I have a stack of books in every room of my house just waiting to be read. The thought of knowing my future is filled with moments where I can escape to a period in history or read about something that will improve my life in some way truly gives me joy.
If I could sum up what my ultimate hygge might be, it is definitely snuggling up with a good book in my favorite space with a cup of Trader Joe’s Ginger Turmeric tea. I don’t get those cozy moments as often as I like, so you better believe when I do, I am sure to make them count.
This list of books contains some that I have read and others that are making their way to the top of my stack as we speak. It has been a while since I offered a solid book list.
Here are 9 books to snuggle up with.
Maybe You Should Talk To Someone By Lori Gottlieb
“One day, Lori Gottlieb is a therapist who helps patients in her Los Angeles practice. The next, a crisis causes her world to come crashing down. Enter Wendell, the quirky but seasoned therapist in whose office she suddenly lands. With his balding head, cardigan, and khakis, he seems to have come straight from Therapist Central Casting. Yet he will turn out to be anything but. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone is revolutionary in its candor, offering a deeply personal yet universal tour of our hearts and minds and providing the rarest of gifts: a boldly revealing portrait of what it means to be human, and a disarmingly funny and illuminating account of our own mysterious lives and our power to transform them.”
For more on this book click here.
Buy Maybe You Should Talk To Someone here.
Referred by Goodreads.
The Dressmaker’s Gift By Fiona Valpy
“Paris, 1940. With the city occupied by the Nazis, three young seamstresses go about their normal lives as best they can. But all three are hiding secrets. War-scarred Mireille is fighting with the Resistance; Claire has been seduced by a German officer, and Vivienne’s involvement is something she can’t reveal to either of them. Two generations later, Claire’s English granddaughter Harriet arrives in Paris, rootless and adrift, desperate to find a connection with her past. Living and working in the same building on the Rue Cardinale, she learns the truth about her grandmother – and herself – and unravels a family history that is darker and more painful than she ever imagined.”
For more on this book click here.
Buy The Dressmaker’s Gift here.
Referred by Goodreads.
The Body By Bill Bryson
“In the bestselling, prize-winning A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson achieved the seemingly impossible by making the science of our world both understandable and entertaining to millions of people around the globe. Now he turns his attention inwards to explore the human body, how it functions and its remarkable ability to heal itself. Full of extraordinary facts and astonishing stories, The Body: A Guide for Occupants is a brilliant, often very funny attempt to understand the miracle of our physical and neurological makeup.”
For more on this book click here.
Buy The Body here.
Referred by my dad.
The Awakened Family By Shefali Tsabary
“This book will take you on a journey to transcending your fears and illusions around parenting and help you become the parent you always wanted to be: fully present and conscious. It will arm you with practical, hands-on strategies and real-life examples from my experience as a parent and clinical psychologist that show the extraordinary power of being a conscious parent.”
For more on this book click here.
Buy The Awakened Family here.
Referred by Kate and Oliver Hudson via The Sibling Revelry Podcast.
The Goldfinch By Donna Tart
“It begins with a boy. Theo Decker, a thirteen-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don’t know how to talk to him, and tormented above all by his unbearable longing for his mother, he clings to one thing that reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the underworld of art.”
More on this book click here.
Buy The Goldfinch here.
Referred to me by The Goop Podcast.
The Power Of One By Bryce Courtney
“In 1939, as Hitler casts his enormous, cruel shadow across the world, the seeds of apartheid take root in South Africa. There, a boy called Peekay is born. His childhood is marked by humiliation and abandonment, yet he vows to survive and conceives heroic dreams, which are nothing compared to what life actually has in store for him. He embarks on an epic journey through a land of tribal superstition and modern prejudice where he will learn the power of words, the power to transform lives and the power of one.”
More on this book click here.
Buy The Power of One here.
Referred by TSP Creative Director Hillary Weber.
The Women In The Castle By Jessica Shattuck
“Amid the ashes of Nazi Germany’s defeat, Marianne von Lingenfels returns to the once-grand castle of her husband’s ancestors, an imposing stone fortress now fallen into ruin following years of war. The widow of a resister murdered in the failed July 20, 1944, plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, Marianne plans to uphold the promise she made to her husband’s brave conspirators: to find and protect their wives, her fellow resistance widows.”
More on this book click here.
Buy The Women in The Castle here.
Referred by my mother in law.
Lifespan: Why We Age – and Why We Don’t Have To By David A. Sinclair
“It’s a seemingly undeniable truth that aging is inevitable. But what if everything we’ve been taught to believe about aging is wrong? What if we could choose our lifespan? This book takes us to the frontlines of research many from Dr. David Sinclair’s own lab at Harvard—that demonstrate how we can slow down, or even reverse, aging. The key is activating newly discovered vitality genes, the descendants of an ancient genetic survival circuit that is both the cause of aging and the key to reversing it.”
For more on this book click here.
Buy Lifespan here.
Referred to me by Goop.
Rain, snow or sun. There is never a time to curl up with a good book. I hope you found something that tickled your fancy on this list but in case you did not, click here or here.
xo,
Michelle
Ruba Alsukhni says
Lovely books collection, definitely I’ll start reading some of them. Thanks for the article.
Michelle says
Cool. Glad you liked the list! Thanks for sharing!
Debbie Green says
Just dropped the mirror off that you bought from me (thank you!) and am so glad you sent the link to your blog. I believe I follow you on social media, but don’t think I ever knew that much about it. I see that we have very similar taste in books – I am especially drawn to historical fiction esp 1940s and WWII. So there are several you have listed that I will put on my list! Thank you! I enjoyed reading several blog posts here and look forward to more!!
Michelle says
Thanks Debbie! So great to connect and happy to support your business. I would love to hear some of your WWII Recommendations.
Sue says
I like the book list, definitely two I can’t wait to read. I am new to the site which I say today on Fox Chicago. Seems what I was looking for in life, need to reinvent myself, meet new people, etc. Very thankful I found out about this.