MY ULTIMATE COMFORT BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS 📚 ❤️
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- Опубліковано 9 жов 2024
- In today's cosy book video, I'm sharing my ultimate comfort book recommendations.
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I'm out of room to list more titles, so you'll have to note the others from the video!
The vibe of this channel is perfect for comfort reads.
Miss Read is such a comfort. I love the illustrations of John Goodall (her illustrator) and collect anything I can find. My mom and I loved to refer to people as certain Miss Read characters!
Three yrs already, goodness. I've throughly enjoyed our time together. 👏
Thank you so much, Elizabeth! ❤️📚
I wish we could have tea together! We could talk books for hours! I love seeing you talk about books that I have and love also!!
My ultimate comfort book is At Home in Mitford by Jan Karon. I even travel with it to help me sleep when I’m getting used to wherever we are. ❤
I always look forward to your videos.. i also LOVE cozy books.. so grateful for you Miranda ..thanks for bringing joy to my life 📚🍵😊
Thank you so much! That's very kind of you to say!
Miranda, I started following you a year ago when I found your channel. I appreciate your recommendations and your summaries ~ it's an art to describe a book in 30-45 seconds so that one has an idea about if it's something you'd like to read! I hope you keep on all of your videos, the trips with your Mom, your seasonal selections and comfort book club! Thank you so much, I really enjoy seeing a video of yours pop up! Best wishes from Nashville Tennessee!
As a pony mad child and now adult, the Jill books win hands down for me. They were the books that really got me into reading and I used to ride around on my pony when I was a little girl pretending to be Jill. Those were the days of long hot summers and school holidays that would last forever... Utter bliss!!
I so enjoyed them too! ❤️📚
So pleased to have you mention Gladys Taber. She was a wonderful writer.
I so agree! ❤️📚
I love going to our local library armed with a list of favourite books you have recommended, Miranda.Needless to say, my home library is becoming quite extensive and have purchased an extra bookcase😂.Thankyou both for starting a UA-cam channel and other social media sites. You have brought a lot of joy to us all.❤
I think Little women is the one book that is my ultimate comfort read I've read it so many times and I love it each and every time xx
Such a wonderful book! ❤️📚
Such a wonderful story! ❤️📚
So many of these books and authors are favorite comfort reads of mine! Thanks for mentioning Gladys Taber; she’s an author I return to regularly and I feel doesn’t get enough recognition. It’s hard to choose, but I think my ultimate comfort read is The Children of Green Knowe by L. M. Boston. I would love to visit her home that inspired the series-maybe some day.
Thank you, Susan! It was a wonderful privilege to visit Lucy’s home this summer! Such magical books! ❤️📚
Just had to pause this for a moment to tell you how happy I was to see you including Mapp and Lucia! That book got me through a boring time when I was ill years ago, and it's remained one of my favorites when I need a smile. On to watch the rest of your video and add to my TBR! 😊
Thank you for all the wonderful recommendations. My absolute favorites are the "Little House" books, particularly "Little Town on the Prairie". I read them many times in grade school. I got a boxed set for my 12th birthday & it is one of my all time favorite gifts. I hope to travel & see some of the places Laura lived. I went to her home in Missouri back in 1977 & it was a wonderful experience.
O. Douglas, DE Stevenson and Angela Thirkell are books/series I return to over and over. Have loved Gladys Taber since I was a child.
One of my very favourite comfort reads and my very late discovery must be 'A tree grows in Brooklyn' by Betty Smith. What a gem! Thank you for this lovely video.
Wonderful list, Miranda! Thanks especially for your recommendations for Gladys Taber, O. Douglas, and Anthony Trollope. They so often are overlooked and are such lovely comfort read authors.
Consider me comforted!😃
Definitely Alison Uttley for me, I also love Alice Taylor’s books about life in rural Ireland in days gone by. After such a hard day it was lovely to watch this and I now look forward to spending the evening with a comforting book ❤
I love Ailson Uttley. I have fond memories of spending my money in a jumble sale, on a copy of Little Grey Rabbit makes Lace. I was enthralled. Now as an adult in my 60s, I still love her work.
I’m so pleased! Thank you for your lovely comment, Sarah! ❤️📚
That’s a lovely one! ❤️📚
I ADORE Gladys Taber. I just found one of her cookbooks and I love reading her musings about life on her farm. I remember when her writing appeared in women’s magazines monthly and I would read her articles avidly. Most of her books are out of print if not all but sometimes appear in book sales etc. Thank you for including this American writer.
I would love to highly recommend books by Elizabeth Cadell. My favorites are The Friendly Air, Family Gathering, Home for the Wedding, Shadow on the Water, The Yellow Brick Road, The Lark Shall Sing, Blue Sky of Spring, and Six Impossible Things (trio). She wrote over 40 books. So amazing.
This was the ultimate video, and perhaps my favorite list of books you've shared. So many familiar favorites and yet, also so many new titles and writers for me to look up and try out. Comfort, feel-good, cozy books are my ultimate favorites. I really loved and appreciated what you said in the first few minutes of this video. That, alone, is worth watching this video! I wholeheartedly agree with what you said about comfort books and how they often don't get to shine like they deserve...after all, they bring SO much to the lives of those who read them. At least, I know that's true for me. I often refer to them as my "kindred spirit books", as they are books that I have tucked in my heart and take along with me in some way. ♥ Thank you for this list, but especially for making your channel a place that cherishes comfort reads!
Love Paddington as well
Just finished reading Miss Read Autumn Diary, and loved it! Thank you for recommending this series on an earlier video, I especially loved the depictions of the natural world and seasonal changes , and the interplay of the village characters, so funny!
I'm so glad! You have lots more Miss Read to enjoy too, Deborah, and they’re all very cosy reads too! 😍📚
The Little House on the Prairie series for me! I scored them as a child and often reread them
Loved not scored 😂😂
I've got a lot of old D E Stevenson paperbacks I inherited from my aunt, it's lovely to have them.
Miranda, you highlighted quite a few of my own cosy favorites. Another - Cold Comfort Farm which I ‘re-visit’ often. Never fails to lift my spirits!
What a lovely list. If you like D E Stevenson as much as I do you might also enjoy Anne Hepple. She wrote comfort fiction set in Scotland but probably not in print today.
So many old favourites here and wonderful to be reminded of them. I reread Little Women in January this year. I also reread all of the Barchester Chronicles. The book my daughter and I re read every December is Winter Solstice, when I first read it I was younger than Elfrida and now I am older even than Oscar! Thankyou Miranda so much for this podcast, it is very much appreciated.
What a comforting video ! My own comfort books are the Arsene Lupin series, the Maigret series, all Agatha Christie and especially her autobiography, the early Barbara Pyms (not the last ones which are too dark for me), the Jane Austen's, and Dorothy L Sayers.
Thank you Miranda for this wonderful selection of comfort reads. So many of these I have read already from your previous recommendations and, of course, from the Comfort Book Club. My comfort books which I return to in times of stress are Miss Read’s Fairacre series and Rosamunde Pilcher, a new favorite. Thinking of my childhood books, it would have to be Astrid Lindgren’s The Children of Noisy Village. As for non-fiction, it would have to be the nature writings of Hal Borland. I have so many favorites, just like you.🍂🐿️🍁
Oh Miranda...I hope you never go away...your like a bowl of HONEY COMB cereal with the BIG BIG CRUNCH...YAHOOOO...I saved this video as to buy as many of your favs as I need them in my home library 😊
Barbara Pym is my go-to comfort read--specifically, Some Tame Gazelle. :)
I find the Mrs. Jeffries mystery novels by Emily Brightwell to be very cozy and comforting - they’re great escape reads!
I've recently found your channel so I've been binge-watching. Oh my! Such a surprise to hear Gladys Taber mentioned; I adore her. I think I've read all her Stillmeadow and Cape Cod books; I own copies of her two of her cookbooks, three of the Stillmeadow books, and a copy of Amber, a very personal cat. I can no longer find them in libraries, which is why I have my own copies. May I also say, as an American I appreciate linking to Blackwell's for the recommendations; some of these are not available on Amazon in the US but Blackwell's ships to the US.
Each book you own is a treasure & you deliver your impressions so well.A pleasure to learn.Thanks.💐🌸
❤thank you for mentioning Rosamunde Pilcher, my very favorite author. “September” is the one I return to always❤
Thank you Miranda. You’ve given us the definitive list of comfort reads ❤ So many of the authors are my favourites too - Miss Read, Rosamund Pilcher (I read Winter Solstice nearly every Christmas but also love Coming Home), Agatha Christie of course (particularly Miss Marple). You mentioned R C Sherriff’s A fortnight in September, Greengates is also a favourite of mine. I just adored the Jill books - as a child I read and re-read them countless times!
Thank you so much, Lucy! I’m so happy you enjoyed it! ❤️📚
You introduced me to Alison Uttley and I'm enjoying all her books no matter the intended age of the reader. Thank you!
You’re so welcome, Deborah! I feel the same way! ❤️📚
I finished Winter Solstice-wonderfully cozy. Any setting in Scotland and the English seaside and country is an automatic read and soothes the heart✨
I loved the Jill books Miranda, and Wish for a Pony by Monica Edwards. Thank you very much for the comfort book thread, it is truly comforting. The Jennings series by Anthony Buckeridge always makes me laugh out loud, about a boarding school boy and his friend Darbyshire who get into many unintentional scrapes. I love Miss Read too, and The Little White Horse iwas our first English class book at high school and is a special favourite. Thank you so much.
I’m a big Monica Edwards too and also laughed over the Jennings books! Thank you so much! ❤️📚
I understand your appreciation of children’s books last thing before sleep. I have two that live on an old library stand by my bed. The first is a second hand book called Little Pictures of Japan part of a series called My Travelship published in 1925 by The Bookhouse for Children. The illustrations are charming and it’s poetry really. The second is a modern book called The Boy, the mole, the fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy. The story is so dear though it can make me wistful for friendships like that. Anyway, thanks for another thoughtful and engaging vlog. I’ve started a notebook dedicated to your recommendations!
Wow! So many of these are my comfort reads as well! Definitely Three Men in a Boat, but also love Wind in the Willows, Anne of Green Gables series (love Rilla of Ingleside!), When calls the heart by Janette Oke, Chalet School, Heidi, Enid Blyton (Caravan Family series, Five Findouters, Famous Five, oh simply everything). We're so lucky to have so many lovely books to read. Thank you for sharing your comfort reads!
My comfort book author since I was a child is the German children book writer Otfried Preussler. I love absolutely all his stories, but my favorite is "Krabat". It is a somewhat dark tale about the sorcerer's apprentice based on the East German folclore. The book takes place during all the seasons but it's an especially cosy read for autumn and winter months. Preussler's books were translated in pretty much all the European languages and many children grew up with his stories. I highly recommend this author to you if you ever come across his books. And thank you for your great recommendations as always!
Your squirrell brooch is as adorable as you and Donna!
Thank you so much, Catherine! 🐿️🌰
Thanks for sharing all these lovely comfort reads❤I discovered your channel last year and wish I had known about it during Covid. There are now so many books that I would love to read thanks to all your wonderful suggestions. Your vlogs are a ray of sunshine ☀️ looking forward to the Bookworm chat soon.
Love this channel! Even hearing about comfort reads is comforting!❤️📚
What a wonderful video! The best thing is, that I've already bought and read quite a few of them and thought them true comfort reads. Now I have to look for the ones I don't have. This is always so much fun❤ Have a lovely weekend❤
Thank you so much Miranda for highlighting the Furrowed Middlebrow books in particular! They are my favourites and not often mentioned elsewhere. Much appreciated xxx
It has to be The wind in the willows. It would be my desert island disc book.
I loved "Murder While You Work" by Susan Scarlett. It has some surprisingly tense moments.
Thank you for another great list of comfort books, Miranda! I, too, love the "Jill" books by RF. I read them as a child in the mid-1970s and continue to go back to them now and then. I still have some of my old "Green Knight" paperbacks (some were sadly destroyed in a basement flood).
BTW, I'm hoping very much that you will include info about that gorgeous watercolor floral throw blanket behind you in your next "favorite things" video. 🙂
I'm currently reading The Fortnight in September, and enjoying it! What an endearing family, impossible not to love them. Thanks for your lovely video, now I have a long list of comfort books to read 💝
Your hair is gorgeous, Miranda 😍
Business As Usual took me by surprise when I read it. Now I love it so much and want to return to it again! ❤️
Such a fun book! Happy rereading! ❤️📚
Lovely video perfect autumnal reset🥰thank you x
So glad you enjoyed it! Have a lovely weekend 🧡
Thank you, Miranda, for reminding me of favorites that I need to revisit.
One of my favorite comfort additions from the category of children's literature is any of the Dr Doolittle stories. He is so kind, and whimsical, and I could almost believe that I could talk to the animals.
Thanks! I too enjoyed Coronation, Fortnight in September, Winter Solstice, as well as others…many of which I learned about from you!! I really appreciate your vlog each week!!
Thank you so much for your very generous support and lovely words, Carol! I appreciate both so much! 🧡📚
Such beautiful Comfort books , including some of my favourites like Pride and Prejudice, Diary of a Provincial Lady, Enchanted April and James Heriots All Creatures Great and Small. I love to read Alexander McCall Smith books for a good comfort read, the No1 Ladies Detective Agency, Isabel Dalhousie novels and the 44 Scotland Street too. Lovely episode, looking forward to Sunday now too. This evening though I'm watching the new series of All Creatures Great and Small on Channel 5 ❤
Enjoy the start of the new season tonight! Thank you so much! ❤️📚
I kept ponies in my youth so I used to love reading the ‘Jill’s Gymkhana’ books 📚 🐴 ♥️ Thank you for reminding of those sweet books. I like the look of ‘Winter Solstice’ so I shall get a copy of that. Best wishes Karen 🧡🍂🧡
Lovely recommendations Miranda, I agree Winnie the Pooh is such a wonderful and endearingly funny pick me up for those lousy days. I always like to read Wind in the Willows or an Agatha Christie for my cosy comfort reads.
Many of these are also favorites of mine! Real comfort to me is a Golden Age mystery, Poirot or anything republished by British Library Crime Classics, as well as vintage girl detective novels and Hazel Holt's Mrs Malory series. Thank you for all the magic and positivity on your channel!
So happy that Gladys Taber is on this list. She's one of my favorites. I call her Stillmeadow books my gentle reading.
Well Miranda, I just bought the Kindle editions of Babbacombe and Business as Usual and now I don't know which one to read first. Then I spent a bit of time searching for the 2005 Hodder edition of Winter Solstice which is the one you were holding. I screenshot the book and then searched for it on the internet. This all made for a pleasant bookish afternoon... I believe the Hodder edition most illustrates Winter Solstice as I read it a few years ago. I am proof-positive that you have earned your youtube stripes in marketing should any publishers be in doubt! Thank you for your recommendations Miranda. I always look forward to seeing that little bell notifying me you've posted again! Also, my comfort book that I turned to every fall is Jane of Lantern Hill by Lucy Maud Montgomery. I love Jane and her dear father whose voice infiltrates the entire novel with his gentle wisdom.
My comfort book is the Magic Apple Tree by Susan Hill. I love how it follows the year and village life as well as having lots of lovely seasonal food and recipes as well
Thank you for the recs, Miranda! 📚
Love the colors of some of the book covers, books you mention. Need to read James Herriot again. Squirrel on your top, reading lamp. It is 90* in Iowa today. Not know Celsius. Thank you, Miranda.
Thank you so much, Mary! I hope you get some cooler weather soon!🌦️❤️
Oh, so many interesting comfort books! Just started Little Women for the first time. I cannot understand why I never read it before. If I can only mention one comfort book for autumn it will be Tove Jansson's Sent i November (Moominvalley in November) I do recommend it of course.
Fantastic list of books! I have many of those already (quite a few based on your past recommendations, lol)---- I've read some, but have many more to go. I absolutely love the books from Dean Street press!!! Love the stories and love what I think are their gorgeous covers. I'm so grateful to you for "introducing" that publisher to me. And Miss Read books....love, love, love those!!! Thank you, Miranda, for another great video! Wishing you and your mom a wonderful weekend, and week ahead! ♥
I also agree that The Little White Horse is magical.
Definitely ❤️📚
Many thanks for the mentions, Miranda! (Spring Magic and The Lark) 😍
You're welcome (I mentioned some other Dean Street Press books too, just didn't have room to link them all 😉 )
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Bravo for mentioning Woodhouse! He keeps me in stitches, my favorite being Aunts Aren’t Gentlemen
I really enjoy your vlogs. Thank you I look forward to them each week.
I’m delighted you like them! Thank you! ❤️📚
Books books and more books keep adding to my list to read! Thank you for bringing so many new"old" classics for a comfy read! Currently reading The Forgotten Cottage by Courtney Ellis.
❤️❤️❤️ Have read many of the books but also many new ones for me😀 My comfort books are anyone of Astrid Lindgrens books (childrensbook book) or Barbara Cartland🙊 but also Mumintrollen (Tove Jansson) and Dracula🤪 The ting is that Anne of Green Gables and Frankenstein is comforting books because I read them as Young and therfore they ”twist together” in the emotional 🎢☯️. Your chanel is 😍🪄✨⭐️📚
Thanks so much! ❤️📚
Excellent video! I so enjoyed it. My favourite comfort read varies but will always include ;
Some Tame Gazelle by Barbara Pym
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
How to Eat by Nigella Lawson
The Christmas Chronicles by Nigel Lawson
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim
Fresh Water for Flowers by Valerie Perrin
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Father by Elizabeth Von Arnim
And anything by the great Agatha Christie.
Such wonderful choices, Brigitte! Thank you! I’m so happy you enjoyed it! ❤️📚
I absolutely loved reading the little white horse as a child. I have a very vivid memory of reading it in a brand new bed with brand new bedding and I really felt like the protagonist when she stays her first night at the Manor House!
If you haven’t already, if you love James Herriott I would really recommend the museum in Thirsk, it was my favourite museum as a child and we visited lots!
I so much appreciate your channel and you. Thanks for sharing.
Just fabulous! I love your book reviews!😊
Thank you so much!
Such gorgeous editions, thanks for sharing Miranda 📚💞💕
What a wonderful video - such a delight to view your comfort reads. Thank you so much Miranda.
You are so welcome! ❤️📚
I love Kenneth Graham! Thanks for your great reminders.
Jan Karon’s The Mitford Series is definitely my comfort read.
I think i say this about every video, but these are some of my very favorites! So many wonderful recommendations, and since I’ve read and enjoyed many of them, I know they’re all my type of comfort reads too. Thank you, Miranda. And I adore your little pin🐿💕
A pleasure to hear your thoughts on these books! I learned of quite a few authors and titles that are new to me and enjoyed remembering some delightful old favorites. Thank you.
So many wonderful recommendations again miranda 😊 I'm pleased to have a few of these authors on my shelfs and have recently treated myself to the persephone grey a fortnight in September with the beautiful end papers that I love ❤ thank you for recommending persephone as they have become a favourite of mine 😊
Thanks for your cozy recommendations! The Jeeves books are hilarious. I just ordered the one you showed in this video as I’ve not read that one. Anne of Green Gables is always cozy for me as I grew up reading those books. The Narnia books are also great and cozy to read. Thanks to you I always have great book recommendations! Have a delightful and comfy weekend 😊😊
Thank you Miranda for this video lot of books to put on the wish list and for chirstmas as well to think about .❤I love watching this .
What a lovely selection! Thank you for this amazing list, Miranda. Can't wait to see your autumnal readings months ahead.
Thank you so much for your lovely support, Martha! I so appreciate it, and I'm so glad you enjoyed these recommendations! 🧡
Thank you for the great comfort reads, Miranda. I also like the Mitford series by Jan Karon. The main character is Father Tim Kavanagh, who is an Episcopal priest, but I don't feel the books are "preachy". Rather, there are a lot of quirky characters in their small town and the stories are full of gentle humor.
Oh, I really enjoyed these recommendations, a lot of these titles I've heard only through your channel!
What a wonderful selection of comfort reading, and many that I love too. Adding to the 'Anne' books, I also adore the 'Emily' books. Among my other favourite children's writers are Gwendoline Courtney, Mabel Esther Allan, Mollie Chappell and of course Elinor M. Brent Dyer. You have introduced me to more modern YA writers which have quickly become firm favourites when I'm in need of comfort; Laura Wood, Robin Stevens, Sangu Mandanna and Karina van Glaser. There are so many more but I have to mention a particular favourite, probably intended for younger children but I still love it, 'The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden; it is a charming story. Moving on to adult fiction, Agatha Christie, Elizabeth Goudge, Georgette Heryer and Mazo de la Roche. I'm also a big fan of Derek Tangye, James Heriot and Gerald Durrell. The last author's books can often be just as hilarious as James Herriot's. Too many others to mention here but I enjoy revisiting all these so much that it is a wonder that I ever read anything new!
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame. Thank you for giving me so many books to discover and reminding me of the ones I loved as a child.
The Diary of a Provincial Lady is one of my favourites, as are the Miss Read and Fairacre books. I haven’t come across Henrietta’s War, but look forward to reading it. Thank you for some great recommendations.
Thank you for all these lovely recommendations. My ultimate comfort read is Miss Read. 😊
I have only recently found your channel Miranda, and it is giving me such pleasure thankyou. This vlog has given me lots of ideas of books to read. I can remember my mother enjoying Miss read, and remember reading No Holly For Miss Quinn a few years ago and really enjoying it. I might try and get into Miss Read books. Once again thank you.
Miranda if you enjoy stories about department stores l came across an old copy of a novel entitled ‘ Bond St Story’ by N Collins which I thoroughly enjoyed and can’t recommend enough.
So many lovely books! One of my comfort reads is "The Cloud Forest" by Joan North, along with "The Chronicles of Narnia" and "Pride & Prejudice" of course! 🙂
I love Anne! Anne of Green Gables is a major comfort book for me as well as The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. ❤ Love your recommendations. I'm a school librarian and I take notes on your videos!
Yay, thank you!
Fab video, I will try some of the amusing ones as I’ve tried reading books to make me laugh but not found one yet.