I need 3 holiday reads

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Off on holiday in a week or so
kids old enough to decide we are far too boring so will be a very peaceful week 😂
Thought it would be good to try the following

1. light easy fiction
2. one biography/autobiography
3. one non fiction

So any recommendations for all or any of those categories would be fab TIA

Fiction:
Elinor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Evelyn Hugo's Seven Husbands

Autobiography :
Michelle Obama Becoming
Claudia Winkleman Quite (but only if you like her, it's written exactly how she speaks).

1. light easy fiction
   The Agency for Scandal by Laura Wood

2. one biography/autobiography
   I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

3. one non fiction
   Mind The Gap: The truth about desire and how to futureproof your sex life by Dr Karen Gurney

Non fiction - Ultra Processed People
Fiction - Where the Crawdads sing
Autobiographyish - Caitlin Moran How to be a Woman

I came on to say Lessons in Chemistry for the fiction choice but others have beaten me to it.

I've just read it for my book club. I found it an absolute page turner but also plenty to think about.

Non-fiction: Hags by Victoria Smith or Time to Think by Hannah Barnes.

Love in the Rocks by Veronica Henry

In Order to Life by Yeonmi Park

The Fires of Vesuvius by Mary Beard. Very accessible and interesting book on Pompeii.

Fabulous choices

Not sure what kind of non fiction you like but if memoir is your thing then I recommend Busy Being Free by Emma Forrest

Night Circus

David Attenborough life on air

Bill Bryson At Home

Light read-A gentleman in moscow
Autobiography-Hons and rebels
Non fiction-One summer, America 1927

Just love A Gentleman in Moscow.

Thank you, I've just ordered It Ends With Us and (a very cheap second hand copy) of The Kabul Beauty School based on this thread - get me to that Spanish sunshine!

And now I've ordered A Gentleman in Moscow, will close thread!

Light easy fiction:
The Sweet Sweet Revenge Company or anything by same author (the girl who saved the king of Sweden, Hitman Anders, 100 year old man). They're all hilarious. Also

• lessons in Chemistry

_ we're all made if glue

• little old lady behaving badly
• death and croissants

Can throughly recommend Wes Streeting's recent memoir: One Boy, Two Bills and a Fry Up. It's interesting, funny and inspirational.

Really, really enjoying this fiction book at the moment.

I’ll second The Paper Palace. Such a nice bit of holiday fiction.

Lessons in Chemistry

The Salt path

Columbine

I love Jonas Jonasson too

I've just finished The Trial by Rob Rinder and loved it

Non-fiction...Anything by Mary Roach. She's written a wide range of books about different things. All are amusing to read and very informative. I particularly like Grunt, which is about warfare and the science behind the weaponry/medicine for injuries and clothing for uniform. But my fave is Stiff - the curious lives of human cadavers, and explores the different uses of bodies that are donated to science.

That’s so interesting! I hated this book with a passion. I saw online it has lots of food reviews though so must just be me.

I recommended Lessons in Chemistry too if you haven’t already read it.

I really didn't like Lessons in Chemistry. And that one seems to be the book of the moment.

Is lessons in chemistry an easy read?

Yes, I read it over 2 days one weekend. It’s not as good as all the hype but it is good. My friend couldn’t get passed the talking dog. That was my least favourite part but I loved the humour in it.