Travels - Michael Crichton

Big Swiss by Jen Beagin
I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai (author of The Great Believers)
Everybody Knows by Jordan Harper

Anonymous wrote:OP here - thanks again! Wish me luck haha! I'll let you know what I read! I downloaded a number of books and I'll see what "speaks" to me

Would love to hear your reviews. Have a wonderful vacation!

I like a lot of the same books! I recommend Happy Place by Emily Henry.

OP here - thanks again! Wish me luck haha! I'll let you know what I read! I downloaded a number of books and I'll see what "speaks" to me

Bad Summer People by Emma Roseblaum is an excellent beach read!

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Anonymous wrote:Agree with Lessons in Chemistry.

I just read Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld and enjoyed it. Even though it is a "Reese's Book Club" pic, which I typically stay away from.

DP but I like you already. Reese’s book club is an easy way for me to pare down books haha

What don't you like about Reeses book club books? I think they are hit and miss but want to hear others takes...

Anonymous wrote:Agree with Lessons in Chemistry.

I just read Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld and enjoyed it. Even though it is a "Reese's Book Club" pic, which I typically stay away from.

Why don't you like Reese book club selections? Even Where the Crawdads sing?

The Visitors by Catherine Burns

Anonymous wrote:Agree with Lessons in Chemistry.

I just read Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld and enjoyed it. Even though it is a "Reese's Book Club" pic, which I typically stay away from.

DP but I like you already. Reese’s book club is an easy way for me to pare down books haha

NP, I love this thread! I also have similar tastes, and if you haven’t read the older Elin Hilderbrand books, definitely go back to them. The older Jodi Picoult’s and Taylor Jenkins Reid’s (I loved One True Loves) are good vacation reads too. I also read the Helen Hoang books, a little steamier than the others but really good vacation reads.

I really enjoyed Ordinary Grace, the same author as This Tender Land (which I loved).

We also have very similar tastes. Books I'd enjoy as vacation reads (that haven't already been mentioned or that you haven't already read, as a lot of my favorites have been covered already) would be:

When We Believed in Mermaids
The Identicals
The Storied Life of AJ Fikry
Every Summer After
The Secret Bridesmaid
The Midnight Library
The Restoration of Celia Fairchild
The Rose Code and The Alice Network (same author, although I did NOT like The Huntress also by her, that was a DNF for me)
Ninth House
And the following by Jodi Picoult:
The Book of Two Ways
The Storyteller by Jodi
Mad Honey
(I was a DNF on Sing You Home and I generally never give up on books - this one and the one above are two exceptions)

I LOVE Stephen King and he has some really great books out that that grab you right from the start and are not the gory horror you may think of. More that they have a slight supernatural bent to them. Anyway, I'd think most of his stuff would be good vacation reads. Sleeping Beauties, which was his latest, was also thought-provoking and could make for good idle beach chatter.

Another author I love is Chris Bohjalian. Some of his books I like more than others, but the best ones were Skeletons at the Feast, The Sandcastle Girls, The Light In the Ruins, and Midwives. The next tranche would be The Double Bind, Close Your Eyes Hold Hands, Trans-Sister Radio, Before You Know Kindness, and The Law of Similars. After that I'd list his other books. I've read almost all of them.

Another author I love is Liane Moriarty, and he stuff is perfect for beach reads. What Alice Forgot was my favorite, but I've liked them all in one way or another.

Agree with Lessons in Chemistry.

I just read Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld and enjoyed it. Even though it is a "Reese's Book Club" pic, which I typically stay away from.

Anonymous wrote:Also similar taste to yours, recent favorites not already mentioned that I’d love on vacation are:
They’re Going to Love You by Meg Howrey
Nora Goes Off Script

I just finished both of those while on vacation and I agree!!