Cottagecore

Cottagecore is an aesthetic idealising rural life. Cottagecore fiction tends to be gentle stories in a rural setting, at a slow pace which includes descriptions of nature, and exude feelings of comfort with perhaps some mild adventure and a some fantasy. Whether an explicit part of the book or lurking in the background, there is always a love of nature.

Cottagecore Books

Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)

Howl's Moving Castle (Howl's Moving Castle, #1)

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Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder

The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams Bianco

Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Cottagecore books

69 books — 4 voters

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien

Cottagecore Vibes

166 books — 46 voters

Cozy Witch Vibes

2 books — 1 voter

The Little Book of Cottagecore by Emily Kent

Whittling Twigs & Branches by Chris Lubkemann

DIY Cottagecore

72 books — 6 voters

Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett

The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune

Cottagecore Fantasy

111 books — 86 voters

The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows by Olivia Waite

Cottagecore Aesthetic

8 books — 1 voter

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Quotes Tagged “Cottagecore”

“ Margaret and Jane didn't really get non-European food, even at a time when cooking from former and contemporary colonies-- India, Hong Kong at the time, Jamaica, Trinidad-- was working deeper into the canon. And they could be out of touch-- Margaret's bon viveur lifestyle, Jane's cottagecore cave house in rural France. Like a lot of food writers, Jane was interested in a fantasy kind of peasantry, but not the actual realities of shopping in a Tesco now. ...more ”
― Ruby Tandoh, All Consuming: Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now

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“ They were part of a forest, an ecosystem that is perfect because of its wide variety of species, dominant because nothing is not allowed to be there. In the forest, everything that is inclined to thrive really does, and has a job, and some jobs are to grow things up and some jobs are to take things apart and everything is accepted because there is no notion—among bacteria and moss and busy mice—there is no notion of who deserves to do something or be in a place. There are only lives to be lived, ...more ”
― Jenny Slate, Little Weirds

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