18 cosy fantasy books to add to your TBR

I had never heard of cosy fantasy until ‘Legends & Lattes’ started doing the rounds. It didn’t compute for me: fantasy? Cosy? HOW?

Cosy fantasy: high fantasy novels where characters go about their days in a slice of life novel with low stakes.

Of course, this is the sort of genre definition that can be up to interpretation. Low stakes and what classes as the everyday differs from reader to reader which always makes cosy fantasy picks and recommendations a bit contentious. These are a selection of titles that I’ve read myself and defined as cosy fantasy, and those that I’ve seen recommended over and over as a part of the genre so I’ve taken the majority ruling on it!

The ones I haven’t read yet? Almighty need.

Cosy fantasy is comforting, soft, brain-soothing reads for the soul and I’m absolutely on board with it.

• ‘Legends & Lattes’ by Travis Baldree

• ‘The Secret Society of Irregular Witches’ by Sangu Mandanna

• ‘Under the Whispering Door’ by TJ Klune

• ‘Mooncakes’ by Wendy Zu and Suzanne Walker

• ‘Garlic and the Witch’ by Bree Paulsen

• ‘Half a Soul’ by Olivia Atwater

• ‘A Psalm for the Wild-Built’ by Becky Chambers

• ‘The Tea Dragon Society’ by K O’Neill

• ‘The Wisteria Society for Lady Scoundrels’ by India Holton

• ‘The House in the Cerulean Sea’ by TJ Klune

• ‘A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking’ by T Kingfisher

• ‘Stardust’ by Neil Gaiman

• ‘Shady Hollow’ by JUneau Black

• ‘The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy’ by Megan Bannen

• ‘Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries’ by Heather Fawcett

• ‘Howl’s Moving Castle’ by Diana Wynne Jones

• ‘Practical Magic’ by Alice Hoffman

• ‘The Princess Bride’ by William Golding

Have you jumped on the cosy fantasy bandwagon yet?

Written by Sophie