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Has anyone got a Holiday Reading List yet?

33 replies

SiouxsieSiouxStiletto · 10/06/2023 07:39

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

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Crackery · 10/06/2023 08:11

I've just started my list.

Has anyone got a Holiday Reading List yet?
SiouxsieSiouxStiletto · 11/06/2023 17:44

Thanks @Crackery. It seems like everyone is reading Lessons in Chemistry right now Wink

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SoCalLiving · 14/06/2023 03:46

SiouxsieSiouxStiletto · 11/06/2023 17:44

Thanks @Crackery. It seems like everyone is reading Lessons in Chemistry right now Wink

I read it when it came out but my book club just read it last month and I saw at the same time my hometown's book club (other side of the world to me) was also reading it aha! I would say it's very popular now!

SoCalLiving · 14/06/2023 03:49

I'm going camping at the end of the week for 4 days and am packing these books:

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers (2nd in Wayfarer series)
Atomic Love by Jennie Fields

Unfortunately I'll be doing all the driving 6 hours to get there. So I won't get any reading done on the journey :(

Going away again end of July and will pack a new list for then!

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)

FannythePinkFlamingo · 14/06/2023 06:39

I’m off to Spain in 10 days and am taking these:

The Dry by Jane Harper
Force of Nature by Jane Harper
Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah
And a retro re-read of a classic 80s bonkbuster, Lace by Shirley Conran

Lookingformymarbles · 14/06/2023 07:34

Compiling my holiday reading list is one of life's great pleasures imho

This is mine so far-some I've had on kindle for a while but saving for the sun bed:
Demon Copperhead -Barbara Kingsolver
Shrines of Gaiety-Kate Atkinson
The Bandit Queens-Parini Shroff
The Ink Black Heart-Robert Galbraith
Sister Stardust-Jane Green

CeeceeBloomingdale · 14/06/2023 07:37

Not yet but I've a good stock pile in my TBR pile. I will choose five last minute and donate or pass them on once read so I don't need to fly home with them. This means I can't take anything I think I will want to reread!

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

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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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.

Randobelia · 16/06/2023 13:51

Hope this worked properly

Has anyone got a Holiday Reading List yet?
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 · 18/06/2023 09:15

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

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!

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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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

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 Wink

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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).

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 Wink

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DontCallMeBaby · 24/06/2023 11:34

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

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 Wink

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Megeyhi527 · 24/06/2023 11:57

I loved Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk when we went to NYC, Behold the Dreamers 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 12:26

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

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