Looking for a book to read when life is hard

1. The Hobbit — Tolkien novel
   A small person on an adventure. Cake at Bag End.
2. 84, Charing Cross Road — Helene Hanff memoir/letters
   A New York writer and a London bookshop.
3. A Year in Provence — Peter Mayle memoir
   France, pastis, a stone house.
4. Little House in the Big Woods — Wilder novel
   Snow, food, parents.
5. All Creatures Great and Small — James Herriot memoir
   Yorkshire vet.
6. My Family and Other Animals — Gerald Durrell memoir
   Corfu in the 1930s.
7. Cold Comfort Farm — Stella Gibbons novel
   Funny. Aunt Ada Doom.
8. The Wind in the Willows — Grahame novel
   Mole, Rat, the river bank.
9. Old Filth — Jane Gardam novel
   An old judge looks back.
10. Bird by Bird — Anne Lamott essays
    On writing and life. Re-readable.