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Mood-boosting Books
Reading Well Mood-boosting Books is a national promotion of uplifting titles, including novels, poetry and non-fiction. The books are all recommended by readers and reading groups.
Many of the books are available to borrow free from your local library. Selected titles are also available to borrow as e-books and audiobooks. Visit your local library website to find out how to join the library and access books electronically.
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The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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The Sun and Her Flowers
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Bee Journal
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Essential Poems from the Staying Alive Trilogy
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A Month in the Country
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A Sea Change
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Turned Out Nice Again: On Living with the Weather
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No Passengers Beyond This Point
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Dream Work
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Losing it
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Mort
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Police, Crime & 999: The True Story of a Front Line Officer
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The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4
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Nobody's Girl
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Dart
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I Capture the Castle
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The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
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Miss Garnet's Angel
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Tennyson's Gift
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Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
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Numbers
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Soul Music: (Discworld Novel 16)
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The Prophet
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A Street Cat Named Bob: How One Man and His Cat Found Hope on the Streets
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The Thread
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Thursdays in the Park
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Too Much Happiness
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Various Pets Alive and Dead
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Holes
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Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years
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Just Listen
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Aphrodite's Hat
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Lia's Guide to Winning the Lottery
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The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
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Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment
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The Recruit
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The Secret Countess
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The Sky is Everywhere
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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Howl's Moving Castle
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Millions
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The Dud Avocado
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Hector and the Search for Happiness
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The Alchemist
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Restless
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This Book Will Save Your Life
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Attention All Shipping: A Journey Round the Shipping Forecast
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The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
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Being Human: The Companion Anthology to Staying Alive and Being Alive
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A Little History of the World
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Artichoke Hearts
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Men at Work
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Notes from a Small Island
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Prodigal Summer
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The Pursuit of Love
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Smoke and Mirrors
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A Spot of Bother
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Reading in Bed
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That Awkward Age
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To the Moon and Back
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A Winter Book: Selected Stories
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Tales of the City
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Waterlog: A Swimmer's Journey Through Britain
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Being Billy
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Bird Cloud: A Memoir of Place
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Big Nate on a Roll
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Boys Don't Cry
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Call The Midwife: A True Story of the East End in the 1950s
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Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul: II
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Goodnight Mister Tom
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Gilead
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Let the Great World Spin
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Remarkable Creatures
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Selected Stories
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A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
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The Snow Goose and the Small Miracle
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Going to Sea in a Sieve: The Autobiography
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Somewhere Towards the End
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A Spot of Bother
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Two Cures for Love: Selected Poems, 1979-2006
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Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees
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A Tale for the Time Being
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How to be a Woman
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The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes from a Small Island
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The House at Pooh Corner
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The Extra Ordinary Life of Frank Derrick, Age 81
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The Eyre Affair
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Ross Poldark
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Top Secret Twenty-One
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Paris for One
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The Shell Seekers
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The Green Road into the Trees
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The Other Side of the Dale
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Ode to Didcot Power Station
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A Cat Called Norton: The True Story of an Extraordinary Cat and His Imperfect Human
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The Stories
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The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy
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A Year of Good Eating: The Kitchen Diaries III
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
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Of Mutability
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A Man Called Ove
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Making History
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The Penguin Lessons
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Matilda
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Emergency Poet: An Anti-Stress Poetry Anthology
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The President's Hat
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Wonder
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The Buddha of Suburbia
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Starter for Ten
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A Bear Called Paddington
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Wonder
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The Art of Being Normal
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The Rest of Us Just Live Here
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Finding Cherokee Brown
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The Big Over Easy
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The Reader on the 6.27
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I Capture the Castle
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Crongton Knights
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Bodyguard Series
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The Harry Potter Series
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The Keeper of Lost Things
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Heaven on Earth: 101 Happy Poems
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I'm Still Here
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Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
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The Guest Cat
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The World of Jeeves
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Dear Mrs Bird
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The Help
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Why Mummy Drinks
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Sour Heart
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Chocolat
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Big Stone Gap: A Novel
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Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucia
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Eat, Pray, Love
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The Beach Cafe
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Fragile Things
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Being Alive: The Sequel to ""Staying Alive""
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Cider with Rosie
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All Passion Spent
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Travels with My Aunt
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Stop What You're Doing and Read This!
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A Long Lunch: My Stories and I'm Sticking to Them
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Penguin's Poems for Life
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The Miniaturist
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The Last Runaway
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The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
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You Made Me Late Again!: My New Collection
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Couch Fiction: A Graphic Tale of Psychotherapy
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Haroun and the Sea of Stories
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Life with the Lid Off
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Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
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On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho
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The Island
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette
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Hector Finds Time
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My Name is Mina
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Rules for Dating a Romantic Hero
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Jamie's Ministry of Food: Anyone Can Learn to Cook in 24 Hours
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Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously
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This One Summer
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The Secret Garden
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Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
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The Lady in the Van
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The Rosie Project: No. 1: Don Tillman
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The Humans
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More Than This
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The Moon's a Balloon
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Eleanor & Park
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Milk and Honey
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We Should All be Feminists
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Am I Normal Yet?
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The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine
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Espedair Street
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Crazy Rich Asians
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Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
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Six Foot Six
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Carrying Albert Home: The Somewhat True Story of a Man, his Wife and her Alligator
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Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who's Been There
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Notes on a Nervous Planet
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The Camomile Lawn
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Us
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The Stranger on the Bridge: My Journey from Despair to Hope
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The Lido
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Three Things About Elsie