Here’s an interesting topic (at least for a bookworm) I’ve seen on social media in the last week – the question of re-reading books you love. Do you, or don’t you? With so many books to read, why would anyone spend time reading something they’ve already read? You know the ending, so there’s no suspense, right?

For me, re-reading a favorite book is like curling up with an old friend. Even though my to-be-read list seems miles long, sometimes I want to revisit characters I love, and a story I know I can count on to give me a satisfying plot and ending. Though there isn’t an element of surprise, I often find little nuances in the story that I missed or had forgotten about when I re-read. For me, there’s comfort and pleasure in re-visiting familiar characters. I kind of miss them!

I have several books that I occasionally re-read.

Here are ten of them (in no particular order).

1. The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells.
2. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
3. Plainsong by Kent Haruf
4. Lake News by Barbara Delinsky
5. Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
6. Montana Sky by Nora Roberts
7. Paradise by Judith McNaught
8. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
9. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
10. The Mitford series by Jan Karon

Occasionally, I’ll even go waaaay back and read an old favorite from childhood like These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder. 🙂 And I always keep an oldie-but-goodie in my car for those periods of unexpected down time.

Do you re-read? What is your go-to book that you can always count on?