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A Really Good Read

After the last booklist I completed on Facebook a friend commented it was full of books she wouldn't want to read. So I asked my Facebook friends for the works they reread with the greatest pleasure - not when they were trying to impress others, but the ones they went back to when tired, ill or feeling low. Poetry and plays were eligible as well as novels. As you can imagine there was a very wide range of nominations; what follows are the books and authors that received more than one vote. Pride and Prejudice was a clear winner, with Jane Eyre and To Kill a Mockingbird also ahead of the field; Shakespeare was easily the most popular author. I haven't read all of these myself, but I have some good ideas for where to go when I next need a literary pick-me-up.
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Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
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Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre
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To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
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Lord of the Ring Trilogy
Lord of the Ring Trilogy
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King Lear
King Lear
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Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights
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Discworld Series
Discworld Series
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War and Peace
War and Peace
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Hamlet
Hamlet
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Emma
Emma
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A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol
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Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
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Barchester Towers
Barchester Towers
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Tess of the Durbervilles
Tess of the Durbervilles
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Dracula
Dracula
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Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
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Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland
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The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame)
The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame)
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The Box of Delights (John Masefield)
The Box of Delights (John Masefield)
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The Jeeves Stories (PG Wodehouse)
The Jeeves Stories (PG Wodehouse)
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The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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My Family and Other Animals (Gerald Durrell)
My Family and Other Animals (Gerald Durrell)
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Brat Farrar (Josephine Tey)
Brat Farrar (Josephine Tey)
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I Capture the Castle (Dodie Smith)
I Capture the Castle (Dodie Smith)
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Collected Poems of T.S. Eliot
Collected Poems of T.S. Eliot
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The Chronicles of Narnia
The Chronicles of Narnia
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Animal Farm
Animal Farm
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A Passage to India (E.M. Forster)
A Passage to India (E.M. Forster)
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The Great Shark Hunt
The Great Shark Hunt
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The BFG
The BFG
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The Goldfinch (Donna Tartt)
The Goldfinch (Donna Tartt)
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The Silver Pigs
The Silver Pigs
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American Gods (Neil Gaiman)
American Gods (Neil Gaiman)
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Wolf Hall (Hilary Mantel)
Wolf Hall (Hilary Mantel)
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Richard III
Richard III
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Titus Andronicus
Titus Andronicus
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Henry V
Henry V
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Othello (Shakespeare)
Othello (Shakespeare)
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The Winter's Tale (Shakespeare)
The Winter's Tale (Shakespeare)
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Bleak House
Bleak House
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