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Books to Read when you Wanna Feel a Hug
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items Most of the books on this list are ones I’ve already read, and they truly stand out as the best of the best in my eyes. Each story offered something memorable, and when I reached the final page, it didn’t feel like I had simply finished a book. It fe...
What’s it about?
After a devastating breakup, Takako moves into her uncle's bookshop in Tokyo, where she discovers Japanese literature, makes new friends, and finds unexpected joy while helping her uncle through his own struggles.
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Days at the Morisaki Bookshop: A Novel
What’s it about?
A teenager releases a balloon with her email address and a secret into the sky, only to fall head-over-heels for the boy who finds it. But fourteen years later, everything Emmie has planned is up in the air.
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Dear Emmie Blue: A Novel
What’s it about?
Set in a 24/7 Japanese convenience store called Tenderness, interconnected stories follow quirky customers and employees who discover warmth, connection, and life's simple joys through delicious food and unexpected friendships.
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The Convenience Store by the Sea: A novel
Yeongju is burned out. She did everything she was supposed to: go to school, marry a decent man, get a respectable job. Then it all fell apart. In a leap of faith, Yeongju abandons her old life, quits her high-flying career, and follows her dream. Sh...
Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop: A Novel
What’s it about?
A mystical librarian with the ability to read people's souls helps various patrons find life-changing books that transform their lives and guide them toward their true paths.
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"In a world where you don't know what w...
What You Are Looking For Is in the Library
The #1 New York Times bestseller about the grumpy old man next door that’s an uplifting exploration of the unreliability of first impressions and a reminder that life is sweeter when it is shared with other people. Also a major film called A Man Call...
A Man Called Ove: A Novel
just finished tuesdays with morrie and omg it felt like someone gently grabbed my heart and squeezed it a lil bit. the book’s so simple but somehow it hits every soft spot in my brain. morrie’s words lowkey made me rethink how i treat people and myse...
Tuesdays with Morrie: 25th Anniversary
just finished anne of green gables and honestly… that girl’s energy is so contagious. anne makes even the most ordinary things feel magical. the whole book feels like stepping into a soft warm daydream. i didn’t expect it to be this comforting but it...
Anne of Green Gables (Wordsworth Collector's)
this book hit different. it’s quiet but powerful. every character feels like a reminder that even if you could go back in time, what really matters is how you move forward after. i closed the book feeling a little sad, a little warm, and somehow a bi...
Before the Coffee Gets Cold: A Heartfelt Novel
just finished this book and it kinda felt like someone dimmed the whole world and told me to sit in the quiet for a minute. the sadness isn’t loud, it’s the soft kind that sneaks up on you after you close the last page. the story follows a guy who’s ...
If Cats Disappeared from the World: A Novel
Macy Sorensen is settling into an ambitious if emotionally tepid routine: work hard as a new pediatrics resident, plan her wedding to an older, financially secure man, keep her head down and heart tucked away.
But when she runs into Elliot Petropoul...
Love and Other Words
Samantha McAllister looks just like the rest of the popular girls in her junior class. But hidden beneath the straightened hair and expertly applied makeup is a secret that her friends would never understand: Sam has Purely-Obsessional OCD and is con...
Every Last Word
After a bad breakup, Tiffy Moore needs a place to live. Fast. And cheap. But the apartments in her budget have her wondering if astonishingly colored mold on the walls counts as art.
Desperation makes her open minded, so she answers an ad for a flat...
Flatshare
As far as Jolene is concerned, her interactions with her colleagues should start and end with her official duties as an admin for Supershops, Inc. Unfortunately, her irritating, incompetent coworkers don’t seem to understand the importance of boundar...
I Hope This Finds You Well: Office Comedy
A grieving bookstore owner faces declining sales and a stolen rare book until an unexpected event offers him a chance at redemption and a fresh perspective on life.
A. J. Fikry’s life is not at all what he expected it to be. He lives alone, his books...
The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry: A Novel
After her fiancé falls for his childhood friend, a children's librarian becomes roommates with her ex-fiancé's new love's ex. Their fake summer adventures lead to unexpected feelings.
Daphne always loved the way her fiancé Peter told their story. Ho...
Funny Story
A failed bank robber takes a group of strangers hostage during an apartment open house, leading to a series of unexpected revelations and connections as they navigate their individual struggles and search for redemption.
Looking at real estate isn’t ...
Anxious People: A Novel
A curmudgeonly professor's research on faeries is complicated by a charming rival in a remote village harboring magical secrets
Cambridge professor Emily Wilde is good at many things: She is the foremost expert on the study of faeries. She is a geniu...
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries