10 of the best page-turning books to read on vacation, because who wants to read a boring book on vacation.
It’s vacation season and what’s better than laying on the beach and reading a book that is addicting, page-turning, and leaves you wanting more? Nothing, that sounds amazing. I’m sharing some really good books to read on vacation because I know no one wants to read a boring book while you’re trying to escape from reality.
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10 Books To Read On Vacation
People We Meet On Vacation
EMILY HENRY
Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She’s a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. For most of the year they live far apart—she’s in New York City, and he’s in their small hometown—but every summer, for a decade, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together. Until two years ago, when they ruined everything. They haven’t spoken since.
It Ends With Us
COLLEEN HOOVER
Lily built a perfect life for herself and it only gets better when she meets Ryle Kincaid, a hot neurosurgeon. Lily instantly falls for him, but Ryle is hesitant about relationships except when it comes to her. Lily sets out to find out why Ryle doesn’t like dating all while her last love, Atlas, reappears in her life. Lily’s perfect life with Ryle is now threatened by the past she thought she left behind.
Daisy Jones & The Six
TAYLOR JENKINS REID
Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it’s the rock ’n’ roll she loves most. By the time she’s twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things.
Verity
COLLEEN HOOVER
A struggling writer, Lowen, gets the job of a lifetime that she couldn’t turn down. She has to finish a series of books for Jeremy’s wife, Verity, who is injured. When she starts looking through Verity’s notes, Lowen finds a manuscript with dark secrets about what happened to their daughter. Lowen keeps it from Jeremy at first, but if she shares his wife’s darkest secret maybe he’ll start falling for her.
City of Girls
ELIZABETH GILBERT
Beloved author Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction with a unique love story set in the New York City theater world during the 1940s. Told from the perspective of an older woman as she looks back on her youth with both pleasure and regret (but mostly pleasure), City of Girls explores themes of female sexuality and promiscuity, as well as the idiosyncrasies of true love.
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
TAYLOR JENKINS REID
Summoned to Evelyn’s luxurious apartment, Monique listens in fascination as the actress tells her story. From making her way to Los Angeles in the 1950s to her decision to leave show business in the ‘80s, and, of course, the seven husbands along the way, Evelyn unspools a tale of ruthless ambition, unexpected friendship, and a great forbidden love. Monique begins to feel a very real connection to the legendary star, but as Evelyn’s story near its conclusion, it becomes clear that her life intersects with Monique’s own in tragic and irreversible ways.
The Guest List
LUCY FOLEY
On an island off the coast of Ireland, guests gather to celebrate two people joining their lives together as one. The groom: handsome and charming, a rising television star. The bride: smart and ambitious, a magazine publisher. It’s a wedding for a magazine or for a celebrity: the designer dress, the remote location, the luxe party favors, the boutique whiskey. The cell phone service may be spotty and the waves may be rough, but every detail has been expertly planned and will be expertly executed. And then someone turns up dead. Who didn’t wish the happy couple well? And perhaps more important, why?
The Last Mrs. Parrish
LIV CONSTANTINE
Amber’s envy could eat her alive…if she didn’t have a plan. Amber uses Daphne’s compassion and caring to insinuate herself into the family’s life – the first step in a meticulous scheme to undermine her. Before long Amber is Daphne’s closest confidante, traveling to Europe with the Parrishes and their lovely young daughters and growing closer to Jackson. But a skeleton from her past may undermine everything that Amber has worked toward, and if it is discovered, her well-laid plan may fall to pieces.
The Unhoneymooners
CHRISTINA LAUREN
Olive Torres is the unfortunate twin who always seems to have bad luck. What’s worse than getting laid off is having to spend her sister’s wedding with the best man, Ethan (her #1 enemy). When the whole family gets sick at the wedding, except for Olive and Ethan, a honeymoon is up for the taking. Olive and Ethan pack for Maui and pretend to be newlyweds. But the weird thing is…Olive doesn’t mind playing pretend. In fact, the more she pretends to be the luckiest woman alive, the more it feels like she might be.
The Silent Patient
ALEX MICHAELIDES
Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London’s most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face, and then never speaks another word.
Until next time,
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Nice list. I’ve heard “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo” is supposed to be really good!
It’s next on my list to read so I’m very excited to start it!
Thank you so much for this list, I love learning about new books to read on vacation! I’ve been meaning to read The Unhoneymooners, so thanks for the reminder!
Hope you enjoy it!
Thank you for gathering such an excellent list of books. I love to read when I’m on vacation because I have more time to do so, and those books sound fantastic.
I love reading a book by the pool or beach, it’s so relaxing!
So many good ones on this list! People We Meet On Vacation and The Unhoneymooners are two of my favs!!
I’m surprised that “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo” caught my eye! I might need to add that one to my cart!
Great list! I’m interested in The Guest List and The Silent Patient. Will be adding these to my TBR pile.
My TBR pile just got longer! Can’t wait to sit in the sunshine and read some of these.
Thank you! I’m always on the look out for new books.