Has anyone got a Holiday Reading List yet?

SiouxsieSiouxStiletto · 2023-06-10T06:39:55+00:00

So far I've downloaded: French Braid by Anne Tyler 30 Days in Paris by Veronica Henry & The Taste of Ginger by Mansi Shah I'm open to more suggestions though [wink]

Xeren · 01/07/2023 21:52

Whipping Up A Storm by Natalie Rowe - I wanted something sleazy and juicy for my beach holiday 😉

Fiftyisthenewsixty · 01/07/2023 21:36

My kindle books were a bit "lighter" btw!

Fiftyisthenewsixty · 01/07/2023 21:34

I'm on holiday now and I downloaded some holiday reading...and then left my Kindle at home!! Actually, it's worked out fine as I have to read the actual books I've taken instead! Just finished "The Mirror and The Light" -amazing! Next up: Orlando then Beirut Blues.

Megeyhi527 · 01/07/2023 17:58

SiouxsieSiouxStiletto

Me too!

JaneyGee · 01/07/2023 17:50

I am going to the Scottish Highlands for a few days (my spiritual home) next weekend. Only snag is driving up from flippin Essex in my crappy car. I just ordered a pile of audiobooks for the journey. I've got Stephen Fry reading his autobiography, a recording of Robert Graves' Goodbye to all That, one of Evelyn Waugh's Sword of Honour novels, P G Wodehouse's Right Ho Jeeves, and a Sherlock Holmes.

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SiouxsieSiouxStiletto · 01/07/2023 14:50

I've started one of my holiday books already and we haven't left yet. Whoops.

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HighlandCowbag · 01/07/2023 13:50

Ooooh blatant placemark.

We are going away in 2 weeks and it's a very chilled holiday where I can hopefully get lots of reading done.

Surely2023IsTheYearForMyRainbowBaby · 24/06/2023 15:18

Daisy's vintage Cornish camper van by Ali McNamara is good. I read it on holiday and couldn't put it down

Megeyhi527 · 24/06/2023 12:26

Seating Arrangements by Maggie Shipstead is set on a Nantucket New England type island and is good too.

Megeyhi527 · 24/06/2023 12:01

I do the same re holiday destinations. Did Cape Cod,Vermont. Maine, Rhode Island and New Hampshire too. Can’t remember what I read in Vermont but Elizabeth Strout is great for Maine, I love her books. Maine by Courtney Sullivan was good too.

Megeyhi527 · 24/06/2023 11:57

I loved Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk when we went to NYC, Behold the Dreamers too.

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SiouxsieSiouxStiletto · 24/06/2023 11:55

DontCallMeBaby · 24/06/2023 11:34

@SiouxsieSiouxStiletto I have not, that’s going on the list, thank you

Hope you have a great holiday, it sounds amazing

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DontCallMeBaby · 24/06/2023 11:34

@SiouxsieSiouxStiletto I have not, that’s going on the list, thank you

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SiouxsieSiouxStiletto · 24/06/2023 10:59

DontCallMeBaby · 24/06/2023 10:55

So far I just have Trust as the one non-Kindle book I’ll take. We’re going to New York and I like to have at least one book linked to my destination. I think I’ll find a really classic New York based book, and perhaps something for our other locations (we start in Vermont but haven’t yet linked the start and end of the holiday - we have 5/6 days to get from there to NY).

Have you read Rules of Civility by Amor Towles? That one is set in post-depression NY

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DontCallMeBaby · 24/06/2023 10:55

So far I just have Trust as the one non-Kindle book I’ll take. We’re going to New York and I like to have at least one book linked to my destination. I think I’ll find a really classic New York based book, and perhaps something for our other locations (we start in Vermont but haven’t yet linked the start and end of the holiday - we have 5/6 days to get from there to NY).

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SiouxsieSiouxStiletto · 24/06/2023 10:34

Megeyhi527 · 24/06/2023 10:30

Fiction
-Paper Palace- Miranda Cowley
-This Tender Land-William Kent Krueger
-The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek-Kim Michele Richardson
-The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane- Linda See
-The Marriage Portrait- Maggie O’Farrell
-The Guide- Peter Heller
-Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow- Gabrielle Zevin
-The Gardener- Sally Vickers
-Yellowface-RF Kuang
-Wayward- Emilia Hart

Non Fiction
-Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?-Julie Smith
-Animal, Vegetable, Miracle- Barbara Kingsolver
-The Ride of her Life- Elizabeth Letts
-Enchantment- Katherine May

Great list!

You're either going on holiday for a lot longer than me or you're a much quicker reader

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Megeyhi527 · 24/06/2023 10:30

Fiction
-Paper Palace- Miranda Cowley
-This Tender Land-William Kent Krueger
-The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek-Kim Michele Richardson
-The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane- Linda See
-The Marriage Portrait- Maggie O’Farrell
-The Guide- Peter Heller
-Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow- Gabrielle Zevin
-The Gardener- Sally Vickers
-Yellowface-RF Kuang
-Wayward- Emilia Hart

Non Fiction
-Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?-Julie Smith
-Animal, Vegetable, Miracle- Barbara Kingsolver
-The Ride of her Life- Elizabeth Letts
-Enchantment- Katherine May

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SiouxsieSiouxStiletto · 23/06/2023 08:04

Randobelia · 18/06/2023 09:15

Am trying hard to keep it for holiday and not just read it now🤣

I will definitely add that to my list!

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mimbleandlittlemy · 19/06/2023 16:19

Black Butterflies - Priscilla Morris
Mother's Boy - Patrick Gale
The Satsuma Complex - Bob Mortimer
French Braid - Anne Tyler
The Good, The Bad and the History - Jodi Taylor
The Romantic - William Boyd
Winter's Gifts - Ben Aaronovitch

Doubt I'll get through all of them on my holiday though as we're only going for 8 nights!

Randobelia · 18/06/2023 09:15

Am trying hard to keep it for holiday and not just read it now🤣

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SiouxsieSiouxStiletto · 18/06/2023 08:56

Randobelia · 16/06/2023 13:51

Hope this worked properly

Oh I didn't know that Jonas Jonasson had a new book out!

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Randobelia · 16/06/2023 13:51

Hope this worked properly

Has anyone got a Holiday Reading List yet?

Randobelia · 16/06/2023 13:30

Making mine today 😃

All on kindle. Just need to download and then list them out. Few not out quite yet.

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SiouxsieSiouxStiletto · 16/06/2023 13:26

bert3400 · 14/06/2023 03:51

No I haven't but I'm off on my Hols Saturday.....so thank you 😊 (Very blatant place marking)

Hope you have a great holiday!

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JaneyGee · 15/06/2023 22:18

Yes. I'm going to France in late July and have three books lined up:

G K Chesterton: Literary Essays
Evelyn Waugh: Vile Bodies
Harold Bloom: Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles

I'll also take a few old favourites just for dipping into:

P G Wodehouse: Jeeves and Wooster Omnibus
Sherlock Holmes
Patrick Fermor: A Time of Gifts
Bill Bryson: Short History of Nearly Everything