What ridiculously trashy books/authors do you love?

Huge Jilly Cooper fan over here! 🙋🏻‍♀️🙈

I'm glad I've found this!
So many authors I like, which gives me hope that the others suggested will be right up my street.

Another jilly cooper fan here

Cassandra Clare, Kelly Armstrong, PC Cast and 100x YES to Jilly Cooper!!!

I'm mid way through Pandora for the hundredth time again after a Jilly hiatus and forgot just how amazing she is!

Awww the Chalet School is amazing. I reread all the books I have last year and they are so not trashy

My trashy love is all the books by C J Archer -a kind of Victorian Gothic meets sci-fi/magic world where there are ghost hunters, ladies in big dresses meeting werewolves etc.......brilliantly good fun and the girl is always beautiful and exotic whilst the men are dark and brooding!

Virginia Andrews. I know most people loved Flowers in the Attic, but I always loved the Heaven Casteel saga. I used to have a ton her books, but stopped buying them many years ago when they started churning them out by the bucket load with a ghost writer. They just all followed the same pattern and became tiresome.

That's very interesting to hear, because I thought Flowers in the Attic was a decent read really, but the following books in the series were just ridiculously bad. (Of course if she did write those, then I've lost all interest again!)

Laura Childs - The Tea Shop Mysteries. But she's very hard to find in print over here

Victoria Fox - trashy with nice locations and plenty of sex!

Sophie Kinsella, Catherine Alliot (all her books feature characters called Imogen, Mollie and Olivia and all the characters add "witty little scarves" to their outfits.) and I love M. C. Beaton.

I like crap 1970s horror about things like giant slugs that eat people.

Totally agree with Nicholas Sparks. Funnily enough I think his books actually make better films. They always remind me of the Danielle Steele films that used to be on Sunday afternoons. I used to love those when I was a teenager.

Hester Browne

Anyone could accidentally meet a vet who turns out to be the heir to the throne of a European principality surely.

Nicholas Sparks.

DH says, "You know what's going to happen so why bother?" He's right but I cannot stop. Or watch those terrible film adaptions on Netflix. It's like a drug!

Has to be Jilly Cooper for me. I love the books with the girls names as the title. Emily, Harriet, Prudence etc. Loved riders etc as well, but stopped after the first 3.
I recently got rid of a lot of my books and I'm a little bit ashamed to say that my collection of Jilly Cooper novels were some of the ones I chose to keep. I've always found them to be great comfort reading.
I can honestly say that I think Imogen is one of my favourite books. I first read it when I was about 13 and have read it again many times since which is quite rare for me.

I'd also have to say Virginia Andrews. I know most people loved Flowers in the Attic, but I always loved the Heaven Casteel saga. I used to have a ton her books, but stopped buying them many years ago when they started churning them out by the bucket load with a ghost writer. They just all followed the same pattern and became tiresome.

Agree user with Lesley Pearse. I've found some of her books to be very well written and not too trashy, (loved Remember me) but recent ones have been rather poor. Nice easy reading though usually with a dash of modern history thrown in.

@sleepymama81 hear hear!

I also loved The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion and The Rosie Effect by the same author.

Also really liked The Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan

@Redandyellowbits I always get book fatigue when I try to read something high brow. Reading to me is a leisure activity (and my only bit of peace and quiet!) so I now aim for relaxing as possible. Shouldn't be hard work.

Trashy, fluffy books all the way! I'll read a text book if I feel like I need educating

I love this thread! I look a high-brow book on holiday and realised half way through that was the reason I don't enjoy reading anymore. I switched to lighter reads (calling them trashy is a bit mean when I could never have the stamina to write a whole book).

Since then I've read roughly a book a week, and have really got my reading mojo back.

My last read was The Not-So-Perfect Mum by Kerry Fisher and I loved it. Very easy read, funny and well-written. It's on for 99p on the Amazon Kindle store.

I'm reading Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty at the moment which I would also recommend.

Lesley Pearse (though I wouldn't say they were trashy but they are light fiction) and Julie Ellis. I think that Julie Ellis must have died/retired as I haven't seen any books by her for years.

Jilly C is a good one but even then she's not on the embarrassingly low level

For the real low but good - Jackie Collins
Lucky series

Goes off to google A03...

how come no one has mentioned judith McNaught and her historical romances??!?!?!?

Betty Neels ... I know they're highly un-PC and old-fashioned, but there's something lovely about the simplicity of them! Does anyone else like her 100+ identical books?

@FlaviaAlbia I think Marian Keyes comes to mind because it falls into chick-lit space. I agree though, I do find it fluffy and relaxing but really well written and funny too.