Cozy Reads
Whether you enjoy mystery, fantasy, sci-fi, romance, or horror, we can all agree that this is the season to get cozy with a book! Check out these options for cozy reads across genre. Annotations from NoveList, unless otherwise attributed. (Created October 2023)
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Magic, Lies, and Deadly Pies
Daisy Ellery’s pies have a secret ingredient: The magical ability to avenge women done wrong by men. Now, it’s her calling. Daisy bakes sweet vengeance into her pastries, which she and her dog Zoe deliver to the men who’ve done dirty deeds to the town’s women. But if she can’t solve the one crime that’s not of her own baking, she’ll be out of the pie pan and into the oven.
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A Most Agreeable Murder
A young woman growing up in a well-to-do family in Regency England hides her obsession with true crime from her etiquette-obsessed social circle joins forces with a detective when a wealthy bachelor drops dead at a ball.
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Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
When she discovers a dead man in the middle of her tea shop, Vera Wong, a suspicious Chinese mother with time on her hands, calls the police but not before swiping the flash drive from the body, setting a trap for the killer that becomes complicated by unexpected friendships with her customers.
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The Empress of Salt and Fortune
A young royal from the far north is sent south for a political marriage in an empire reminiscent of imperial China. Alone and sometimes reviled, she must choose her allies carefully. Rabbit, a handmaiden, sold by her parents to the palace for the lack of five baskets of dye, befriends the emperor's lonely new wife and gets more than she bargained for.
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Hollow
When Isabel "Izzy" Crane moves to Sleepy Hollow, the town made famous by--and obsessed with--Washington Irving's legend of the Headless Horseman, she becomes friends with, then falls for, Vicki Van Tassel, and together with their prankster friend Croc Byun, the trio must break the Van Tassel family curse before Halloween night as well as uncover the mystery of the legendary Horseman of Sleepy Hollow--before it's too late.
Format: Graphic Novel
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