Perpich News
Comfort Reads from Perpich Library
December 20, 2022
It’s wintertime, which means many of us finally have a bit more time to curl up with a good book and a hot beverage. And what’s more comforting than revisiting one of your favorite books? Comfort reads don’t need to be happy, they just have to make you feel a certain way that you want to experience again and again.
Our librarian, Anne Dennison, asked the students and staff at Perpich to share their favorite comfort reads. The results are below and broken into four different categories: Adult Fiction, Young Adult/Children’s Fiction, Graphic Novels, and Nonfiction.
Books marked with an asterisk* are owned by the Perpich Library and are available for checkout.
Fiction (Adult)
- Beach Read by Emily Henry
- The Carrie Diaries by Candace Bushnell
- Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess*
- Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan
- Dracula by Bram Stoker*
- The Fires by René Steinke
- Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir*
- Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman*
- The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson*
- Nine Stories by JD Salinger
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck*
- Peace Like a River by Leif Enger*
- Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse*
- The Secret History by Donna Tartt
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut*
- Ulysses by James Joyce*
- Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov (play)*
- The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides*
- Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
- The World According to Garp by John Irving
Fiction (Young Adult/Children’s)
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll*
- Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz*
- The Beautiful by Reneé Ahdieh
- The BFG by Roald Dahl
- Coraline by Neil Gaiman*
- Carry On by Rainbow Rowell*
- Darius the Great is Not Okay by Adib Khorram*
- The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein*
- Granted by Corrien Killmer
- The Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling*
- Her Royal Highness by Rachel Hawkins
- The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry*
- The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth*
- New Moon: The Twilight Saga, Book 2 by Stephenie Meyer*
- Not Your Sidekick by C. B. Lee
- One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss
- The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton*
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky*
- The Renegades series by Marissa Meyers
- Series of Unfortunate Events series by Lemony Snicket
- Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo*
- The Similars by Rebecca Hanover
- Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim
- Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo*
- The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton
- Timekeeper by Tara Sim*
- Winnie-the-Pooh series by A.A. Milne
- You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson*
Graphic Novels
- Always Human by Ari North
- The Arrival by Shaun Tan*
- The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy
- Calvin and Hobbes comics series by Bill Watterson*
- Check, Please series by Ngozi Ukazu*
- Everyone’s a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too by Jomny Sun*
- Heartstopper series by Alice Oseman*
- Nimona by N.D. Stevenson*
- On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden*
- Persepolis 1 + 2 by Marjane Satrapi*
- Scott Pilgrim series by Bryan Lee O’Malley*
- This Was Our Pact by Ryan Andrews
- Uzumaki by Junji Ito*
Nonfiction
- As You Wish: The Inconceivable Tales From the Making of The Princess Bride by Cary Elwes
- The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World by Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, and Douglas Abrams
- The Feather Room by Anis Mojgani (poetry)
- I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou*
- Retail Hell: How I Sold My Soul to the Store Confessions of a Tortured Sales Associate by Freeman Hall
- Wanderlust: A History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit
- Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May