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• The Little Book of Cottagecore

  Traditional Skills for a Simpler Life

  Kent, Emily,

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  This is a pretty self-evident choice: it's filled with tips, tricks, and skills, for those wanting to embrace getting back in tune with nature.

• Flowerheart

  Bakewell, Catherine,

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  Flowerheart is a novel with all of the cozy whimsy you're looking for if you want to just dip your toe into the warmth that the cottagecore aesthetic provides.

• The Cottage Fairy Companion

  a Cottagecore Guide to Slow Living, Connecting to Nature, and Becoming Enchanted Again

  Merrill, Paola,

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  In fairness, this might need to go more on the fairycore list than in this one, but this is another book about the slow lifestyle that cottagecore embodies. Since it's a practical guide, I've included it here.

• Anne of Green Gables

  Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud), 1874-1942

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  Sometimes touted as the quintessential cottagecore book, Anne of Green Gables is full of the working-on-a-farm vibe that cottagecore is based around.

• The Backyard Homestead Book of Kitchen Know-how

  Field-to-table Cooking Skills

  Chesman, Andrea,

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  Even if we all can't move out to nature and live amongst the fields and forests, cooking skills for using your own homegrown fruits and vegetables is the sort of thing all of us can benefit from, regardless of where our home is.

• How to Be a Good Creature

  a Memoir in Thirteen Animals

  Montgomery, Sy

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  Cards on the table, this is just a feel-good book. Sy Montgomery wrote this memoir about the animal friends she's had throughout her life, and the illustrations by Rebecca Green add a little extra magic.

• The New Homemade Kitchen

  250 Recipes and Ideas for Reinventing the Art of Preserving, Canning, Fermenting, Dehydrating, and More

  Shuldiner, Joseph

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  I'm sincerely giving you inspo and book suggestions to help you get into the cottagecore life, so this book about how to can and preserve your own foods is a necessity.

• The Tea Dragon Society

  O'Neill, Kay (Cartoonist)

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  This cozy fantasy was originally a webcomic. It is about Greta, a blacksmith apprentice, and her adventures as she enters the world of tea dragons. It's like a warm hug in a comic.

• Wild Beauty

  McLemore, Anna-Marie

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  What could be more cottagecore than a book about a family who tends lush gardens? Of course, there's some mystery and some secrets to be uncovered within this story as well. It's the perfect magical realism novel to complete the list.