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 Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend

Katarina Bivald
Losing it

Helen Lederer
Dream Work

Mary Oliver
Mort

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

John Donoghue
Tennyson's Gift

Lynne Truss
The Prophet

Kahlil Gibran
Going to Sea in a Sieve: The Autobiography

Danny Baker
A Tale for the Time Being

Ruth L. Ozeki
How to be a Woman

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

Bill Bryson
The House at Pooh Corner

A. A. Milne
The Extra Ordinary Life of Frank Derrick, Age 81

J. B. Morrison
The Eyre Affair

Jasper Fforde
Top Secret Twenty-One

Janet Evanovich
The Penguin Lessons

Tom Michell
Emergency Poet: An Anti-Stress Poetry Anthology

Deborah Alma
The President's Hat

Antoine Laurain, Lalaurie Louise Rogers
Wonder

R. J. Palacio
Ross Poldark

Winston Graham
Making History

Stephen Fry
The Buddha of Suburbia

Hanif Kureishi
Fragile Things

Neil Gaiman
A Year of Good Eating: The Kitchen Diaries III

Nigel Slater
Rules for Dating a Romantic Hero

Harriet Evans

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