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.

Chosen by older people

Older people in reading groups chose the following Mood-boosting Books.

9780007487943

The Alchemist »

Paulo Coelho

9780349116037

Attention All Shipping: A Journey Round the Shipping Forecast »

Charlie Connelly

9781906032340

The Bad Dog's Diary: A Year in the Life of Blake: Lover... Fighter... Dog »

Martin Howard

9780755303120

Reading in Bed »

Sue Gee

9780007231997

Bird Cloud: A Memoir of Place »

Annie Proulx

9781902602684

The Builders »

Maeve Binchy

9780753827871

Call The Midwife: A True Story of the East End in the 1950s »

Jennifer Worth

9781844081486

Marilynne Robinson

9781408801185

Let the Great World Spin »

Colum McCann

9780007178384

Remarkable Creatures »

Tracy Chevalier

9781853262883

Selected Stories »

Anton Chekhov, Joe Andrew, Dr. Keith Carabine

9780241961827

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian »

Marina Lewycka

9780140299526

The Snow Goose and the Small Miracle »

Paul Gallico, Anne Linton, Ed Norfield

9781847080691

Somewhere Towards the End »

Diana Athill

9780099506928

A Spot of Bother »

Mark Haddon

9780571240784

Two Cures for Love: Selected Poems, 1979-2006 »

Wendy Cope

9780141010014

Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees »

Roger Deakin

9780860683582

All Passion Spent »

Vita Sackville-West, Joanna Lumley

9781848543980

A Long Lunch: My Stories and I'm Sticking to Them »

Simon Hoggart

9780140424706

Penguin's Poems for Life »

Laura Barber

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