Recs if you like Dial A for Aunties...

Books to read when you want to solve murders without leaving the couch ~ a snug stack of cozy mysteries! ✨️☕️🕵‍♀️

This includes book that have either mystery or thrillers as a primary or secondary genre. If you have recommendations to add please comment and I'll happily add them 💕

The starters for cozy mystery series with fun and unique themes, amateur sleuths with niche-specific jobs and hobbies, adorable animal companions (or supernatural beings), small towns with close-knit communities, may or may not include tasty recipes, and generally just some fun romp mysteries!

cozy mysteries

Qwordy's Hardest Reading Challenge You'll Ever Do 3.0 Familial Terms Prompt You must find five books with DIFFERENT familial terms in the title. You can use other languages, but once you use it in another language, you cannot use it again This is an on going list and always open for recommendations

this has become one of my fav types of read, would love recs

Funny or darkly comic murder books featuring bungled plans, accidental deaths, bizarre families, amateur sleuths, incompetent criminals or people who are just having the worst day imaginable.

books w sense of humor (or voice) that's A) so subtle and cleverly disguised you could blink and miss it B) so blatant it's like being hit over the head C) so outrageous it's honestly just absurd D) drier than the sahara desert E) rather tongue-in-cheek F) all (or at least more than one) of the above

(some are more obvious than others since some are clearly intended to be satirical and others were just written in such a dry voice it made me chortle)

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Your Pip-shaped hole deserves nothing less than full-blown mystery mayhem. This list is a survival guide for readers who've finished A Good Girl's Guide to Murder and are hunting for their next high-stakes obsession with amateur sleuth energy, buried secrets, unlikely sidekicks and adrenaline-fueled twists that demand binge-reading.

A list of books from A-Z. I tried to include various genres to appeal to a wide array of readers. I wanted this to be a good reference list for anyone doing an alphabet reading challenge or anyone just looking for a new book to read!

A variety of books recommended by a librarian (appropriate for students aged 11-16 as well).

Mysteries & thrillers for when the world is too chaotic for darker mysteries or tense thrillers but you don’t want traditionally “cozy” mysteries but still want an entertaining mystery that will keep you engaged.

Collecting books that would categorise as romance/romantasy/fantasy with prominent romance subplot that booksandlala has rated 4 stars or higher.

Feel free to suggest more books that would fit into this list, correct wrongly added books or suggest improvements to this list ☺️

The books that were considered for @littleleggies book club. Please check books for content warnings, as many have significant triggers.

HRCYED prompt

Obviously, these can be read whenever but feel as a Would-Be Librarian, wanted to make my recs known! Will be including translated materials too. Enjoy!