Recs if you like Days at the Torunka Café (Days at the Torunka Café, #1)...

A list of cozy fiction for when the world is heavy and the Book Club book is too much.

Books are cozy based on other lists or cute-munity reccs. Your milage may vary.

Literature that features cats, coffee shops, food, books, and sometimes a bit of magic. Cozy and healing.

books set in coffee shops or with a coffee shop as a primary location. often cozy, comforting tales of friendship and love, sometimes with a dash of action and mystery. the perfect thing to warm you up on a cold day.

inspired by the caramel latte that singlehandedly saved me from freezing to death on my walk to work this morning

Essential Japanese novels and short fiction, past and present.

Translated fiction

A shelf of tiny wonders from Japan and Korea. Moonlit book nooks, sleepy towns, lantern-lit evenings, silver rain, and tender stories that offer comfort. Small in length, but rich in extraordinary hidden moments of everyday life.

Cozy books about cafes, libraries, bookstores, small shops and cats, often with some touches of magical realism.

Not restricting this list to only Korean or Japanese authors, although most of them are. Some books may not be translated into English

Cats, coffee, melancholy, warm food and lots of emotions!

all the cosy, good vibes. Mainly Japanese & Korean 🇯🇵🇰🇷

Books about our mundane jobs. We'll explore: our role in society, conformity, routine, labor, and more. Leave your recs!

If you need to read books that feel like a warm hug, this is for you!

Fiction books set in Japan

Open to recs!

Japanese Korean