The Cozy Lil' Book Club

When I'm not streaming, I love to read, and after a few years of deliberating and trying to figure out how to do it right, my cozy lil' book club is here! 

This book club is designed not only to share my love of reading and my favourite books with you all, but also as an initiative for people to utilise and appreciate their local libraries. Obviously buying a new book every month is an extra cost many of us can't afford, and libraries are a brilliant resource to explore and find new books without the worry of money.

However, if you can afford to purchase the books on this list, or if you love them after borrowing from the library and want to purchase a copy for yourself, please support independent and local bookstores and charity second-hand stores before purchasing from bigger chain retailers!

Each month, a new book will be posted to read on this page, and you can share your thoughts on my Discord server in the Book Club channel! You can also send in book reccomendations to the Discord server or email them to sharmander29twitch@gmail.com

WHAT WE'RE READING IN 2026!

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January: The Honey Witch by Sydney J. Shields (2024)

What better way to start the new year than with magic, bees and a queer love story that sticks with you long after you close the book? The Honey Witch was recomended to me by a dear friend, and when I tell you this story made me laugh, cry, and feel seen in my own bisexuality, I mean it. I hope you love it as much as I did and still do! - Shar 

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Blurb: In this instant bestseller, the Honey Witch of Innisfree can never find true love. That is her curse to bear. But when a young woman who doesn’t believe in magic arrives on her island, sparks fly in this deliciously sweet romantasy novel of magic, hope, and love overcoming all. 

Twenty-one-year-old Marigold Claude has always preferred the company of the spirits of the meadow to any of the suitors who’ve tried to woo her. So when her grandmother whisks her away to the family cottage on the tiny Isle of Innisfree with an offer to train her as the next Honey Witch, she accepts immediately. But her newfound magic and independence come with a price: No one can fall in love with the Honey Witch.   

When Lottie Burke, a notoriously grumpy skeptic who doesn’t believe in magic, shows up on her doorstep, Marigold can’t resist the challenge to prove to her that magic is real. But soon, Marigold begins to care for Lottie in ways she never expected. And when darker magic awakens and threatens to destroy her home, she must fight for much more than her new home—at the risk of losing her magic and her heart.

"The Honey Witch is a sweet feast, brimming with whimsy, magic, and tender longing.” —Rachel Gillig 

"Featuring a grumpy/sunshine queer romance, lovely imagery, and a distinctly cozy aesthetic, this one is a charmer." —Paste Magazine  

February: The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy by Douglas Adams

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "Extremely funny . . . inspired lunacy . . . [and] over much too soon."--The Washington Post Book World

 

Now celebrating the pivotal 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy!

 

Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read

 

It's an ordinary Thursday morning for Arthur Dent . . . until his house gets demolished. The Earth follows shortly after to make way for a new hyperspace express route, and Arthur's best friend has just announced that he's an alien.

 

After that, things get much, much worse.

 

With just a towel, a small yellow fish, and a book, Arthur has to navigate through a very hostile universe in the company of a gang of unreliable aliens. Luckily the fish is quite good at languages. And the book is The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy . . . which helpfully has the words DON'T PANIC inscribed in large, friendly letters on its cover.

 

Douglas Adams's mega-selling pop-culture classic sends logic into orbit, plays havoc with both time and physics, offers up pithy commentary on such things as ballpoint pens, potted plants, and digital watches . . . and, most important, reveals the ultimate answer to life, the universe, and everything.

 

Now, if you could only figure out the question. . . .

March: Dracula by Bram Stoker

A chilling masterpiece of the horror genre, Dracula also illuminated dark corners of Victorian sexuality. When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to advise Count Dracula on a London home, he makes a horrifying discovery. Soon afterwards, a number of disturbing incidents unfold in England- an unmanned ship is wrecked at Whitby; strange puncture marks appear on a young woman's neck; and the inmate of a lunatic asylum raves about the arrival of his 'Master', while a determined group of adversaries prepares to face the terrifying Count.

April: The Princess Bride by William Goldman

What happens when the most beautiful girl in the world marries the handsomest prince of all time and he turns out to be...well...a lot less than the man of her dreams?

As a boy, William Goldman claims, he loved to hear his father read the S. Morgenstern classic, The Princess Bride. But as a grown-up he discovered that the boring parts were left out of good old Dad's recitation, and only the "good parts" reached his ears.

Now Goldman does Dad one better. He's reconstructed the "Good Parts Version" to delight wise kids and wide-eyed grownups everywhere.

What's it about? Fencing. Fighting. True Love. Strong Hate. Harsh Revenge. A Few Giants. Lots of Bad Men. Lots of Good Men. Five or Six Beautiful Women. Beasties Monstrous and Gentle. Some Swell Escapes and Captures. Death, Lies, Truth, Miracles, and a Little Sex.

In short, it's about everything.