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For me, the coziest book I have read is Neil Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane

>inb4 Neil Gaiman is pleb
>inb4 OP is pleb

What are some cozy books you have read and would recommend?

>> No.6322134

>The Ocean at the End of the Lane
That book creeped me out, I've no idea how you can say it was cozy.

>> No.6322140

The Magic Mountain

At least until the last third of that book.

>> No.6322149

>>6322125
Preliminary Technical Report, Surveyor V. That was a good book.

Also, the complete works of Herodotus.

>> No.6322151

>>6322134

Well, I thought The Shining was cozy as well, so maybe I am just comforted by horror/creepy stuff.

>> No.6322152

Hardboiled Wonderland and The End of the World is pure comfort.

>> No.6322158

>>6322152

True, read that in january, as weird as the place was, I wish I could live in The End of the World

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>>6322125

>> No.6322187

The Redwall Series

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Obligatory

>> No.6322192

Code of the Woosters

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Microserfs
The Windup Bird Chronicle
Carver short stories

>> No.6324067

>>6322125
Anything by Tolkein

>> No.6324085

>>6322125
>be reading OatEotL
>hey this is cozy as shit why isn't it a children's book
>suddenly naked lady boat monsters
Ok

>> No.6324189

>>6322125
Neil Gaiman is so pleb that nobody need hesitate to overrule your preemption. btw you're also a pleb

>> No.6324235

The Alchemaster's Apprentice (cute children's book about a talking cat-thing who signs his life away to gorge on weird food for a month) and Au Rebours are pretty comfy. Both have a large focus on describing decadent and indulgent objects, which is nice.

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>> No.6324386

OP made a mistake. OP didn't >inb4 OP can't inb4. Therefore, this >>6324189

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its like taking a warm bath with my mind

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6324403

Look up The Crane. It's a children's book in form, but it's so poetic and the characters are so beautiful that I think it's a must-read for those in the pursuit of comfy.

>> No.6324426

>>6324235
Related; when I was eleven, I made an account on the book's wiki so that I could write a few paragraphs about the edible organ of a fictional animal that is mentioned exactly once in the entire book.

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Pic related is pretty cozy so far, just a nice boy's tale with McCarthy's prose.

Kinda surprising coming from Blood Meridian and Outer Dark.

>> No.6324494

>>6322140
Why the last third?

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The Once and Future King.

>> No.6324715

MASON & DIXON

>> No.6324727

>>6324650
fluid druid?

>> No.6324824

>>6324715

Mason and Dixon is just one long, comfy and well-told bedtime story.Literally.

>> No.6325002

calvino
the absolute coziest

namely cosmicomics and baron in the trees

>> No.6325462

snow country by kawabata's about as cozy as it gets

>> No.6325808

>>6325002
I've been reading a chapter (vignette?) of Invisble Cities each night before I do my usual reading.

Shit makes me feel fuzzy

>> No.6326207

that's calvino's only major work I still haven't gotten around to

just doesn't show up at the local used store

>> No.6327578

The Big Sleep while listening to noir jazz/piano instrumentals

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Happy to see /lit/ talking about lit. :)

>> No.6327596

>>6325002
I somehow dislike Cosmicomics. Suffers from same faults as five memos - simple things are explained too thoroughly, complications only assumed.

But Italo's mid-50s political novellas. Argentine Ants, especially A Plunge Into Real Estate and The Watcher are in my opinion some of hid best works. Plunge is just the perfect mix of realism, intellectual vanity and bits of fantasy. It reigns supremely in his oueuvre with Invisible Cities.