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 reading groups (2013)

These books were recommended by readers and reading groups around the country.

Bee Journal »

Sean Borodale

Essential Poems from the Staying Alive Trilogy »

ed. Neil Astley

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society »

Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows

A Month in the Country »

J. L. Carr, Penelope Fitzgerald

A Sea Change »

Veronica Henry, Lisa Lailey

Turned Out Nice Again: On Living with the Weather »

Richard Mabey

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 »

Sue Townsend

Dart »

Alice Oswald

The Help »

Kathryn Stockett

I Capture the Castle »

Dodie Smith, Valerie Grove

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry »

Rachel Joyce

Miss Garnet's Angel »

Salley Vickers

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day »

Winifred Watson, Henrietta Twycross-Martin

Soul Music: (Discworld Novel 16) »

Terry Pratchett

A Street Cat Named Bob: How One Man and His Cat Found Hope on the Streets »

James Bowen

The Thread »

Victoria Hislop

Thursdays in the Park »

Hilary Boyd

Too Much Happiness »

Alice Munro

Various Pets Alive and Dead »

Marina Lewycka

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