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Book Bingo NW 2024: Cozy

Here are some suggestions for your 2024 Book Bingo NW category: Cozy. Book Bingo is our annual adult summer reading program presented in partnership with Seattle Arts & Lectures. Annotations from NoveList, unless otherwise attributed. GN=Graphic novel

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25 items

  • Nonfiction. Birding is more popular than ever, and for good reason. Birds are infinitely fascinating and inspiring, and can be found everywhere from forests to city parks to suburban backyards. Birding not only grounds us in our natural environment…
    Book, 2023New York, NY : Princeton Architectural Press, a division of Chronicle Books LLC, [2023] — 598.07234 Ad191F 2023
  • Legends & Lattes

    a Novel of High Fantasy and Low Stakes

    Baldree, Travis, 1977-
    Fiction. The much-beloved BookTok sensation from Travis Baldree, Legends & Lattes is a novel of high fantasy and low stakes. Come take a load off at Viv's cafe, the first & only coffee shop in Thune. Grand opening! Worn out after decades of packing…
    Book, 2022New York : Tor, 2022. — SCI-FIC BALDREE 2022
  • Candle Craft

    a Complete Guide : 23 Stylish Projects & Small-business Tips

    Coats, Tiana
    Nonfiction. Learn how to create a variety of candles from poured and molded candles to dipped and rolled candles. Find out how to select wicks, and work with different waxes including soy, beeswax, and paraffin. Readers will also learn how to add in…
    Book, 2023Lafayette, CA : Stash Books, an imprint of C&T Publishing, [2023] — 745.59332 C6328C 2023
  • Goblin Mode

    How to Get Cozy, Embrace Imperfection, and Thrive in the Muck

    Coyle, McKayla
    Nonfiction. A goblin-inspired lifestyle guide that focuses on embracing imperfection in areas such as dressing, decorating, foraging, and crafting. (Publisher)
    Book, 2023Philadelphia, PA : Quirk Books, [2023] — 645 C83987G 2023
  • Little Pieces of Hope

    Happy-making Things in a Difficult World

    Doughty, Todd
    Nonfiction. An enchanting collection of lists, musings, prompts, and illustrations that will inspire you to cherish all of the things--from the extraordinary to the everyday, from the big to the little--that bring hope into our lives. (Publisher)
    Book, 2021[New York, New York] : Penguin Life, [2021] — 152.42 D7449L 2021
  • Street Trees of Seattle

    An Illustrated Walking Guide

    Ebrahimi, Taha
    Nonfiction. Using data visualization as a starting point, Taha Ebrahimi takes readers on a tour of existing trees throughout Seattle neighborhood and iconic parks through charming line drawings. In the process, she educates readers on the history of…
    Book, 2024Seattle : Sasquatch Books, [2024] — 582.16097 Eb76S 2024
  • Fiction. A Cambridge professor, scholar and researcher on the study of faeries visits the hardscrabble village of Hransvik where she gets closer to uncovering the secrets of the Hidden Ones and resists her insufferably handsome academic rival.
    Book, 2023New York : Del Rey, [2023] — SCI-FIC FAWCETT 2023
  • Love & Saffron

    a Novel of Friendship, Food, and Love

    Fay, Kim
    Fiction. When 27-year-old Joan Bergstrom sends a fan letter - as well as a gift of saffron - to 59-year-old food writer Imogen Fortier, so begins an enduring friendship that sustains them through the Cuban Missile Crisis, the assassination of…
    Book, 2022New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, [2022] — FIC FAY 2022
  • Nonfiction. The winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry offers up a spirited collection of short lyric essays, written daily over a tumultuous year, reminding us of the purpose and pleasure of praising, extolling, and celebrating…
    Book, 2019Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2019. — 814.6 G253G 2019
  • Fiction. The happily married Mr. Knightley and Emma are throwing a party at their country estate, bringing together distant relatives and new acquaintances—characters beloved by Jane Austen fans. Definitely not invited is Mr. Wickham, whose latest…
    Book, 2022New York : Vintage Books, 2022. — FIC GRAY 2022
  • Nonfiction. Nothing is stronger than a small hope that doesn't give up. The Comfort Book is a collection of little islands of hope. It gathers consolations and stories that give new ways of seeing ourselves and the world. Matt Haig's mix of…
    Book, 2021[New York] : Penguin Life, [2021] — 158.1 H1253C 2021
  • Fiction. On the autism spectrum, Khai doesn’t feel anything for anyone. His mother recruits Esme, a young Vietnamese woman, to marry him. A realistic, humorous romance that reveals the slow path to love and a meaningful relationship. (LibraryReads)
    Book, 2019New York : Jove, 2019. — FIC HOANG 2019
  • Fur Coats & Backpacks

    the Travel Cats Hit the Road

    Ichimasu, Mari
    Nonfiction. Meet artist Mari Ichimasu's collection of traveling cats, an adorable array of water-color kitties teeming with personality. Viola wears binoculars, ready to watch the whales. Maka is barefoot with a guitar and a bottle of beer peeking…
    Book, 2022Seattle : ChinMusic Press, 2022. — 741.092 Ic3i 2022
  • Fiction. Kian Andrews has heard from his ex-boyfriend, Hudson Rivers, but an urgent text has them meeting up at a cafe. Maybe Hudson wants to profusely apologize for the breakup. Or confess his undying love... But no, Hudson has a favor to ask - he…
    Book, 2022New York : Jove, 2022. — FIC JACKSON 2022
  • Fiction. Down a quiet Kyoto backstreet, "food detectives" Koishi Kamogawa and her father Nagare, the proprietors of the Kamogawa Diner, through ingenious investigations, recreate dishes from a person's treasured memories, which hold the keys to…
    Book, 2023New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, [2023] — FIC KASHIWAI 2023
  • Fiction. Lucinda Caraway loves living in Freya Grove, the mystic seaside town where charms, hexes, and magical beings of all kinds are the norm. She spends her days teaching high school history and her nights reading tea leaves and tending to her…
    Book, 2022New York : Forever, 2022. — FIC MARTIN 2022
  • Nonfiction. Learn from the experts--a pet shop owner, a veterinarian, a wildlife photographer, and a reptile handler--how to pick up and hold dozens of species of animals, great and small, furry, scaly, and feathery, including snails, chipmunks,…
    Book, 2020New York ; London ; Toronto ; Sydney ; New Delhi : Scribner, 2020. — 636.0833 M4292H 2020
  • Fiction. When the disgruntled owner of a rival bakery is murdered after getting a rise out of her, Lyndsay Murray, the owner of Spice Isle Bakery, falls under suspicion and most prove her innocence while dealing with her overprotective and…
    Book, 2023New York, NY : St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2023. — MYSTERY MATTHEW 2023
  • Fiction. During her annual televised baking competition on her Vermont estate, celebrated baker Betsy Martin, hailed as "America's Grandmother," finds murder in the mix when a body is discovered, and everyone is a suspect.
    Book, 2023New York : Atria Books, 2023. — MYSTERY MAXWELL 2023
  • Fiction. The Mimicking of Known Successes presents a cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set on Jupiter, by Malka Older, author of the critically-acclaimed Centenal Cycle.
    Book, 2023New York : Tordotcom, Tor Publishing Group, 2023. — SCI-FIC OLDER 2023