Books I Have Known, Read and Re-Read.

MissA saw the film Portnoys complaint way back in the 70's

pillars of the earth, read it at least three times

So many. As a child The Chalet School series. Even now I like to start at the beginning and read the series. Wind in the Willows, Arthur Ransome, Good Night Mr Tom (makes me cry) and others.
Older, I love Georgette Heyer, some Nevil Shute, Faye and Jonathan Kellerman books and Patricia Cornwell, though I’m getting rid of those now. Books by Manning Coles. My favourite rereads at the moment are by Jude Deveraux and Sarah Morgan-something gentler for relaxing.

Thank you for these. A few to be added to the TBR list, but I have read most of those mentioned, and they are either old favourites or ones I don't care for.
I am a great re-reader, and I think that there are particular qualities to books that you re-read regularly. For me, it's about immersing myself in a world.
Any Jane Austen
Harry Potter
His Dark Materials
Fourth Realm Trilogy (John Twelvehawks. I am re-reading at the moment "It doesn't matter what the truth is, only what you can get people to believe")
The Maisie Dobbs series by Jacqueline Winspear
The Moomin books
Wilkie Collins

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins - read and re-read this wonderful story 16 times and will doubtless read it again soon.

downtoearth

MissA saw the film Portnoys complaint way back in the 70's

Well, I never knew these was a film made.

How on earth did they put all that filth on screen?

I forgot Middlemarch.
And Jerome K Jerome’s Three Men In A Boat - surely one of the funniest ever.

I can read all about the exploits of Bertie Wooster and his man Jeeves over and over again.
A book I keep returning to is Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett. It's a really good murder mystery.
Others I've re-read over the years,
Pride and Prejudice
David Cooper field
Campbell's Kingdom
The Flight of the Heron trilogy.

That should read David Copperfield.

I read everything that came into the house as a teenager including everyone else's library books. I don't think I had time to reread anything.

My 'comfort' books now include all Georgette Heyer's books, 'The Sun in Splendour' by Sharon Penman, 'The Far Pavilions' and 'Shadow of the Moon' by MM Kaye, 'Notes from a Small Island' by Bill Bryson (in fact most things by Bill Bryson). And 'Wolf Hall' has joined them.

I've never been able to get on with Dickens or Trollope, or in fact a lot of the classics although I love Jane Austen but I know my taste changes so every now and again I get something from the library that I have never completed and give it another try.

I also have a load of travel books by a host of people like Pete McCarthy that I reread quite often as they can still make me chuckle.

so many lovely memories of books people have mentioned. Read Jane Eyre when I was about 10 in bed and not supposed to be , and was frightened by the mad woman and fire etc. Love Jane Austin, Anthony Trollope - not Joanna , but early classics I liked as a child were Children of the New Forest, and a very old book called Girl of the Limberlost, written about a girl who lives in I think, the everglades or similar and has to collect butterflies to raise the money to go to school. Of course , would not approve of killing butterflies now but it was an interesting book. Was into older books borrowed from family and friends until old enough to get into the adult library. For light reading Lillian Beckwith The loud Halo and the rest of the series and Alexander McCall Smith the No 1 Ladies Dectective Agency. Girl with the Pearl Earring, but for rereads I think Pride and Prejudice is always worth turning back to.How I enjoy disliking both Mr Slope and the awful Lady de Burg. (have met one or two such ladies in my life!)

Oh how could I have forgotten that vital book of my pony mad childhood Black Beauty by Anna Sewell!

Cutting for stone. Loved it so much I read it twice.

Several times over many years have I read and reread Little Women and its sequels.
I`ve also re read Alaska, by James A. Michenor. It`s quite a thick book, but it tells the story of Alaska`s development from the days of the mammoth until the present day. It`s a fascinating book.

Very rarely re read books, at least not on purpose, but many times I get a little way into a book and think "this seems awfully familiar" !!

I enjoy re-reading the Miss Read books. Not at all taxing, but easy to pick up and put down. I found them just the ticket during lockdown.
I re-read the Rosamund Pilcher books “September” and “Winter Solstice” quite regularly, too - the latter in the run up to Christmas.

This is a great book. Just saw it on the bookshelf today - time to read again

MissA his complaint was definitely well portrayed,for the life if me though cant remember who was in it

Ooh err, missus!
I honestly can't imagine a film. I'm not sure I want to!