As you pack your bags for summer vacation, don't forget a good book to keep you company. Whether you are good about keeping up with your reading goals or not, going on a trip is the perfect time to reach your daily page goal.
Check out these 10 summer vacation reads to indulge in on your trip, from relatable love stories, erotic novels and even some true crime, there is a page-turner for everyone.
10 The Seven Husbands Of Evelyn Hugo By Taylor Jenkins Reid
Get lost this summer in a women's journey through Hollywood, the glamourous life and the treacherous avenues of love, time and time again.
9 Seven Days In June By Tia Williams
For a modern Romeo & Juliet, you have to read Tia William's Seven Days In June. Two writers run into each other over a decade after their adolescent romance, which only lasted one week, but was torn apart by their own suffering, and some a little bit of mystery that is unraveled throughout the book.
This is the ultimate summer read for a beautifully written love story, and also the story of self-discovery in how to put oneself first.
8 Notes On Heartbreak by Annie Lord
Sometimes to understand a love story, you have to work your way backward. Author Annie Lord tells a love story in reverse, first starting with the devastating heartbreak and going back in time to all of the sparkling moments, along with the moments that lead to downfall.
This of this is 500 Days Of Summer, but from the female perspective. All of those moments in heartbreak where you feel like your experience is wild, will feel seen through the words of Lord.
7 Beautiful World Where Are You? By Sally Rooney
Sally Rooney is the powerhouse author behind Normal People and Conversations With Friends, both of which have mini-series by an Oscar-nominated team. Beautiful World Where Are You? Is yet another exploration of the experience of being human, and navigating love.
Two friends Alice and Eileen struggle with the love and hate relationships with their jobs, while trying to be young, have fun and try various relationships.
6 Walking On Cowrie Shells by Nana Nkweti
For those who love to read, and especially when they have a spare few minutes, this is the book for you. Nana Nkweti brings you a collection of short stories that can either make you cry or laugh depending on the chapter.
Take a stroll through the park in the afternoon and stop for a quick read, or take yourself out to dinner and bring this book to accompany you with a glass of wine.
5 Where The Crawdads Sing By Delia Owns
Where The Crawdads Sing follows the life of a young girl who is left to fend for herself on her family's land, a marsh. Trauma and loneliness follow Kia into her young adult life, which reflects in two key relationships throughout the story.
Suddently, she is accused of murdering an ex-boyfriend and the story jumps back and forward between the trial and the events leading up to it as she faces prejudice from a society that outcasted a young child. Check out the blockbuster coming out soon featuring Daisy Edgar Jones.
4 Acts Of Service By Lillian Fishman
Eve is feeling tired of her long-term girlfriend, and on an impulse posts nudes online. This leads to a drastically erotic three-way relationship with a couple, Olivia and Nathan. This is one of those books where characters make decisions that can only happen in fiction, but it feels like a realistic depiction of taking the path less followed.
In her deepest indulgences she questions where the line is drawn between desire and bad decisions.
3 Tell Me Everything: The Story Of A Private Investigation By Erika Krouse
Erika Krouse is a successful writer, but back in 2002 she worked as a private investigator for a lawyer, who took keynote of her ability to get people to open up and talk to her. Little did she know, Krouse ends up working on a case or 5 years about a famous Title XI case against an entire football department that knew about sexual assaults, and did nothing about it.
Part memoir and part true-crime story, Krouse unveils her findings as a PI investigating a high-profile case from 2002. This is a true story that will have you turning pages and feeling empowered by inspirational women.
2 What Time Is Love By Holly Williams
This debut novel by author Holly Williams questions if love is a matter of timing, and she explores this idea through two characters, Violet and Albert who fall in love in three different decades.
While the characters are consistent, the time period and how their love story unfolds depends on the social-cultural context of the time period. Imagine three mini-love stories, but of the same people who meet in different periods of society.
1 Anonymous Sex Edited By Hillary Jordan And Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan
27 different authors bring your 27 erotic tales of love, desire and exploring grey areas in terms of monogamy and instinct. From a group of girlfriends indulging in each other's sexuality on vacation to a working mom discovering BDSM on a work trip, this is a saucy and hot collection of stories to take along on vacation with you.
The book also has a diverse representation of sexualities for LGBTQIA+ interests, feminist interests and anyone curious to indulge in an erotic novel.
