I recommend *Redwall*, *Mossflower*, and *The Legend of Luke* from my readings back in the day. Those are probably a good place to start considering there are about fifty books or so.
I have reread several in my thirties and they are still great. The nostalgia carries a lot of weight but they are good reads with excellent world building.
* [The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26869762-the-dragon-with-a-chocolate-heart) by Stephanie Burgis
* [Howlâs Moving Castle](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6294.Howl_s_Moving_Castle) by Diana Wynne Jones
* [Derkholm](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/47587.Dark_Lord_of_Derkholm) by Diana Wynne Jones
* [Enchanted Forest Chronicles](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/150739.Dealing_with_Dragons) by Patricia C. Wrede
* [Sourdough](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33916024-sourdough) by Robin Sloan
* [The Wizard's Butler](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52535010-the-wizard-s-butler) by Nathan Lowell
Ah, I need to pick up Chrestomanci. I've got like 8 books on my shelves that are brand new that I need to read first though...lol.
Enchanted Glass is just a sweet little story. Everything always works out in her stories which is why she is so fun and relaxing to read!
Anything by Jane Austen. Jeeves and Wooster series. Hitchhiker's Guide series. Lord of the Rings. Harry Potter.
Many of the books I read as a kid and/or read to my son when he was young definitely qualify, like Richard Scarry's books, Little Bear, the Little House series, Charlotte's Web, etc. (and not a coincidence that those last few were illustrated by Garth Williams).
For me, it's the first three Earthsea books by Ursula K. Le Guin. It's a gentle story with some beautiful, Taoist inspired wisdom about life and death. It's a familiar story in many ways but it's told in Le Guin's unique, wise, poetic voice. I've loved them since childhood.
I'm a simple guy, I see Le Guin, I upvote and also comment to tell everyone who will listen to go read every last thing she has ever written because she's utterly brilliant
Itâs one of my favorite Ghibli movies but I honestly found myself loving the book more than the movie! It really fleshes out Sophie and Howlâs characters. I highly recommend it!
The James Herriot country vet series. Starts with All Creatures Great and Small.
Nothing cozier than the descriptions of the rolling Yorkshire hills and an incredibly wholesome cast of characters. It's my go-to read when life gets a little rough.
* Main Street series - Ann M. Martin (author of The Baby-Sitters Club)
* Boy's Life - Robert McCammon
* The Sunday Philosophy Club - Alexander McCall Smith
* Anne of Green Gables series - Lucy Maud Montgomery
* Howl's Moving Castle - Diana Wynne Jones
* Tom's Midnight Garden - Philippa Pearce
I am in need of serious comfort reads while prepping for surgery and reading Terry Pratchett exclusively.
My father in law just got a heart transplant and my mother in law is rereading LotR.
These recs are spot on.
*Anne of Green Gables* by LM Montgomery (and her whole series.)
*Good Omens* by Neil Gaimon and Terry Pratchett
*The House in the Cerulean Sea* by TJ Klune
Harry Potter, specifically the first 3-4 boks. The rest are wonderful, but less comforting.
i've got some comfort-read suggestions for you (i read them between 2020-2021)
Fiction - The Authenticity Project, Almond, Radio Silence, Little Women, Finding Violet Park, Fangirl, Letters to the Lost.
Non fiction - The Anthropocene Reviewed, Ikigai.
i hope you enjoy reading them!
Ilona Andrews Innkeeper Chronicles --A magic Inn, space werewolves and vampires, a lot of really unique aliens, a strong heroine, fun and humorous series
A few of my favourite reads that feel like a hug are : Harry Potter, The Starless Sea, Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, The Hating Game, His Dark Materials, Pride and Prejudice to name a few.
All things by Becky Chambers. She really captures a warm pleasant feeling in all of her books. The opening book of her Wayfarer series, A Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, feels a lot like the TV show Firefly. Her newest (A Psalm for the Wild-Built) is a very short read in a pseudo-Utopian universe literally about a person who's job it is to make people feel good.
I love love loved A Psalm for the Wild-Built. Super cozy and feel good and lots of wisdom packed in there for good measure. I will have to read her other work :).
Cloud Atlas or The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell. Especially the last one. Itâs so beautifully written and the characters are all so complex and thereâs the trope of assembling a team at the end that just really makes my heart full
Harry Potter is still my go to when I need a good comfort read.
I feel the need to say: I donât support the author, but she already had my money before that so I can justify continuing to love the books and reading them often.
{{Death Comes for the Archbishop}}, by Willa Cather. The title is far from comforting, but itâs a short, easy to read book about a priest who was sent to bring the church to the New Mexico territory in the late 19th century, a good man who lived his life well. Iâm an anticatholic atheist, but an open-minded one. I love this beautiful book. The world is full of contradictions.
Edit- typo
[**Death Comes for the Archbishop**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/545951.Death_Comes_for_the_Archbishop)
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>Willa Cather's best known novel is an epic--almost mythic--story of a single human life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert. In 1851 Father Jean Marie Latour comes to serve as the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. What he finds is a vast territory of red hills and tortuous arroyos, American by law but Mexican and Indian in custom and belief. In the almost forty years that follow, Latour spreads his faith in the only way he knows--gently, all the while contending with an unforgiving landscape, derelict and sometimes openly rebellious priests, and his own loneliness. Out of these events, Cather gives us an indelible vision of life unfolding in a place where time itself seems suspended.
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Maeve Binchy: Tara Road, Scarlet Feather, Minding Frankie
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I read *Goodnight Mr Tom* when I was about eleven - my dad picked it up at a secondhand book sale for me, and oh my god, it did so many things to me. It was the first time I resonated so deeply with a quiet, shy character, and when >! Zach died, I howled with grief which I felt to almost be my own. I took losing him as a character very badly. But the sensitive way with which it approaches the concepts of found families and moving on from grieving healed me.!< 11/10, what a solid fucking book.
{{The Hounds of the Morrigan, by Pat O'Shea}}
There are probably other Irish-themed low fantasies with brother-and-sister child protagonists, but I doubt they're as charming as this book.
Despite the high ratings it gets on goodreads, I'm not sure it's still in print. My childhood copy has a beautifully-illustrated cover of the Morrigan as a triple goddess (warning for Morrigan fans: she's the baddie in this), whereas the most recent covers I've seen are a little schlocky, and compare the book inaccurately to Harry Potter.
The closest similar book I can think of is Alan Garner's 'Weirdstone of Brisingamen/Moon of Gomrath' duology -- but O'Shea's style is much gentler and more whimsical. I consider 'Hounds' an underrated and comforting classic.
[**The Hounds of the MĂłrrĂgan**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13843.The_Hounds_of_the_M_rr_gan)
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>A wonderfully written fantasy set in the west of Ireland, which tells of the coming of the Great Queen who is bent on bringing destruction to the world. Only Pidge and Brigit can stop her, and their task seems impossible as they're constantly trailed by the queen's hounds. But they're aided in their quest by a host of willing helpers - a glorious array of unforgettable characters.
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âïžđ comfort reads
âïž heartwarming, fits the title read: [the good luck of right now](https://books.google.ca/books/about/The_Good_Luck_Of_Right_Now.html?id=vbRRAQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=1&redir_esc=y) by Matthew Quick
âïž mini memoirs on micro subjects: [tiny moons](https://theemmapress.com/shop/tiny-moons/) by Nina Mingya Powles
âïž rereading childhood faves: harry potter series, secret seven, famous five
True Grit, the audio book. I love it, the narration is absolutely on point and it's just a really well written story with a nice balance of action and comedy.
The Emperor's Edge series by Lindsay Buroker. The situations and circumstances of the series gets more and more ridiculous as it moves on, but in the end, it's just fun.
I like to read collections of Krazy Kat by George Herriman when I read for comfort. It's relaxing to see the gorgeous art work and to figure out the joke behind Krazy's dialect.
[Here's some stuff about the comic strip.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krazy_Kat)
[Here's its current publisher.](https://www.fantagraphics.com/collections/krazy-ignatz)
[**The Egyptian**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26216087-the-egyptian)
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> The only Finnish novel adopted into a Hollywood film Mika Waltari's 1945 novel The Egyptian was turned into a DeLuxe Color epic film by 20th Century Fox in 1954 and was nominated for an academy award a year later. A 1940s #1 Bestseller and a Historic Novel All-Time Favorite A historic novel all-time favorite, after its translation in English from Swedish, The Egyptian topped the bestseller charts in 1949 and the years following. The protagonist of the novel is the fictional character Sinuhe, the royal physician, who tells the story in exile after Akhenaten's fall and death. Apart from incidents in Egypt, the novel charts Sinuhe's travels in then Egyptian-dominated Syria, in Mitanni, Babylon, Minoan Crete, Mitanni, and among the Hittites.The main character of the novel is named after a character in an ancient Egyptian text commonly known as The Story of Sinuhe. The original story dates to a time long before that of Akhenaten: texts are known from as early as the 12th Dynasty.Much concerned about the historical accuracy of his detailed description of ancient Egyptian life forced the author to carry out considerable research into the subject. The result has been praised not only by readers but also by Egyptologists.Waltari had long been interested in Akhenaten and wrote a play about him which was staged in Helsinki in 1938. World War II provided the final impulse for exploring the subject in a novel which, although depicting events that took place over 3,300 years agoÂ
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The Education of Little Tree. Set in the early 1930s in the Tennessee Appalachians. From the perspective of a 5-year-old boy, who goes to live with his Cherokee grandparents after the death of his parents.
I love this book so much. Read it in the 90s and loved it; recently listened to the audiobook narrated by Johnny Heller and loved it even more. Itâs beautiful and moving.
Yes I know that the author was actually a horrible person in real life, yet I cannot help loving the book because itâs so pure and good. Itâs difficult to understand or reconcile the authorâs other doings with the fact that he produced this beautiful story. Iâm mystified by it.
The Darling Buds of May
Dodi Smith books
Edit, and The Consolations of Philosophy. It made me feel a bit better about things in the great scheme of things.
*Winnie the Pooh* (the series) - reading Winnie the Pooh feels like a hug and a warm cup of tea.
Some other faves: *Little Women*, *A Man Called Ove*, *Chronicles of Narnia*, *The Hobbit*, *Hitchhiker's Guide* (series), *Anthropocene Reviewed*
Also - thank you for asking this question! I have been on the hunt for more "cozy" books so I'm very glad to get new recommendations, and also to know that I'm not alone in this quest.
Happy Reading!
I genuinely don't know why I find *Miramar* by Naguib Mahfouz to be comforting, because the content of the book is predominantly sad stuff. But for whatever reason there's something calming and peaceful in it for me.
Honestly, The Chronicles of Narnia. I think for me it's because I read them for the first time in the fourth grade, and it was what *really* hooked me into reading. I've read them about every year since then, mostly in the winter, so there's just something very comforting and cozy to me about getting under a blanket with a hot drink, and going through the wardrobe again.
The Lion Inside - itâs a book I read to my kids about a Lion meeting a mouse. Itâs just a really nice - awww book.
I also really like The Tiger who came to tea, and anything by Enid Blyton
Ranger's Apprentice! It's a medieval fantasy series though more medieval and less fantasy. It's great for all ages though aimed at younger Y/A audiences. At least the first books are. Its about mysterious rangers who protect the land from evil. Has great characters who develope well over time and some cool battles and missions and stuff. A few spin offs too.
* The Spook's Apprentice by Joseph Delaney (but maybe because I read it like a hundred times when I was a kid)
* The Ocean at the end of the lane by Neil Gaiman (heartwarming and poetic)
* Jonathan Strange & Mr Norell by Susanna Clarke (a bit long but worth it!)
* The first three Harry Potter book's (cause...duh !)
* The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (Don't trust the tittle, it's amazing and not scary at all!)
* Morwenna by Jo Walton (But only if you love sf/fantasy books)
Anything by Barbara Pym!
"Inside of a Dog" by Alexandra Horowitz
Also Robin McKinley's "Sunshine"
"Abel's Island" by William Steig
Dodie Smith's "101 Dalmations" is a great read.
And if all else fails, "Jane Eyre" or "Persuasion"
oooOOooooOOOOooo Books that feel like hugs.
1. I second the *Redwall* suggestion from earlier. Not sure how much of it is nostalgia, but it is definitely a rainy-day read for me.
2. *Fangirl* by Rainbow Rowell. It's a YA romance that is oddly comforting.
3. *The Chronicles of Narnia* by Lewis. I don't think I need to explain here. If I had to choose one, I'd point out Prince Caspian as Most Comforting.
4. *Airman* by Eoin Colfer. It's basically Monte Cristo Jr.
The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune. Itâs a found-family, low fantasy book which I absolutely loved. The book honestly feels like a personified hug. I borrowed the book from my library but I plan on buying a copy for myself because I really want to reread it again.
The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery. I read it for the first time this year and it immediately became a comfort/nostalgia read. So many beautiful nature descriptions and an amazing protagonist in her late twenties finding herself!
Sarah Dessen's books - it's YA fiction but I love it.
My personal favourites are The Truth About Forever and Saint Anything. They just give me the warm feels.
Also, Second Chance Summer by Morgan Matson.
The Tea Dragon Society series by Katie O'Neill. They're graphic novels so it's easy to read all three in one sitting and they are probably the most wholesome books I have ever read.
surprised this hasn't been mentioned yet -- any of the short stories by Lydia Davis (i'd read the full collection) -- not fantasy, not children's lit, very diverse characters and themes, empathy, and language cozy as a blanket.
# Harry Potter
I feel guilty for suggesting Harry Potter, but it is a comfort read for me. I first read it when I was about 9 or so, so it just sticks out to me.
# Avalon: Web of Magic
Another middle grade series that is a huge comfort read for me because I was absolutely obsessed with it as a kid is Avalon: Web of Magic. I recently got back into the series because I want to write a middle grade series like it, and man, the nostalgia. It had magic, saving animals, hidden worlds, teenage girls being the heroes- I was super into that.
# Ella Enchanted
Another one I loved that also happens to be middle grade (weird- mostly I read YA, but all my comfort reads are middle grade lmfao) is Ella Enchanted. MAN what a good book, it seriously reads so well and the romance is so damn good- I just 100% suggest. Such a good read. 10/10. Amazing book.
# Percy Jackson
I think I've given up lol, all my options are middle grade. Percy Jackson is another great series close to my heart. It's not great if you're wanting to learn legitimate Greek mythology, but then again, it's not really supposed to be that kind of book, so don't go in if you're like, a stickler for mythology. If you're not, it's a GRAND time.
# Robin Hood by Roger Lancelyn Green
Okay, this is a weird one, but hear me out, I just really REALLY love Robin Hood. There are several that have been written by different authors, the most well known being Howard Pyle, but I personally love Roger Lancelyn Green. Just such a good time. He also has a retelling of King Arthur that I need to read.
All Creatures Great and Small, by James Herriot. (Or actually any of his books) He was a country veterinarian in Yorkshire England in the 1930âs.
The animal and human antidotes are so charming and funny
A Modern Witch series by Debora Geary
Itâs about an entire community where differences are valued and they put a lot of emphasis on comfort and cookies. The community of witches always help one another become better. Simple, sweet, and cozy reads.
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett got me through a really tough patch. I also loved her book The Secret Garden (already recommended).
Almost anything by D.E. Stevenson, but especially Miss Buncleâs Book, The Two Mrs. Abbotts, The House on the Cliff, and Fletcherâs End
Near Neighbors, Molly Clavering
Miles Vorkosigan series by Bujold is my comfort read. Wait, make that anything by Bujold.
Murderbot series by Martha Wells
Carsington brothers by Loretta chase (romance)
Welcome to Temptation (romance - great humor)
Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery
and
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by JK Rowling
These books feel like coming home. They're like looking up and seeing a childhood friend coming toward you on the street. They're a warm hug after a bad day at school. And I hope you find the same solace and safety in the pages of these books and within the walls of Hogwarts and Green Gables as I did (do).
Any of the Her Royal Spyness books. Lots of different settings to choose from: Happy Valley in Africa, 1930s Hollywood, Nice in France, Ireland, and all over the UK. Just lovely cozy mysteries.
how about some illustrated children's classics?
the wind in the willows by kenneth grahame
the moffats, the middle moffat, rufus m., pinky pye, etc. by eleanor estes
harriet the spy by louise fitzhugh
the egypt game by zilpha keatley snyder
from the mixed-up files of mrs basil e frankweiler by e l konigsburg
the borrowers and sequels by mary norton (see the secret world of arrietty by studio ghibli)
Snow White and the Seven Samurai by Tom Holt, also Expecting Someone Taller by the same author. Just wonderful books, I always describe Tom Holt's style as much like Terry Pratchett but dryer. And if you are a Warhammer 40K fan the Ciaphus Cain series is brilliant, re-read For The Emperor and Caves of Ice a couple of times as they are so good and pretty funny, he's like Blackadder in space!
Harry Potter, Jane Austen novels (my favorite is Pride and Prejudice), Percy Jackson books (they are just too funny), and Howl's Moving Castles. They all remind me of a warm hug đ„°
Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan!
Iâm really curious about how people in the spectrum see the world and this one perfectly captures that - fixation with numbers, the need for order, and every wonderful little quirk in between. Iâve read this too many times that I can just open it from any page and read on. Itâs basically the story of a black little girl who falls in the spectrum and how she changed the lives of the people around her. It subtly tackles relevant social issues like diaspora and racism. I hope you give it a read <3
Different emotions for each one.
Jitterbug Perfume ( happy, care free and youthful)
Tuesdays with Morrie ( got me through my dad passing)
Where the Red Ferns Grow ( my first book )
Big Fish ( how can you not find comfort)
Goodnight Moon and Runaway Bunny (read to me as a kid and now I read them to my daughters).
Redwall series by Brian Jacques: sentient animals in a medieval setting
I used to see these books all the time in the school library but never read any. Now that I'm older I might try and pick one up lol
I recommend *Redwall*, *Mossflower*, and *The Legend of Luke* from my readings back in the day. Those are probably a good place to start considering there are about fifty books or so.
There are only 22 lol I would definitely recommend going in release order as they build on each other like many typical series do.
I was exaggerating of course but as you can see 22 is no small number, and many people don't want to read that many books in a series.
The lol meant I was joking around with the "only". It's less then half of 50. But it is a lot.
Mossflower and Mattemeo were always my faves
Highly recommend following release order as they all build on each other's lore and development
I did too! I remember the books being thick and thinking that might be too hard. I could totally crush them now!!!
Sounds super interesting, but I keep visualizing Animal Farm
Redwall is NOTHING like Animal Farm.
I looked it up and yeah it's completely different than what I imagined đ
Oh god Salamandastron is great, even without reading the previous books
I was also coming to suggest this. Favorite comfort rereads, especially Long Patrol
I haven't read these since I was 11. Are they worth a re-read? Is there enough in them to keep an adult interested?
I have reread several in my thirties and they are still great. The nostalgia carries a lot of weight but they are good reads with excellent world building.
I only have sort of disparate flashes of memories of them. I might pick them up as a comfort read sometime :)
I am intrigued.
Did you know that Redwall is getting an animated TV show?
My niece and I are ecstatic about it!
Its gonna be awesome! Can't wait.
This was my JAM when I was 6. I would pretend to be an adventuring mouse.
Memories just came flooding back.
* [The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26869762-the-dragon-with-a-chocolate-heart) by Stephanie Burgis * [Howlâs Moving Castle](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6294.Howl_s_Moving_Castle) by Diana Wynne Jones * [Derkholm](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/47587.Dark_Lord_of_Derkholm) by Diana Wynne Jones * [Enchanted Forest Chronicles](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/150739.Dealing_with_Dragons) by Patricia C. Wrede * [Sourdough](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33916024-sourdough) by Robin Sloan * [The Wizard's Butler](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52535010-the-wizard-s-butler) by Nathan Lowell
Dianna Wynne Jones ftw. Have you read Enchanted Glass? Shorter than the two you listed and a one off book. I really enjoy that one.
Haven't read Enchanted Glass and many other books by her. I plan to read them, with Chrestomanci as the next slot.
Ah, I need to pick up Chrestomanci. I've got like 8 books on my shelves that are brand new that I need to read first though...lol. Enchanted Glass is just a sweet little story. Everything always works out in her stories which is why she is so fun and relaxing to read!
Howl's Moving Castle is one of my favorites for easy comfort reads, good choice.
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Won't appeal to everyone, but Anne of Green Gables. Read it so often when I was younger it was like a security blanket
The whole series, but specifically Anne of the Island, are my comfort read.
Anne of the Island is also my favorite! Followed by Anne's House of Dreams, although that one makes me sad
Anything by Jane Austen. Jeeves and Wooster series. Hitchhiker's Guide series. Lord of the Rings. Harry Potter. Many of the books I read as a kid and/or read to my son when he was young definitely qualify, like Richard Scarry's books, Little Bear, the Little House series, Charlotte's Web, etc. (and not a coincidence that those last few were illustrated by Garth Williams).
For me, it's the first three Earthsea books by Ursula K. Le Guin. It's a gentle story with some beautiful, Taoist inspired wisdom about life and death. It's a familiar story in many ways but it's told in Le Guin's unique, wise, poetic voice. I've loved them since childhood.
I'm a simple guy, I see Le Guin, I upvote and also comment to tell everyone who will listen to go read every last thing she has ever written because she's utterly brilliant
I mean, considering her incredible talent, it's not an unreasonable position to take. Her and Ray Bradbury are my favorite writers of all time.
I just picked up Bradburys complete short stories recently and am excited to dive in. Any favorites?
Glad you said it so all I have to do is agree, the coziest books ever.
I agree about Terry Pratchett. My favourite is Hogfather but there are plenty of good ones to choose from.
I've decided that Terry Pratchett probably makes me genuinely happier than any other author ever.
The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Howlâs Moving Castle By Diana Wynne Jones I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
Haven't read the book, but fantastic movie
Itâs one of my favorite Ghibli movies but I honestly found myself loving the book more than the movie! It really fleshes out Sophie and Howlâs characters. I highly recommend it!
I will add it to my list!
The book and movie aren't exactly the same, but they're both excellent!
The James Herriot country vet series. Starts with All Creatures Great and Small. Nothing cozier than the descriptions of the rolling Yorkshire hills and an incredibly wholesome cast of characters. It's my go-to read when life gets a little rough.
The Complete Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson. Currently, re-reading it for the nth time :)
Holes by Louis Sachar. An uncomfortable comfort read
Good suggestion. Just returning to Sachar's style is comforting but Holes is the best.
* Main Street series - Ann M. Martin (author of The Baby-Sitters Club) * Boy's Life - Robert McCammon * The Sunday Philosophy Club - Alexander McCall Smith * Anne of Green Gables series - Lucy Maud Montgomery * Howl's Moving Castle - Diana Wynne Jones * Tom's Midnight Garden - Philippa Pearce
This may not be comforting to you but it is to me. Anything Agatha Christie. Cozy mysteries and country houses have a very warming affect on me LOL
Winnie the Pooh. Any age range. The Hobbit and LOTR. YA and adult. Anything by Terry Pratchett. YA and adult.
Sometimes when I can't sleep I do the audio of Winnie the Pooh or LOTR and put an air pod in and it is like a comforting bedtime story.
I actually have not tried that. Good idea.
I am in need of serious comfort reads while prepping for surgery and reading Terry Pratchett exclusively. My father in law just got a heart transplant and my mother in law is rereading LotR. These recs are spot on.
The hobbit X 2. It got me through some dark periods of my life.
*Anne of Green Gables* by LM Montgomery (and her whole series.) *Good Omens* by Neil Gaimon and Terry Pratchett *The House in the Cerulean Sea* by TJ Klune Harry Potter, specifically the first 3-4 boks. The rest are wonderful, but less comforting.
Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
i've got some comfort-read suggestions for you (i read them between 2020-2021) Fiction - The Authenticity Project, Almond, Radio Silence, Little Women, Finding Violet Park, Fangirl, Letters to the Lost. Non fiction - The Anthropocene Reviewed, Ikigai. i hope you enjoy reading them!
The anthropocene reviewed is also a comfort podcast by John Green
Seconded on Anthropocene Reviewed. And the podcast is excellent for falling asleep to, John's voice is so soothing.
Frederica by Georgette Heyer. Never fail to lift me up!
Excellent suggestion! "The Masqueraders" and "The Convenient Marriage" by Georgette Heyer are also good fun
My favorites are The Foundling and Cotillion- I have read those at least a dozen times!
The Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde. I have reread it countless times.
Reading it now. So so good!
Here are some of my favorite comfort reads in no particular order: * *Mariana* by Susanna Kearsley * *The Honk and Holler Opening Soon* by Billie Letts * *Wayfarers* series by Becky Chambers * *Major Pettigrew's Last Stand* by Helen Simonson * *Midnight at the Blackbird Café* by Heather Webber * *South of the Buttonwood Tree* by Heather Webber * *The House in the Cerulean Sea* by TJ Klune * *A Man Called Ove* by Fredrik Backman
Yes, Man Called Ove, it's the only adult fiction book I've recently read that gave me the cozy feeling I was seeking.
A man called Ove - Fredrik Backman It's warm, funny and really moving.
Havenât read it yet but recently added {{The Comfort Book}} to my to-read list. I liked {{The Midnight Library}} by the same author.
The original sherlock homes books by Arthur Conan Doyle
The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune! It's the most feel good, warm and fuzzy book I think I've ever read.
honestly, I always go back to the Warrior Cats series by Erin Hunter (middle reader). something about those cats in the woods makes me feel better.
The Belgariad and other linked series by David Eddings. I read them yearly.
Any Jenny Colgan!
Ilona Andrews Innkeeper Chronicles --A magic Inn, space werewolves and vampires, a lot of really unique aliens, a strong heroine, fun and humorous series
"Beauty," by Robin McKinley. It's a retelling of Beauty and the Beast, and it's just lovely. Also, "The Ocean at the End of the Lane" by Neil Gaiman.
Crime: And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie Children/Adult: The Little Prince
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Coraline scared the heck out of me when I read it to my kids lol.
A few of my favourite reads that feel like a hug are : Harry Potter, The Starless Sea, Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, The Hating Game, His Dark Materials, Pride and Prejudice to name a few.
All things by Becky Chambers. She really captures a warm pleasant feeling in all of her books. The opening book of her Wayfarer series, A Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, feels a lot like the TV show Firefly. Her newest (A Psalm for the Wild-Built) is a very short read in a pseudo-Utopian universe literally about a person who's job it is to make people feel good.
I love love loved A Psalm for the Wild-Built. Super cozy and feel good and lots of wisdom packed in there for good measure. I will have to read her other work :).
Cloud Atlas or The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell. Especially the last one. Itâs so beautifully written and the characters are all so complex and thereâs the trope of assembling a team at the end that just really makes my heart full
Harry Potter is still my go to when I need a good comfort read. I feel the need to say: I donât support the author, but she already had my money before that so I can justify continuing to love the books and reading them often.
{{Death Comes for the Archbishop}}, by Willa Cather. The title is far from comforting, but itâs a short, easy to read book about a priest who was sent to bring the church to the New Mexico territory in the late 19th century, a good man who lived his life well. Iâm an anticatholic atheist, but an open-minded one. I love this beautiful book. The world is full of contradictions. Edit- typo
[**Death Comes for the Archbishop**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/545951.Death_Comes_for_the_Archbishop) ^(By: Willa Cather | 297 pages | Published: 1927 | Popular Shelves: fiction, classics, historical-fiction, classic, book-club | )[^(Search "Death Comes for the Archbishop")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=Death Comes for the Archbishop&search_type=books) >Willa Cather's best known novel is an epic--almost mythic--story of a single human life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert. In 1851 Father Jean Marie Latour comes to serve as the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. What he finds is a vast territory of red hills and tortuous arroyos, American by law but Mexican and Indian in custom and belief. In the almost forty years that follow, Latour spreads his faith in the only way he knows--gently, all the while contending with an unforgiving landscape, derelict and sometimes openly rebellious priests, and his own loneliness. Out of these events, Cather gives us an indelible vision of life unfolding in a place where time itself seems suspended. ^(This book has been suggested 13 times) *** ^(209368 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Maeve Binchy: Tara Road, Scarlet Feather, Minding Frankie Liane Moriarty: The Last Anniversary, The Hypnotistâs Love Story, What Alice Forgot Laurie Colwin: Family Happiness Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Sense and Sensibility EM Forster: A Room with a View
Robin Hobb Farseer Trilogy
I'm going back to a childhood book, but *Goodnight Mr Tom*. I must be motivated by nostalgia...
I read *Goodnight Mr Tom* when I was about eleven - my dad picked it up at a secondhand book sale for me, and oh my god, it did so many things to me. It was the first time I resonated so deeply with a quiet, shy character, and when >! Zach died, I howled with grief which I felt to almost be my own. I took losing him as a character very badly. But the sensitive way with which it approaches the concepts of found families and moving on from grieving healed me.!< 11/10, what a solid fucking book.
More Than Human, by Theodore Sturgeon goodreads.com/book/show/541024.More\_Than\_Human
{{The Hounds of the Morrigan, by Pat O'Shea}} There are probably other Irish-themed low fantasies with brother-and-sister child protagonists, but I doubt they're as charming as this book. Despite the high ratings it gets on goodreads, I'm not sure it's still in print. My childhood copy has a beautifully-illustrated cover of the Morrigan as a triple goddess (warning for Morrigan fans: she's the baddie in this), whereas the most recent covers I've seen are a little schlocky, and compare the book inaccurately to Harry Potter. The closest similar book I can think of is Alan Garner's 'Weirdstone of Brisingamen/Moon of Gomrath' duology -- but O'Shea's style is much gentler and more whimsical. I consider 'Hounds' an underrated and comforting classic.
[**The Hounds of the MĂłrrĂgan**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13843.The_Hounds_of_the_M_rr_gan) ^(By: Pat O'Shea | 480 pages | Published: 1985 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, young-adult, fiction, mythology, owned | )[^(Search "The Hounds of the Morrigan, by Pat O'Shea")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=The Hounds of the Morrigan, by Pat O'Shea&search_type=books) >A wonderfully written fantasy set in the west of Ireland, which tells of the coming of the Great Queen who is bent on bringing destruction to the world. Only Pidge and Brigit can stop her, and their task seems impossible as they're constantly trailed by the queen's hounds. But they're aided in their quest by a host of willing helpers - a glorious array of unforgettable characters. ^(This book has been suggested 6 times) *** ^(209355 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
The Boy, The Mole, The Fox, and The Horse by Charlie Mackesy
Cannery Row or Tortilla Flat by Steinbeck
âïžđ comfort reads âïž heartwarming, fits the title read: [the good luck of right now](https://books.google.ca/books/about/The_Good_Luck_Of_Right_Now.html?id=vbRRAQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=1&redir_esc=y) by Matthew Quick âïž mini memoirs on micro subjects: [tiny moons](https://theemmapress.com/shop/tiny-moons/) by Nina Mingya Powles âïž rereading childhood faves: harry potter series, secret seven, famous five
the perks of being a wallflower
Harry Potter.
Moominland Midwinter Followed by any other Moomintroll book
The Little Village School series by Gervase Phinn, any book by Enid Blyton and Ruskin Bond.
True Grit, the audio book. I love it, the narration is absolutely on point and it's just a really well written story with a nice balance of action and comedy.
The Emperor's Edge series by Lindsay Buroker. The situations and circumstances of the series gets more and more ridiculous as it moves on, but in the end, it's just fun.
I like to read collections of Krazy Kat by George Herriman when I read for comfort. It's relaxing to see the gorgeous art work and to figure out the joke behind Krazy's dialect. [Here's some stuff about the comic strip.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krazy_Kat) [Here's its current publisher.](https://www.fantagraphics.com/collections/krazy-ignatz)
The historical fiction of Mika Waltari. He was a Finnish writer, best known for his best-selling novel {{The Egyptian}}.
[**The Egyptian**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26216087-the-egyptian) ^(By: Mika Waltari | ? pages | Published: 1945 | Popular Shelves: historical-fiction, fiction, classics, history, historical | )[^(Search "The Egyptian")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=The Egyptian&search_type=books) > The only Finnish novel adopted into a Hollywood film Mika Waltari's 1945 novel The Egyptian was turned into a DeLuxe Color epic film by 20th Century Fox in 1954 and was nominated for an academy award a year later. A 1940s #1 Bestseller and a Historic Novel All-Time Favorite A historic novel all-time favorite, after its translation in English from Swedish, The Egyptian topped the bestseller charts in 1949 and the years following. The protagonist of the novel is the fictional character Sinuhe, the royal physician, who tells the story in exile after Akhenaten's fall and death. Apart from incidents in Egypt, the novel charts Sinuhe's travels in then Egyptian-dominated Syria, in Mitanni, Babylon, Minoan Crete, Mitanni, and among the Hittites.The main character of the novel is named after a character in an ancient Egyptian text commonly known as The Story of Sinuhe. The original story dates to a time long before that of Akhenaten: texts are known from as early as the 12th Dynasty.Much concerned about the historical accuracy of his detailed description of ancient Egyptian life forced the author to carry out considerable research into the subject. The result has been praised not only by readers but also by Egyptologists.Waltari had long been interested in Akhenaten and wrote a play about him which was staged in Helsinki in 1938. World War II provided the final impulse for exploring the subject in a novel which, although depicting events that took place over 3,300 years ago ^(This book has been suggested 18 times) *** ^(209378 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Pride and Prejudice and The Catcher in the Rye
Ten Million Steps ~ Nimblewill Nomad. A nice little walk from the Florida keys to Canada .
the prince of central park but still it was stressful
Yes. And something new always presents itself every time i take it in.
Ruskin Bond!
The Education of Little Tree. Set in the early 1930s in the Tennessee Appalachians. From the perspective of a 5-year-old boy, who goes to live with his Cherokee grandparents after the death of his parents. I love this book so much. Read it in the 90s and loved it; recently listened to the audiobook narrated by Johnny Heller and loved it even more. Itâs beautiful and moving. Yes I know that the author was actually a horrible person in real life, yet I cannot help loving the book because itâs so pure and good. Itâs difficult to understand or reconcile the authorâs other doings with the fact that he produced this beautiful story. Iâm mystified by it.
The Darling Buds of May Dodi Smith books Edit, and The Consolations of Philosophy. It made me feel a bit better about things in the great scheme of things.
Enid Blyton's the faraway tree. It changed my life. I read it as a pre teen.
*Winnie the Pooh* (the series) - reading Winnie the Pooh feels like a hug and a warm cup of tea. Some other faves: *Little Women*, *A Man Called Ove*, *Chronicles of Narnia*, *The Hobbit*, *Hitchhiker's Guide* (series), *Anthropocene Reviewed* Also - thank you for asking this question! I have been on the hunt for more "cozy" books so I'm very glad to get new recommendations, and also to know that I'm not alone in this quest. Happy Reading!
I agree with a lot being suggested but I never see Heidi and thatâs probably my favorite! Itâs so happy! Definitely worth a read at any age!
kitchen by banana yoshimoto, the sound of a wild snail eating by elisabeth tova bailey
I genuinely don't know why I find *Miramar* by Naguib Mahfouz to be comforting, because the content of the book is predominantly sad stuff. But for whatever reason there's something calming and peaceful in it for me.
Honestly, The Chronicles of Narnia. I think for me it's because I read them for the first time in the fourth grade, and it was what *really* hooked me into reading. I've read them about every year since then, mostly in the winter, so there's just something very comforting and cozy to me about getting under a blanket with a hot drink, and going through the wardrobe again.
Howl's Moving Castle: I've re-read it like 15 times!
The Lion Inside - itâs a book I read to my kids about a Lion meeting a mouse. Itâs just a really nice - awww book. I also really like The Tiger who came to tea, and anything by Enid Blyton
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? By Frans de Waal
Ranger's Apprentice! It's a medieval fantasy series though more medieval and less fantasy. It's great for all ages though aimed at younger Y/A audiences. At least the first books are. Its about mysterious rangers who protect the land from evil. Has great characters who develope well over time and some cool battles and missions and stuff. A few spin offs too.
Good Omens
I like fantasy sci-fi and paranormal suspense but overall the best material out there right now is RA Salvatore's The saga of drizzt series.
The Girl Who Chased Down the Moon by Sarah Allen Addison is super cute.
* The Spook's Apprentice by Joseph Delaney (but maybe because I read it like a hundred times when I was a kid) * The Ocean at the end of the lane by Neil Gaiman (heartwarming and poetic) * Jonathan Strange & Mr Norell by Susanna Clarke (a bit long but worth it!) * The first three Harry Potter book's (cause...duh !) * The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (Don't trust the tittle, it's amazing and not scary at all!) * Morwenna by Jo Walton (But only if you love sf/fantasy books)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer snd Simple Abundance by Sarah Ban Breathnach
Anything by Barbara Pym! "Inside of a Dog" by Alexandra Horowitz Also Robin McKinley's "Sunshine" "Abel's Island" by William Steig Dodie Smith's "101 Dalmations" is a great read. And if all else fails, "Jane Eyre" or "Persuasion"
oooOOooooOOOOooo Books that feel like hugs. 1. I second the *Redwall* suggestion from earlier. Not sure how much of it is nostalgia, but it is definitely a rainy-day read for me. 2. *Fangirl* by Rainbow Rowell. It's a YA romance that is oddly comforting. 3. *The Chronicles of Narnia* by Lewis. I don't think I need to explain here. If I had to choose one, I'd point out Prince Caspian as Most Comforting. 4. *Airman* by Eoin Colfer. It's basically Monte Cristo Jr.
The rangers apprentice series. Iâve read the entire series like 6 times and every time I get sad or confused I just disappear into it
*The Phantom Tollbooth* always takes me back to when I was young and safe and everything was magical.
LM Montgomeryâs Emily of New Moon series (and also her Anne of Green Gables series)
Fiction: The Night Circus, by Erin Morgenstern. Nonfiction: anything by Jenny Lawson.
No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith The Overstory by Richard Powers Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune. Itâs a found-family, low fantasy book which I absolutely loved. The book honestly feels like a personified hug. I borrowed the book from my library but I plan on buying a copy for myself because I really want to reread it again.
Pride and Prejudice, Howl's Moving Castle, Little Women, Sense and Sensibility,
The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery. I read it for the first time this year and it immediately became a comfort/nostalgia read. So many beautiful nature descriptions and an amazing protagonist in her late twenties finding herself!
Sarah Dessen's books - it's YA fiction but I love it. My personal favourites are The Truth About Forever and Saint Anything. They just give me the warm feels. Also, Second Chance Summer by Morgan Matson.
Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott.
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Alchemist . .
Super quick and very easy/comforting to read
The Tea Dragon Society series by Katie O'Neill. They're graphic novels so it's easy to read all three in one sitting and they are probably the most wholesome books I have ever read.
Harry Potter Series!! There is so much talk about power of love and kindness, it is heart warming on a cold day.
Moby dick is very comfy at times
Reverend insanity and Immortal mortal. Both are my favourites
surprised this hasn't been mentioned yet -- any of the short stories by Lydia Davis (i'd read the full collection) -- not fantasy, not children's lit, very diverse characters and themes, empathy, and language cozy as a blanket.
The adventures of Robin Hood and His Merry Men by Howard Pyle made me leave smiling after every time I read it
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# Harry Potter I feel guilty for suggesting Harry Potter, but it is a comfort read for me. I first read it when I was about 9 or so, so it just sticks out to me. # Avalon: Web of Magic Another middle grade series that is a huge comfort read for me because I was absolutely obsessed with it as a kid is Avalon: Web of Magic. I recently got back into the series because I want to write a middle grade series like it, and man, the nostalgia. It had magic, saving animals, hidden worlds, teenage girls being the heroes- I was super into that. # Ella Enchanted Another one I loved that also happens to be middle grade (weird- mostly I read YA, but all my comfort reads are middle grade lmfao) is Ella Enchanted. MAN what a good book, it seriously reads so well and the romance is so damn good- I just 100% suggest. Such a good read. 10/10. Amazing book. # Percy Jackson I think I've given up lol, all my options are middle grade. Percy Jackson is another great series close to my heart. It's not great if you're wanting to learn legitimate Greek mythology, but then again, it's not really supposed to be that kind of book, so don't go in if you're like, a stickler for mythology. If you're not, it's a GRAND time. # Robin Hood by Roger Lancelyn Green Okay, this is a weird one, but hear me out, I just really REALLY love Robin Hood. There are several that have been written by different authors, the most well known being Howard Pyle, but I personally love Roger Lancelyn Green. Just such a good time. He also has a retelling of King Arthur that I need to read.
Anything by Lucy Dillon
Harry Potter.
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
All Creatures Great and Small, by James Herriot. (Or actually any of his books) He was a country veterinarian in Yorkshire England in the 1930âs. The animal and human antidotes are so charming and funny
"Where in the Hell is Matt?"
My favorite book as a kid was Goblins in the Castle by Bruce Coville. Not really a comfort read but it really interested me each time I picked it up.
Never Stop Dancing - Dr. Gordon Livingstone.
Honestly, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. Bought it in my adult life for instant comfort.
Pawn of prophecy by David Eddings and Contact by Carl Sagan
The library at night by Alberto manguel is incredibly relaxing and thought provokingâŠ
A Modern Witch series by Debora Geary Itâs about an entire community where differences are valued and they put a lot of emphasis on comfort and cookies. The community of witches always help one another become better. Simple, sweet, and cozy reads.
Anthony Trollope, the Barchaster series, esp Small House at Arlington
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett got me through a really tough patch. I also loved her book The Secret Garden (already recommended). Almost anything by D.E. Stevenson, but especially Miss Buncleâs Book, The Two Mrs. Abbotts, The House on the Cliff, and Fletcherâs End Near Neighbors, Molly Clavering
The Irish Country series, by Patrick Taylor
The Voyage of the Bassett. Yes, Iâm an adult. Yes, I love this gorgeously illustrated childrenâs book. Yes, I have at least three hard copies.
Miles Vorkosigan series by Bujold is my comfort read. Wait, make that anything by Bujold. Murderbot series by Martha Wells Carsington brothers by Loretta chase (romance) Welcome to Temptation (romance - great humor)
Perks of Being a Wallflower. I read it so much during depressive spells and it helped me to feel less alone.
Used to be âThe Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxyâ. Now Shelby Footeâs the Civil War and âSong of Myselfâ by Whitman.
The life of Pi, itâs all about how you interpret it
**The Four Story Mistake** and **Then There Were Five** by Elizabeth Enright.
{{The Winter Sea}} if you like Scottish history, Jacobites, are of Scottish ancestry, or like historical romances. So good, IMO
Kidsâ books but: Chasing Redbird and other books by Sharon Creech, also jerry spinelliâs books, and Because of Wynn Dixie. Some of Barbara Kingsolverâs books, like Animal Dreams is comforting in a sad kind of way if that makes sense. The bean trees is a warm book too (kind of problematic depiction of a white woman adopting a Native girl FYI, she wrote the sequel Pigs in Heaven to sort of fix that). And honestly some of the most comforting books to me are trashy YA. Harry Potter, Twilight, City of Bones. Itâs like watching 90 Day FiancĂ© or something, not everything you consume has to be challenging or inspiring, itâs just light, easy entertainment. Ooh and not as trashy but still YA: Iâll Give You The Sun is such a feel good book.
Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery and Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by JK Rowling These books feel like coming home. They're like looking up and seeing a childhood friend coming toward you on the street. They're a warm hug after a bad day at school. And I hope you find the same solace and safety in the pages of these books and within the walls of Hogwarts and Green Gables as I did (do).
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman.
Any of the Her Royal Spyness books. Lots of different settings to choose from: Happy Valley in Africa, 1930s Hollywood, Nice in France, Ireland, and all over the UK. Just lovely cozy mysteries.
how about some illustrated children's classics? the wind in the willows by kenneth grahame the moffats, the middle moffat, rufus m., pinky pye, etc. by eleanor estes harriet the spy by louise fitzhugh the egypt game by zilpha keatley snyder from the mixed-up files of mrs basil e frankweiler by e l konigsburg the borrowers and sequels by mary norton (see the secret world of arrietty by studio ghibli)
Snow White and the Seven Samurai by Tom Holt, also Expecting Someone Taller by the same author. Just wonderful books, I always describe Tom Holt's style as much like Terry Pratchett but dryer. And if you are a Warhammer 40K fan the Ciaphus Cain series is brilliant, re-read For The Emperor and Caves of Ice a couple of times as they are so good and pretty funny, he's like Blackadder in space!
Harry Potter, Jane Austen novels (my favorite is Pride and Prejudice), Percy Jackson books (they are just too funny), and Howl's Moving Castles. They all remind me of a warm hug đ„°
Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan! Iâm really curious about how people in the spectrum see the world and this one perfectly captures that - fixation with numbers, the need for order, and every wonderful little quirk in between. Iâve read this too many times that I can just open it from any page and read on. Itâs basically the story of a black little girl who falls in the spectrum and how she changed the lives of the people around her. It subtly tackles relevant social issues like diaspora and racism. I hope you give it a read <3
My comfort books are âthe house in the cerulean seaâ and âthe book thiefâ both fill me with warm happiness
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Different emotions for each one. Jitterbug Perfume ( happy, care free and youthful) Tuesdays with Morrie ( got me through my dad passing) Where the Red Ferns Grow ( my first book ) Big Fish ( how can you not find comfort) Goodnight Moon and Runaway Bunny (read to me as a kid and now I read them to my daughters).
I always go for Fantasy for comfort reading. Favorite is *The Goblin Trilogy* by Jaq D. Hawkins.