Recs if you like Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers...

When the narrator(s) makes the book even better. For new listeners and audiobook elites, here is a range of different genres and narrators that excel at audio perfection.

books whose main characters are older and disillusioned with life and go on a little adventure that melts their hearts (and heals yours)

books set in tea shops, with a tea shop as a primary location, or centered around tea.

books w/ full names in the title (mostly fiction)

We love books with a verbose title, and this list celebrates them! Suggestions welcome 🤗

Like Agatha Christie but in the modern world. Please leave recommendations!

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.

A collection of mysteries where the retirees, pensioners, and silver‑haired legends of small towns take crime into their own hands. Sometimes they are solving it, sometimes they causing it, and sometimes they might be doing a bit of both.

Books about food, either non-fiction or foodie fiction

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 💕

An on-going attempt to track Asian authors in my Interested/TBR (and hopefully Finished) categories. Books are generally fiction/lit fic/fantasy with some memoirs. Authors span West to East Asia, the Asian diaspora, and mixed-race folx.

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

I think more books should be about old people getting into shenanigans. There is this small part of the book space with the stories of people who find the meaning of their life or mess others up because they don't care anymore. These are their stories , hilarious, emotional, heartwarming and heartbreaking, each unique...

Hope they make you feel alive!

cosy murder mysteries when you want to curl up with your favourite tea and thickest blanket

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!

I love it when titles break the naming conventions of books. I’ve had enough a blank of blank and blank, I want something NEW, something STRANGE, something that immediately makes me check out the synopsis with the excitement of a dog who has seen a squirrel 🐿️

the name’s Bond. Alexz Bond. 😂

always taking suggestions for books with a full name in the title.

cozy mysteries

Get on the hype train for these upcoming releases of books in a series. Now is the perfect time to jump on board a new series or start a re-read.

Covers the next 12 months. Updates once a month - please send recs

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I will list the first book in the series and the upcoming book. I'm not including series from romances where it's hard to tell if the books are standalone or not (for my health🙃).

(I'm already questioning my sanity on how I'm going to maintain this, I wish we could make collaborative lists on here 😭)

books that were better on audio

basically every memoir is also going to be better on audio, especially if the author narrates it, but I have a separate list for those