll keep adding to the list.

Gone With The Wind

To Kill A Mockingbird

Rebecca

Cry Freedom

Goodnight Mr Tom

Pride and Prejudice I have read more than once.? I have also read Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett twice, and I might read it again.

Yes, I'm much the same Charleygirl. A few months ago I accidentally re-read a Jojo Moyes book - well accidentally to begin with, but I realised about a quarter of the way in that I had read it. It was so good, though, that I was more than happy to finish it. Not the first time I've done that - once I got to within a few pages from the end before remembering I'd already read it (but it had been many years before )

I reread every novel I read many times and every time I notice different things.

First read tells me the story, second read I begin to understand the nuances and subtleties of the story, third time I start to appreciate the language, fourth time I notice subtleties in the plot I had missed before. After that, for books I really love: Jane Austen, I just enjoy rereading the book for the sheer pleasure of enjoying it yet again - and I keep discovering, things in it that have never struck me before.

I am currently doing a class studying 'Middlemarch' by George Eliot. I studied it at A level and have reread it a couple of times since (nearly 50 years), but reading it with a tutor who has us looking at the language used, how it varies, how the authors voice changes and so one is adding this book to one of those I am now going to be coming back to again, again and again, just to admire the craft of a superb writer.

Only if the brain has forgotten that I have ready it already! I am usually half way through when I stat thinking that this is familiar, I have read this before. I think it is called old age.