Your favorite book you’ve ever read on vacation and why it was your favorite?

[Anonymous]

I’m looking for things that people thoroughly enjoyed. I love it when I pick just the right book for vacation!

[Anonymous]

It can be any kind of book btw.

[Anonymous]

I don’t understand what you’re asking, OP. Everybody’s idea of a vacation book is different. Some people use vacations to tackle something dense or long or challenging, while others want something that doesn’t require much mental effort.

I have read many good “vacation” books while at home. An I have completed some great reads on vacation that most would not consider vacation books. Why does it matter where the book was read?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand what you’re asking, OP. Everybody’s idea of a vacation book is different. Some people use vacations to tackle something dense or long or challenging, while others want something that doesn’t require much mental effort.

I have read many good “vacation” books while at home. An I have completed some great reads on vacation that most would not consider vacation books. Why does it matter where the book was read?

I think OP is just asking for some ideas. Do you have any?

[Anonymous]

I loved The Vacationers. Good combo of armchair travel, interesting characters but still fun and light.

[Anonymous]

Wangs vs the World

[Anonymous]

Just read The Sunshine Girls by Molly Fader and I think it would make a great vacation read

[Anonymous]

Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld or Sex and Vanity by Kevin Kwan.

[Anonymous]

I'm interested in this topic. I rarely like most books when I am vacation. Sometimes I feel like I give them unnecessary weight when really I should just hold a piece of shlock while really looking at the sunset.

[Anonymous]

The best book I ever read on vacation was All the Light We Cannot See. But it’s not a fluffy light read. It’s just a beautiful book.

[Anonymous]

Just this week I read Identicals by Elin Hildenbrand, thanks to a recommendation here. I’d never read any of her books and I just loved it. It’s sort of a grown up Parent Trap with a twist … twin sisters living on Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard switch lives. Lots of fun and very well paced.

[Anonymous]

Daisy Jones and the Six!

Easy, took me away to another time and place, gave me a peep at another lifestyle. Loved it.

[Anonymous]

On a trip to Hawaii I read Michener's Hawaii. Loved it and couldn't put it down. It was long and ended with the statehood debate in 1959.

[Anonymous]

I read Big Little Lies on vacation (this was before the show came out) and it was super engrossing.

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay was another great one, especially for a longer vacation.

Sometimes fantasy novels make for great vacation reading. I read a couple of the Game of Thrones series books on vacation, as well as books by the Pullman His Dark Materials novels.

I know a lot of people like to read light romance and other easy books on vacation, but I actually prefer something extra engaging because when I'm on vacation I can let myself really get into it. I save lighter books for when I'm working and kids are in school and things are hectic, because that's all I have the bandwidth for. So I read the classic "beach reads" in the fall and go for heavier, longer books during vacations.

[Anonymous]

Sometimes I like to pair vacations with local authors.

As examples:
I read The Stand on a trip to Maine.
Read Kitchens of the Great Midwest in Chicago.
Tess of the D'ubervilles in England (not exactly light vacation reading!)
Read a nonfiction book, Death of the Great Lakes, on a trip to Michigan.