Wholesome books to read

It’s always a good time to escape into a wholesome book and remind yourself of the best parts of life. But it can be easy to forget about all the heartwarming, uplifting, and comforting books in libraries and on bookshop shelves. Which of these wholesome books have you already read, and which ones can you add to your reading list?

In the first months after we moved to Copenhagen, Iain encouraged me to watch my first Studio Ghibli movie: Kiki's Delivery Service.

It came to me while picking beans, the secret of happiness, wrote Robin Wall Kimmerer, the botanist, storyteller, and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation,

Translated fiction faves ⋆˚✿˖° Thought I’d do a little roundup of some of my fave translated fiction books (which I have physical copies of). I recently finished reading Butter by Asako Kuzuki and I found it so immersive and thought provoking I needed to pick up something short to help prevent a reading slump - so I started reading Days at The Morisaki Bookshop which @tash.is.reading kindly gifted me 💛 It’s very wholesome so far and just what I needed. If anyone has any other translated ...

Now this is the kinda book I would want to read

Since its publication in 2019, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse has been recommended everywhere.

These comforting books feel like a warm hug.