"Om im, lend me your knife."

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I'm reading Hellspark again; can't remember how many times I've read it since it was first published, back in the late '80s. It's one of my comfort books, along with Pride and Prejudice, The Witches of Karres, Cotillion, and The War for the Oaks.

So -- what are your comfort books?

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Individual titles include The Drawing of the Dark by Tim Powers, The Blue Sword and The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley, Howl's Moving Castle and Charmed Life by Dianna Wynne Jones, The Countess Below Stairs by Eva Ibbotson, The Beacon at Alexandria by Gillian Bradshaw, and the Liaden books especially Agent of Change and Conflict of Honors .

Emma Bull's War for the Oaks is also very good, as others have mentioned.

For a comfort binge I'm liable to run through my Dick Francis titles, or to read The Lord of the Rings. In fact I'm getting the LOTR hankering now that the weather has suddenly turned crisp and the leaves are turning. For a decade I read LOTR every fall, and there's something about the change of seasons that makes me want to pick it up again.