18 Books That Need to Make It In Your Suitcase
It’s always a good idea to pack a book in your suitcase, whether you’re reading while tanning for hours on end at the beach or while traveling from one destination to the next on a long train ride. We have compiled a list of books and their reviews that are must-reads for your next trip.
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Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
Janet Maslin from The New York Times - "A seemingly fluffy book suddenly touches base with vicious reality, in ways that may give Big Little Lies even more staying power than The Husband's Secret."
The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
Riley Sager of New York Times Bestselling Authors - "With dizzying suspense and gorgeous prose, The Last Thing He Told Me tackles tough questions about trust, marriage and what it means to be a family. A page-turner of the highest order."
Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Oprah Daily - “If summer could somehow fit into a book, then you’d find it in Malibu Rising.”
Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason
Publisher’s Weekly - “Mason excels in her heartbreaking U.S. debut, Witty and stark, Martha’s emotionally affecting story will delight fans of Sally Rooney.”
Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford
Christopher Benfy of The New York Times Book Review - "Vividly imagined. . . . Spufford is a fluent writer, bringing a deft touch to the emotional force fields of parents and their children. . . . richly drawn.”
It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover
Anna Todd of New York Times Bestselling Authors - “A brave and heartbreaking novel that digs its claws into you and doesn't let go, long after you've finished it. No one delivers an emotional read like Colleen Hoover.”
People We Meet on Vacation Emily Henry
Jodi Picolut, a renowned American writer - "A heartfelt, funny, tender escape that you wish could last forever.”
Normal People by Sally Rooney
The Guardian - “A future classic.”
The Last Story of Mina Lee by Nancy Jooyoun Kin
Los Angeles Times - “Painful, joyous… A story that cries out to be told.”
We had to add a second one… from our star Reese Witherspoon… she said, “I loved this book so much.”
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
The Independent - “[The book is] vivid enough to warrant devouring it in a day ... the writing is scalpel-sharp and uncluttered, the style spare and concise, uncrowded with extraneous detail.”
Something Wicked This Way Comes Ray Bradbury
The Portland Oregonian - "A master... Bradbury has a style all his own, much imitated but never matched."
The Institute by Steven King
The New York Times - “The Institute might be Steven King's scariest novel yet.”
No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
Editors Choice of New York Times Book Review - “A book that reads like a prose poem, at once sublime, profane, intimate, philosophical, witty and, eventually, deeply moving.”
Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover
Starred Review of the Booklist - “Hoover builds a terrific new-adult world here with two people growing in their careers and discovering mature love.”
Somebody’s Daughter by Ashley C. Does
John Green, a New York Times Bestselling Author - "Ford's wrenchingly brilliant memoir is truly a classic in the making. The writing is so richly observed and so suffused with love and yearning that I kept forgetting to breathe while reading it."
All The Young Men Ruth Coker Burks
Former President Bill Clinton - “My friend Ruth Coker Burks is one of the most amazing people I know. The care she gave HIV-positive gay men in and around our hometown of Hot Springs, Arkansas during the desperate early days of the AIDS crisis helped them live and die with dignity in the face of stigma and discrimination. In All the Young Men, Ruth tells their stories and hers with the same warmth, wit, grace, and gumption that I have admired for decades. This book will make you love her as much as I do.”
Popular Longing by Natalie Shapero
Electric Lit - “Natalie Shapero is the poet I’d most like to have at a dinner party, and Popular Longing is a perfect example of why. Her sharp observations of human weirdness are just unparalleled.”
Matrix by Lauren Golf
USA Today - “A relentless exhibition of Groff’s freakish talent. In just over 250 pages, she gives us a character study to rival Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell.”
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