Hi all! I have been really struggling lately and I’m looking for book recommendations that feel like they offer a kind of protection, something to hold onto. You know the concept of safety songs in Stranger Things? That, but books. I read across genres so I’ll give some examples of speculative fiction books that made me feel this way in the past:

-The Legendborn Cycle by Tracy Deonn

I happened to be reading this series when the most important person in my life passed and after I picked myself up off the literal floor it was the only thing that held my attention at all.

-Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy + Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams

No specific story here, I just love these books with my whole heart and feel held by the stories each and every time I read them.

-Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino

If someone asks me to name a favorite book, it’s always this one. But Jorge Luis B Jorge Luis Borges’ Ficciones are the runners up.…