This week’s Top 10 Tuesday meme has us looking at books that give us cozy vibes. Here’s a list to to keep us warm!
1/ Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Everything sounds hopeful and cozy when Anne says it.
2/ James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Because there’s so much happiness in finding your own tribe.
3/ The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
Who doesn’t like the Underdog winning (and continuing to do the right thing)?
4/ Where the Sidewalk ends by Shel Silverstein
A few words from the wise:
5/ The King of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner
Because this thief-turned-king has the best quips ever.
“Your Majesty, is it true that your cousins held you down in a water cache? Is it also true that they wouldn’t let you out until you agreed to repeat insults about your own family?”
“I could send you to ask them.”
“It would be a long trip, your Majesty. I would much rather hear the answer from you.”
“Oh the trip would be much faster than you think. Most of my male cousins are dead.”
6/ Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
For the epic bromance. (Can’t wait for Season 2!)
7/ Cotillion by Georgette Heyer
For Underdogs getting the girl, and also for quotes like these:
“No one could have called Mr. Standen quick-witted, but the possession of three sisters had considerably sharpened his instinct of self-preservation.”
8/ The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
Simple monthly goals are the way to go. Tried and tested!
9 / Shit, Actually by Lindy West
For a guaranteed laugh, every time. Sample:
“The T. rex gets out. The lawyer tries to hide in a toilet house, but T. rex finds him immediately because this is the ’90s, so T. rexes hate lawyers.”
While describing Jurassic Park, in “The Real Monster Is Inspections”
10/ Around the World in 80 Trees by Jonathan Drori & Lucille Clerc
Because Nature is so awe-inspiring. An excerpt:
Successive layers overlap; the resulting gloom deters less shade-tolerant species from growing and makes Beech forests, which lack shrubs close to the group, strangely quiet.
Any of our book choices match? I am looking forward to everyone’s list(s) and adding to my TBR!
19 replies on “Top 10 Cozy Reads”
Aww, Anne is a great pick!
My post: https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-cozy-reads/
I read the first book in that Megan Whalen Turner series, but I really should get back to it and try the rest.
Anne of Green Gables is one of those classics that I have always meant to read, but have not yet. One day!
I love how you included kids’ classics as well as adult books. Here is my post-https://paigesofnovels.wordpress.com/2022/11/29/top-ten-tuesday-cozy-read-recommendations/.
Oooh, I love your list! I especially love that you included that Shel Silverstein poem. I always forget how cozy poetry can feel to me until someone else mentions it.
My TTT: https://bookwyrmknits.com/2022/11/29/top-ten-tuesday-cozy-sff-reads/
Great list! I love seeing Where the Sidewalk Ends. 🙂
You’ve got a great mix of books on my TBR and books from my childhood! I still have a Shel Silverstein book on my shelf, and it always makes me smile when I look at it.
I’ve only read the Addison and the Gaiman/Pratchett titles, but they are both books I heartily enjoyed and would consider revisiting. At some stage I may steel myself to read a Heyer, but I know not when!
#4 because it makes me think of childhood.
Anne of Green Gables is such a perfect addition to any cozy list!
Pam @ Read! Bake! Create!
https://readbakecreate.com/cozy-gift-ideas-for-book-lovers/
An eclectic list which I love. Like me, you have a bit more unusual interpretation of cozy for your reading, which I love. Thanks for visiting – I look forward to more!
Terrie @ Bookshelf Journeys
I love Anne! And The Happiness Project is such a good read. Great TTT list! 😀
Anne of Green gables is a book I wished I’d read as a kid, since it seems to be beloved by so many. and James and the Giant Peach I have good memories of, even though I hardly remember anything. A teacher in grade school read us a bunch old Roald dahl’s and I fell in love with them.
Oh yes! These all sound like great cozy reads. Where the Sidewalk Ends, Anne of Green Gables, and James and the Giant Peach . . . Good Omens is on my list to read. I haven’t seen the show although I’m always tempted to start it–then I tell myself I need to read the book first. I say that about a lot of movies and tv series. I think I’m missing out. Haha
Lex! Yea!!! Aah, yes – everything does sound inspiring if Anne says it. And Good Omens are the best. Loved it! Where the sidewalk ends… Aaaaaahhhh!! I need to get a copy for the kids at school.
So good to see you at TTT again!
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Elza Reads
ANNE OF GREEN GABLES is a great pick! I’ve seen it on tons of lists this week and no wonder. It’s the coziest of the cozy 🙂
Happy TTT (on a Wednesday)!
Susan
http://www.blogginboutbooks.com
Cool list! I’m eager to read your #10
Great list. I have to recommend two books for your tbr because I would love to know what you think. They’re both self published and both are finalists in the Self-Published Fantasy Blog Off. The first is the book chosen by myself and the Critiquing Chemist – Miss Percy’s Pocket Guide by Quenby Olson, an Austen style story with an unexpected hatchling. The second is inspired by your list because you have Good Omens on there, Small Miracles by Olivia Atwater. Contemporary setting, the author loves Good Omens and this is like a love letter to it almost, it’s on a much smaller scale but it’s really a lovely read. Ooh, also forgot – Scales and Sensibility – another Regency style book where bonnets and dragons are the latest must haves. Stephanie Burgis wrote it.
Sorry to overload you 😀
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I’m dying for the second season of Good Omens.