Picture this with us, you are back home after a long day at work, locking yourself in away from the cold, snuggling up with a good book and hot chocolate. We bet that just the thought of it has already made you feel all warm and fuzzy. Now that most of us are spending a lot of time at home, it is a great time to pick up on your reading routine or build the habit if you are not into reading. Here is a list of books that will make you feel cozy on a cold winter night.
Before The Coffee Gets Cold
By Toshikazu Kawauchi
The moving story is about a café in a small alley in Tokyo that has been serving perfectly brewed coffee for more than one hundred years, but that’s not the interesting part yet. This café offers a one-of-a-kind service where customers can travel back in time but they must return to the present before the coffee gets cold. The story explores a golden question: Would you ever travel back in time? Who would you meet, and what would you like to change?
One Day in December
By Josie Silver
A whirlwind of heartwarming romance. It is the story of Laurie who doesn’t believe in love at first sight until one snowy day in December her eyes meet with that of another man whom she instantly knows is the one in a moment of magic but then the bus stops. Certain that fate will bring them together, it does but in the unluckiest situation when a year later Laurie meets him at a Christmas party as her friend’s boyfriend. The love story is a reminder that fate takes unexpected turns in the strangest way ever.
Pride & Prejudice
By Jane Austen
The beautifully written novel has surely earned its place as one of the literature’s classics that lived through time. Since it was published in 1813, Pride & Prejudice has delighted readers with its blend of romance and social satire in telling the story of Elizabeth Bennet a lively young woman with four sisters and a mother who is determined to marry them to a wealthy man. Elizabeth later encounters the proud Mr. Darcy where more circumstances unite them together and he finds himself falling in love with Elizabeth who has a lot of reservations about his character.
Gingerbread
By Helen Oyeyemi
Influenced by gingerbread’s place in classic children’s stories, the author invites the readers into a wonderful tale of a surprising family legacy. Written by the prize-winning best-selling author of Boy Snow Bird, Helen Oyeyemi, this novel tells the story of Harriet and Perdita, a unique mother and daughter who navigate challenging issues of class, identity, memory, and female power.
On Earth, We’re Briefly Gorgeous
By Ocean Vuong
The debut novel by the Vietnamese-American poet Ocean Vuong is a gorgeous work of self-discovery. With a beautiful and graceful style, the author writes about people caught between two different worlds and how we can heal one another without giving up on who we are. The novel is written in the form of a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read revealing a family’s history that began before he was born and the mother knows nothing about. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction, the Carnegie Medal in Fiction, the 2019 Aspen Words Literacy Prize, and the PEN/Hemingway Debut Novel Award. It is also Shortlisted for the 2019 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and is a Winner of the 2019 New England Book Aw
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