Hello friends! I wanted to clarify something: the first book in the Arrows trilogy is very sweet, but the next two books have some very dark moments. Just wanted to give that heads up, as they might give you the opposite of cozy vibes!
I don't know if I'd call it cosy fantasy, but it is definitely near that end of the spectrum: the Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia Wrede is so cute and funny
@@moev29 I'm all for expanding the definition of the subgenre! 😁 For me 'cosy' as a subgenre specifically calls to mind cosy mysteries, which are aimed at adults but with nothing to shock or unsettle my grandma: a lot of middle-grade books are gentle/sweet/funny but since they're aimed at kids...🤔🤷 But yeah, it fits pretty well 😉👍
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Fairies is my next read and I cannot wait to get to it! I just read The Raven and the Reindeer by T. Kingfisher and it definitely has cozy vibes. It's the perfect winter read!
I love that you're bringing back some classics! Tamora Pierce and Mercedes Lackey are icons. Without them, fantasy would not at all be the same today! I've read most everything by Tamora Pierce set in the Tortall world, and I'm still working on Lackey's Valdemar universe. I want to check out her Elemental Masters series too... But one world at a time!
i found The Bear and the Nightingale because of your channel and it's in my top 5 books of all time. absolutely agree with the feeling cold part!! and i read it in summer!
So happy to see Encyclopedia of Faeries on your rec list! I picked that up this weekend from a Staff rec table at a bookstore when they were sold out of Hell Bent and I still wanted to buy something. Hadn’t heard anything about it until now so I’m even more excited to start reading
I loved reading the Song of the Lioness series when I was growing up! I kind of forgot about it until you showed this video. I also remember reading Protector of the small series by her too. The more I reminisce the more I want to reread them as an adult. So library here I come! Also, I will have to pick up Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries. Sounds really cute!
Tress is my first Brandon Sanderson and I loved it. I’ve already started a re-read. And I’m sharing it with my nieces who are 13 and 16 because I am betting they will love it too.
For me the original Shannara series by Terry Brooks is super cozy, but that might be because it feels so nostalgic! It's comfort reading at its best for me.
You're doing a great job of giving us a variety of books in these cozy vids. A lot of them are ones that either you don't talk about as much or that aren't talked about as much in general, and you have a nice mix of newer and older books.
My copy of Emily Wilde arrives today. So excited to begin it after wrapping up The Winter Garden this week. Really feeling seasonal reading this autumn/winter.
I just read Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Fairies the other week (thanks NetGalley! haha) and I adored it! So glad you enjoyed it too! It really was the perfect cozy, winter read.
Ms Elle I hope you are doing ok. My kids and i still listen every morning we have been meaning to comment on how long your hair is getting 😍. thanks for the recs, hugs 🤗
I love the Alanna series! Here are a few recommendations for you: Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen, The Five Hundred Kingdoms series by Mercedes Lackey and if you can find it A Modern Witch series by Debora Geary
Wow! What a throwback to the Alanna series! Loved those! I’m so happy to see cozy fantasy getting its moment. I would recommend Can’t Spell Treason without Tea by Rebecca Horne and The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy by Megan Bannen. Thx for sharing!💚💚💚
Definitely agree about Alanna!! Love everything Tamora Pierce has written. I found nettle and bone to be cozy 😅 probably because of the quirky characters. A wizards guide to defensive baking was cozy too!
Yaaaas totally agree with Tress being cozy, it is the only one on this list that I have read. And totally true, what people find cozy definitely differs wildly from person to person.
The Song of the Lioness series was my absolute favrouite when I was a kid. I have re-read it recently and it felt younger to me - since I am now much older of course - but it was still such an enjoyable read.
I had been on a spree where I picked up about two dozen cozy mystery books at the local library over the course of a year. I barely remember anything about them. But I looked up basic publishing information on their authors. I was fascinated that most of these authors had cranked out dozens of books. The sales numbers were somewhat modest, but their books kept showing up at my local library.
All I can say is that I want a coffee and cinnamon roll please thank you in advance love your amazing channel prayers and thoughts for you and your husband and your beautiful children love your Aussie friend John ❤❤❤❤
Song of the Lioness was a series I read and read and read when I was younger and I really want to revisit it! It was also the reason I fell in love with fantasy 🤗
so idk if it would count as a cozy fantasy, since as you said cozy means something different to everyone, but Summers at Castle Auburn by Sharon Shinn was that for me. it’s hard for me to describe exactly how it made me feel, but basically I felt my childhood come rushing back to me but through the lens of a fantasy, as though I lived in this world. I was always more of a contemporary/realistic fiction kind of reader, as a kid and until a few years ago when I started dabbling more in fantasy. it was such a good spring/summer’s day read 💗
I second this recommendation (and Lackey's 500 Kingdoms too). I think most of Shinn's YA books could be considered cozy fantasy. My favorite aside from Summers at Castle Auburn is The Safe-Keeper's Secret.
I’ve recently read the first 2 volumes of light novels for Ascendance of a Bookworm and I’m surprised I don’t really hear many people talk about it. It feels very cozy fantasy to me. There’s also a manga and an anime, so potentially different avenues to take to enjoy the story.
I'm glad someone's mentioning that the series does get dark. I love this series, probably the nostalgia and the warm fuzzy feelings of belonging and acceptance the Hearlds exude... but it definitely doesn't stay cozy. Or at least I've never thought of it that way. Arrows Fall had me ugly crying the first and second time I read it.
My top books in this genre are Legends and Lattes, Emily Wilde, A Wizards Guide to Defensive Baking, Meadowsweet (this one looks good!), The House Witch, Snow and Rose, Howl's Moving Castle series, Kiki's Delivery Service.
@@ebnovels I thought I remembered you mentioning it. And I was also going to mention shady hollow, that series, but you also may have mentioned that one too. I have a bunch of middle grade that look pretty cozy. Some of those are eva evergreen, The school for Good and evil, nevermoor, keeper of the lost cities, the nowhere emporium, love sugar magic, Miss Ellicott school for the magically-minded, spindrift and the orchid, the story collector, the forbidden library, the bookshop of dust and dreams, the girl who circumnavigated fairyland series,and the Book wanderers series. And who could forget the neverending story. Please pardon any spelling grammar or punctuation errors, I needed to use talk to text this time.
Emily Wilde was the first book I read this year and I honestly feel bad for everything that follows. Only because it will be hard to compete with! I loved it so so much. It might be my new favorite book. I’m hoping we get news on a sequel soon!
Sometimes I feel like any of those mass market paperbacks that have 15 books in a series feel cozy to me for some reason. 😅 like the Mercy Thompson series by Patricia Briggs!
Hi Elliot. I have a question, I have been meaning to start reading the Cosmere for a while now with either Mistborn or Elantris but keep postponing it for less intimidating series or standalones. Now, seeing the reviews for tress of emerald sea it does really feel like my kind of story and I would love to pick it up soon but I don't know if it has too many spoilers for the rest of the cosmere or you think it can be read like an entry point to finally motivate me to start the cosmere. Thank you for your videos and recommendations! I always find wonderful books through your channel.
Tress is NOT compulsively readable. I came here for alternatives to Tress, and I hear this! It's cozy for sure, but I feel it has the opposite problem to legends and lattes - even though the stakes are much higher in Tress, it doesn't feel that way because of the jokey jokes style of writing. It's something you'd read to your grandchild for sure, but "compulsive" it's not.
You can start with it; it is very very different from a lot of his Cosmere books though, just a heads up! :) If you tend to like more adventurous, light-hearted fantasy, then I’d say give it a go! It and Warbreaker are both not as heavy as things like Stormlight and Mistborn.
@@ebnovels thank you!! I'm also not opposed to something heavier, I just have no idea where to start. I loved your description of this one though, and have added it to my 2023 tbr :)
Hello friends! I wanted to clarify something: the first book in the Arrows trilogy is very sweet, but the next two books have some very dark moments. Just wanted to give that heads up, as they might give you the opposite of cozy vibes!
I don't know if I'd call it cosy fantasy, but it is definitely near that end of the spectrum: the Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia Wrede is so cute and funny
I think cute and funny counts here too!
@@moev29 I'm all for expanding the definition of the subgenre! 😁 For me 'cosy' as a subgenre specifically calls to mind cosy mysteries, which are aimed at adults but with nothing to shock or unsettle my grandma: a lot of middle-grade books are gentle/sweet/funny but since they're aimed at kids...🤔🤷 But yeah, it fits pretty well 😉👍
Another series that never gets talked about but is sooo amazing!
I just finished reading her Frontier Magic series for the first time and that one is fun too.
This brings back memories! Love that series
A cosy fantasy book I enjoyed recently was a graphic novel called ‘garlic and the vampire’
Sounds cute! Just checked it out from my library!
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Fairies is my next read and I cannot wait to get to it!
I just read The Raven and the Reindeer by T. Kingfisher and it definitely has cozy vibes. It's the perfect winter read!
I love that you're bringing back some classics! Tamora Pierce and Mercedes Lackey are icons. Without them, fantasy would not at all be the same today! I've read most everything by Tamora Pierce set in the Tortall world, and I'm still working on Lackey's Valdemar universe. I want to check out her Elemental Masters series too... But one world at a time!
I loved Tamora Pierce (esp. the Lioness Rampant and Wild Magic series) and I still love them as an adult.
i found The Bear and the Nightingale because of your channel and it's in my top 5 books of all time. absolutely agree with the feeling cold part!! and i read it in summer!
I am 50 and i do believe in fairies and don’t you tell me differently ❤❤
I'm glad to learn this subgenre exists. I could never get into the more violent and grimdark stuff.
It’s definitely very hit or miss for me. Sometimes it ends up just feeling like shock value
love your channel so much! you always mention books i've never even heard of, i add all your recs to my tbr
Ohh, well hopefully you find some you like 😄
Elliot is awesome, isn't she? lol My favorite booktuber, period.
So happy to see Encyclopedia of Faeries on your rec list! I picked that up this weekend from a Staff rec table at a bookstore when they were sold out of Hell Bent and I still wanted to buy something. Hadn’t heard anything about it until now so I’m even more excited to start reading
I loved reading the Song of the Lioness series when I was growing up! I kind of forgot about it until you showed this video. I also remember reading Protector of the small series by her too. The more I reminisce the more I want to reread them as an adult. So library here I come!
Also, I will have to pick up Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries. Sounds really cute!
It’s super cute! I hope you enjoy it :D
I just picked up Arrows of the Queen. I can't wait to start that, hopefully this month. I'll have to check out some of the others you mentioned, too.
I hope you like it 😄
Tress is my first Brandon Sanderson and I loved it. I’ve already started a re-read. And I’m sharing it with my nieces who are 13 and 16 because I am betting they will love it too.
I just purchased Emily Wildes Encyclopaedia of Faries, I can't wait to get to it!
For me the original Shannara series by Terry Brooks is super cozy, but that might be because it feels so nostalgic! It's comfort reading at its best for me.
You're doing a great job of giving us a variety of books in these cozy vids. A lot of them are ones that either you don't talk about as much or that aren't talked about as much in general, and you have a nice mix of newer and older books.
My copy of Emily Wilde arrives today. So excited to begin it after wrapping up The Winter Garden this week. Really feeling seasonal reading this autumn/winter.
my fav cosy fantasy is Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune. It's insanely cosy and heartwarming and I really recommend it!
I just read Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Fairies the other week (thanks NetGalley! haha) and I adored it! So glad you enjoyed it too! It really was the perfect cozy, winter read.
That new Luna pic at the end
Ms Elle
I hope you are doing ok. My kids and i still listen every morning we have been meaning to comment on how long your hair is getting 😍. thanks for the recs, hugs 🤗
That’s sweet! Hugs to you and the family 🤗
I love the Alanna series! Here are a few recommendations for you: Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen, The Five Hundred Kingdoms series by Mercedes Lackey and if you can find it A Modern Witch series by Debora Geary
I love the five hundred kingdoms!
Thank you for the recs!
Wow! What a throwback to the Alanna series! Loved those! I’m so happy to see cozy fantasy getting its moment. I would recommend Can’t Spell Treason without Tea by Rebecca Horne and The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy by Megan Bannen. Thx for sharing!💚💚💚
I’ve read Hart and Mercy, but not the other one. Thanks for the recs!
Love Legends and lattes such a cute book 📕🖤❤️🩹💖📚📖💛♥️💛🤍📔📖📕❤️🩹🌈💜📒📙❤️❤️💔📕🖤💖💖📖💚♥️💛📔🤍💛♥️♥️📖💖💖📚💚🧡💙📕❤️🩹❤️🩹🌈💜🌈🌈❤️🩹🖤💙💙💙💙🧡🧡♥️📖🌈💖
The Arrows Trilogy by Mercedes Lackey is so enjoyable!! An easy read 12 chapters per book. I read them all quickly. Enjoyed!!
Definitely agree about Alanna!! Love everything Tamora Pierce has written. I found nettle and bone to be cozy 😅 probably because of the quirky characters. A wizards guide to defensive baking was cozy too!
I truly want to read every single one of these books so thank you kindly, your recommendations are literally almost always spot on for me :D
Yaaaas totally agree with Tress being cozy, it is the only one on this list that I have read. And totally true, what people find cozy definitely differs wildly from person to person.
The Song of the Lioness series was my absolute favrouite when I was a kid.
I have re-read it recently and it felt younger to me - since I am now much older of course - but it was still such an enjoyable read.
I spent last year reading Tamara Pierce's entire catalog (I never read her before), and it was so wonderful!! I loved her writing!!
I had been on a spree where I picked up about two dozen cozy mystery books at the local library over the course of a year. I barely remember anything about them. But I looked up basic publishing information on their authors. I was fascinated that most of these authors had cranked out dozens of books. The sales numbers were somewhat modest, but their books kept showing up at my local library.
All I can say is that I want a coffee and cinnamon roll please thank you in advance love your amazing channel prayers and thoughts for you and your husband and your beautiful children love your Aussie friend John ❤❤❤❤
Tamora Pierce was one of my favorite authors when I was in Jr. High. (I think that makes us about the same age) Thanks for bringing up the series!
I read the Alanna books and Wild Magic series last autumn. Loved them!
My sister loved the Wild Magic series :D
@@ebnovels looking forward to Legend and Lattes, one of my birthday books for myself 🥰🥰
Song of the Lioness was a series I read and read and read when I was younger and I really want to revisit it! It was also the reason I fell in love with fantasy 🤗
Woo hoo! So glad you loved Arrows of the Queen.
I’m so excited to read Legends & lattes!
so idk if it would count as a cozy fantasy, since as you said cozy means something different to everyone, but Summers at Castle Auburn by Sharon Shinn was that for me. it’s hard for me to describe exactly how it made me feel, but basically I felt my childhood come rushing back to me but through the lens of a fantasy, as though I lived in this world. I was always more of a contemporary/realistic fiction kind of reader, as a kid and until a few years ago when I started dabbling more in fantasy. it was such a good spring/summer’s day read 💗
That sounds lovely! I definitely get why that would fit cozy 🥰
I second this recommendation (and Lackey's 500 Kingdoms too). I think most of Shinn's YA books could be considered cozy fantasy. My favorite aside from Summers at Castle Auburn is The Safe-Keeper's Secret.
@@Quaisior I just bought The Safe-Keeper’s Secret, thank you for the rec! looking into 500 Kingdoms now 🥰
I really liked Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries 🥺🥺
I’ve recently read the first 2 volumes of light novels for Ascendance of a Bookworm and I’m surprised I don’t really hear many people talk about it. It feels very cozy fantasy to me. There’s also a manga and an anime, so potentially different avenues to take to enjoy the story.
FINALLY someone is talking about Mercedes Lackey and Valdimar! (My favorite author and world). Series does get dark so be aware.
Thanks for the heads up! I can’t wait to read more in this world 😄
@@ebnovels meant the actual trilogy you are reading, although some of the other trilogies have dark and uncomfortable scenes.
I'm glad someone's mentioning that the series does get dark. I love this series, probably the nostalgia and the warm fuzzy feelings of belonging and acceptance the Hearlds exude... but it definitely doesn't stay cozy. Or at least I've never thought of it that way. Arrows Fall had me ugly crying the first and second time I read it.
I always think you’re saying ho friends. Not sure why. Just finished legends and lattes and glad this came up for my recommendations! Thanks!!
I've been rereading Tomora Pierce's Immortals quartet
I agree with so many of these and the ones I don't, I haven't read and so now I want to
My top books in this genre are Legends and Lattes, Emily Wilde, A Wizards Guide to Defensive Baking, Meadowsweet (this one looks good!), The House Witch, Snow and Rose, Howl's Moving Castle series, Kiki's Delivery Service.
I need to read some of those! I mentioned Wizard’s Guide in one of the other videos like this, because I completely agree that it’s super cozy 😄
@@ebnovels I thought I remembered you mentioning it. And I was also going to mention shady hollow, that series, but you also may have mentioned that one too. I have a bunch of middle grade that look pretty cozy. Some of those are eva evergreen, The school for Good and evil, nevermoor, keeper of the lost cities, the nowhere emporium, love sugar magic, Miss Ellicott school for the magically-minded, spindrift and the orchid, the story collector, the forbidden library, the bookshop of dust and dreams, the girl who circumnavigated fairyland series,and the Book wanderers series. And who could forget the neverending story. Please pardon any spelling grammar or punctuation errors, I needed to use talk to text this time.
Have a look at "Lonely castle in the mirror"
I really enjoyed the Song of the Lioness series. It was really good and I really didn't feel like I was reading Middle Grade.
Please read The House Witch. So cosy!
Great video!
Emily Wilde was the first book I read this year and I honestly feel bad for everything that follows. Only because it will be hard to compete with! I loved it so so much. It might be my new favorite book. I’m hoping we get news on a sequel soon!
I can’t wait for book two!
Sometimes I feel like any of those mass market paperbacks that have 15 books in a series feel cozy to me for some reason. 😅 like the Mercy Thompson series by Patricia Briggs!
I see cozy fantasy listed under gas lamp fantasy rather frequently
Hi Elliot. I have a question, I have been meaning to start reading the Cosmere for a while now with either Mistborn or Elantris but keep postponing it for less intimidating series or standalones. Now, seeing the reviews for tress of emerald sea it does really feel like my kind of story and I would love to pick it up soon but I don't know if it has too many spoilers for the rest of the cosmere or you think it can be read like an entry point to finally motivate me to start the cosmere. Thank you for your videos and recommendations! I always find wonderful books through your channel.
Great video. :)
I really want to read tress of the emerald sea but I never read anything in the cosmere do I need to read anything else before I start it
I've never read any Sanderson, but can I start with Tress ?
Tress is NOT compulsively readable. I came here for alternatives to Tress, and I hear this! It's cozy for sure, but I feel it has the opposite problem to legends and lattes - even though the stakes are much higher in Tress, it doesn't feel that way because of the jokey jokes style of writing. It's something you'd read to your grandchild for sure, but "compulsive" it's not.
Can you read Tress of the Emerald Sea as a standalone or no?
HOW CAN THERE BE A COZY FANTASY BOOK LIST WITHOUT HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE ON IT?????
Emily Wildes love this book so cute and love the cover so cute and and amazing 🧡🧡💖💙💙💙🌈🧡❤️🩹📖❤️🩹🤍💚💚📕📚📙💔💔❤️❤️💔💜📚📔📒📙📔🖤🖤🧡🧡🌈💖💙💙🌈🧡🧡🌈❤️🩹💜💜💜💚💚💚💙💙💖🧡♥️💛💛💛💙💙
They do have great covers!
@@ebnovels ikr! 😀😀
SO EXCITED!!! ❤️🩹💙💜💖🌈💔🧡🤍🤍🧡♥️💛💛♥️🤍🤍🌈💖❤️❤️🩹💙💜💖💛💛💛♥️🧡🤍🖤❤️🌈💖💜💜💙💙❤️🩹💙❤️🖤🤍🤍🧡💚💛💛💚🧡🧡📖📚📙📙📚📖📚📔📔📒📖📖📖📒📙📙📒📖📖
I can't get over the Orc in L&L. Ukranians call Russian invaders Orcs.
I love your videos!!!
Wow! Hugs from Arizona, USA 😅☺️🤗
Good morning Elliot hope you have amazing day xoxo 😚 ❤️♥️💖📕📕💙📚📔📚💚📙🤍🤍🤍💛📖📖💛🤍📒📔💚💙📕📕💖♥️❤️🩹❤️🩹🌈💜🖤🌈❤️🩹♥️📚📚💚💚🤍🤍💛🧡📖📖📖💛🤍📔📔📚📚📔📔♥️💖
I have yet to read ANY Brandon Sanderson, and it's on my list of bookish things to do in 2023. Do you think this would be a good one to start with?
You can start with it; it is very very different from a lot of his Cosmere books though, just a heads up! :) If you tend to like more adventurous, light-hearted fantasy, then I’d say give it a go! It and Warbreaker are both not as heavy as things like Stormlight and Mistborn.
@@ebnovels thank you!! I'm also not opposed to something heavier, I just have no idea where to start. I loved your description of this one though, and have added it to my 2023 tbr :)