Rachel’s Reads – July 2019
The stress before the big day is done and finally the relaxing can begin! Your vacation packing checklist should include clothes, sunscreen, chargers, power adapters, and, of course, a great book. Here are a few of my recommendations for fun honeymoon reads:
- Southern Lady Code by Helen Ellis
- Ayesha At Last by Uzma Jalaluddin
- My Twenty-Five Years in Provence: Reflections on Then and Now by Peter Mayle
- My Ex-Best Friend’s Wedding by Wendy Wax
- A Palm Beach Wife by Susannah Marren
- The Phantom of Fifth Avenue: The Mysterious Life and Scandalous Death of Heiress Huguette Clark by Meryl Gordon
- The Truffle Underground: A Tale of Mystery, Mayhem, and Manipulation in the Shadowy Market of the World’s Most Expensive Fungus by Ryan Jacobs
- The Plaza: The Secret Life of America’s Most Famous Hotel by Julie Satow
- The Bride Test by Helen Hoang
- Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
- Down the Shore by Stan Parish
- The Proposal by Jasmine Guillory
- City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
- The Friends We Keep by Jane Green
- Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter by Nina MacLaughlin
- Necessary People by Anna Pitoniak
- Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul by Nikita Gill
- Captive Audience: On Love and Reality TV by Lucas Mann
- The Wrath and the Dawn by Renée Ahdieh
- The Fair Fight by Anna Freeman
- Almost Famous Women: Stories by Megan Mayhew Bergman
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