My personal choices (as classics but not necessarily studied in schools, that’s a loaded topic):

Parable of the Sower

Winter’s Bone

World War Z

And the lip biting, don’t forget the constant lip biting.
*roll eyes*

Oh I love Wind in the Willows. Adore it! I tried the Brambly Hedge series because they’d been mentioned so many times, hoping it would be the same, but… not quite. Sigh.

Oh, my deepest condolences OP, on the loss of your grandmother. How hard for you, please don’t feel guilty. Your grandmother knew she was loved.

And there should be NO SHAME in rereading favourite books. NONE.

I only borrow books from my public library, and I do not buy books, UNLESS… if I borrow a book from the library more than 3 times to re-read, then I know it’s a keeper and I purchase it.

Books give us such comfort. Movies do too! Just *look* at how we re-watch Christmas movies… over, and over, and over. My husband can quote allll the lines from every Monty Python movie, ever!

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So yes, I know this feeling of comfort that a good book (and a nice cuppa) gives and I love it.

I think I have a few favourites. Mansfield Park by Austen and Winter’s Bone by Woodrell are two that I have re-read too many times to count.