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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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