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In this episode, Trevor and Paul chat about their criteria for a good comfort read: Nostalgia? Escapism? … Murder?
They each share a few of their go-to comfort books, along with plenty of wonderful listener suggestions (a few of which might just surprise you). So grab a cup of tea or glass of wine and get ready to bolster your cozy TBR pile!
Spoiler alert: You might want to have a pen and paper handy.
See our table for this episode at Bookshop.org.
We hope you enjoy this episode!
All of the books brought up in this episode!
- The Magician – Colm Toibin
- Devil House – John Darnielle
- The Art of Flight – Sergio Pitol
- The Books of Jacob – Olga Tokarczuk
- Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
- Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim – David Sedaris
- Me Talk Pretty One Day – David Sedaris
- Naked – David Sedaris
- Leave It to Psmith – P.G. Wodehouse
- Journal of a Solitude – May Sarton
- Plant Dreaming Deep – May Sarton
- A Sick Day for Amos McGee – Philip C Stead and Erin E. Stead
- Amos McGee Misses the Bus – Philip C Stead and Erin E. Stead
- All Creatures Great and Small – James Herriot
- And Then There Were None – Agathe Christie
- Readings: Essays and Literary Entertainments – Michael Dirda
- The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating – Elisabeth Tova Bailey
- Dream Work – Mary Oliver
Listener recommendations:
- P.G. Wodehouse
- A Month in the Country – J.L. Carr
- Pietr the Latvian – George Simenon
- Richard Brautigan
- Julio Cortázar short stories
- To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
- Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
- Old Filth – Jane Gardam
- Anne of Green Gables – L.M. Montgomery
- The Power of One – Bryce Courtenay
- The Phantom Tollbooth – Norton Juster
- Things I Don’t Want to Know – Deborah Levy
- Master and Commander – Patrick O’Brian
- Underland – Robert Macfarlane
- The Peninsula – Louise Dickinson Rich
- Sestets – Charles Wright
- The Book of Delights – Ross Gay
- Watership Down – Richard Adams
- O, The Brave Music – Dorothy Evelyn Smith
- Provincial Lady series – E.M. Delafield
- The Fortnight in September – R.C. Sherriff
- Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
- Miss Buncle’s Book – D. E. Stevenson
- Miss Plum and Miss Penny – Dorothy Evelyn Smith
- Cat Among the Pigeons – Agatha Christie
- The Canning Season – Polly Horvath
- Anthony Trollope
- Angela Thirkell
- Rumpole of the Bailey – John Mortimer
- Last Evenings on Earth – Roberto Bolano
- The Adventures of Augie March – Saul Bellow
- Butcher’s Crossing – John Williams
- Alice Munro
- A Stranger In The Kingdom – Howard Frank Mosher
- Joe Keenan
- Mapp and Lucia books – E.F. Benson
- David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
- The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
- A Prayer Journal – Flannery O’Connor
- James Thurber
- A Farm Under a Lake – Martha Bergland
- Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis
- Georgette Heyer
- The Summer Book – Tove Jansson
- Kurt Vonnegut
- A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
- My Antonia – Willa Cather
- Books of Blood – Clive Barker
- Thai Food – David Thompson
- Tasting Georgia – Carlo Capalbo
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A great episode!
Thank you so much for also sharing the book list!
Thank you! And glad you enjoyed the show notes. Typing them up made me realize how many books we mention!