These are the books that gently transport us away from the world, and into someone else’s; the books that have a surefooted happiness at the end. There’s some seriously comforting reading to be done in the titles below, perfect for this season!
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Poetry
Fiction
The fourth installment in the beloved and New York Times bestselling series from Richard Osman, also author of We Solve Murders "The best Murder Club book yet. . . A poignant complement to both the fair-play mystery plot and the characters' lively hu...
The Last Devil to Die: A Thursday Murder Club Mystery a book by Richard Osman
Harry Potter has never been the star of a Quidditch team, scoring points while riding a broom far above the ground. He knows no spells, has never helped to hatch a dragon, and has never worn a cloak of invisibility. All he knows is a miserable life w...
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, Book 1) a book by J. K. Rowling and Mary Grandpré
When Lydia takes a job running the Senior Citizens' Social Club three afternoons a week, she assumes she'll be spending her time drinking tea and playing gentle games of cards. The members of the Social Club, however, are not at all what Lydia was ex...
How to Age Disgracefully a book by Clare Pooley
Now in paperback, the first book--an instant bestseller--in the sumptuous, sultry, and romantic YA vampire series from New York Times bestselling author Renee Ahdieh. In 1872, New Orleans is a city ruled by the dead. But to seventeen-year-old Celine ...
The Beautiful a book by Renée Ahdieh
It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery which fo...
Small Things Like These a book by Claire Keegan
No one knows what happened to pop icon Eric Thorn. His Twitter account? Frozen. His cell phone? Cracked and bloody, buried in the snow. Snowflake734 Tessa Hart knows the truth, but she's finally left her #EricThornObsessed days behind. She has no int...
Tell Me No Lies a book by A. V. Geiger
Poetry
Najwan Darwish's collection, "No One Will Know You Tomorrow: Selected Poems, 2014-2024," is a profound testament to the human spirit amidst the turmoil of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Born in Jerusalem in 1978, Darwish is a pivotal figure in Ara...
No One Will Know You Tomorrow: Selected Poems, 2014-2024 a book by Najwan Darwish and Kareem James Abu-Zeid
You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World a book by Ada Limón
invites us into the complex, mysterious threshold space we inhabit after loss-how that raw, vulnerable state can open us to depth and startle us with wonder, beauty, and sacred connection.
Paper Boat: New and Selected Poems: 1961-2023 a book by Margaret Atwood
Loved this. Usually I feel insecure as I read poems. Not this collection. I felt locked in. Grief. Current events. Black legends. It’s all here. Also the notes at the end added even more to this collection.
Alive at the End of the World a book by Saeed Jones and D. a. Powell