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 (2016)

With a great range of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and short stories, this new Mood-boosting Books list for 2016 has something for everyone.

9780701189068

The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend »

Katarina Bivald

9781447267645

Helen Lederer

Mary Oliver

9780552166621

Terry Pratchett

9781848768840

Police, Crime & 999: The True Story of a Front Line Officer »

John Donoghue

9780007437573

Tennyson's Gift »

Lynne Truss

9781614279921

Kahlil Gibran

9780753828939

Going to Sea in a Sieve: The Autobiography »

Danny Baker

9780857867988

A Tale for the Time Being »

Ruth L. Ozeki

9781446406168

How to be a Woman »

Caitlin Moran

9780857522344

The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes from a Small Island »

Bill Bryson

9781405255820

The House at Pooh Corner »

A. A. Milne

9781447252740

The Extra Ordinary Life of Frank Derrick, Age 81 »

J. B. Morrison

9781840328639

The Eyre Affair »

Jasper Fforde

9781472201638

Top Secret Twenty-One »

Janet Evanovich

9780718181635

The Penguin Lessons »

Tom Michell

9781782434054

Emergency Poet: An Anti-Stress Poetry Anthology »

Deborah Alma

9781908313478

The President's Hat »

Antoine Laurain, Lalaurie Louise Rogers

9780552565974

R. J. Palacio

9781447281528

Ross Poldark »

Winston Graham

9780099464815

Making History »

Stephen Fry

9780571245871

The Buddha of Suburbia »

Hanif Kureishi

9781405506175

Fragile Things »

Neil Gaiman

9780007536801

A Year of Good Eating: The Kitchen Diaries III »

Nigel Slater

9780007545360

Rules for Dating a Romantic Hero »

Harriet Evans

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