Thank you to Susan for this list from CALIX members of uplifting titles as we enter the drearly wintertime blahs.  Sometimes you just need a nice happy ending!

Fiction

Albom, Mitch. The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Ali, Monica. Brick Lane

Andrews, Donna.  Meg Langslow mysteries

Auel, Jean. Valley of the Horses

Austen, Jane. Emma

Balogh, Mary. Simply series; Slightly series (romance) 

Bank, Melissa. The Girls’s Guide to Hunting and Fishing

Bennett, Alan. The Uncommon Reader
Benson, E. F. Mapp and Lucia series

Binchy, Maeve. Tara Road; Circle of Friends

Braun, Lillian Jackson. The Cat Who series

Burns, Olive. Cold Sassy Tree

Cather, Willa. Death Comes for the Archbishop; My Ántonia

Chiaverini, Jennifer. Elm Creek Quilts series

Christie, Agatha.

Coelho, Paulo. The Alchemist

Evanovich, Janet. Stephanie Plum series

Fforde, Jasper. The Thursday Next series.

Fisher, Carrie. Postcards from the Edge

Flagg, Fannie. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle-Stop Café; Standing in the Rainbow

Fowler, Karen Joy. The Jane Austen Book Club

Frank, Dorothea Benton. Shem Creek

Gaiman, Neil. Stardust

Grisham, John. A Painted House; Skipping Christmas

Gulley, Philip. Harmony series

Hale, Lucretia. The Peterkin Papers (children’s)

Hiaasen, Carl

Hornby, Nick

Karon, Jan. The Mitford series

Keillor, Garrison. (also nonfiction titles)

Kidd, Sue Monk. The Secret Life of Bees

Kimmel, Haven. A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana.

Kingsbury, Karen. Redemption series. (Christian fiction)

Kinkade, Thomas. Cape Light series (Christian fiction)

Lee, Linda Francis. The Devil in the Junior League

Letts, Billie.

Lewis, Sarah. The Answer Is Yes

Macomber, Debbie

McCall Smith, Alexander.  No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series

Michaels, Fern.

Moore, Christopher (irreverent, wacky, edgy)

Notaro, Laurie. We Thought You Would be Prettier

Oke, Janette. Acadia series; Canadian West series (Christian fiction)

Pilcher, Rosamunde.

Pratchett, Terry. Discworld series

Pullman, Phillip. The Golden Compass; The Subtle Knife

Pym, Barbara.

Reid, Van. Moosepath League series

Rivers, Francine (Christian fiction)

Robbins, Tom.

Ross, Ann B. Miss Julia series

Rushdie, Salman. Haroun and the Sea of Stories

Shepherd, Jean. In God We Trust; All Others Pay Cash

Smith, Ali. The Accidental

Smith, Zadie. On Beauty

Sterne, Laurence. Tristram Shandy

Thoene, Bodie & Brock

Toole, John Kennedy. A Confederacy of Dunces

Trollope, Joanna

Trigiani, Adriana. Big Stone Gap series.  Also Queen of the Big Time.

Vonnegut, Kurt. Breakfast of Champions

Ward, Amanda Eyre. How to Be Lost

Wells, Rebecca.

Welty, Eudora. Losing Battles

Winston, Lolly. Good Grief

P. G. Wodehouse. Jeeves; Psmith; and Wooster series.

Poetry

Cope, Wendy. Heaven on Earth: 101 Happy Poems

Dickinson, Emily.

Johnston, Lynn. Angel’s Dance: A Collection of Uplifting and Inspirational Poetry

Nonfiction

Barry, Dave. Dave Barry’s Book of Bad Songs

Benchley, Robert.

Bombeck, Erma.

Bryson, Bill. A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail and other titles

Canfield, Jack and Mark Victor Hansen. Chicken Soup for the Soul series

Chopra, Deepak.

Edwards, Elizabeth. Saving Graces: Finding Solace and Strength from Friends and Strangers

Goleman, Daniel (psychology of resilience)

Herriot, James. All Creatures Great and Small; All Things Bright and Beautiful; All Things Wise and Wonderful

Hillenbrand, Laura.  Seabiscuit: An American Legend

Kidder, Tracy. Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World.

McCullough, David. The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge.

Orloff, Judith. Positive Energy Practices

Sedaris, David.

Sell, Colleen. A Cup of Comfort series

Stern, Howard. Private Parts

Thurber, James.

Vowell, Sarah.

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