If you're an Atheist, what comforts you?

[Seraphina]

Any book that helps me escape everyday pressures and pain is a good book. My personal tastes might be different than yours but here are few I've read recently:
In the Darkroom by Susan Faludi
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Hariri
Any book by Junot Diaz

I've just put holds Sapiens and In the Darkroom.  I enjoyed the Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao; what else has he written that you liked?

This Is How You Lose Her and Drown are also both good; they are short story collections.

Side note - I bought a book at the Berkeley book festival when I saw you and Lia called Wanderlust, A History of Walking. I'm finally reading that one at the moment too!

-Teresa