Hello Veeky Forums, i don't browse this board often but i would like to get some helps finding some comfy books. With being comfy i mean cozy and relaxing, while still being a good plot.
What books do you think are comfy and what would you recommend?
Thank you in advance
My Antonia by Willa Cather
Shane by Jack Schaefer
Kim by Kipling
The Magic Mountain
>Hanging out in the cool mountain air and listening to your chums argue philosophy with each other while sipping turkish coffee
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Cannery Row is the comfiest I've read in quite a while. I'd recommend it even if you don't like Steinbeck's usual poverty porn.
Irrungen Wirrungen-Fontane
Thw wheel of time is pretty comfy, and its 14 books so youll be at it a while
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
war and peace
Seconded
Also: I, Claudius, The Histories and Menon
proust is p. comfy ngl
Memes aside, The Kingkiller Chronicle is pretty good for light, comfy reading.
A book of Laird Barron's short stories would be good as well.
Whenever this thread gets posted I always recommend Thomas Hardy's short stories (Wessex Tales). Nobody does comfy like Hardy.
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Far Tortuga
House of Leaves
First half of Fellowship
The Aubrey & Maturin series by Patrick O'Brien
Ulysses
I don't care what anyone says, Kerouac is the epitome of comfy. The scenes in his books absolutely REEK of comfiness. Coffee, tea, and the beauty of both nature and human nature are all mentioned lots. There's a scene in pic related where the protagonist (Kerouac) sits out in the snowy woods with his family's dog and a pot of hot coffee and meditates while snuggled in outdoors gear. Again, REALLY comfy.
I remember that being a great book, it's been I think 6 years or so since I last read it but all the freight hopping, mountain climbing, carousing with friends and naive buddhism really resonated with my sensibilities at the time. Only ever read this and On The Road but it's hard for me to imagine another Kerouac novel topping this one.
Plato's dialogues are pretty comfy t b h
though, start with the apology
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was pretty comfy
Just finished this. It is the epitome of comfy.
Growth of the Soil
Death Comes for the Archbishop
East of Eden
Cannery Row
Anything Steinbeck, really
Watership Down
Stoner
Moby Dick (seriously)
The Stand
Posted pic related in another thread yesterday but for real, reading this is like sitting by a fire in a rocking chair and shooting the shit with your best friend who's well versed in Latin literature.
the bible
This.
Especially In The Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, the comfiest of his works.