Someone asked: “A feel-good book to make me feel better.”
Comfort reads.
For bad weeks, long winters and nights when the news is too much. Kind books, with happy or hopeful endings and characters you'll want to keep as friends.
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A Man Called Ove
En man som heter Ove
Fredrik Backman · 2012
The grumpiest man in Sweden is slowly adopted by his neighbours. You'll laugh, cry and want to hug someone.
The House in the Cerulean Sea
TJ Klune · 2019
A by-the-book social worker visits an orphanage for magical children. Pure warmth, like a blanket in book form.
Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Toshikazu Kawaguchi
A Tokyo café where you can travel in time, but only until your coffee cools. Short, gentle stories.
The Midnight Library
Matt Haig · 2020
Between life and death, a woman gets to try all the lives she didn't live. Hopeful without being naive.
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Mary Ann Shaffer · 2008
Letters between a writer and islanders after the war. Funny, tender and full of love for books.
84, Charing Cross Road
Helene Hanff · 1970
Twenty years of letters between a New York writer and a London bookseller. Tiny and perfect.
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Gail Honeyman · 2017
A lonely, very odd woman slowly lets people in. Funny first, moving later.
The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry · 2015
The book you think is for children. Read it again as an adult: it's about everything that matters.
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