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The Coziest Post-Christmas Reading Marathon
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items The week after Christmas is the best reading time of the year, I'm not going to argue FIGHT WITH UR MAMA. Sinking into the couch with a stack of books and some leftovers and not getting up again until the new year. When it's cold and I'm under the co...
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Cozy and Bright
Entertaining Time Passers
Cozy and Bright
Reading by candlelight while sipping hot chocolate-- the true meaning of the holidays
This is an NF food travel book based around the Black Sea (which, for those as ignorant in geography as I am, is between Europe and Asia, near Russia/Ukraine/Turkey etc.) It is full of stories and full-color photographs that are literally SO ATMOSPHE...
Black Sea: Dispatches and Recipes – Through Darkness and Light
Elves! Elves! Don't say their name, they'll appear! Strange happenings are happening and the fae folk are near! Discworld's most youthful and beautiful witches (well… Discworld's witches) are on the case
Lords and Ladies (Discworld Series #14) by Terry Pratchett
An academic studying fae lore is contacted by a… fae lord. It's so cozyyyyyy omg. If you told me this was BTS Jimin x Jungkook fanfiction turned published work I would believe you.
Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh
Is there ever a bad time to read Pride and Prejudice? No. But that week after Christmas is such a magical cozy time, that I just KNOW this is the perfect experience. Mr. Darcy proposing as you sip hot chocolate? Perfection
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
This manga is so cozy, if a little sad. An ambitious girl learns she can do magic with just a pencil and paper… at a cost. For fans of The Prince and the Dressmaker, Project Runway, Fullmetal Alchemist, and Harry Potter.
Witch Hat Atelier by Kamome Shirahama
If you've never read a manga, let this be the first. Nerdy loser girls all living in a house together are confronted with the reality of being kicked out… unless they can play the part. Part Ms. Doubtfire, part House Bunny, so cuuute
Princess Jellyfish, Volume 1 by Akiko Higashimura
Entertaining Time Passers
You're stuck on that couch anyways, may as well dip into something fast-paced
A wild dark academia romp around the campus of an elite private college with an even more elite group of (mostly nepo baby) intellectuals that prize ancient knowledge and group loyalty over everything… even their friend's life.
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
This is a ROMP! In the streets of turn of the century Cairo, someone is taking advantage of the confusion and class struggle by sowing dissent… and it might be a Djinn. Join our female detective and her catlike accomplice to find out who is trying to...
A Master of Djinn by P. Djeli Clark
A nonfiction look at the Congo… and how it started being exploited. This is SAD and DARK but it's such a non-stop crazy adventure that I was hooked from cover to end.
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild
You want fairies? I'll give you fairies! This is one of my favorite series, Jude is one of my favorite main characters. She's just so gosh darn grumpy, and Cardan (the fae she lov-- I mean HATES HATES HATES) is so snarky. Genuinely such a good time.
The Cruel Prince (Folk of the Air Series #1) by Holly Black
Binti is a genius… and she's going to need to be to stop the alien invasion of her home. She goes from Africa to space without losing touch with her culture but still comes back irrevocably changed… and with a vengeance.
Binti (Binti Series #1) by Nnedi Okorafor
Angels, demons, who can keep track anymore? It's all going to end eventually anyways. Right?
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
American Idol Saves the Planet from Aliens Building a Bypass, essentially. For fans of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente