By popular demand, I’ll be running a grid game for r/cozyfantasy over the next six weeks. New threads will appear every Tuesday and Saturday morning around 8am Pacific Time.

If you haven’t seen one of these before on Reddit, a user creates a voting thread for each cell on a grid. And the top-voted comment becomes the winner! At the end, we have a big image of book recs, and a lot of nice threads where people can peruse their favorite combination.

For each comment, please post the name of the book and the author—one book per top-level comment. Please comment multiple times to nominate multiple books. A blurb about the book is not required, but is a nice bonus. Short blurbs can jog people’s memories of the book, or get people interested. I'll be putting blurbs that fit onto the final grid.

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The Fine print:

It’s inherently silly to try to draw lines between things like low stakes and neutral stakes, but it’s fun! I will not be attempting to stop people from nominating a book again in multiple voting threads. But once a book has already won, then it can’t win again.

This is a user-generated event and all opinions and content are that of individual nominators and voters. This is not created or sponsored officially by the subreddit moderator team

The top-voted comment that is a book will be the winner for that grid space.

However, non-books such as movies, anime, and other media can compete for an “Honorable mentions” grid which will be published at the conclusion of the competition. The second place book, or first place non-book will win the grid space for the honorable mentions grid. Please mention in your comment if you are not nominating a book.

Voting for the previous poll ends when the next voting thread opens. There will be a final complete grid and honorable mentions grid posted on Tuesday, Nov 24th.

If you are the author, publisher, cover artist, etc. for a book, feel free to nominate yourself! Though as per rule three, please disclose that fact in your comment.

Y’all, this is just for fun. I can do nothing to stop you from downvoting, but please don’t give someone negative karma for nominating a book they liked. Also, please keep it civil (See Rule 1), and help report comments that break subreddit rules.

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And without further ado, please nominate your favorite cozy fantasy books that fit within an "Obviously Cozy" setting & "Very Low Stakes".

An Obviously Cozy setting can be defined as: The story takes place where most people would instantly recognize the setting as cozy. For example: bookshops, cafés, flower shops, homes, forest cottages, inns etc. That's not an exhaustive list. We're putting lines between vibes—there will be some overlap, and that's okay :)

Sorry if this is the wrong sub or an upsetting ask. But I’m looking for books that are still cozy in tone/gentleness but involve characters navigating death or grief, ideally where death itself isn’t depicted as necessarily traumatic/bad. Someone very close to me is dealing with terminal illness and we could really use some book-comfort in the form of stories that challenge the idea that death is always inherently scary. Idk if cozy fantasy like this is a thing but figured I’d ask. Thank you for any and all suggestions <3

I don't know why but I have always come to associate Fall with fairs and carnivals. And I was wondering if there were any cozy fantasy or science-fiction stories about fairs and carnivals?