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  1. February 4th, 2012, 07:54 PM #1
    AnyDream
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    Books that are so good you read them more than once

    What books have you read that you loved so much you've read them more than once?
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  2. February 4th, 2012, 08:05 PM #2
    HotI
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    Jessica by Bryce Courtenay
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  3. February 4th, 2012, 08:09 PM #3
    Nai
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    Pride and prejudice
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  4. February 4th, 2012, 08:10 PM #4
    Phteven
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    Pride and Prejudice (Any Jane Austen really but P&P is her best work)
    Anything written by Bill Bryson
    War and Peace
    Anna Karenina
    All of the Tales of The Otari books
    Vanity Fair
    Memoirs of a Geisha
    The Help
    The Tale of Murasaki
    The Elegance of the Hedgehog
    The Count of Monte Christo
    My Friend Flicka

    I tend to re-read books I enjoy so I could go on all night....
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  5. February 4th, 2012, 08:16 PM #5
    ~~Snoogans~~
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    Who's In The Loo - Jeanne Willis

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  6. February 4th, 2012, 08:23 PM #6
    PumpkinZulu
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    All of the Hitchhikers Guide books.
    Harry Potter.
    Shantaram.
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  7. February 4th, 2012, 08:26 PM #7
    Traveller
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    Sense and Sensibility
    Gone With The Wind
    Jane Eyre
    All the Harry Potters
    Animal Farm
    Oliver Twist
    Christine
    Carrie
    The Stand
    in fact any of the older Stephen King books
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  8. February 5th, 2012, 12:16 AM #8
    Jubear
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    The Harry Potter Series
    The Obernewtyn Series
    The Sookie Stackhouse Series
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  9. February 5th, 2012, 04:44 AM #9
    Arcadia
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    Anything by Jane Austen
    The Forsyte saga
    Rebecca by Daphne de maurier
    The obernewtyn series by isobelle carmody

    I like rereading books that really consuming and escapist from the issues of here and now, so they always seem like a safe haven, especially since I know what's going to happen.
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  10. February 5th, 2012, 05:04 AM #10
    Bumperstump Cummerbund
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    Earth
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    Memoirs of a Geisha
    The Readers Digest condensed books - Mum has a heap of them
    Anne of Green Gables series
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  11. February 5th, 2012, 08:27 AM #11
    Mother Goose
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    The girl with the dragon tattoo...and the following books
    The memory keepers daughter
    Homecoming
    House rules
    Sing you home
    My sisters keeper
    Handle with care
    The post mistress
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  12. February 5th, 2012, 12:22 PM #12
    Kimbles01
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    Jane Austen
    Tomorrow series
    Harry Potter
    Gone With The Wind & Scarlett
    And for fun, light hearted...
    Anything by Melanie La'Brooy (a great Aussie author with a sense of humour I adore...although I can't read her books in bed as I laugh too much, shake the bed and wake DH up!!)
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  13. February 5th, 2012, 10:49 PM #13
    Loveinamist
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    Most of Jane Austen
    All of the Anne of Green Gables series
    Falling Angels by Jane Chevalier
    Gone with the Wind
    The Winthrop Woman
    Anything about the Tudors, Anne Boleyn etc so most of Phillipa Gregory's books
    A Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
    The Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder
    Harp in the South
    The Larkrise to Candleford series
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