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.

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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