Keeping It Cozy

Embrace the cozy side of life with these nonfiction titles.

Updated November 27, 2025
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My Hygge Home: How to Make Home Your Happy Place
Meik Wiking
Ebook
An inspiring book from Meik Wiking, the New York Times bestselling author of The Little Book of Hygge, about how to use space, light, and Danish design to transform your home to fit your needs.   Now more than ever before, our homes need to be a place of comfort...
Lagom: The Swedish Art of Balanced Living
Linnea Dunne
Ebook
Niksen: Embracing the Dutch Art of Doing Nothing
Olga Mecking
Ebook
The Dutch people are some of the happiest in the world. Their secret? They are masters of niksen, or the art of doing nothing. Niksen is not a form of meditation, nor is it a state of laziness or boredom. It's not scrolling through social media, or wondering what you're going to...
Cozy: The Art of Arranging Yourself in the World
Isabel Gillies
Ebook
"Coziness is a state of mind" for the New York Times-bestseller of Happens Every Day, who has written a lifestyle guide as "a companion to Marie Kondo" ( New York Times Book Review). When we talk about being cozy, most of us think of a favorite sweater or a...
Slow: Simple Living for a Frantic World
Brooke McAlary
Paper Book
Free Yourself from a Frantic Life and Embrace the Joy of Slow Living What is slow living? It's a way to find happiness by stepping away from the never-ending demands to constantly succeed and acquire more and more. It's easy to get stuck in the carousel of frantically wanting, buying, and...
Gentle: Rest More, Stress Less, and Live the Life You Actually Want
Courtney Carver
From an expert on simplicity and minimalism, a collection of 30 practices to overcome chronic overwhelm, cultivate self-compassion, and find permission to do less-perfect for readers of Rest is Resistance and Wintering. Being Gentle is...
The Art of Making Memories: How to Create and Remember Happy Moments
Meik Wiking
Paper Book
What's the actual secret to happiness? Great memories! Meik Wiking--happiness researcher and New York Times bestselling author of The Little Book of Hygge and The Little Book of Lykke--shows us how to create memories that make life sweet in this charming book. Do you...
The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
Gretchen Rubin
Paper Book
"This book made me happy in the first five pages." --AJ Jacobs, author of The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible Award-winning author Gretchen Rubin is back with a bang, with The Happiness Project. The author of the bestselling 40...
The Little Book of Lykke: Secrets of the World's Happiest People
Meik Wiking
Ebook
Join the happiness revolution! The author of the New York Times bestseller The Little Book of Hygge offers more inspiration and suggestions for achieving greater happiness, by practicing Lykke (LOO-ka)--pursuing and finding the good that exists in the world around us every day. While the...
The Atlas of Happiness: The Global Secrets of How to Be Happy
Helen Russell
Paper Book
A fun, illustrated guide that takes us around the world, discovering the secrets to happiness. Author Helen Russell (The Year of Living Danishly) uncovers the fascinating ways that different nations search for happiness in their lives, and what they can teach us...
Cosy: The British Art of Comfort
Laura Weir
Paper Book
The Danes have hygge. The Swedes have lagom. Now, Laura Weir, a beloved lifestyle journalist and editor-in-chief of London Evening Standard's weekly ES magazine, introduces American readers to the Brits' best-kept secret--coziness--an indulgent, luxurious, yet unfussy way of creating comfort and...

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