My Hygge Home: How to Make Home Your Happy Place

The Danish word hygge — pronounced roughly ‘hoo-ga’ — has no direct English equivalent, which is part of why Meik Wiking, director of the Copenhagen Happiness Research Institute, needed a whole book to explain it. It is something like cosiness, but it is also something like togetherness, and it is also something like the specific quality of a winter evening with candles and good food and people you love and nowhere you need to be. The Danes, who consistently rank among the happiest people on earth, have built their entire domestic culture around it.

Wiking’s My Hygge Home is a practical and beautiful guide to bringing this quality into your own living space — through light, texture, ritual, and the deliberate cultivation of environments that make life feel good. It is also, more fundamentally, a reminder that happiness is made of small things, and that the small things are worth paying serious attention to.

Illustrated throughout, warm in tone, and packed with genuinely useful ideas about how to live better at home. The ideal book for anyone trying to make their living space into a place that actually nourishes them. Published by Penguin.