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In reply to the discussion: What book(s) do you reread over the years? [View all]More_Cowbell
(2,225 posts)20. Every year at Christmas I read the Domesday Book
By Connie Willis. She has another one in the same universe that I also really love, called To Say Nothing of the Dog (the title comes from the subtitle of Three Men in a Boat) and that one's more lighthearted, but this one really stuck with me.
(There are other books in the series, but these two are the best in my opinion)
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Novels of Dickens, the Brontes, L.M. Montgomery, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Edith Wharton, Jane Austen...
50 Shades Of Blue
May 2019
#2
All I can think of is Catch-22, Watership Down and a couple of Carl Hiassen's novels.
dameatball
May 2019
#9
Good for you! When my kids were early and pre-teen I talked them into reading Watership Down. They
dameatball
May 2019
#17
All the Harry Potter books, 'Wind in the Willows', and 'To Kill a Mockingbird'.
sinkingfeeling
May 2019
#12
Very, very depressing. Extremely well-written, but I could barely finish it.
bobbieinok
Jun 2019
#36
I read Native Son in HS. Yrs later I read Black Boy--it totally freaked me out.
bobbieinok
Jun 2019
#37
The Haunting of Hill House is the ultimate book of its genre. Scared me half to death!
Cousin Dupree
Jun 2019
#39
Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, The Politics of the Prussian Army by Gordon Craig
bobbieinok
Jun 2019
#35
I am not inclined to read books a second time as a general rule but here are the few I have reread
yellowdogintexas
Jul 2019
#48
american capitalism by galbraith. read it every 3 o4 years. also notes from underground.
Kurt V.
Aug 2019
#56