So yesterday I regaled you with tales of how little I read on my honeymoon beach trip, and promised a list of fun books to take if you happened to be heading beach-ward anytime soon… Well, here is said list.
It’s a lot of fluffy, goofy, fun stuff – nothing too serious or heavy, all pretty much available in mass-market paperbacks – you know, the kind that you can read, let get all sandy/splashed/beach-bag dented and either throw or give away or replace cheaply. There’s a lot of mystery, more than a few love stories, a lot of witty and snarky dialogue, and a little blood and guts. All the makings of edge-of-your-seat, page-turning, missed-dinner-because-you-can’t-put-the-book-down vacation reading.
Woohoo, she said!
I don’t know about you, but I tend to over-pack books (teehee). You know, just in case. I mean, come on, how are you supposed to know in advance exactly what type of story you are going to want on a given day? That’s why you have to have a variety of things to pick from – some fiction and some non-fiction, some classics and some fluff, some creepy and some tear-jerky. Normally, I do top ten lists. In honor of those other over-packers out there (you know who you are – don’t be ashamed, stand up proudly and be counted!), I’m going to give you a top twenty-five on this one (in alphabetical order, since I couldn’t bring myself to rank-order them). Just to make sure you’re covered in case of a long vacation… Can’t have you running out of book options, now can we? (teehee)
Happy vacation (even if you aren’t going anywhere)! 🙂
Top 25 Books to Take to Aruba on Your Honeymoon, Your Favorite Beach/Relax-y Destination, or Your Couch for a Faux-cation…
- And Then There Were None – Agatha Christie
- Bitten – Kelley Armstrong
- Darkfever – Karen Marie Moning
- Heartburn – Norah Ephron
- I Am the Messenger – Markus Zusak
- Keep the Change – Steve Dublanica
- Lisey’s Story – Stephen King
- Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – Winifred Watson
- Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
- Rollback – Robert J. Sawyer
- Sh*t My Dad Says – Justin Halpern
- Something from the Nightside – Simon R. Green
- Storm Front – Jim Butcher
- The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
- The Demon in the Freezer – Richard Preston
- The Eyre Affair – Jasper Fforde
- The Hangman’s Daughter – Oliver Potzsch
- The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
- The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett
- The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
- The World House – Guy Adams
- Tout Sweet – Karen Wheeler
- Voice – Joseph Garraty
- War for the Oaks – Emma Bull
- What Alice Forgot – Liane Moriarty
Girl, the fact that you had a beach honeymoon usurps any reading issues! Sand between the toes…ahhhhh!
Teehee – oh Elsie, it was FABULOUS!! Especially since, here in beautiful upstate NY, it’s getting increasingly cold and dark… grr. 😉 Thanks for reading and the comment!
What a fun list of books! I loved The Time Traveler’s Wife! I have read many of the other books on the list- but some are still waiting to be read. Now I know that I can save some of them for the beach! 🙂
~Jess
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Why thank you Jess! I’m always happy to help share beach reads!! Thanks for stopping by and taking the time to comment – and happy reading!
[…] 3. Jill Elizabeth gave a fantastic review of Voice a while back–and recently she also included it in her list of Honeymoon Beach Reading books. She put a whole bunch of good books on the list, so I was honored to be in that company (Lisey’s Story, for one–and having my little book show up on the same list as one of Stephen King’s made me smile). See the whole list here. […]
It’s a much-deserved list place Joe, I assure you! Thanks for the nod… 🙂