I don’t often see references to Miss Read books. She’s one of my favourite cosy, feel good authors. I reread her books whenever I need some comfort. I think she’s so underrated.

I LOVE Winter Solstice. It's my favorite of all her books. I have read it many times. Thank you for the suggestions.

I like your enthusiasm about English authors. You are the first book tuber, that I am aware, mentioning this type of books. I live in England and discover myself some books showed in this video. They are authors that are been a bit forgotten. Recently, I had finish "Quartet in Autumn" by Barbara Pym and totally enjoyed. My I mention few writers that you may are going to be interested: Dorothy Whipple, Elizabeth Jenkins, Ursula Orange, Elizabeth Jane Howard and R. C. Sherriff. They are all British and lived at the beginning of the last century.

Re- listening, binging you channel. Miss you, understand why. Recommended you to a book-tuber today.

Another set of cosy books you might love are EF Benson's Mapp and Lucia series - which are absolutely hilarious. Also, the US author, Jan Karon's Mitford Series.

for Agatha Christi I remember reading The Mirror Crack'd - it was such an interesting plot!

Barbara Pym is such a treasure! I just finished A Glass of Blessings this morning and it was fun to see you mention her. Patricia Rutledge (Keeping up Appearances!) actress starred in a wonderful documentary on her which is on KZfaq. You would enjoy. Cheers

Miss Read is a delightful author for country social history of a time gone by. The other author who is my favourite is Jane Duncan who wrotes the 'My Friend...' series. Part biographical.. also a social history... but many old fashioned truths. Rosamund Pilcher is also my favourite. D E Stevenson is a delight as well. Thank you from Cape Town.

This is exactly what I was looking for! I have been planning to read Miss Read for a long time now and I precisely wanted to read her books because I got a feeling that they'd be cozy. I wish these books were translated to Spanish (my native language) but I think a very few are. But I won't let that stop me from reading them haha I'll take this opportunity to improve my English. By the way those editions are beautiful 😍 these covers immediately make me want to read them.

Omgsh thank you for this video and your tips on which books to start with first. I neeeeeeed more cozy in my life. I haven't ever read any of these authors other than Agatha Christie so you are totally introducing me to a new world! Winter Solstice is absolutely on my December tbr now and Im writing out all of these authors to find at the library! Loved when you read from the books. You should narrate cozy books❤

OMG!!! I know this video is some months old but I just discovered your channel and I absolutely love all of your content.. So I’m binge watching the older videos and I’m also a Rosemunde Pilcher fan thanks to Miranda Mills and I’ve read almost all of her novels and have most of her books in various editions…I love cozy reading it has really gotten me through this pandemic, so Thank you for such wonderful Content… Rosemunde Pilcher’s books are the only books I have ever re read.. oh sorry and “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society” by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

I think you would love Angela Thirkell!

Miss Read is my favorite author of all time followed closely by Agatha Christie! Oddly enough the first Miss Read books I ever read was Gossip from Thrush Green! I lived in a rural mountain town that did not have a book store or a library. The bookmobile didn’t come to where I lived so loaning one another books was often our only way of getting something new to read. I borrowed her one Miss Read so often, she eventually gave it to me! 😂 when I married my husband and moved to Indiana one of the first places he took me was to the library. When, I saw rage shelf full of Miss Read books, I thought I had died and gone to Heaven! I’m trying to collect all of her books.

I don't know how I got so lucky as to stumble across you here on KZfaq, but here we are, and you had me at the thumbnail with all the Miss Reads and Rosamunde Pilchers behind you on the shelf! Winter Solstice is a must-read for me every Christmas season, and I delve into Coming Home about once every two years or so. Even her older books are good, as you mentioned. I call them her 'practice' books for the big ones!😆 As for Miss Read...well, words often fail me when I try to talk about her books. Very cosy, yes, but there's also a very slight bit of acerbic wit running through her prose here and there to counteract the sweetness of the stories. It hits unexpectedly, making one laugh out loud (which can be embarrassing when reading her at the doctor's office! LOL). And yes, she definitely lost track of how she aged people, mostly the children. Joseph Coggs was a little boy for decades!🤣 But somehow that just doesn't matter. To me, her books are perfection, so much so that I've spent 30 years or more collecting them all. I THINK I have all of them now, at least all the Fairacre and Thrush Green stories, plus her autobiographical A Fortunate Grandchild and one or two others. She wrote a couple of children's stories which I do not have, and probably won't try to find. It's characters like Mrs Pringle and Dotty Harmer and the Misses Lovelock that I want to read about, over and over again! ❤

This is so nice ! Thanks for your recommendations and joy and enthusiasm !

This video is so cozy! Thanks for the recommendations.

These are great recommendations! I’m adding these to my TBR because I could use some cozy reads this time of year!

And some of Sante Montifiore and Katie Fforde books as well.

Great video. I need to try Rosamund Pilcher.

Thank you for making this video! (I was the commenter requesting it) I'm definitely going to try Miss Read Thrush Green and some Agatha Christie to start with. Really excited for snuggling up on the couch with a tea, candle and blanket 🤗

Adding Winter Solstice to my Winter TBR, that sounds exactly like the type of cozy book I’ve been looking to read. Thanks for the cozy reading recommendations!

I love your recommendations, because some of these authors/books are new to me. It's always nice to find new things to read!

This was such a great video, Gina! As you can tell, I am still catching up on your channel and loving it! I have taken notes of all of these authors. I know I read The Shell Seekers years ago and loved it. I have taken down all of the authors and the books you mentioned for my next "Thrift" Book Outing! They all sounds amazing !!! Thank You So Much !!!

Miss Read and Thrush Green I go back to time and again. I put myself there and visit with them all. Agatha Christie is so wonderful too. Thanks for the video. Gonna try Rosemonde Pilcher next.

Thank you so much, Gina. I am basically new to "cozy reading" but it seems perfect for both the season and my current life. I've had Pilcher on my radar for ages, but I recently started Winter Solstice and am really loving it. (I'm listening to the audio while I knit, which is an excellent fit.) Watching this video made me realize that I needed to qualify the line I thought was true--that I was new to cozy--because I have loved Christie and Pym for many years. Looking forward to more for the rest of December!

Wonderful choices! I plan on reading Winter Solstice, maybe Nov-Dec. Thanks for your recommendations.

Loved this video, Gina! Yay for cozy reads and yay for British cozy authors! 🤣 My aunt loves Miss Read, but I have never tried her, so I must prioritise it after having heard you talk about it. I love Rosamunde Pilcher but haven’t read any of her works for years; however Shelly and I are buddy reading Winter Solstice later in the year, which is really exciting! 😊📚

I've read miss read for years..love it

Thanks so much, Gina! I have really taken a shine to Pilcher’s writing and have enjoyed her books. I am currently reading September. I have not read any of the other authors but will look them up. 🌸

I am new to your channel, but am loving the content. I don't know if you have mentioned EF Benson's Mapp and Lucia books before. Definitely comfort reads.

Oh how I enjoyed this video! Looking forward to checking out some of the authors that are new to me. My favorite is Rosamunde Pilcher. I just love her writing. I am working my way through her book "September" for this month.

I’ve had this on my watch later list for so long and really appreciate these recommendations. I really want to get into Barbara Pym so will look for Jane and Prudence. Had never heard of DE Stevenson before! The Rosamunde Pilcher book sounds glorious and is on a kindle deal so just bought it. Ms Read also sounds wonderful. Great video!

BEST VIDEO EVER!! I 100% agree with you on these authors, Gina! And on Rosamunde Pilcher books. Winter Solstice is my all time favorite. I love reading and listening to it every winter. My favorite AC book is Sleeping Murder, but I love them all. Miss Marple is my favorite character of all time. I haven't read all of Barbara Pym's books, so I'm very excited to keep going with those. I would also add Frances Hodgson Burnett, Elizabeth Goudge and Dorothy Whipple (maybe L.M. Montgomery, too) to my cozy book author list. Thank you so much for sharing this video! Soo perfect! Many hugs! xoxo :D

What a fab video!I am so much into cozy little old lady books. They are so comforting. I just started the thrush green series and I think it’s the first one. I finished all of the fair acre series and loved it. I’m finding that the books I’m buying and not borrowing from the library are cozies. Agatha Christie, Barbara Pym and Miss Read. Now to buy the books That you talked about Starting with DE Stevenson. More tea please? Aloha

Great video! Agatha Christie is my idea of the ultimate cozy author. 🙂

I love this. I have been on the hunt for Winter Solstice. I have never read anything by Rosamunde Pilcher, but figured that would be a perfect December read :). I range from appreciating "Gothic" to "cozy" in choosing books, and your selection sounds perfect. I, too, love, love British humor, sweet narratives/morals, and detailed meals, daily life, and quaint villages. Thank you for the review :)!

Sounds like you need to go book shopping for some Agatha Christie! ☺️☺️☺️ I haven’t read Pym yet! I should pick some up. Love this list!

I think you would enjoy the Jan Karon "Father tim/Mitford" series. Warm story about an elderly Episcopal priest It runs to 14 books following the adventures of Father Tim and the people in small town North Carolina. It has religious overtones, but is not preachy. I think you'll love it!

THANK YOU KZfaq for showing me this beautiful channel...! I just discovered your super inspiring and cosy videos and I am smiling....... Love your refreshing style and enthousiasm! Spring greetings from Belgium! Maggie (Magali) 🌷🌺🌷

Love this 💕 If you see gaps in the stats, that is me pausing to put things on my shopping wishlist 😂 Winter solstice was a great escape last winter. The only thing I didn’t like was the theme of ‘the love of my life is already married’, that got a bit repetitive, but she is such a vivid story teller that I literally felt like I could step into another world at night, even thinking about it puts me back in a lovely snowy Scottish village ☺️

Barbara Pim is new to me, and what a lovely boxed set! 🤩

Just finished two Miss Read books and am currently enjoying Excellent Women by Pym❤️. All of these were selected based on this video. I am so happy to have found you!

Thank you. Just what I needed.

Thanks for the recommendations, Gina. I'll check out your suggestions - especially interested in Barbara Pym. Rosamunde Pilcher is among my all-time favourite authors. Have you read her book of short stories, The Blue Bedroom? It is one of her best. :)

I watched this last night and immediate picked up a sample of Miss Buncle’s Book. A few chapters in and I’m loving it! Just what I needed as I’m also reading a World War II book!! Thanks, Gina!

Ive enjoyed this vid a Lot! Just subscribed! 😊 I'm fond of Rosamund Pilcher, I'm trying to get her latest book Winter Solsctice 🍀 one of My favs is "Snow in April"...it's definetely about the cozy feeling for sure 🩷🩷🩷🍵

Miss Buncle's book was the first DE Stevenson I read. Except for Pym this is a list of my favorite authors, adding Elizabeth Cadell. I remember being so delighted when Shell Seekers came out and it was long!

Great video!

I *adore* Agatha Christie - Jane Marple is my spirit animal! 😆 I have exactly 1 book by Barbara Pym, Excellent Women and I haven't read it yet. 🙄 This was *so* fun, thank you for sharing! I purchased _Thrush Green_ for my Kindle as you were talking about it - it's currently $1.99! 📚

Miss Buncle's book sounds so cozy! And also Winter solstice :D Miss Read sounded good as well. I added them to my wishlist ☺ I have 1 Agathe Christie book, but still need to read it :)

Hi Gina! Thank you for these Cozy Author recommendations! I whole heartedly concur with your choices of Miss Read and Rosamunde Pilcher! I have yet to read anything by Barbara Pym or D.E. Stevenson. I look forward to doing so! I have a recommendation for a cozy read! There is a book by Rosie Blake named "Hygge Holiday" that is very cozy and wonderful during the Christmas season! I think you will love it! I got caught up in the idea of hygge and I am never looking back!

I really relate to your choices, especially what you shared about R. Pilcher. I also love books about older women as it feels like there is a lack in popular literature about our segment of the population!

I totally agree with rosamunde pilchere as a cozy writer, I just finished the shell seekers and looking foward to read her other novels

If you like this sort of novel, then I recommend reading the Angela Thirkell novels - Set in a single English county, it details the loves of the inhabitants there.

I read September a couple weeks ago and really enjoyed it! Winter solstice was also good. I love Maeve Binchy who is Irish I believe. All her stories evolve around families, a village, the kids… Very cozy! 🤓

I adore Miss Read, have read almost of her books, she is fantastic. She really makes me feel happy and we need to be happy these Times. I never read Rosamunde Pilcher because I thought she was too romantic, but I will read the book you recommended. And I will read also D.E. Stevenson that I never hear about her. Thank you so much for this video.

I borrowed “Miss Buncle’s Book” by D.E. Stevenson from the library and I was just going to read the first two chapters before I went to bed and ended up reading 55 pages, and had to force myself to put it down. Thank you for super suggestion, so far I love her..

I never thought of What a Christie as a cozy...? I started reading Miss Read many, many yrs. ago and for some reason stopped, can't remember why. Wasn't cause I didn't like them, cause I did.🙂 I have seen them at my library and said to myself;" I have to start reading them again". Enjoy your channel. Am a fairly new subscriber, maybe 2 wks.?

Gina, you are a woman after my own heart. I love these authors, although I'm just now reading my first Barbara Pym. One correction, I think the Hercules Poirot book you mention is "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" rather than "The Murderous . . . ."

I love Miss Read and have read almost all of her books many times. Have you come across Lillian Beckwith? Sadly no longer with us but she wrote about 5/6 novels mainly set on a remote Hebridean Island. Wonderful cosy books!

I have Miss Read's Fairacre series and Thrush Green series. I find them very calming and people behave like you WISHED people would behave. I also enjoy Alexander McCall Smith's Number One Ladies Detective Agent series. Again, they are big on ethics and personal values without being preachy. Just the world that you wished to be living in. I also enjoy Lilian Beckwith's series about the Hebridean Islands (The Hills is Lonely). I read these series repeatedly interspersed with other books. I always go back to them.

After your video, I think I understand why I really liked Coming Home but did not like another book from Rosemund Pilcher 🤔 Thanks for the knowledge 🙋🏻‍♀️

Cozy books are the best! Agatha Christie is also the best, lol! I haven't read The Murder at the Vicarage though, even if I love Miss Marple books. I read both Poirot and Miss Marple completely out of order, whoops.

Oh my goodness! I found a Barbara Pym book at a library sale a few years ago - I don't know why I even bought it because the cover was awful and I buy books for the cover 😂 but it was Quartet in Autumn and at first, I didn't think I liked it.(long story on the reason why) Soon though, I found myself thinking about this book more than anything else. So I recently saw another Barbara Pym at a thrift store and look forward to reading more.She has such a talent for expressing things I find hard to articulate.

You are 5 for 5 on my own favorite cozy authors. How does that happen? 😊 Now I'm going to pull Winter Solstice from the shelf and re-read it. My own favorite of hers is Coming Home. I think that's because I really like WWI or WWII stories as well as the period between the wars. Of Pym I love Some Tame Gazelle. It was my first of hers. I recommended it to someone and they thought I was completely weird, or daft, as the British might say. They said" "but nothing happens, and these women are old spinsters and such. You're a modern career woman, how can you enjoy these?" It made me realize, these reads are not for everyone but only the select few. Seeing as we are soul mates, I'd like to recommend two more books, if you don't already know them: Rose Cottage by Mary Stewart and The Dean's Watch by Elizabeth Goudge. I like several others by those authors, but those are my favorite. Goudge can be a bit too esoteric and overtly religious for my taste, but not this one.

I so enjoyed your definitive example of cosy reading at 15 minutes in, the ritual of afternoon tea. It's great sensory writing - it takes you there. My cozy recommends would be P. G. Wodehouse, and - discovered at Christmas - the Mapp and Lucia series by E. F. Benson. These 6 books either have Mapp or Lucia in the title and are all about the petty struggles for prestige on the English village council etc. No one is harmed, and the little pretentions, affectations and power plays are hilarious to observe.

Great video. I’m not familiar with Pym , Stevenson , or the Miss Read books. I’ve heard of them, but never tried any. I’ll check them out now. I agree with the Christie and Pilcher recommendations. Have you also read Binchy ? Her books remind me a bit of Pilcher’s . Happy Reading

Random question. I think you have mentioned a book about a cat whose owner dies and the daughter and son-in-law move in. Such a sweet cozy read and I can’t think of the name of the book. Help?

Good choice all with exceptions of 2 I havent read miss pyms and the other one miss bungle never heard if her. I love miss marple weary of poirot hes pompous overbearing. He and his grey cells. My favourite favourite Miss Read absoluteley adore her I have all her books a lot of them duplicated.