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My Favourite Books: Stories That Feel Like Home
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items Because sometimes the softest stories say the most. These are the books I curl up with when I want to feel something real. The ones that smell like paper and nostalgia. Some made me believe in second chances, others reminded me to slow down. All of t...
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Cozy Fiction Favourites
Soft Romance & Slow Burn Love
Queer Comfort Reads
Comfort Reads for the Soul
Beautifully Sad, Softly Healing
Thrillers, Mysteries & Midnight Pages
Cozy Fiction Favourites
For quiet afternoons, warm drinks, and stories that heal by whisper, not shout.
These are the books that feel like a Sunday morning — soft, slow, and safe. Stories of small towns, kind strangers, and quiet acts of courage. Each one a gentle reminder ...
A quiet little café in Tokyo that lets you travel back in time — but only until your coffee cools. Bittersweet, tender, and exactly what I needed when life felt too loud
Before the Coffee Gets Cold
A soft, magical tale of a Kyoto café that appears only under a full moon. Gentle, dreamy, and quietly comforting — best paired with jasmine tea
The Full Moon Coffee Shop
A reminder that loneliness hides in plain sight — and that small kindnesses can rebuild entire worlds
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
For when you’re standing between what was and what could be. It’s magical realism, but it feels like therapy
The Midnight Library
Wholesome fantasy with found family, seaside charm, and enough heart to melt you. Like a hug in book form
The House in the Cerulean Sea
Five strangers, one mysterious librarian, and the books that change their lives. Gentle, hopeful, and full of quiet magic — like being handed the story you didn’t know you needed
What You Are Looking for is in the Library
Soft Romance & Slow Burn Love
Because love doesn’t always have to be loud to last.
Here are the stories where love lingers — in letters, late-night talks, and cups of tea gone cold. They’re tender, patient, and beautifully human — proof that the best romances aren’t fireworks, bu...
Childhood friends, quiet heartbreak, and the way people find their way back — even after years apart
Love and Other Words
Sunlight on the water, regret, forgiveness — the kind of story that aches just right
Every Summer After
They share a bed but have never met. Notes on the fridge become love letters in disguise. It’s charming, awkward, and tender
The Flatshare
Two strangers find each other through letters left on a grave. Gentle grief, honest healing, and hope stitched into every page
Letters to the Lost
Told entirely through letters between two strangers who never meant to fall in love. Quiet, intelligent, and deeply human
Meet Me at the Museum
A time-travel love story — but about a daughter and her father. Warm, wistful, and deeply loving
This Time Tomorrow
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Queer Comfort Reads
Because love, identity, and belonging deserve soft lighting too.
These books celebrate queer joy, found family, and all the ways we learn to be seen. Some are romantic, some reflective — all of them full of heart. They remind you that being yourself ...
Political rivals, secret romance, and royal chaos — but also joy, identity, and loving loudly. It feels like a warm summer afternoon
Red, White & Royal Blue
Mythic and mortal love entwined. You’ll cry, but beautifully. A classic for a reason
The Song of Achilles
Two boys. One day left. Somehow still hopeful. Teaches you how to live, not just how to lose
They Both Die at the End
Fake-dating chaos turned real tenderness. British humour meets emotional honesty — like a hug with banter
Boyfriend Material
Anxious, endearing, and painfully real. A reminder that self-love is the hardest recipe — but worth perfecting
Paris Daillencourt Is About to Crumble
A queer, chaotic reimagining of Sherlock Holmes — full of wit, wonder, and wonderfully weird world-building. Think gothic boarding houses, duels, and letters that ruin reputations in the best way
The Affair of the Mysterious Letter
A Regency romance with smugglers, secrets, and longing glances across candlelight. Tender and thrilling, with the kind of emotional honesty that makes historical fiction feel alive
The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen
Time-loop subway magic, queer found family, and the softest sapphic romance. It’s equal parts glitter and grief
One Last Stop
Comfort Reads for the Soul
For the days when you need softness more than solutions.
These are my candlelight books — full of grace, rest, and quiet resilience. Each one feels like a hand on your shoulder or a kind word at the right time. They’re not here to fix you — just to r...
A tender, illustrated meditation on friendship, kindness, and courage. Each page feels like a deep breath — or a quiet ‘you’re okay.’
The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse
Short reflections that feel like hot tea for the soul. A reminder that progress isn’t loud — sometimes it’s just choosing to stay.
The Comfort Book
A celebration of small joys: sunlight through leaves, strangers’ kindness, everyday grace. I read it slowly, like a gratitude ritual
The Book of Delights
Gentle nonfiction about the beauty of slowing down, healing, and learning from the cold seasons of life
Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
Part mindfulness, part poetry — short reflections on presence, peace, and staying soft in a fast world
The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down: How to be Calm in a Busy World
Beautifully Sad, Softly Healing
For when you need to ache a little before you exhale.
Not every book on this list is easy — but every one helps you breathe again. They sit with grief, love, and change until the sharp edges turn into understanding. Sad, yes — but never hopeless.
It’s messy, real, and quiet — the way love actually is. A perfect slow ache
Normal People
Dark academia at its most haunting. Tragedy meets theatre with Shakespeare woven through every page
If We Were Villains
A love story that doesn’t promise forever — just honesty. It broke me and stitched me back up
The Light We Lost
Two women, decades apart, connected by an apartment key and a love letter. Evocative, nostalgic, and full of the ache of choices we can’t unmake.
That Green Eyed Girl
Part meditation, part elegy. Han Kang writes about grief, purity, and transformation with luminous restraint — a book that feels like silence made visible
The White Book
Black-and-white tents, impossible magic, and a love story that glows quietly beneath it all
The Night Circus
Thrillers, Mysteries & Midnight Pages
For nights when you crave something haunting, elegant, and impossible to put down.
Stories that pull you into candlelit rooms, whispered secrets, and the slow turning of the unknown. Suspenseful without being cruel, thoughtful without losing tension ...
A classic Japanese whodunit wrapped in cozy atmosphere and subtle wit. A sleepy seaside town, a curious café, and secrets steeped darker than the coffee. Smart, stylish, and softly suspenseful
Murder at the Black Cat Cafe
An elite group of students, a murder, and the slow unraveling of privilege and guilt. Dark academia at its quiet, chilling best
The Secret History
“The epitome of gothic suspense. A shadowed mansion, an unforgettable first wife, and prose that lingers like perfume
Rebecca
Ten strangers, one island, and a mystery that rewrote the genre. Still unmatched in tension and precision
And Then There Were None
A labyrinthine novel about books, secrets, and obsession. Set in post-war Barcelona — moody, poetic, and utterly immersive
The Shadow of the Wind
A biographer, a haunted mansion, and a story within a story. Gothic and graceful, for readers who love atmosphere over adrenaline
The Thirteenth Tale
Dystopian & YA Favourites
For when you want to watch the world end beautifully — and begin again, too.
From Panem to imagined futures, these are stories of rebellion, resilience, and what remains when everything else falls apart. Fierce, hopeful, and oddly comforting in their...
A return to Panem that feels older, wiser, and sharper. Collins proves again that rebellion begins quietly — with compassion
Sunrise on the Reaping
A hauntingly calm vision of the future where death is managed, not feared. Philosophical, morally tangled, and impossible to stop thinking about
Scythe
Sisters separated by oceans and secrets. Futuristic, philosophical, and heartbreakingly tender
The Ones We're Meant to Find
Queer, fierce, and gorgeously written. Revolution, romance, and resistance through a feminist lens
We Set the Dark on Fire
Music, rebellion, and a love story between a human and an alien who just wants to feel. Soft, hopeful sci-fi with a beating heart
The Sound of Stars
Creative & Self-Growth Reads
For when you’re ready to rebuild gently.
These aren’t about productivity — they’re about becoming. Books that teach you how to rest, create, and trust yourself again. They remind you that growth can be calm, that slow seasons still count, and that in...
A thoughtful manifesto on reclaiming your attention from busyness. Philosophical yet grounded — perfect for those craving stillness without surrendering curiosity
How To Do Nothing
Rest as rebellion, rest as healing. A soft, spiritual guide to slowing down and finding power in pause
Radiant Rest
Fantasy & Sci-Fi Stories
Magic, memory, and other words that still feel like ours - where every page hums with wonder and every universe feels strangely human
Love letters written across timelines - fierce, poetic, and impossibly intimate. For when you want science fiction that aches like a love poem
This is How You Lose the Time War
A girl cursed to be forgotten; a story you’ll never forget
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Quiet science fiction about a monk, a robot, and the meaning of enough
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Orcs, coffee, and a slow life built from scratch — fantasy that tastes like peace
Legends & Lattes
Charm, magic, and found family inside a walking house
Howl's Moving Castle
Secret libraries, hidden doors, and stories inside stories
The Starless Sea
Forest myths, soft queer romance, and folklore wrapped in green light
Silver in the Wood
Poetry That Stays With You
For when you crave language that listens back.
Poets who notice what the rest of us rush past — birdsong, heartache, the weight of silence. Each line is a small act of attention, an invitation to pause. These poems don’t just speak — they keep you co...
Poems about stillness, noticing, and joy. She turns ordinary mornings and small creatures into moments of grac
Devotions
Wry, witty, and honest. Cope captures the comedy and heartbreak of everyday love in a way that never stops feeling true
Serious Concerns
Compact, powerful reflections on love, loss, and eternity. Her language is lightning in miniature — quiet but electric
The Complete Works of Emily Dickinson
“Expansive, ecstatic, and endlessly curious. Whitman reminds you that being alive is the greatest poem of all
Leaves of Grass: Selected Poems
Poems about the weight of hope, nature, and womanhood. Gentle, grounded, and full of heart
The Carrying
Tender and luminous. Vuong writes about love, family, and survival with ache and reverence
Night Sky with Exit Wounds
Love letters to dogs and the humans who need them. Playful, profound, and filled with gratitude for every tail wag and shared silence
Dog Songs: Poems
A collection about grief, girlhood, and the ghosts we inherit. Honest, haunting, and beautifully cathartic — like closure served warm
to drink coffee with a ghost
Halloween Reads
Softly spooky, candle-lit, and just eerie enough to make the blankets feel warmer
Sisterhood, moonlight, and quiet witchcraft woven through generations.
Practical Magic
Stories of power, sisterhood, and spells hidden in plain sight
The Once and Future Witches
Mist, cornfields, and courage — the perfect Halloween night story
Small Spaces
A ghost-writer who actually sees ghosts - funny, heartfelt, and a little haunted
The Dead Romantics
Christmas & Winter Reads
Stories that feel like twinkle lights, mulled wine, and quiet kindness
Ghosts, redemption, and the heart of winter kindness
A Christmas Carol
A nutcracker retelling filled with frost, longing, and ballet magic
Midnight in Everwood
A snowflake of a book - sharp, delicate, and fleetingly beautiful
The Snow Child
Three holiday romances that feel like cinnamon rolls and snowflakes
Let It Snow
A love story that feels like a long walk through falling snow
One Day in December