Ten Favorite Comfort Novels
(“I never thought of novels as sources of comfort,” says Sunjeev Sahota, and neither, generally speaking, have I. Here, though, arranged alphabetically by author, are ten novels—for adults—that do comfort me.)
Emma by Jane Austen
The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino
The Ball and the Cross by G. K. Chesterton
The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy
Flashman by George MacDonald Fraser
Less by Andrew Sean Greer
Butterfly Weed by Donald Harington
Winter’s Tale by Mark Helprin
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse
— November 5, 2022