Cozy

Cozy books are often characterized by relatively low stakes, a strong focus on characters, and evocation of feelings of comfort, warmth, and safety.

See also: cozy fantasy, cozy mystery
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The Unicorn Hunters
Scandal of the Summer
Field Guide for the Formerly Villainous (Everyday Magic, #1)
The Disaster Gay Detective Agency
A Botanist's Guide to Tradition and Treachery (Saffron Everleigh Mystery, #5)
Death on the Lanai (Golden Girls Cozy Mystery, #2)
The Reimagining of Thornwood House (The Magic of Iskendra, #1)
Dearly Departed
Wildflower
The Butler (The Butler, #1)
The Feywild Job (Dungeons & Dragons)
The Magic of Us
Letters from the Last Apothecary (Tressport Magic, #1)
The Fatal Unpleasantness at Netherfield (Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney #5)
Murder at the Spirit Lounge (Nora Breen Investigates, #2)
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 4
The Pumpkin Spice Café (Dream Harbor, #1)
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 5
Assistant to the Villain (Assistant to the Villain, #1)
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 7
The Impossible Fortune (Thursday Murder Club, #5)
The Cinnamon Bun Book Store (Dream Harbor, #2)
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 8
Tress of the Emerald Sea (Hoid's Travails, #1)
The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2)
The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife
The Strawberry Patch Pancake House (Dream Harbor, #4)
Apprentice to the Villain (Assistant to the Villain, #2)
The Lost Bookshop
The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club, #3)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferAnne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryThe Help by Kathryn StockettAll Creatures Great and Small by James HerriotThe Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Most Charming Novels
405 books — 184 voters
Fatal Fried Rice by Vivien ChienInk and Shadows by Ellery AdamsMurder in the Cookbook Nook by Ellery AdamsUnder the Cover of Murder by Lauren  ElliottThe Broken Spine by Dorothy St. James
Cozy Mysteries 2021 New Releases
247 books — 128 voters

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall SmithCold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann BurnsThe Trouble in Willow Falls by Pat NicholsThese High, Green Hills by Jan KaronLight from Heaven by Jan Karon
Gentle Fiction
83 books — 46 voters
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Book Thief by Markus Zusak1984 by George OrwellThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. LewisFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Books that Change You
249 books — 72 voters

OVERBROOK FARMS by Neal GoldsteinA Shot in the Bark by C.A. NewsomeKarma's A Bitch by Shannon EspositoDesperate Housedogs by Sparkle AbbeyWish You Were Here by Rita Mae Brown
Best Pet Mystery Series
153 books — 114 voters
Secondhand Spirits by Juliet BlackwellAbby Cooper, Psychic Eye by Victoria LaurieThe Trouble With Magic by Madelyn AltWhat's a Ghoul to Do? by Victoria LaurieBrownies and Broomsticks by Bailey Cates
Paranormal Cozy Mysteries
747 books — 685 voters

Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes, #1)
The Spellshop (Spellshop, #1)
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0)
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1)
A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)
A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping
Can't Spell Treason Without Tea (Tomes & Tea, #1)
The Teller of Small Fortunes
The Pumpkin Spice Café (Dream Harbor, #1)
The Enchanted Greenhouse (Spellshop, #2)
The House Witch (The House Witch, #1)
Agnes Aubert's Mystical Cat Shelter
Howl's Moving Castle (Howl's Moving Castle, #1)

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Megan stepping back let her glance switch from Alma to Isabel and return to Alma.
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She craved a tall glass of the fresh-squeezed lemonade from the pitcher she’d left chilling
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Ed Lynskey, Fur the Win

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