Adebayo, Ayobami – Stay with Me
Chopin, Kate – “The Kiss”
du Maurier, Daphne – Don’t Look Now
du Maurier, Daphne – Jamaica Inn
Faber, Michel – The Apple: Crimson Petal Stories
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins – The Yellow Wall-Paper
Hemingway, Ernest – Men Without Women
Ishiguro, Kazuo – An Artist of the Floating World
Ishiguro, Kazuo – The Remains of the Day
Johnstone, Matthew – Living with a Black Dog: His Name is Depression
Kristof, Nicholas D. and Sheryl WuDunn – Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Leav, Lang – Lullabies
Levy, Andrea – Fruit of the Lemon
Miller, Lauren E. – 5 Minutes to Stress Relief: How to Release Fear, Worry, and Doubt… Instantly
Munro, Alice – Runaway
Roy, Arundhati – The God of Small Things
Smith, Dodie – The Town in Bloom
Steinbeck, John – Of Mice and Men
Tamaki, Mariko and Jillian Tamaki – Skim
Tan, Amy – The Opposite of Fate
Tolstikova, Dasha – A Year without Mom
Umezawa, Rui – Strange Light Afar: Tales of the Supernatural from Old Japan
Watson, Winifred – Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Whipple, Dorothy – The Closed Door and Other Stories
Yates, Richard – Revolutionary Road
A lot of these books I’ve never read. what an interesting list!
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Thanks! I’ve always thought I keep falling back to cozy British fiction, but I guess my reading taste is more eclectic than I give it credit
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I’ve always wanted to know. What is cozy fiction?
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I’ve always subjectively considered cozy fiction to be works that make you want to curl up in bed with a hot chocolate/mug of milky tea.
More specifically, usually they are set in the countryside, the plot may be bittersweet but it isn’t tragic (a lot of simple joys in daily life), and the atmosphere centers around a small domestic circle (usually in a home or in a family, sometimes close friends, but family is more obvious).
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I really like your definition. Do you have one absolute favorite?
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