So yesterday I regaled you with tales of how little I read on my honeymoon beach trip, and promised a list of fun books to take if you happened to be heading beach-ward anytime soon… Well, here is said list.

It’s a lot of fluffy, goofy, fun stuff – nothing too serious or heavy, all pretty much available in mass-market paperbacks – you know, the kind that you can read, let get all sandy/splashed/beach-bag dented and either throw or give away or replace cheaply. There’s a lot of mystery, more than a few love stories, a lot of witty and snarky dialogue, and a little blood and guts. All the makings of edge-of-your-seat, page-turning, missed-dinner-because-you-can’t-put-the-book-down vacation reading.

Woohoo, she said!

I don’t know about you, but I tend to over-pack books (teehee). You know, just in case. I mean, come on, how are you supposed to know in advance exactly what type of story you are going to want on a given day? That’s why you have to have a variety of things to pick from – some fiction and some non-fiction, some classics and some fluff, some creepy and some tear-jerky. Normally, I do top ten lists. In honor of those other over-packers out there (you know who you are – don’t be ashamed, stand up proudly and be counted!), I’m going to give you a top twenty-five on this one (in alphabetical order, since I couldn’t bring myself to rank-order them). Just to make sure you’re covered in case of a long vacation… Can’t have you running out of book options, now can we? (teehee)

Happy vacation (even if you aren’t going anywhere)!

1. And Then There Were None – Agatha Christie
2. Bitten – Kelley Armstrong
3. Darkfever – Karen Marie Moning
4. Heartburn – Norah Ephron
5. I Am the Messenger – Markus Zusak
6. Keep the Change – Steve Dublanica
7. Lisey’s Story – Stephen King
8. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – Winifred Watson
9. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
10. Rollback – Robert J. Sawyer
11. Sh*t My Dad Says – Justin Halpern
12. Something from the Nightside – Simon R. Green
13. Storm Front – Jim Butcher
14. The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
15. The Demon in the Freezer – Richard Preston
16. The Eyre Affair – Jasper Fforde
17. The Hangman’s Daughter – Oliver Potzsch
18. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
19. The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett
20. The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
21. The World House – Guy Adams
22. Tout Sweet – Karen Wheeler
23. Voice – Joseph Garraty
24. War for the Oaks – Emma Bull
25. What Alice Forgot – Liane Moriarty