Hi all, I’m hoping the title of my post makes sense. I’m looking for a book along the lines of Anxious People, A Man Called Ove, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, Remarkably Bright Creatures, The Guncle, etc. Ideally fiction that features protagonists undergoing hard circumstances but where goodness and humanity shines through and leaves you with a feeling of hope. Thanks!!
by NeuroticNurse1
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[Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58733693-remarkably-bright-creatures?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=vIYfXOm8v4&rank=1) had so much caring and humanity in it (not to mention a very clever octopus).
A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers
A Half Built Garden by Ruthanna Emerys
The House on the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandana
Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree
“Winter Solstice” or “September” by Rosamunde Pilcher
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
The Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
Really Good, Actually by Monica Heisy
Snowflake by Louise Nealon
Circle of Friends by Maeve Binchy
The Authenticity Project by Clare Pooley
How the Penguins Saved Veronica by Hazel Prior
Iona Iverson’s Rules for Commuting by Clare Pooley
Those are 3 I liked and tagged “nice” on my Goodreads. 🙂
The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune. I’ve always described reading this book as feeling like getting a giant hug from the author and his characters.
Every book Fannie Flagg has ever written is like a warm hug from a grandma who is unconditionally proud of you. A Redbird Christmas is the “simplest” of her books but is my favorite. I usually recommend The All Girl’s Filling Station’s Last Reunion because it’s the “best”
The Summer of My Amazing Luck by Miriam Toewes or A Boy of Good Breeding – many of her other books are about suicide but these two are like a patch of sunlight to sit in