Books to Read Depending on Your Mood

Mood: Gloomy/ Exhausted
Reading is respite. For even the most amateur of readers, provided you give it a chance, reading acts as a means to escape from the harsh reality around you and visit another world of your tastes and fantasies. For more avid readers, it is life.
You can choose your next read as per your mood and then let the book do wonders to your mood. As depressing as the theme of this article may seem, the point I'm trying to make is quite the opposite. For times when you're feeling gray, be it from a personal crisis or from being overworked, what we need is a pick-me-up. We need books that make us happy, books that remind us about the good things in life. Following are some of my personal favourites that do wonders to my mood.
 

1.Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green & David Levithan
For me, the most amazing part of reading is that moment of “That's exactly how I feel too!” you get when the author says something incredibly relatable. That's what John Green books do to you -- they sound so real, so relevant and yet so beautiful, that it wrenches straight through your guts. Will Grayson, Will Grayson is perhaps the happiest book you'll read, where John Green and David Levithan separately write the parts of each Will Grayson. While dealing with important issues such as the life and inner thoughts of 2 gay teenagers and their respective best friends, it also takes you on a dazzling, glamorous ride that teaches you about friendship and forgiveness, and ends with a beautiful high school production of a musical.
 

2.You Had Me At Hello by Mhairi Mcfarlane
Take a Scottish author with a name as funky as Mhairi (pronounced with a V) and an even funkier cover and what you get is this gem of a book that had me laughing till my insides hurt. The female lead, Rachel, is a strong and independent woman that you can't help but admire. Ben, meanwhile, is kind-hearted and noble enough that you fall in love with him, with enough humour and playfulness for him to seem real. It's the age-old favourite storyline of best friends falling in love, how they're separated once college ended and life started, and how they reunite in their mutual love for dry jokes, easy banter and each other.
 

3.Mr. Maybe by Jane Green
This book is, by all means, a girl's best friend. It is a hilariously real and relatable foray into the mind of a young cosmopolitan woman (Libby Mason) and her dating failures, until she finally finds love. What I loved about this book, more than the love story itself, is her unbreakable bond with her best friend, her daily makeup routine before every social outing and how she bonds with each person in her social circle in a different way. More than anything, this book focuses on how we don't always need the things we think we want from life, that second chances are a blessing and that real friendship and compatibility are far more precious than materialistic luxuries.
 

4.Shopaholic Series by Sophie Kinsella
This may be somewhat of a cliché, but no one does happy reads better than Sophie Kinsella. Like all her female leads, Rebecca Bloomwood is your typical girl-next-door whose hilarious experiences in trying to deal with her shopping impulses reach out to almost every girl who reads these books.
 

5.Queen of Babble by Meg Cabot
For lovers of Mia Thermopolis, Queen of Babble is another of Meg Cabot's highly entertaining and colourful stories that is an ideal summer read. It is the journey of impulsive, fun and naïve Lizzie Nichols from the States to the vineyards of France, where she learns to deal with heartbreak and disappointment with the help of her best friends, a gorgeous destination wedding and an even more gorgeous Jean-Luc.

The amazing thing about books is that you can decide on the kind of world you want to visit next, and it'll take you there. Depending on your mood, you can delve into the magical world of Nicholas Sparks, walk through the streets of Hogsmeade or fight for your survival in the Hunger Games arena. You just have to give it a chance and embrace the amazing world of literature, because it holds a little something for everyone.