
The Gingerbread Bakery
Laurie Gilmore
Published 2025
384 pages
Heartwarming books restore your faith in people. Strangers help each other, lonely characters find friends and small kindnesses change lives. You close the last page with a lump in your throat and a smile. Perfect when you need reminding that the world has good in it. This list shows the ones first published in 2025.
See also Feel-good fiction

Laurie Gilmore
Published 2025
384 pages

Tessa Bailey
Published 2025
320 pages

Tessa Bailey
Published 2025
336 pages

London Sperry
Published 2025
368 pages

Ali Brady
Published 2025
414 pages

Mhairi McFarlane
Published 2025
416 pages

Rosie Danan
Published 2025
448 pages

Sarah Morgan
Published 2025
368 pages

Josie Silver
Published 2025
320 pages

Alexandra Kiley
Published 2025
336 pages

Jean Meltzer
Published 2025
368 pages

Lizzie Damilola Blackburn
Published 2025
288 pages

Elana Johnson
Published 2025
302 pages

Karmen Lee
Published 2025
288 pages

Sophie Andrews
Published 2025
298 pages

Madeleine Ryan
Published 2025
256 pages

Fei Tian Ye Xiang
Published 2025
394 pages

Susanna Craig
Published 2025
352 pages

Konomi Wagata
Published 2025
168 pages

Emily Henry
Published 2025
384 pages

Linda Holmes
Published 2025
320 pages

Phil Cobb
Published 2025
440 pages

India Holton
Published 2025
368 pages

Alex Aster
Published 2025
304 pages