Our Top Light & Breezy Holiday Reads You Can’t Put Down
Booked out
Whether you’re spending your holiday break draped on a pool lounge in the sun, skiing down the slopes, or even just relaxing at home, the success of a good holiday is measured by the same thing – how many books we finish of course!
No matter what you’re holiday plans are, that pile of books collecting dust on your bedside table is finally getting some love! Now all the chaos of finishing work and Christmas shopping has wrapped up, it’s time to sit back, relax and enjoy a feel-good, escapist beach read this summer. A good book can set the tone for your whole holiday vibe, so we’ve curated the perfect list for you.
Find a comfy spot, put your phone in DND, and finally crack those spines!
Beach Read by Emily Henry
A rivals-to-lovers romantic comedy set against an idyllic summer in a small town. A romance writer and a literary fiction writer engage in a summer long challenge to genre swap and see who can write the better novel. They get more than they bargain for when sparks to fly and they realise they may have more in common than they thought.
The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston
An overworked book publicist with a perfectly planned future hits a snag when she falls in love with her temporary roommate…only to discover he lives seven years in the past.
Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Four famous siblings throw an epic party to celebrate the end of summer. But over the course of twenty-four hours, their lives will change forever. A story about one unforgettable night in the life of a family: the night they each have to choose what they will keep from the people who made them…and what they will leave behind.
The Things We Leave Unfinished by Rebecca Yarros
When a young woman finds out her late great-grandmother, an infamous romance author, never finished her final novel, she is determined to publish her final novel. Enter the arrogant, successful and too good-looking author tasked with the job, and sparks start to fly in this enemies-to-lovers romance.
Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty
On a flight from Hobart to Sydney everything is as it should be, and everyone will arrive safely. Except one passenger can predict exactly when and how each of the others are going to die, and when the predictions begin to come true, the uneventful domestic flight proves a catalyst for questions about free will, certainty and destiny.
Just For the Summer by Abby Jimenez
Justin and Emma believe they’re cursed, since everyone they ever date goes on to find their soulmate as soon as they break up. Running out of options, the pair decide to date each other for the summer, break up, and voilla! Curse broken. But what was supposed to be a quick fling soon turns into a lot more than they expected. What if this time Fate has bought the perfect pair together?
The Road Trip by Beth O’Leary
Two years after their traumatic break up, exes Dylan’s and Addie’s lives collide again. Forced into a cross-country road trip togehter, Dylan and Addie are forced to confront the choices they made that tore them apart—and ask themselves whether that final decision was the right one after all.
How to End a Love Story by Yulin Kuang
Helen Zhang hasn’t seen Grant Shepard once in the thirteen years since the tragic accident that bound their lives together forever. Now, they’re both writers working on the same TV series together. When secrets come to light, they must reckon with the fact that theirs was never meant to be any kind of love story. And yet… the key to making peace with their past—and themselves—might just lie in holding on to each other in the present.
Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors
Three estranged sisters return to their family home in New York after their beloved sister’s death in this unforgettable story of grief, identity and the complexities of family.
The Un-honeymooners by Christina Lauren
A laugh out loud romantic comedy about two enemies posing as a newlywed couple for a free vacation in Hawaii. When exes and bosses threaten to expose their lie, the pair must agree to a temporary truce and commit the pretending to be the perfect couple.
Good Material by Dolly Alderton
The novel follows Andy, a 35-year-old struggling comedian who is blindsided when his girlfriend of almost four years, Jen, unexpectedly ends their relationship. The story explores Andy’s attempts to cope with and understand the breakup, while navigating the challenges of dating and maintaining friendships in his thirties.
The Offing by Benjamin Myers
A profound novel set following World War II about an unlikely friendship between a young man and an older woman. When Robert Appleyard meets eccentric and worldly Dulcie, he is opened to a world of food, culture, and companionship. A poignant story about everlasting impact of friendship and the life alterating paths it can build.
Two polar opposites find themselves as roommates after their partners both leave them – for each other. One night after a few too many tequilas, they decide to be a pretend couple to get back at their scheming exes. But it’s all just for show, of course, because there’s no way Daphne would actually start to fall in love with her ex-fiance’s new fiancee’s ex . . . right?
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