One of the many wonderful things about being a book lover is the ability to lose one’s self in a “comfort read.” Whether that means a light and fluffy story to take our mind off troubled times, a bleak and dreary story to remind us that the present isn’t all that bad, or something in between, there’s a comforting book out there for everyone.
So what exactly is a comfort read? And what books do we think fit that description?
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Books Mentioned:
- Bonds of Brass by Emily Skrutskie
- The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
- The Cloud Roads by Martha Wells
- The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells
- Dragon Age: Tevinter Nights by Patrick Weekes
- The Licanius Trilogy by James Islington
- The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
- Touch by Claire North
- Briarley by Aster Glenn Gray
- The Raven and the Reindeer by T. Kingfisher
- The Wayfarers Trilogy by Becky Chambers
- The Bright Sessions by Lauren Shippen
- The Infinite Noise by Lauren Shippen
- Strange Practice by Vivian Shaw
- One Piece manga
- In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan
- Discworld by Terry Pratchett
- Sir Thomas the Hesitant and the Table of Less-Valued Knights by Liam Perrin
- The Black Company by Glen Cook
- The First Law by Joe Abercrombie
- The Gentleman Bastard Sequence by Scott Lynch
- The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee
- Snowspelled by Stephanie Burgess
- Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh
- The Extraordinaries by TJ Klune
- Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
- The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
- A Paradise Built in Hell by Rebecca Solnit
- Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo
- Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft
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