Lose yourself in a book! Check out the 3/23/20 New York Times article “Solace Between the Pages” (accessible through the NYT database on our Resources page). The majority of the titles mentioned can be found as eBooks or Audiobooks on Libby/Overdrive and Hoopla!
What’s your favorite comfort read? Comment below and we’ll add to the list!
Cited titles available:
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Writers & Lovers by Lily King
News of the World by Paulette Jiles
Cousin Bette by Honoré de Balzac
The In-Betweens by Mira Ptacin
Ledger by Jane Hirshfield
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Sabbath’s Theater by Philip Roth
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
Zen Shorts by Jon J. Muth