Welcome to the latest installment of Vox’s Ask a Book Critic, in which Vox book critic Constance Grady, provide book recommendations to suit your very specific mood: either how you’re feeling right now or how you’d like to be feeling instead.

In today's episode, a caller from Colorado is searching for books that find joy in the daily minutiae. Constance recommends:

• Wintering by Catherine May
• Autumn by Karl Ove Knausgaard
• Home Comforts by Cheryl Mendelsohn

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