Something with an entertaining but easy to follow and low-stakes story. Something to drink with my coffee in the morning and to wind down with at night.
No purely romance novels please (but having a love interest is ok). No major world building.
by Hellooooooo_NURSE
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The Flatshare by Beth O’Leary might be right up your alley. It’s got heart, humor, and a fun setup, two people sharing a flat (and a bed!) but on opposite schedules, so they never meet… at first. Super easy to read, cute without being full-on romance genre, and the stakes stay low and cozy.
The kitne runner. A modern classic by Khalid Hosseini
A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers! Follows a monk who is trying to find themself and a robot who wants to learn about humans. It’s short too.
Ilona Andrews Innkeeper Chronicles –A magic Inn, space werewolves and vampires, a lot of really unique aliens, mystery, romance, action, a fun and humorous series
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop. Short and easily digestible, but I found it incredibly enjoyable nonetheless. I used it to break up the denser literary fiction and philosophical texts I was reading.
The Hobbit!
Marcovaldo by Italo Calvino
Legends and Lattes, easy & very low-stakes. Just a great comfort read.
Humans by Matt Haig. Cute, light-hearted, wholesome, and fun to read.
The Lane Winslow series by Iona Whishaw.
Cozy and interesting historical mystery series. Loveable characters that you’ll get attached to, easy to read, interesting enough that you want to keep reading, but not scary or stressful.
Just about anything from Blake Crouch
Recursion being my favorite
A Farewell to Arms
Generation X, by Coupland. Favorite beach book.
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen!
Just about anything by P. G. Wodehouse or Pratchett really.
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
*Kahawa,* by Donald Westlake. Misfits hijack a train loaded with a fortune in coffee belonging to dictator Idi Amin Dada. Great fun ensues.
I really loved The Travelling Cat Chronicles, its a very easy quick read but so heartfelt