Ruskin Bond’s ‘The Little Book Of Comfort’ brings a gentler Indian presence to this list. It is not conventional self-help, and that is its strength. Bond writes with the calm of someone who has spent a lifetime noticing hills, rooms, seasons, memories and small human tenderness. For readers who cannot bear another aggressive manual for reinvention, this book offers quiet company, reminding them that comfort can be humble and still deeply restorative, too, when needed.
