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More_Cowbell

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20. Every year at Christmas I read the Domesday Book

Thu May 9, 2019, 10:05 PM

May 2019

By Connie Willis. She has another one in the same universe that I also really love, called To Say Nothing of the Dog (the title comes from the subtitle of Three Men in a Boat) and that one's more lighthearted, but this one really stuck with me.

(There are other books in the series, but these two are the best in my opinion)

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What book(s) do you reread over the years? [View all] bif May 2019 OP

Anything from Peter Heller playaseeker May 2019 #1

Novels of Dickens, the Brontes, L.M. Montgomery, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Edith Wharton, Jane Austen... 50 Shades Of Blue May 2019 #2

Every year in the week leading up to Halloween....Frankenstein Runningdawg May 2019 #3

Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Carl Jung yellerpup May 2019 #4

I have his Red Book trev May 2019 #23

I don't have that one. yellerpup May 2019 #24

Dune by Frank Herbert, area51 May 2019 #5

I love Carole Nelson Douglas! We live in the same part of Fort Worth yellowdogintexas Jul 2019 #45

Laura Ingalls Wilder. PoindexterOglethorpe May 2019 #6

I love Time and Again! bif May 2019 #7

Have you read the sequel, PoindexterOglethorpe May 2019 #8

Yep. I think I've read just about everything he's written. bif May 2019 #14

I never heard of the sequel, so thanks! More_Cowbell May 2019 #19

Do find and read PoindexterOglethorpe May 2019 #21

totally with you on TIme and Again. nt yellowdogintexas Jul 2019 #46

All I can think of is Catch-22, Watership Down and a couple of Carl Hiassen's novels. dameatball May 2019 #9

Yes to Watership Down! Ohiogal May 2019 #16

Good for you! When my kids were early and pre-teen I talked them into reading Watership Down. They dameatball May 2019 #17

Watership Down, yes! PoindexterOglethorpe May 2019 #22

The Red Tent mahina May 2019 #10

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Thyla May 2019 #11

Fear and Loathing Infographic wasterpinky Aug 2019 #50

All the Harry Potter books, 'Wind in the Willows', and 'To Kill a Mockingbird'. sinkingfeeling May 2019 #12

A Confederacy of Dunces, Hitchhikers Guide... SeattleVet May 2019 #13

Lord of the Rings shenmue May 2019 #15

Ulysses Cuthbert Allgood May 2019 #18

Every year at Christmas I read the Domesday Book More_Cowbell May 2019 #20

It's The Doomsday Book. PoindexterOglethorpe Jun 2019 #25

Very, very depressing. Extremely well-written, but I could barely finish it. bobbieinok Jun 2019 #36

LOTR, all of Douglas Adams, shanny Jun 2019 #26

Yes! I've read every Douglas Adams book many times Clash City Rocker Jun 2019 #30

All the books by Carlos Castaneda -- mostly early and middle -n/t Freelancer Jun 2019 #27

M-O-O-N Bayard Jun 2019 #28

Me, too. My favorite book by Mr. King. Glorfindel Jun 2019 #32

Me, too happybird Aug 2019 #53

Charring Cross Road Irishxs Jun 2019 #29

The Prophet, by Gibran; Justice, by Sandel; Black Boy, by Wright. nt Atticus Jun 2019 #31

I read Native Son in HS. Yrs later I read Black Boy--it totally freaked me out. bobbieinok Jun 2019 #37

I rotate my James Michener novels every year Deb Jun 2019 #33

Have read all those at least twice. Now reading Texas for 3rd time. Michener Atticus Jun 2019 #41

The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson Skittles Jun 2019 #34

The Haunting of Hill House is the ultimate book of its genre. Scared me half to death! Cousin Dupree Jun 2019 #39

heh Skittles Jun 2019 #42

I read it when I was about 15, upstairs in my aunt's yellowdogintexas Jul 2019 #47

Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, The Politics of the Prussian Army by Gordon Craig bobbieinok Jun 2019 #35

Anything by Richard Russo. democrank Jun 2019 #38

Anything by Tolkien FBaggins Jun 2019 #40

There are a few that I will always read solara Jun 2019 #43

These! MuseRider Jul 2019 #49

Wuthering Heights and The Andromeda Strain. Polly Hennessey Jun 2019 #44

I am not inclined to read books a second time as a general rule but here are the few I have reread yellowdogintexas Jul 2019 #48

The Harry Potter series. dhol82 Aug 2019 #51

I got sucked into the HP fanfic world a few years ago happybird Aug 2019 #54

Have not read any of those ancillary tales. Might be a thought to look them up. dhol82 Aug 2019 #57

Raymond Chandler and Jack Vance Cartoonist Aug 2019 #52

Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy The Blue Flower Aug 2019 #55

american capitalism by galbraith. read it every 3 o4 years. also notes from underground. Kurt V. Aug 2019 #56

Tom Robbins Thunderbeast Aug 2019 #58

Everything Robbins randr Aug 2019 #59

First book husband and I read together "The Butterfly Kid" Chester Anderson (1967) Tikki Aug 2019 #60

I used to read "Light In August" by William Faulkner every August, LuvNewcastle Aug 2019 #61

Dr Seuss mainstreetonce Aug 2019 #62