These can be the books that bring you comfort or they resonate with you in a way a lot of books just don't.
Standalone:
- World without End by Ken Follet (This is part of a series but I love this book the most and have read it over and over by itself).
- Life after Life by Kate Atkinson.
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë.
- The Bel Jar by Silvia Plath.
- Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier.
Series:
- The Claudine novels by Colette
- Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson.
- The Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss.
- The Lord of Rings by Tolkien.
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I always end up reading *As I Lay Dying* at least once a year.
The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse. It’s a graphic book and it’s wholesome.
I will never end up having time to read all the books that I want to read, so re-reading them is something I mostly avoid. That said, there’s something special about reading The Dark Tower by Stephen King. The literary journey to get there is never quite the same on repeated trips.
Addendum: It is traditional in my home for me to read How The Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss out loud for my family on Christmas Eve. I greatly enjoy the opportunity each year.
Tbh, I’ve never re-read a book.
It’s not that I’m totally against it, it’s just that there are *new* books I would rather read.
One night the stars disappear from the night sky, what effect does that have on humanity?
That is the premise of Spin by Robert Charles Wilson.
I have read it so many times and always come back for the beautiful character work and scifi mystery. I would discourage people from reading the official descriptions online as they give 2/3 the plot away and a key part of the story is how the mystery slowly unravels.
Gravity’s Rainbow. I swear I’ll finish it…one of these decades
The Underworld Trilogy by James Ellroy
I think about the subject matter often and re-read them every few years.
The Underworld Trilogy by James Ellroy
I think about the subject matter often and re-read them every few years.
The book I have read the most is As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner. I have read it three times and plan to do so again soon
Generally anything Vonnegut. I try to read one of his books at least once a year. Mother Night is my personal favorite
Comfort books, Poirot, Lord of the Rings, Reacher.
If I start to hit a few books I didn’t enjoy, rather than let them put me off reading, I’ll pick a comfort book. Gormenghast, Potter, anything by Stephen King, and some one offs I liked as a teen but can’t recommend them to anyone, like On A Pale Horse.
– Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
– Possession by AS Byatt
– Affinity by Sarah Waters
– The Crystal Cave series by Mary Stewart
– Harry Potter series by JK Rowling
– Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
I dont re read books. I find comfort in new books
Tangerine by Edward Bloor
Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
Crash by Jerry Spinelli
The Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King
All are books that I read at critical points in my development that will forever be seared in my brain. I’ll never get rid of my copies of these books because they’re a part of me. I’m sure I’ll add more as time goes on, but these are the foundation
The Blue Castle by LM Montgomery. She wrote the Anne of Green Gables series and I have been reading this book since I was 8 or 9. I revisit it every few years.
As far as series, I’ve reread The Green Rider series several times and it’s my comfort series.
Pratchett. Yes, all of it, now that we have a little distance from his passing. Oddly, when i see no hope, i can get some from Nation.
(Nation, in the first 2 chapters, see’s a boy survive a tsunami that wiped out his island’s population. He’s got ptsd & has to figure out why to live. Sounds depressing, but face it there’s no where to go but up)
I’ve read *Pride & Prejudice* by Jane Austen and *Frankenstein* by Mary Shelley multiple times.
I also can’t get *Heartless* by Marissa Meyer out of my mind, and I can’t put my finger on what it is about it that resonates with me so much.