Are you craving ‘feel-good’ stories? Do you want characters to cheer for? Leave the bleak headlines behind as Kelsey and Jenn shine a light on likeable characters in fiction in this episode of The First Fifty Pages.
The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George
Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes
Lost Lake by Sarah Addison Allen
The Story of Arthur Truluv by Elizabeth Berg
Isabel Dalhousie mysteries by Alexander McCall Smith
One Day by David Nicholls
Aurora Teagarden mysteries by Charlaine Harris
Armada by Ernest Cline
This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld
Kinsey Millhone mysteries by Sue Grafton
King & Maxwell novels by David Baldacci
Stephanie Plum mysteries by Janet Evanovich
Fox & O'Hare novels by Janet Evanovich
Mickey Haller novels by Michael Connelly
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
Supergifted by Gordon Korman
Savvy series by Ingrid Law