Must Read
- Blue Asylum by Kathy Hepinstall
- The Night Circus by Erin Morganstern
- Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
- The Only Thing Worth Dying For by Eric Blehm
- Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson
- The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
- The Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
- Divergent and Insurgent by Veronica Roth
- The Perfume Collector by Kathleen Tessaro
- How to Bake a Perfect Life by Barbara O’Neal
- The Fault In Our Stars by John Green
Lazy Weekend
- The Soldier’s Wife by Margaret Leroy
- Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson
- Pearl Harbor by Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen
- The Wild Blue by Stephen Ambrose
- Drop Dead Healthy by A.J. Jacobs
- When In Doubt, Add Butter by Beth Harbison
- Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner
- The Next Best Thing by Jennifer Weiner
- Love in a Nutshell and The Husband List by Janet Evanovich and Dorien Kelly
- Murder on the Eiffel Tower by Claude Izner
- The Emperor’s Conspiracy by Michelle Diener
- A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
- Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness
- The Best Man or any book by Kristan Higgins
- Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (and other concerns) by Mindy Kaling
- The Confession of Fitzwilliam Darcy by Mary Street
- You Came Back by Christopher Coake
- Arranged by Catherine McKenzie
- Forgotten by Catherine McKenzie
- The Heist by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg
- Austenland and Midnight in Austenland by Shannon Hale
- Everything is Perfect When You’re a Liar by Kelly Oxford
Skip These
- A Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowlings
- Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
- The Heart and the Fist by Eric Greitens
- Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
- A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
- The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon
- Hollywood in Heels by Charity Faye Finnestad
Favorite “Lazy Weekend” Fiction Authors
- Janet Evanovich – Stephanie Plum series
- Kristan Higgins
- Jonathan Tropper