The Small Stuff

A delightful paean to the pleasures of small things

Kathryn Hughes, Sunday Times

Very entertaining... immensely cheering, and will have you looking at the moquette patterns on public transport in a new light... Bogost believes that the material world is teeming with unexpected opportunities for sensual pleasure, and all we have to do is allow ourselves to experience them

Marcus Berkmann, Mail on Sunday

A clarion call to rediscover the quiet joys woven into everyday routines. . . . This wonderful book reminds us that happiness isn’t out of reach. Rather, it’s right under our fingertips

Charles Duhigg, bestselling author of Supercommunicators and The Power of Habit

I loved this profound, witty, and quietly revolutionary book. Ian Bogost makes the liberating case that the material world is teeming with unexpected opportunities for life-enhancing sensory pleasure – and that all we need to do is to allow ourselves to experience them

Oliver Burkeman

The world tells us that the path to happiness is to go bigger in everything: experiences, success, consumption—all of it. In The Small Stuff, Ian Bogost shows us why this is the wrong approach to the good life—that the true secret lies in discovering life’s little delights

Arthur C. Brooks, Harvard Professor and #1 New York Times bestselling author of From Strength to Strength