This Book Made Me Think of You by Libby Page

A tender, feel-good novel about the kind of love that lingers—and the way the right book can hold your hand through the hardest chapter. This Book Made Me Think of You follows a grieving widow as she’s guided through her first year without her husband by a gift he planned before he died: twelve books, twelve letters, and one quiet invitation to start living again.

When Tilly Nightingale gets a call from her local bookshop saying there’s a birthday gift waiting for her from her husband, she’s stunned—because Joe died five months ago. She can barely remember the last time she read for pleasure, but she goes anyway, where the kind-eyed bookshop owner, Alfie, explains what Joe left behind: twelve carefully chosen books, each paired with a handwritten letter—one for every month of her first year without him.

At first, Tilly can’t imagine disappearing into fiction while her real life feels shattered. But Joe’s words coax her to try, and something shifts. As Tilly returns to the shop month after month, the books—and her conversations with Alfie—become a lifeline. The reading list nudges her into small, brave adventures that gradually expand into a journey around the world, and as she shares what she’s discovering, her story starts to become bigger than her grief.