Containment: An Original Roleplay: Network/Texts/Emails

It isn't as though I have loads of free time, but there are lulls at the hospital which need filling. I like to read to my patients. I've found it relaxes them. However, lately I've been picking the wrong books. They're too depressing or fatalistic, nothing that someone who is already struggling enough should hear. I thought about reading Young Adult or Children's novels to them, but it strikes me as condescending. I was hoping to ask, very inarticulately, if anyone knows of any uplifting novels for adults.

It would be much easier to turn the television on for my patients, but the films are just so awful it feels cruel.