Genre Study: Cozy Sci-Fi/Fantasy
August 6 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Our 2026-2027 genre study provides an overview of genre blends in fiction by looking at key authors, tropes, and themes.
RSVP to Courtney Rose Welsh: cwelsh@helenplum.org
Genre Blends: Cozy Fantasy
The Cozy Fantasy mystery will be on Thursday, August 6th from 2-4pm at the Helen Plum Library in Lombard, Illinois. Please read two books that fall within this genre. Below is a list of suggested titles, but feel free to choose anything in the genre that interests you!
- Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree
- You Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca Thorne
- The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
- The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Manndan
- Cursed Cocktails by S.L. Rowland
- The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst
- Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter by Heather Fawcett
- Violet Thistlewaite Is Not a Villain Anymore by Emily Krempholtz
- The Baby Dragon Café by Aamna Qureshi
- Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
- The Bookshop and the Barbarian by Morgan Stang
- Miss Percy’s Pocket Guide to the Care and Feeding of British Dragons by Quenby Olson
- The House Witch by Delemhach
- A Coup of Tea by Casey Blair
- Half a Soul (Regency Faerie Tales, #1) by Olivia Atwater