Reading for Pleasure Collection Part 3

Mood-boosting books

The Reading for Pleasure collection now includes a range of mood-boosting books. This list has been put together by the Reading Agency . 

Most but not all of the recommendations are from people who have been coping with life-threatening illnesses and discovered the books to be mood-boosting. 

A list of the mood-boosting books in the library is below. There are already some reviews of the books on the Bedstime Reading blog. 




The other side of the Dale,  
Gervase Phinn http://library.beds.ac.uk/record=b1345538~S20

On love and barley, Haiku of Basho; translated from the Japanese with an introduction by Lucien Stryk http://library.beds.ac.uk/record=b1685826~S20

The shell seekers, 
Rosamunde Pilcher http://library.beds.ac.uk/record=b1685827~S20

A cat called Norton, 
Peter Gethers http://library.beds.ac.uk/record=b1685828~S20

The island, Victoria Hislop http://library.beds.ac.uk/record=b1685829~S20

The Rosie project, 
Graeme Simsion http://library.beds.ac.uk/record=b1685830~S20

The green road into the trees, 
Hugh Thomson http://library.beds.ac.uk/record=b1685831~S20

The Lady in the Van, 
Alan Bennett http://library.beds.ac.uk/record=b1304749~S20

A slice of Britain, Caroline Taggart http://library.beds.ac.uk/record=b1685833~S20

Us, David Nicholls http://library.beds.ac.uk/record=b1685834~S20

The humans, Matt Haig http://library.beds.ac.uk/record=b1685835~S20

Ode to Didcot Power Station, 
Kit Wright http://library.beds.ac.uk/record=b1685836~S20

Paris for one, Jojo Moyes http://library.beds.ac.uk/record=b1685837~S20

The stories, Jane Gardam http://library.beds.ac.uk/record=b1685838~S20

The hundred-year-old man who climbed out of the window and disappeared, 
Jonas Jonasson ; translator, Roy Bradbury 
http://library.beds.ac.uk/record=b1685839~S20

The love song of Miss Queenie Hennessy, 
Rachel Joyce http://library.beds.ac.uk/record=b1685840~S20

The miniaturist, Jessie Burton http://library.beds.ac.uk/record=b1685841~S20

You made me late again! Pam Ayres http://library.beds.ac.uk/record=b1685842~S20

A Man Called Ove, Fredrik Backman http://library.beds.ac.uk/record=b1685843~S20