#cosy fantasy books

[theliterarylondonlife]

Cosy Fantasy Books for a Cottagecore Reading Aesthetic

Cosy Fantasy Books for a Cottagecore Reading Aesthetic

Cosy fantasy books are some of my favourite reads. The best cosy fantasy books are all on this ultimate list. This list of new and most popular cosy fantasy books is better than baked bread! If you are looking for some popular must-read cosy fantasy books with cottagecore vibes, I have you covered. So get your reading nook read and curl up with one of these cosy fantasy books. I recommend you…

[annafromuni]

A Fun Little Story With Witches and Baking

A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher is such a cute, easy and cosy autumnal read perfect for young readers and old. Mona is a young witch whose magic is all about bread, her familiar is a sourdough starter that cannot die and she magics gingerbread men to dance (and serve as guardians to protect her). What is there to hate? It’s a simple story with simple plot progression and…

[thehobbitchronicles]

The Spiderwick Chronicles

[crowsfiles]

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[hiddenbookcasepodcast]

Happy International Asexuality Day from us at The Hidden Bookcase. Here are some book recommendations we love featuring ace representation to celebrate!

[aroaessidhe]

Hi. Do you know of any aro, ace, or aroace fantasy books that take place in a small town?

Hello! Not sure if I know of anything that's perfectly what I assume you're looking for, but here's what comes to mind:

high fantasy set in a small town/village (though generally involves traveling to other places)

The Dragon of Ynys - aroace MC

From The Dark We Came - demi MC

The Story of the Hundred Promises - aro major characters & themes

fantasy elements, small town in our world

Every Bird A Prince - aro MC (middle grade)

Ravenfall - aroace MC (middle grade, also only very lightly mentioned)

Earthbound Hearts - ace MC (kinda fabulism, not Super fantasy)

paranormal/horror set in a small town in our world

Sawkill Girls - one of the MCs is ace

Funeral Girl - aro-coded ace MC

Now Entering Addamsville - ace MC

The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester - acespec MC, aroace SC

The Crows - aroacespec major character (completely different vibe from the above pls check CWs lol)

there's also definitely more fantasy small town books with aspec side characters (eg The Lost Coast, The Heartbreak Bakery, Summer of Salt) but not MCs...

[ekmosley]

“Is my dream only a dream? Or are there others like me?”

- The Last Stardog by E.K Mosley

[jitterbugbear]

sigh i hate that it's almost a red flag when fantasy book marketing mentions howl's moving castle because they never get it right. they don't have even half the wit or the heart hmc has and they're never FUNNY!! hmc is a funny book!

[inlovewithhearts]

currently reading

[parijpg]

best part about being an artist is you can draw the babygirl characters that you’re reading about

[inthegoodbooks]

Recent book purchases:

This week, I have treated myself to several new books. In celebration of Independent Bookshops Week, I decided to break my book-buying ban and get my hands on some titles I’ve been after for ages.

The Priory of the Orange Tree - ok, I have to admit that I have tried to read this before. I was in a terrible mood and didn’t even finish it. Then, like an idiot, I sold it instead of giving it another go. With all of the reviews mentioning it as a sapphic fantasy fave, I know I need to give it another shot and that’s exactly what I intend to do.

In the Lives of Puppets - Having just finished (and loved) The House in the Cerulean Sea, I just had to get my hands on this fairly recent title from TJ Klune. I have no doubt that this will also give me all the cosy feels I need and help to split up my reading of the very lengthy list of books by Robin Hobb that I plan to get through in the coming year…

Godkiller - I have seen nothing but amazing reviews for this debut fantasy read and I can’t wait to try it out. I know it is yet another series but I just can’t help it…

As for the others, they have all either been recommended to me by other people, YouTube channels or just looked lovely when I picked them up. Can’t wait to read them all soon.

[realitys-abore]

💌 Book Mail! 💌

I’m about to dive so much deeper into my cosy fantasy era 😅

Isn’t it pretty? There’s so many details on the cover art, it just screams cottagecore and if you look super close there’s a winged floof too!

Not to mention:

🍄 Cosy vibes

🍄 Stolen spellbooks

🍄 A sentient spider plant

🍄 Illegal spell-selling market

🍄 Sweet romance

Did I mention our mc Kiela is also a librarian? Or, former librarian at least 😅

Unfortunately for her, she has to flee that life when the Great Library protecting the city’s magic burns as a revolution sweeps in! Luckily enough, however, she DOES manage to pinch as many spellbooks as she can carry first and after witnessing how the empire has sapped the magic from the land, she opts to open up her own spellshop to make things right!

BUT, it’s not as easy as it sounds especially when the punishment for sharing magic with commoners is death!

I’m kind of envisioning this having similar mid-stakes to Treason Without Tea, but I’m already highly intrigued by the world! Not to mention the sentient spider plant?!

[thehobbitchronicles]

The Spiderwick Chronicles

[noahhawthorneauthor]

According to Goodreads, if you like these then you might like ...

Arlo Rook has decided it’s time to move out of Garren Castle, home for orphans of all races, magical or not, at 100 years old.

It’s not the first time he’s left home, but a setback landed the Hedge Witch in the hospital a year ago, and subsequently back to square one. Now he's ready to strike out on his own, despite his friend’s worries he's not ready.

Thatch Phantom is an immortal, the last of his kind and perpetually bored. When he’s not closing interdimensional rifts and corralling trouble in the universe, he’s visiting his favorite city of all, Levena. No one remembers him, but he's made an everlasting impact on the city nonetheless.

Long ago, he set up an anonymous scavenger hunt for the starving village, providing them with a year’s worth of supplies. He upped the ante each year, providing less practical things, as the village had become a city and was wealthy beyond belief. Festivals are thrown in his honor to this day, or a version of him, that is.

Thatch has decided to throw a wild card into this year’s Game. Whoever discovers his true identity will win one wish of their choice, no restrictions. Aside from the obvious, such as no falling in love, murder or resurrection.

Arlo crashes into the mess of copper curls and bright eyes, who throws apothecary goods and his life into a chaotic mess. It certainly wasn’t the first they met, but Arlo doesn’t remember him. Thatch, however, never forgot the Witch with a familiar soulmark on his face.

What follows is a hilarious and wholesome series of events that teases the immortal with the one thing he wants most.

Someone to call home.

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[keysandopenmind]

Does anyone have any recommendations for urban fantasy books or series where the love interest is not some super duper hot, confident, put together guy who the heroine is lusting over from the first chapter, and constantly distracted by during major events going forward?

I don't necessarily mind this but I'd just love something with a more awkward, nerdy, fumbling and/or shy love interest that the heroine wants to get to know rather than just jump the first chance she gets. Maybe he even wears glasses!

Bonus points for witches, baking magic, coziness, underground magical societies, mysteries.