Favorite "fun" novels

[fortnightlily]

What are some of your favorite books that are just all around enjoyable reads? Good plot and/or characters, nothing too sad or serious. Like a book equivalent of "Back to the Future".

The latest one for me would be Ready Player One. The Harry Potter books would too.

[krisandgrace]

The Rosie Project, I loved that book.

[thebuddhagouda]

I love the Enchanted Inc series (girl in NYC who works for a secret magical company) and the Royal Spyness series (depression era England. Society woman who is 34th in line for the throne solves murders and mixes with the royal family and famous people from the era)

[cbwm1]

I really loved The Royal We.

Pretty much anything by Jennifer Weiner and Emily Giffin.

[shamrockshake]

I just read Ready Player One last week, I was surprised how much I liked it.

[BaliHai]

I pretty much love anything Stephanie Bond writes - "In Deep Voodoo" and "Voodoo Or Die" are my favorites. There's another author, Ann Charles, who writes similarly; she has a whole series that I love - the Deadwood series. Annnd there's another series by Karina Halle I really liked, Experiment in Terror, which is a paranormal/romance series.

[TR]

Jan 28, 2016 8:49:56 GMT -5 cbwm1 said:

I really loved The Royal We.

Pretty much anything by Jennifer Weiner and Emily Giffin.

Ditto all of this plus most of Jane Green's stuff.

[pandora89]

The Royal We

[candreco]

Oh, good thread. I've liked the Royal Spyness series too, and also Lauren Willig's books (both the Pink Carnation series and her stand-alone novels), and C.S. Harris's Sebastian St. Cyr series (these are on the dark side, might not count as "fun"). Susanna Kearsley's and Beatriz Williams' books are always interesting reads as well.

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I third Emily Giffin although skip her latest (The One and Only).

I like the Shopaholic series.

[spellingbea]

Like a Hole in the Head, Jen Banbury.

[muffin0]

Jan 28, 2016 8:49:56 GMT -5 cbwm1 said:

I really loved The Royal We.

Pretty much anything by Jennifer Weiner and Emily Giffin.

Have you read stuff by Marian Keyes?

[cbwm1]

Jan 28, 2016 9:41:25 GMT -5 muffin0 said:

Jan 28, 2016 8:49:56 GMT -5 cbwm1 said:

I really loved The Royal We.

Pretty much anything by Jennifer Weiner and Emily Giffin.

Have you read stuff by Marian Keyes?

I have not! What should I start with?

[WOUNDTIGHT]

Judy Bloom's Summer Sisters and anything by Sophie Kinsella (Shopaholic series).

Both are the literary equivalent of cotton candy.

[pagas]

Another vote for Emily Giffin

[madDawg228]

Anything by Christopher Moore. They are a little "R-rated," with swearing and "adult" situations. But the stories are hilarious, and the writing superb.

[mcsangel2]

Another vote for Sophie Kinsella/Shopaholic series.

[alexis]

I love The Ghost Bride. It's such a fun read.

My H is almost done with Ready Player One and really enjoying it. It's on my list next and I'm looking forward to it.

[TR]

Jan 28, 2016 11:27:41 GMT -5 Que? said:

Jan 28, 2016 9:16:15 GMT -5 @beachgal said:

I third Emily Giffin although skip her latest (The One and Only).

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This book was a piece of crap. Like, I was legit wtf'ing through the whole thing. Not what I wanted from my beach read.

I love Jennifer Weiner books, they're so funny and real. Little earthquakes is my favorite.

Was The One and Only the one with the coach who was the bff's dad? Or am I thinking of another book?

[TR]

Oh! I also loved The Godmother and The Stepmother by Carrie Adams. Read in that order.

[TR]

Oh and not a novel, a memoir, but reads kind of like a novel "First Comes Love, Then Comes Malaria" by Eve Brown Waite.

[TR]

Man, I fucking love books.

[TR]

Jan 28, 2016 11:43:34 GMT -5 Que? said:

Jan 28, 2016 11:41:11 GMT -5 TR said:

Was The One and Only the one with the coach who was the bff's dad? Or am I thinking of another book?

Yeah, the Friday Night Lights fan fiction reimagining? Brutal. I hate myself for even reading it.

hahaha I've never seen FNL, but yeah, all of her interactions with "Coach" felt so awkward.

[fortnightlily]

Jan 28, 2016 11:39:15 GMT -5 alexis said:

I love The Ghost Bride. It's such a fun read. 

Ooh, this looks interesting.  I hadn't heard of it.  Thanks!

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I like Elin Hilderbrand and Liane Moriarty for more "fluff" novels

[cleo29]

Jan 28, 2016 9:41:25 GMT -5 muffin0 said:

Jan 28, 2016 8:49:56 GMT -5 cbwm1 said:

I really loved The Royal We.

Pretty much anything by Jennifer Weiner and Emily Giffin.

Have you read stuff by Marian Keyes?

I LOVE Marian Keyes! Though when I think it's Is Anybody There that made me cry. I loved her describing the nutter scale for cab drivers. lol

Can You Keep A Secret by Sophie Kinsella was a fun read. Also, a bunch of Kristan Higgins books have made me laugh out loud.

[liverandonions]

Sushi for beginners by Marian Keyes was the book that got me started on the British/Irish romantic comedy books. I love her and Sophie kinsella as well.

[sandyapples]

I really liked Where'd You Go Bernadette.

[thebuddhagouda]

Jan 28, 2016 11:59:45 GMT -5 Stan said:

I am ashamed, but I liked The Selection series.

They're so so so so so so so bad, and yet I could NOT put them down. I had to keep going. I rolled my eyes every other second. I hated myself. I hated everything, and yet could.not.stop. 

[shananagins]

I like YA for fluff reading. I teach middle school, so I ask our librarian for good YA recs. I like series so I have a couple of fluff books lined up. Some of my favorites have been
Hex Hall series
Lola and the Boy Next Door series
Cinder series
Legend series