Looking for something new to read? (You’re all caught up on Wyngraf, right?) Check out this list of cozy fantasy novels, novellas, and serialized stories, focused on recent releases and indie authors.
⭐️ indicates authors who have also been published by Wyngraf!
🕰 indicates books that have not yet been released.
Note: We’ve assembled this list mostly based on self-reporting, that is, by putting the word out in the community for cozy fantasy readers to suggest their favorites and authors to let us know about their books. We aren’t able to read every one of these, much as we’d love to, so we operate on the honor system that everything below is actually both cozy and fantasy. Every book contains a different amount of darkness (and, for romance, spiciness) so be sure to read the description!
Another Note: The Amazon links are Associate links, meaning if you buy a book after using one of them, we get a small cut of the purchase price. The amount you pay doesn’t change. If you prefer not to shop on Amazon, you can find many of these books on other sites, though print-on-demand or Kindle Select titles might not be available elsewhere. All money raised this way goes to Wyngraf‘s budget.
Novels
- Balam, Spring by Travis M. Riddle
- Book 1 of the Ustlian Tales series
- Bard City Blues by Nathaniel Webb ⭐️ 🕰
- “Vigil” appears in Wyngraf #1
- The Bookshop and the Barbarian by Morgan Stang
- Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca Thorne
- Cursed Cocktails by S.L. Rowland
- Also appears under Serials as Curses & Cocktails
- Drinks and Sinkholes by S. Usher Evans 🕰
- Book 1 of the Weary Dragon Inn series
- The Forbidden Spell by Kaely Rose
- Book 1 of the Mark of a Caster series
- Green Year Dragonfly by Kaye Bellot
- The Hands of the Emperor by Victoria Goddard
- Book 1 of the Lays of the Hearth-Fire series
- Illuminations by T. Kingfisher
- Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
- Library of the Sapphire Wind by Jane Lindskold
- Book 1 of the Over Where series
- The Lord of Stariel by A.J. Lancaster
- A Rival Most Vial by R.K. Ashwick
- Book 1 of the Side Quest Row Series
- Sacred Cat Island by Harmon Cooper
- A Second Story by J.A. Collignon
- Swordheart by T. Kingfisher
- A Turn of Light by Julie E. Czerneda
- Book 1 of the Night’s Edge series
- A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher
- Read our review
Serials
- Curses & Cocktails by S.L. Rowland (Kindle Vella)
- Tales from the Nightgate Inn by Natasha Inwood (Wattpad) ⭐️
- “The Road to Fjallmark” originally appeared in Wyngraf #1
- This Used to Be About Dungeons by Alexander Wales (Royal Road)
Magazines and Collections
- Tales & Feathers ⭐️
- Ziggy Schutz’s “A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing” appears in our Flash Friday series
- Verit the Vicious and Other Stories in Aneterra by Elliott Wink
- Book 1 of the Aneterra series
Short Stories and Novellas
- By Her Grace by HL Bernabe
- Coffee, Milk & Spider Silk by Coyote JM Edwards
- The Forest God by Jamie Lackey
- Wild Diplomacy by D.G. Redd
- Part of the Stories from the Three Kingdoms series
Graphic Novels
- Ascendance of a Bookworm by Miya Kazuki and Suzuka
- Manga series, also a series of light novels
- The Tea Dragon Society by K. O’Neill
- Witch Hat Atelier by Kamome Shirahama
- Manga series
Appendix C
Here are some books from our Appendix C post that didn’t move to the list above. This is a wholly arbitrary selection of classics, forgotten classics, and other assorted oddments from cozy fantasy history.
- At Amberleaf Fair by Phyllis Ann Karr
- Read our review
- Dark Lord of Derkholm by Diana Wynne Jones
- Book 1 of the Derkholm series
- Farmer Giles of Ham by J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
- The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
- Book 1 of the Howl’s Castle series
- The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
- The Princess Bride (the good parts) by William Goldman
- Redwall by Brian Jacques
- Book 1 in the Redwall series
- Smith of Wootton Major by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Read our review
- Stardust by Neil Gaiman
- An Unexpected Apprentice by Jody Lynn Nye