If you have read This Book Made Me Think of You and would like to be reminded of all the books mentioned, then keep scrolling.
WARNING: if you haven’t read the book yet, I would advise reading it before you read this list, as the list contains some spoilers of the plot.
Happy reading.
- Matilda by Roald Dahl
- How to Cook by Delia Smith
- Beach Read by Emily Henry
- A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
- What I Talk About When I Talk About Running: A Memoir by Haruki Murakami
- The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: How to Free Yourself and Your Family from a Lifetime of Clutter by Margareta Magnusson
- The Poetry Pharmacy: Tried-and-True Prescriptions for the Heart, Mind and Soul by William Sieghart
- Letter from New York: BBC Woman’s Hour Broadcasts by Helene Hanff
- Wild Camping: Exploring and Sleeping in the Wilds of the UK and Ireland by Stephen Neale
- A Lonely Planet guide to London
- Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert
- Dear Reader: The Comfort and Joy of Books by Cathy Rentzenbrink
- Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
- Tilly and the BookWanderers by Anna James
- The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna
- Chocolat by Joanne Harris
- The Kamogawa Food Detectives by Hisashi Kashiwai
- One More Croissant for the Road by Felicity Cloake
- A Thousand Feasts: Small Moments of Joy . . . A Memoir of Sorts by Nigel Slater
- One Day by David Nicholls
- Love Story by Lindsey Kelk
- Here We Go Again by Alison Cochrun
- Venetia by Georgette Heyer
- The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George
- The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy
- Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
- The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
- You Will be Able to Draw by the End of This Book by Jake Spicer
- Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder: A Memoir by Julia Zarankin
- By My Hands: A Potter’s Apprenticeship by Florian Gadsby
- The Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater: Essays on Crafting by Alanna Okun
- The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown
- Outer Order, Inner Calm: Declutter & Organize to Make More Room for Happiness by Gretchen Rubin
- The Art of Rest: How to Find Respite in the Modern Age by Claudia Hammond
- Weathering: How The Earth’s Deep Wisdom Can Help Us Endure Life’s Storms by Ruth Allen
- Set Me On Fire: A Poem for Every Feeling by Ella Risbridger
- Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times by Neil Astley
- Every Day is a Fresh Beginning: Meaningful Poems for Life by Aoibhín Garrihy
- I Wish I Knew: Poems to Soothe Your Soul & Strengthen Your Spirit by Donna Ashworth
- The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry
- 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
- Meet Me at the Museum by Anne Youngson
- Business As Usual by Jane Oliver and Ann Stafford
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel PIE Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
- The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane
- Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
- Miss Benson’s Beetle by Rachel Joyce
- The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Londoners: The Days and Nights of London Now—As Told by Those Who Love It, Hate It, Live It, and Long for It by Craig Taylor
- Swing Time by Zadie Smith
- Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers
- A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond
- The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
- Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa
- The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman
- Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-reum
- Still Life by Sarah Winman
- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
- Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman
- A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
- Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
- His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
- Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
- The Goodbye Cat by Hiro Arikawa
- The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa
- Carbonel by Barbara Sleigh
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- The Cat Who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa
- On Cats by Doris Lessing
- Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
- The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss
- Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans
- The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
- Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
- A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
- The Christmas Bookshop by Jenny Colgan
- The Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore
- A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
- Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy by Frances Mayes
- Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop: A Memoir by Alba Donati