Can you remember the last time you lay in bed Struggling with your thoughts? You desperately wanted your mind to become calm, just to be quiet, so that you could get some sleep.
So here are some fiction books to read before going back to bed so you can calm your mind and sleep peacefully.
1. Before the Coffee Gets Cold Novel by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
This is one of the first fiction books I read in 2023.
What would you change if you could go back in time?
For almost a century, a café in a little back alley in Tokyo has been selling well-made coffee. This coffee shop offers a unique experience: time travel.
In Before the Coffee Gets Cold, four visitors hope to use the cafe’s time-traveling offer to:
- To see their sister one last time,
- Confront the man who left them,
- To meet the daughter they never got the chance to know.
- Receive a letter from their husband whose memory has been taken by early onset Alzheimer’s.
“In this cafe, you can travel back in time. But there are rules. First, you can only travel to a time in the past that someone has already visited. Second, you can only stay for as long as the coffee remains hot. Third, whatever changes you make in the past will not affect the future you came from. And finally, just remember. Drink the coffee before it goes cold.”
2. The Comfort Book by Matt Haig
The Comfort Book is a compilation of stories, lists, and notes of Matt Haig’s life. It was written over several years. It is a kind reminder to Haig’s future self for when he feels down.
“You have survived everything you have been through, and you will survive this too. Stay for the person you will become. You are more than a bad day, or week, or month, or year, or even a decade. You are a future of multifarious possibility. You are another self at a point in future time looking back in gratitude that this lost and former you held on. Stay.”
― Matt Haig, The Comfort Book
3. A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
One of the best books was written by Fredrik Backman. A Man Called Ove
The Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman is one of the saddest stories I have ever read. It is about a man, filled with regret. He is struggling with the loss of his wife. He has lost his will to live.
Ove’s life turns when a young family moves in next door. He forms an unlikely bond with them, especially with their young daughter, Sofia. This makes him question his life and his choices.
“Ove had never been asked how he lived before he met her. But if anyone had asked him, he would have answered that he didn’t.”
― Fredrik Backman,A Man Called Ove
4. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
This book summary is everywhere on the internet.
Paulo Coelho’s 1988 novel is about Santiago, a shepherd from Andalusia, Spain. who kept dreaming about a treasure-benefited pyramid in Egypt
For him, it became his main goal to find the treasure he dreamed about.
During his journey, he met a lot of people who taught him a lot of life lessons
“He had learned that the true treasure was the journey itself.
5. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
The Midnight Library is one of those books that taught me that we have to accept who we are.
Nora, a woman in her 30s, felt unloved and a failure. She was full of regrets.
“The worst part of all was that she knew she could have done things differently. She knew she could have been a different person. But she also knew that it was too late now. She was stuck in this life, and she couldn’t change it.”
- She regrets not doing geology at university instead of philosophy
- She regrets all those arguments with his dad
- She regrets not being a good sister
- She regrets not being married
She blamed all the things on herself and one day
She knew only one thing with absolute certainty: she didn’t want to reach tomorrow.
and after that, she ended up in a library where every book was a portal to her life in which she had made other choices.
“Between life and death, there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices… Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?”
Thanks for reading