Cozy

Cozy books are often characterized by relatively low stakes, a strong focus on characters, and evocation of feelings of comfort, warmth, and safety.

See also: cozy fantasy, cozy mystery
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The Swan's Daughter
The Odds of You
The Elsewhere Express
How to Lose a Goblin in Ten Days
Cross Your Heart and Hope He Dies
No One Would Do What the Lamberts Have Done
A Barista's Guide to Love & Larceny
The Charmed Library
Anne of a Different Island
Wreck Your Heart
Like in Love with You
Definitely Maybe Not a Detective
Enchanting the Fae Queen (Queens of Villainy, #2)
Into the Midnight Wood
City of Others (The DEUS Files, #1)
The Pumpkin Spice Café (Dream Harbor, #1)
The Impossible Fortune (Thursday Murder Club, #5)
The Cinnamon Bun Book Store (Dream Harbor, #2)
The Gingerbread Bakery (Dream Harbor, #5)
The Strawberry Patch Pancake House (Dream Harbor, #4)
The Christmas Tree Farm (Dream Harbor, #3)
Good Spirits (Ghosted, #1)
The Lost Bookshop
The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2)
Tress of the Emerald Sea (Hoid's Travails, #1)
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 4
Apprentice to the Villain (Assistant to the Villain, #2)
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 5
The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club, #3)
A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping
Booke of the Hidden by Jeri WestersonThe Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine HowePractical Magic by Alice HoffmanConversion by Katherine HoweWicked Appetite by Janet Evanovich
Fall, Halloween, New England Fiction
30 books — 32 voters
Copy Cap Murder by Jenn McKinlayNo Cats Allowed by Miranda JamesTo Helvetica and Back by Paige SheltonA Disguise to Die For by Diane VallereGone With the Witch by Heather Blake
2016 Cozy Mystery New Releases
274 books — 136 voters

Murder at Mistletoe Manor by Holly TierneyHaunted House Ghost by James J. CudneyLady Cavendish’s Christmas Caper by Camille CabreraSugar Cookie Murder by Joanne FlukeHercule Poirot's Christmas by Agatha Christie
Holiday themed Cozy Mysteries
179 books — 102 voters
Fatal Fried Rice by Vivien ChienInk and Shadows by Ellery AdamsMurder in the Cookbook Nook by Ellery AdamsUnder the Cover of Murder by Lauren  ElliottThe Broken Spine by Dorothy St. James
Cozy Mysteries 2021 New Releases
245 books — 126 voters

Her Royal Spyness by Rhys BowenDeath at Wentwater Court by Carola DunnA Royal Pain by Rhys BowenMurphy's Law by Rhys BowenCocaine Blues by Kerry Greenwood
Light Historical Cozies
61 books — 26 voters
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall SmithCrocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth PetersThe Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha ChristieChocolate Chip Cookie Murder by Joanne FlukeThe Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
Cozy Mystery Series - First Book of a Series
1,161 books — 2,473 voters

Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes, #1)
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
The Spellshop (Spellshop, #1)
Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0)
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1)
A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)
A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping
Can't Spell Treason Without Tea (Tomes & Tea, #1)
The Teller of Small Fortunes
The Pumpkin Spice Café (Dream Harbor, #1)
The House Witch (The House Witch, #1)
Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1)
Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers (Vera Wong, #1)

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Our new Save the Date stuck prominently to Gloria’s fridge. I memorize all the floorboards that creak or groan, so I can tiptoe downstairs in the morning without waking anyone, take the Jeep into town for a sugary latte for me and black coffee for them, orange cinnamon morning buns for all of us. Or at least Wyn will have a bite, and I’ll polish off the rest. I walk for a while, enjoy the bittersweet scent of whitebark and pine and quaking aspen. There’s an entire shop here for sauces, ...more
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