The Small Stuff
The Sensory Enchantment of Everyday Life
- Published: 7 July 2026
- ISBN: 9781802066159
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 240
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 <i> Supercommunicators </i> and <i> The Power of Habit </i>
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 <i> From Strength to Strength </i>