10 Cosy Books to Curl Up With On Winter Nights

[@TheoSwinford]

Some of my cozy favorites are The Starless Sea and Anxious People! I also love A Psalm for the Wild-Built!

[@SarahAsYouWish]

I am always so happy when you recommend The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place. It is truly one of my favorite series, and I highly recommend the audiobooks.

[@Jessticulates]

Jessica Townsend's Nevermoor series are the ultimate cosy reads for me! So excited we're finally getting book 4 next year.

[@JeansThoughts]

I find these surprisingly tense books!!! But I also love them aha. I can't wait for more.

[@FaeryLaume]

I read Lolly Willowes in October, I think your by your recommendation, and loved it! I recently read The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong and it was very cozy.

[@nymeria941]

Robin McKinley! I love her books. I’d never heard of “Chalice,” but that sounds like a great cozy read. Mine was rereading “The Bear and the Nightingale” trilogy by Katherine Arden.

[@JeansThoughts]

I've had this book on my TBR for way too long! I need to get to it cause it sounds exactly up my street.

[@aichamartinethiam3880]

Great recommendations! I don’t know if this has been said in other comments, but Beth O’Leary’s The Switch and The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna are two cozy books I talk about often.

[@bookishme3635]

Thank you so much for these recommendations! Definitely going to check out a few these coming weeks - need them in the Nordic winter.

[@GreenGretel]

I rarely hear _Chalice_ talked up on booktube! Great rec!

[@craftyhobbit7623]

I find that the lack of light in winter makes me want to sleep in the evenings so I end up falling asleep reading a book rather than read it.

[@JeansThoughts]

@@craftyhobbit7623 ahaha this is definitely relatable!

[@BárbaraBianchiRolim]

loved it, Jen! thank you

[@juliequick5526]

I love hearing about your take on literature, cosy or otherwise, as it is so different to mine! It has stretched me to reading fantasy in the past and will continue to do so in the future. My slightly older lady version of a cosy book in the lead up to Christmas is Winter Solstice by Rosamund Pilcher, which is set in Scotland and gives me a warm feeling about humanity each time I read it, which is usually every December!

[@melodiesandmemories7739]

I feel like tuck everlasting is a perfect cozy middle grade!

[@Katiedora122]

I grew up reading Robin McKinley, so it shouldn't surprise me how much I've become obsessed with cozy books as an adult, lol. For me, the most comfortable of her books are Spindle's End and both her versions of Beauty and the Beast. And I think that Meg Cabot is another writer who's books also hit that cozy spot between comfort and nostalgia for me. Sarah Addison Allen is another author whose books are very cozy with a bit of magical realism (my favorites are Garden Spells and The Sugar Queen), and I would also say there is something cozy about T. Kingfisher's writing but I would specifically recommend her middle grad fantasy A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking

[@frannook]

A Psalm for the Wild Built is everything 🥹💚

[@JeansThoughts]

@@frannook agreed! I need to read book two

[@rebeccareber2208]

Chalice has been my comfort read of choice for years! Thank you for highlighting it in such a lovely way.

[@JeansThoughts]

Aaah it's so nice to hear someone else has read it aha!

[@Quaisior]

I'm not usually much of a contemporary romance fan, but you sold me on Best Hex Ever and Along for the Ride. I've read about half of the books in the video and loved them, so maybe I'll like those too. I've been craving cozy fantasy lately and read Books and Broadswords by Jessie Mihalik last month. My only problem with it was that it was too short. I also loved Legends and Lattes and the prequel and I have a similar book, only with tea, on my TBR for next year called Can't Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca Thorne.

[@badfaith4u]

The best cosy book I loved is the Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries series. Best Hex Ever is on my wishlist. Thank you for your recommendations.

[@JeansThoughts]

I have to admit this almost made the cut for this video but I was trying to keep it to ten aha.

[@katiechatseyeshadow4394]

Love Becky Chamber’s books. Just finished A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles and he gives me the same vibe x

[@nmartin5096]

Two books I have on my list from Blackwell's (I'm in the States) are A Bookshop Christmas by Rachel Burton and The Bookseller's Gift by Felicity Hayes-McCoy (I'm also getting Whisky Business😊.) Oh, when I was about to leave Blackwell's site my eyes saw this book My Kind Of Trouble by L A Schwartz. No matter what you chose, I hope you have a great December reading.🎄📚🎄

[@cuppa.books.]

Cosy reading is probably more about revisiting a favourite author, regardless of genre. So, any Discworld book would be cosy reading for me 😂

[@JeansThoughts]

I can wholeheartedly agree with this!

[@brittanysvoboda2918]

If you haven't checked out Kimberly Lemming's Mead Mishaps series, I'd definitely recommend it! They're fantasy, romance, humorous, and cozy. The first one is That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon.

[@claireeymin8239]

Before the coffee gets cold. Definitely cozy! Emotional doesn’t go against cozy. I just read the fourth one in the series.

[@JeansThoughts]

OK good I'm glad someone else agrees aha. I still haven't read anymore in the series - are they worth it?

[@claireeymin8239]

@@JeansThoughts the second one yes. The third a little less as in it felt like it was losing steam. The fourth one is back to being very good. I still have the fifth one. It’s like coming back to an old friend.

[@juliettechaplin2685]

I was about to say the same thing! Just picked up the 3rd in the serie because I felt like something cosy ❤

[@katieannwicked]

loved the video! May I ask what lipstick your wearing here? it looks gorgeous!

[@JeansThoughts]

Ooh of course! It's Retro from MAC.

[@Horrorbabe4]

Me, nodding and pretending i relate, while i know im reading one of the least cozy books ever right now. The war of the worlds by h.g. wells

[@JeansThoughts]

@@Horrorbabe4 😂😂😂 each to their own ;P

[@TheoSwinford]

Would love to hear any queer romance recs you have too!

[@crazee4books]

For cozy books with gentle, magical realism I would recommend anything by Sarah Addison Allen.

[@JeansThoughts]

Ooh I haven't come across this author I will have to look her up. Thank you!