What to Read If…You want an excellent book to escape into.
President’s Weekend is coming up, if you are lucky to get away for the long weekend and want a book to read while relaxing, look no further. If you aren’t going away for the long weekend, you may need a book to escape into.
The list below has something for (almost) everyone on it. There is a variety of genres. I just picked some of the most all-consuming books that I have read in the past few years.
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
Spans centuries
Fantasy mixed with literary fiction
McNally Jackson Link - Addie Larue
The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyle
Amazing literary fiction
Tell Me Lies by Carola Lovering
A little more than a beach read and entirely engrossing
College-aged characters
McNally Jackson - Tell Me Lies
Beartown by Fredrik Backman (and while we are at it, Us Against You, the second book in the series)
About a junior men’s hockey team in Sweden, but really about life
Good for a men and women
The Last Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine
Absolutely engrossing, twisty
Beach read - not much deeper
TW: domestic violence
Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe
Non-fiction
Story of the Sackler Family - Purdue Pharmaceuticals and Oxycotin
Reads like fiction and you learn a ton
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
Don’t let the videogame topic fool you, this book is amazing and everyone is talking about it!
The Charm School by Nelson DeMille
Suspenseful, mysterious
Russia, spies
Beachy read because it’s Nelson DeMille
McNally Jackson - Charm School
Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Written in interview form so it is a breeze to read
Loosely based on Fleetwood Mac
Coming out on Amazon Prime Video
Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery by Robert Kolker
True crime - actual unsolved mystery - non-fiction
Extremely well written
Long Island setting
House of Gold by Natasha Solomons
Historical fiction
Think Rothschild family
World War I
