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“Transitional objects” as a book category encompasses works that explore, depict, or theorize the role of comforting or symbolic objects in helping people navigate change and separation. Rooted in D. W. Winnicott’s psychoanalytic concept—where items like a security blanket or teddy bear help bridge the gap between dependence and independence—this category includes clinical and psychological texts on attachment and development; cultural studies of objects as carriers of memory, identity, and ritual; memoirs and essays about keepsakes that anchor us through grief, migration, or coming-of-age; and fiction and children’s books where such objects drive character growth or offer solace. Whether the focus is a literal comfort object or a metaphorical talisman, these books examine how things we hold onto mediate absence and presence, past and future, and self and other.

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