If you have a warm-weather vacation in your future, you’re probably getting pretty excited right about now! Stunning sunsets, cocktails on the beach and quality time with your friends or loved ones? Who could ask for anything more? Whatever your favorite parts of vacation are, there’s no doubt that spending a few hours lounging poolside (or by the fireplace if your headed to the mountains) with a great read is pretty much an unmatched pleasure. If you find yourself headed out of town or even in the planning stages, don’t forget to pack some light reading for your next vacation. Not sure which books to choose? Keep reading for a roundup of the most highly recommended fun reads of the year.
The One and Only, by Emily Giffin
In her eagerly awaited new novel, beloved New York Times bestselling author Emily Giffin returns with an extraordinary story of love and loyalty—and an unconventional heroine struggling to reconcile both.
Mercury in Retrograde, by Paula Froelich
Penelope Mercury, an intrepid reporter at the New York Telegraph, has pounded the pavement for five years from city borough to borough, carrying out her boss’s eccentric orders to break stories that seem inconsequential to everyone but him. Finally, she is inches away from being promoted to her dream job — covering courtroom drama for the paper — but after one spectacularly disastrous day, she is fired instead.
Pretty in Plaid, by Jen Lancaster
In Pretty in Plaid, Jen Lancaster reveals how she developed the hubris that perpetually gets her into trouble. Using fashion icons of her youth to tell her hilarious and insightful stories, readers will meet the girl she used to be.
The Vacationers, by Emma Straub
This is a story of the sides of ourselves that we choose to show and those we try to conceal, of the ways we tear each other down and build each other up again, and the bonds that ultimately hold us together. With wry humor and tremendous heart, Emma Straub delivers a richly satisfying story of a family in the midst of a maelstrom of change, emerging irrevocably altered yet whole.
Bought, by Anna David
Tired of gathering banal quotes from the B-list on the sidelines of the red carpet, Emma Swanson publicly yearns for a more substantial career but privately dreams of a hotshot boyfriend to transport her into the beating heart of the Hollywood scene. Instead, she meets Jessica — beautiful, cavalier, manipulative — who shamelessly trades sex for the gifts it can bring. Convinced that writing a story about Jessica and her ilk would seriously boost her journalistic cred, Emma soon finds herself sucked into a world where the temptations of prettied-up prostitution may outweigh the costs.
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