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The best comfortable books of 2025

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In these difficult times, we are all looking for a small pinch – ok, maybe a big thumb – comfortable. This means books with a low conflict, where emotional turns are mainly comforting and happy ends, or at least bit bitter, are guaranteed. The comfortable mysteries, fantasies and novels have exploded in recent years when people were looking for reading material that would comfort them: books in which they could immerse themselves without being exposed to more anxiety or theater. The world has enough drama for us right away, from policy to climate change, and perhaps some of you are ready to move away from more intense and breathtaking readings.

This is a list of books that will help you escape. Books that can deal with difficult subjects, but always with a light and prudent touch. Books where relationships are exhausted and stabilize. The books where the regrets are thrown and the difficult feelings are healed or dissolved. The protagonists are prescribed cats to solve their problems, sell their regrets to a lender on wages disguised as ramen, slowly fall in love, help heal and help heal.

Fuck yourself with one of these seven pounds per rainy day with a thick blanket and a cup of tea, or in hot weather at the water’s edge on a picnic blanket, radiant sun on your shoulders. Go to your friends and family who need a boost. Read them before going to bed instead of scrolling to condemn; Read them in your reading club if you need to refresh your love for reading. I hope you enjoy these delicious seven pounds.

Healing fiction

The Lantern of Lost Memories by Sanaka Hiiragi Book CoverThe Lantern of Lost Memories by Sanaka Hiiragi Book Cover

The lantern of lost memories by Sanaka Hiiragi, translated by Jesse Kirkwood

This new book is emotional and comforting. Before the recently deceased continues beyond, they stop at the studio of Mr. Hirasaki. There, they must choose a photo for each year of their lives, forming a spectacle of lantern which allows their life to “flash” before their eyes. They have the opportunity to take up a single photo. This comfortable story is rooted in the own mystery of Hirasaki (he has none of his own memories) and by an exciting end where the three convincing tales all begin to intertwine.

We will prescribe a cat's book cover by Syou IshidaWe will prescribe a cat's book cover by Syou Ishida

We will prescribe a cat by Syou Ishida, translated by E. Madison Shimoda

Comfortable Japanese fiction has been booming in recent years, and this series is one of the most recent. People who need help come to the Nakagyō Kokoro clinic for the soul in Kyoto, where a cat is prescribed specifically accompanied by their problems. The six interconnected stories sink into the human-animal connection, the ridiculous personalities of cats and the capacity of cats to feel the person who needs it most. Parents and cat lovers of the “cat distribution system” will particularly appreciate it.

Water moon by Samantha Sotto Yambao

Hana Ishikawa was born in the role of her family in the world: taking care of a nominee where people can pledge their most difficult memories and regrets. But when his father disappears, the most precious article in the store with him, Hana must leave to find his father and the object before the lender on wages has deeply troubles with frightening creatures who frequent the store. With an unexpected customer who is ready to help, Hana travels a world of wonder in the Ghibli studio, from car transport to a cloud market.

Comfortable romance

A story of cheerfulness and magic of Kristen ValeA story of cheerfulness and magic of Kristen Vale

A story of cheerfulness and magic by Kristen Vale (forever, August 5)

Fans who appreciated Legends and slats I want to verify this fantastic new romance which promises a comfortable love to its best. Elikki of Plus is an artist of jewelry and elf who does not quite have control of his magic. When she accidentally breaks the wrist of an extremely coarse customer, she and the eight -feet giant high, soft and with Lavender Barra skin must flee the law together. The following is a good amount of sweet and a good dose of spices in this Roman start.

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Shy By Sarah Hogle

This low conflict romance has a grumpy / sun agreement: one of my personal favorites. Maybell’s parish is all Sunshine, a dreamer, who moves into the house of her back -tinting in the mountains – but she then collides with the goalkeeper, who has cohered the property and who is a great grimmer with social anxiety. Naturally, the two know each other slowly, and it turns into a soft and fun romance that will be entertained without the need to force horrible bad communication or intermediate ruptures.

Comfortable mystery

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The next fatal chapter by VM Burns

Burns is well known for its comfortable mysteries. In this one, the owner of Mystery Bookshop, Samantha Washington, is getting closer to her wedding day. But of course, a corpse presents itself, and there is a mystery which must be resolved. What is also fun is the meta-tension of us to read the own mystery-novel in progress, which reflects and alludes to our own intrigue. Fans of comfortable mysteries should already read VM Burns and its popular series of mysteries.

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It’s not a game by Kelly Mullen

Mimi is not your usual grandmother. Living on Mackinac Island and drinking her night gibs, she tries to be here for her granddaughter, whose fiancé has not only thrown her, but also stole all the merit of the mystery video game that they had built together (let’s be real, she built most). When the grandmother and the granddaughter attend a fantasy feast, she quickly became a whodunit, with a corpse and a mansion of the guests trapped in the middle of an approaching storm.


Do you want more comfort? Consult our list of comfortable fantastic novels, or our list of comfortable mysteries from 2024.

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Imagine it: The United States, January 2020. A book with a pretty blue and white blanket made the rounds on the Internet Bookish. Blue ink forms a beautiful hummingbird pattern on a creamy background, a bird associated with the solar god Huitzilopochtli in Aztec mythology. Black barbed wire, both delicate and threatening, cuts the motif into a grid resembling an arrangement of the Talavera tiles. The whole is catchy, ostensibly Mexican in sensation and evocative of the borders and the experience of migrants.

The book tells the story of a bookstore owner in Acapulco, Mexico, who is forced to flee his house when a cartel of drugs assassinates everyone in his family, with the exception of his young son in a quinceañera. She and the boy are forced to become migrants and embark on a treacherous journey north towards the American border, to escape the cartel and to befriend the other migrants along the way. The book is praised not only as the “IT” book of the season, but as THE History of immigration. He obtains the treatment of Oprah and is rented by everyone from Salma Hayek to the Grande Sandra Cisneros, who called him “The great novel by Las American.“”

It’s been more than five years, and this book is always the scourge of my existence.


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