Good books for when things feel a little… unsettled?

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Robin · Answer

Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa: Japanese fiction is paced and structured a bit differently than Western in ways that I find very consuming but also relaxing.  This slim book is the first of a two book series that tells the story of a woman who walks away from her professional and personal life to take over a small bookshop owned by a relative.  It's quiet, introspective, sweet, thoughtful, and above all I found it very calming.