What books do you go back to again and again?

[Lynn]

Most readers have books that they go back to whenever the day seems too dreary and the night seems too long. These are the books that pull us out of our black moods. These are the books that we know are old friends.

For me, it's the Merlin Trilogy by Mary Stewart--The Crystal Cave, The Hollow Hills, The Last Enchantment, The Wicked Day. Yes, it's a trilogy with four books.

I can't count the number of times these four old friends have helped me come back to myself.

Who are your old friends?

[[deleted user]]

"Conversations with God" I've gone back to a lot.
-Jared

[Debbie]

The two books that I go back to over and over again are "how did I get here" by Barbara DeAngelis, and Something More by Sarah Ban Breathnach.

When you open my books you will see dates, comments and highlighted pages. When I read something for the first, second, third and beyond time, I always date it.

Sometimes I just go straight to the highlighted parts to see where my mind was at when read it last.

[HT]

Old friends....

Jonathan Livingston Seagull and Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Basically True Story immediately spring to mind. When life is darkest, they remind me that I am not described by my current circumstances, but by how I approach life.

In a similar vein, Stranger in a Strange Land is one of the books I find myself quoting over and over again. I no longer read this book, I just flip to the parts that seem salient to however I'm feeling when I pick it up.

I'm sure there are others that will come to me as I bump into them on my shelves.