Top 10 Soul Warming Books

Snuggle in with Layla's Top 10 Soul Warming Books

If you are in search of the cosiest, soul warming reads this winter, look no further Layla is here to help!

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She and Her Cat by Makoto Shinkai & Naruki Nagakawa

She and Her Cat by Makoto Shinkai & Naruki Nagakawa

Cats and cosiness–the perfect combination! This book reminds you just how important cats are as the perfect companion.

It's your life, and you have to make sure you keep enough of it for yourself

The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

Can sci-fi be cosy? If you’ve read Becky Chambers’ Wayfarers series, you know the answer is a resounding yes. The first book in the series, The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet is the perfect blend of found family, acceptance, and plenty of trust that is a perfect read, whether you’re a big sci-fi fan or ready to take the plunge into the unknown.

I can wait for the galaxy outside to get a little kinder.

Astrid Parker Doesn’t Fail by Ashley Herring Blake

Astrid Parker Doesn’t Fail by Ashley Herring Blake

The journey the two main characters go on through this is hard-hitting as well as utterly heart-warming.

There’s running from something, and there’s running to something new.

Astrid Parker Doesn’t Fail by Ashley Herring Blake available here
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna

Witches, magic, love what more could you ask for! The perfect book to cosy up with under a blanket to restore your soul to utmost happiness.

It’s not always enough to go looking for the place we belong. Sometimes we need to make that place.

Make the Season Bright by Ashley Herring Blake

Make the Season Bright by Ashley Herring Blake

There’s nothing like a cosy Christmas story to read when the season is upon us! Make the Season Bright is a perfect holiday romance – a Christmas trip, Christmas themed dating events, and your ex-fiancée casually making an appearance the entire trip that totally will not re-ignite past feelings…This is the perfect read to get you ready for Christmas and all the cosiness the winter season brings.

Can two exes find love again under the glow of Christmas lights?

Make the Season Bright by Ashley Herring Blake available here
Paladin’s Faith by T. Kingfisher

Paladin’s Faith by T. Kingfisher

It’s hard to choose a favourite of the Paladin’s series, but the journey that Paladin Shane goes through in this book is enough to warm even the most frozen of hearts.

You'll be fine. You just...I don't know, sprained your soul. Stay off it for a few weeks.

The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong

The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong

Looking for big-hearted characters, a quest, cakes and pastries to die for, and found family that quickly become your absolute ride-or-dies? The Teller of Small Fortunes has all of this and more. It’s so warming to read how quickly the side characters in this book would do anything to support the main character, and it definitely had me shedding a tear or two!

All cats are slightly magical, don't you know? It's why they're so smug all the time.

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

The original soul warming book if ever there was one–at least in my mind! The Hobbit is full of excitement, adventure, and the best depiction of cosy characters in all literature – hobbits!

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.

The Phoenix Keeper by S.A. MacLean

The Phoenix Keeper by S.A. MacLean

Magical animals? Check. An unwavering determination to save the endangered phoenix? Check. A crush on your co-worker? Check, check, check!

Set in a magical zoo teeming with mythical beasts from dragons and unicorns to kelpies and krakens.

Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree

Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree

Bookshops & Bonedust is by far my top favourite of all soul warming books. The prequel to Legends & Lattes tells the origin story of orc warrior Viv, learning to take life at an easier pace after being injured. The whole book is a journey for Viv, and as readers we go along rooting for her the whole way. Did I absolutely sob at the end of this book? I’ll never tell…

Every book is a little mirror, and sometimes you look into it and see someone else looking back

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