36+ weeks pregnant. With a 16 month old toddler. Just finished a few non fiction books/ historical books with uncomfortable statistics regarding infant mortality (not as main point but enough that I come here looking to cleanse my palate).
Seeking something cozy. Not too corny. didn’t like tj klune or Travis baldree. Got through all of pratchett, Herriot, and the classics and would prefer something else.
Plus points if it’s an audiobook that’s available through my library 🙂
Had a run of strongly mediocre books and a ready to be pleasantly surprised.
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The Enchanted Greenhouse By Sarah Beth Durst
The Offing by Benjamin Myers
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna
A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna
The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods
Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones.
A Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches and A Witches Guide to Magical Inn keeping by Sangu Mandanna. They are fantastic as audiobooks with a delightful narrator.
The Tuesday Next series by Jasper Fforde.
Night Circus by Erin Morganstern.
The Paper Magician series by Charlie holmberg
My favorite read of 2025 ( I mean that I read, not the year it was published) was The Perpetual Astonishment of Jonathon Fairfax by Christopher Shevlin.
It just fun. It’s filled with characters that you want to spend time with. It’s funny and silly.
The narrator kills it, too.
Anything by Becky Chambers, but starting with The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet is good.
T. Kingfisher has some nice fantasies that are cozy but not as cozy as Travis Baldree. I very much like her[ Saints of Steel ](https://www.goodreads.com/series/311569-the-saint-of-steel)series
House in the Cerulean Sea
The Greenhouse by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
Another vote for Becky Chambers, a long way to a small angry planet, I love them and very cozy but still interesting.
If you don’t mind a bit of voiolence, murderbot is still very cozy but also fun and violent lol
I like spellshop but it is close to too cozy for me, and very irregular society is also a big rec.
If you like mysteries, Naomi kuttners retired assassin’s series, or Thursday murder club as well
Ilona Andrew’s sweep series, about a magical b&b, but there is some stakes, little romance, just easy reads about galactic shenanigans
The Finlay Donovan audiobooks are great – I listened to them up late nights with my non sleeper. I also really enjoy BK Borison and the Lovelight Farm series. Super cozy but still smart and sexy (I feel like the pumpkin spice cafe series tried to copy this feel but the writing in those is terrible).
The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
The Road to Roswell by Connie Willis
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
I’m gonna be in the minority- I found Becky Chambers to be so cozy that it put me to sleep. For Space cozy I’d recommend Beth Revis and Full Speed to a Crash Landing. It’s got a good Space Adventure, romance aspect and a wild twist at the end. It’s also pretty short so if it isn’t for you, less time invested.
I loved The Unselected Journals of Emma M Lion by Beth Brower. They are delightful and great as audiobooks. She’s a plucky, independent woman in 19th century London surrounded by a cast of quirky characters.
*Small Miracles* by Olivia Atwater – in debt to a guardian angel, a demon of petty temptations agrees to a deceptively easy favour – nudge a sinless mortal into a few selfish acts – only to find that the woman is infuriatingly untemptable. *Good Omens*-inspired, but more intimate in scope.
The Singing Hills Cycle by Nghi Vo – a series of novellas about an archivist monk travelling through an East Asian-inspired fantasy country with a bird spirit companion, collecting histories and folk tales and legends.
Emily Wilde series by Heather Fawcett – alt-historical fantasy; a curmudgeonly Cambridge professor travels to a remote Scandinavian town to study the local faeries… trailed by her *infuriatingly* charismatic and handsome academic rival.
As others have mentioned, T. Kingfisher, Becky Chambers and Martha Wells are great. If you’re down for YA, I’d also recommend Tamora Pierce.