Welcome to Booking Through Thursday, a weekly bookish meme about books and reading for everyone who loves both. Booking Through Thursday was first hosted by Deb. With permission, I’ve restarted it in 2026.
This week’s prompt:
This doesn’t have to be your favorite book or a comfort read. But is there a single book (or perhaps series) you’ve read more than any other? Maybe a cookbook, a religious text, or a favorite childhood story.
Let us know!
What’s one book you’ve read more than any other?
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Looking back through recent history, the winner for me is The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society with 84 Charing Cross Road a close second, followed by The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street.
I’m sensing a trend. These are books that, if I start paging through them, I will absolutely sit down and re-read.
Back in the day, I probably read the Trixie Belden series more times than I can count, along with the Betsy-Tacy books.
Great prompt! I’m looking forward to this one, if I can ever look away from the ball that is in the squash court of my work life (admittedly, a weird metaphor, and weirdly worded, too; but true). Possibly sometime this weekend…
No question that it’s Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, although Flannery O’Connor’s collection of letters titled A Habit of Being would be a close second. My favorite O’Connor quote? “”On the subject of the feminist business, I just never think…of qualities which are specifically feminine or masculine. I suppose I divide people into two classes: the Irksome and the Non-Irksome, without regard to sex. Yes, and there are the Medium Irksome and the Rare Irksome.”
I’m saving that quote!
I also love that quote.