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.

The Big Over Easy

Jasper Fforde
Big Stone Gap: A Novel

Adriana Trigiani
Couch Fiction: A Graphic Tale of Psychotherapy

Philippa Perry, Junko Graat
Haroun and the Sea of Stories

Salman Rushdie, Paul Birkbeck
Hector and the Search for Happiness

Francois Lelord, Lorenza Garcia
Life According to Lubka

Laurie Graham
Life with the Lid Off

Nicola Hodgkinson
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

Helen Simonson
Being Human: The Companion Anthology to Staying Alive and Being Alive

Neil Astley
A Little History of the World

Ernst H. Gombrich
Men at Work

Mike Gayle
Notes from a Small Island

Bill Bryson
Prodigal Summer

Barbara Kingsolver
The Pursuit of Love

Nancy Mitford, Zoe Heller
Smoke and Mirrors

Neil Gaiman
A Spot of Bother

Mark Haddon
Tackling Life

Charlie Oatway
That Awkward Age

Roger McGough
To the Moon and Back

Jill Mansell
A Winter Book: Selected Stories

Tove Jansson
Tales of the City

Armistead Maupin
Waterlog: A Swimmer's Journey Through Britain

Roger Deakin
The Secret Garden

Frances Hodgson Burnett, Peter Hunt
The Beach Cafe

Lucy Diamond
Cider with Rosie

Laurie Lee
Trouble on the Heath

Terry Jones
Stop What You're Doing and Read This!

Mark Haddon, Michael Rosen, Zadie Smith, Carmen Callil, Jeanette Winterson, Tim Parks, Blake Morrison, Maryanne Wolf, Nicholas Carr, Jane Davis

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