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Listopia > Hoyadaisy's votes on the list Books You Happily Re-Read (97 Books)
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Pride and Prejudice
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"Minimum of annually. Holds up no matter how many times I've also watched the Colin Firth/Jennifer Ehle series."
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Sense and Sensibility
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"Bi-annual."
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Mansfield Park
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"Every five years or so."
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Lucky Jim
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"Every year when I'm really bummed. Laugh my ass off."
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Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
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"I end up reading this series every couple of years. It never gets old."
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Leaves of Grass
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"Good when you're happy. Good when you're sad. I have a bedroom copy, an office copy, a downstairs copy, and I even had a car copy at one time (for picnics)."
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Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes
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"For sheer joy. My kids used to call this "the book that makes Mommy laugh.""
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When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
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"I read it a couple times a year. I've even gotten a tiny copy for my purse. The BEST if you're suffering."
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Barchester Towers (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #2)
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"Again, for funny."
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Pomfret Towers (Barsetshire, #6)
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"A young girls first country house party. Described with perfect tenderness. Mhm."
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Summer Half (Barsetshire, #5)
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"Totally British laughs at the foibles of school boys and masters."
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A Room of One’s Own
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"To remind me why I love writing."
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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"It totally holds up, and it's short."
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The Long Winter (Little House, #6)
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"I read it every winter. During a terrible winter without power for days, we read it by candlelight. Felt all suffering pioneer-ish, but of course we had lots of canned goods and weren't going to die."
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rated it 5 stars
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Waiting for Godot
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"Maybe 10 times a year. My pre-teen daughter and I like annoying the rest of the family with the absurd dialogue."
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Antony and Cleopatra
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"Love saying all the totally manipulative Clepatra lines."
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rated it 5 stars
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King Lear
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"The play that yields more no matter how many times you've read it. "
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The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
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"Miss Marple never grows old, and I think this might be the best Miss Marple book."
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View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems
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"I'd give her the Nobel prize for her clarity about humanity and her cleverness with words.
Hoyadaisy
rated it 5 stars
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Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems
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Next: New Poems
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Quilting: Poems 1987-1990 (American Poets Continuum Series, Vol. 21)
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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Betsy-Tacy (Betsy-Tacy, #1)
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The Greenlanders
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The Common Reader
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Othello
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Richard III
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A Book of One's Own: People and Their Diaries
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The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #1)
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Parker Pyne Investigates
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The Things They Carried
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Sappho
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"Couldn't find my favorite translation. Hope this one works. I love her for how all her loves hold up over time: tender love for her daughter, fierce love for her lovers, sorrowing love for a dead student.
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rated it 5 stars
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Song of Solomon
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
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Rebecca
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Gone with the Wind
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The Stories of John Cheever
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Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
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Thou Shalt Not Be Aware: Society's Betrayal of the Child
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Pale Fire
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The Pickwick Papers
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The Dead and the Living
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Bird by Bird
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Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
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Cranford
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Iliad, Books 13–24 (Loeb Classical Library, #171)
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The Iliad / The Odyssey
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The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone
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The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose
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Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
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The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
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The Skull Mantra (Inspector Shan, #1)
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The Tao of Pooh
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The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness
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An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
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Journal of a Solitude
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The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
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Diary of a Provincial Lady
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The Iliad
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Why Homer Matters
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Letters to Alice: On First Reading Jane Austen
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D'Aulaires' Book of Norse Myths
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D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths
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Silas Marner
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The Catcher in the Rye
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Leaf Storm and Other Stories
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Love in the Time of Cholera
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Memory of Fire
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Collected Sonnets
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The Penelopiad
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A Christmas Carol
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Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness
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Longbourn
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Mutant Message Down Under
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The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010
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The Housekeeper and the Professor
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Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake: Practicing the Perfections of the Heart--The Buddhist Path of Kindness
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It's Easier Than You Think: The Buddhist Way to Happiness
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The Paranoia Switch: How Terror Rewires Our Brains and Reshapes Our Behavior--and How We Can Reclaim Our Courage
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The Buddha in the Attic
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In Buddha's Kitchen : Cooking, Being Cooked, and Other Adventures at a Meditation Center
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Awakening Through Love: Unveiling Your Deepest Goodness
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Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
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Two Old Women: An Alaskan Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival
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Hausfrau
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In His Arms
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Mindfulness in Plain English
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Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
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Out of the Dust
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The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
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The Pursuit of Love (Radlett & Montdore, #1)
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Happiness Is an Inside Job: Practicing for a Joyful Life
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Plenty
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Hardy: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)
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The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)
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