What's your 'comfort' book?

[ali_kat]

You know the one, that one you turn to when feeling low, or happy, or just love to re-visit time & time again, like a best friend? It ages with you, you have no regrets about still loving it, and how did you meet it?

Mine is The Little White Horse, Elizabeth Goudge.

Mum gave me her copy when I was about 5/6, she had been bought it for Christmas by her neighbour when she was that age, it's a first edition (but worthless to anyone but me!)

[jjones]

The Colditz Story + Colditz the Latter Days

[Halmyre]

The Lord of the Rings, possibly, although I actually threw out my battered three-volume paperback copy to stop me reading it again (I also did the same with Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy). After being force-fed The Hobbit in English classes at secondary school, I was put off TLOR for years until someone assured me I'd enjoy it a lot more.

[gforceg]

The Catcher in the Rye and To Kill a Mockingbird. Both utterly timeless and brilliant. I'm also happy re-reading a few from Steinbeck and Amis.

[Kateg28]

gforceg said:

The Catcher in the Rye and To Kill a Mockingbird. Both utterly timeless and brilliant. I'm also happy re-reading a few from Steinbeck and Amis.

Mine is to kill a mockingbird. Adore that book.

[Nom de ploom]

A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson cheers me up no end - I dip in and out of his books regularly.

I like to re-read Chaos by James Gleik as well every now and then, along with Cosmos and The Demon Haunted World by Sagan.

the latter serves well to remind me that I am - more often than not, surrounded by numpties.

[LordHaveMurci]

The Wind in the Willows.

[VeeDubBigBird]

The Night Watch (Discworld series), still my favourite of the lot and enjoy every word, even though i know it inside and out now.

[BlackST]

Harry Potter. First books I started reading 13-14 years ago.
Take me back to when I was a young child, when there was quite a bit of change in my life.

[SilverSixer]

Stephen Fry's 'Making History'.

Moscow 2042 by Valdimir Voinovich.

And "USSR: From an Original Idea by Karl Marx" - Russell Taylor and Marc Polonsky.

[jinkster]

The Naked Trader - how to make loads of dosh!

[Ace-T]

I have a few:

The Sherlock Holmes stories.
LOTR
Altered Carbon/Broken Angels/Woken Furies
Magician/Silverthorn\A Darkness at Sethanon
As per a poster above the Pratchett Nightwatch series up to Thud
The Dresden Files

I read quickly

[DUMBO100]

I just read Lord of the Flies for the first time in 25 years, it was actually a very well written book and a good story but I didn't appreciate it when I was at school

[LargeD]

Catch 22 is probably my favourite book - it took me 3 or so attempts to get in to it originally, but I've since re-read it countless times and love it more each time. My copy's fallen apart now though, which is forcing me to branch out to other books, or buy it for the Kindle....

I also love Carl Sagan's Cosmos - it's what science at school should have been, in my opinion.

[55palfers]

Good Omens - Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman

[Seti]

Any of the Wilbur Smith 'Courtney' books. I've lost count of how many times I've read them now. I appreciate it's not Dickens but they're very readable.

[Rayy]

The Five People You Meet in Heaven, by Mitch Albom. Just lovely.

[LordGrover]

None really - I find it quite difficult to re-read novels, let alone call them a 'comfort'.
I like to find series which will last me a while, 6+ books back to back is comforting in a way. Consistent anyway.

[Fishtigua]

Anything by Tom Sharpe, always makes me laugh. Also enjoy the two autobiographies by David Niven, I once read one cover to cover while soaking in the bath.

[LargeD]

55palfers said:

Good Omens - Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman

I bought this earlier today in my bid to diversify my reading, looking forward to it.