Recs if you like Homicide and Halo-Halo (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #2)...

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.

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 💕

Books that include recipes from the stories

cozy mysteries

Yearning for Pinoy representation? Try these reading this mix of fiction and non-fiction. Learn Filipino history, solve mysteries with Filipino characters, fight fantasy wars inspired by Filipino mythology, and experience plots that make you go, “Oh! My parent has definitely said that to me!” I have also included authors that have written books that don’t necessarily have explicitly stated Filipino characters, but they are Filipino themselves in real life.

This list features book covers illustrated or designed by New York-based artist Vi-An Nguyen. Her work boasts bold typography, minimalist illustrations, and bright, contracting colours on beautifully textured backgrounds. Her cartoons are often featured in The New Yorker.

AAPI authors and books I adore

Will contain amateur female detectives with quirky pets and a restaurant/bakery

just mine

-memoir -magical realism -author under 30 y/o -sea creature, character, title, or cover -nobel, booker, pulitzer prize winner -rainbow on cover -book with a tv/film adaption -coffee in the title -ren’s 3 colors on the cover -an authors debut -summer slasher -rens rec -2026 release -mountains on cover -climate change impact -sun in title -new-to-you author -one word title -translated lit -favorite author -plants or poison -banned -another country -any book