11 Unputdownable Books for a Long Summer Weekend

May 11 2023
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Summer is always scattered with several three-day weekends, including Memorial Day Weekend, coming up fast. So, whether you’re spending it relaxing at home or on a micro getaway, we know that you don’t want to be stuck with a slow read when you’ve only got a short window of free time. Make sure you find yourself with a quality page-turner by picking up one of these eleven ideal books to finish off over a long weekend. With everything from nonfiction to romance, these books run the gamut when it comes to their subject matters and settings. But one thing’s for sure: you won’t regret spending three days of your life in the company of these fast-paced, unputdownable books.

Swan Song
by Robert McCammon

Nuclear fallout has left behind a ravaged US landscape where monstrous creatures are always a threat. Amongst the devastation, three survivors—a woman who discovers a mysterious artifact in the wreckage, an ex-wrestler fighting for survival in Nebraska gas station, and a young girl with a world-saving gift—find their paths inextricably linked as an ancient force set on finishing off what is left of humanity begins recruiting an army. Robert McCammon’s post-apocalyptic epic is a thrilling and disturbing page-turner, one of those long books that’s guaranteed to feel short.

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Swan Song
Robert McCammon

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.

New York Times bestselling author Robert McCammon’s prescient and astonishing vision of a post-apocalyptic United States comes to life in this classic epic of terror and renewal.

Facing down an unprecedented malevolent enemy, the US government responds with a nuclear attack. Soon, America as it was is gone forever, and now every citizen—from the president of the United States to the homeless on the streets of New York City—will fight to stay alive. In a wasteland born of rage and fear, populated by monstrous creatures and marauding armies, Earth’s last survivors are drawn into the final battle between good and evil, which will decide the fate of humanity: Sister, who discovers a strange and transformative glass artifact in the destroyed Manhattan streets…Joshua Hutchins, the pro wrestler who takes refuge from the nuclear fallout at a Nebraska gas station...and Swan, a young girl possessing special powers, who travels alongside Josh to a Midwest town where healing and recovery can begin with her extraordinary gifts. But the ancient force behind the world’s devastation is scouring the walking wounded for recruits to build its relentless army, beginning with Swan herself…

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One by One
by Ruth Ware

Eight employees of a hip London start-up, Snoop, embark on a corporate retreat at a ski resort in the French Alps. But tensions rise when one person tries to persuade the others to accept a lucrative but controversial buyout. When an avalanche leaves the group stranded at the resort, panic sets in, and one member of the team never makes it back from the ski lift. And as the hours tick by and the temperature drops, more members of the team begin to go missing in this twisty thriller, perfect for Agatha Christie fans.

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One by One
Ruth Ware

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A claustrophobic spine-tingler.” —People
Not only do Ware’s novels wink at [Agatha] Christie in a saucy way, but Ware herself is turning out to be as ingenious and indefatigable as the Queen of Crime.” —The Washington Post

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Turn of the Key and In a Dark Dark Wood returns with another suspenseful thriller set on a snow-covered mountain.

Getting snowed in at a luxurious, rustic ski chalet high in the French Alps doesn’t sound like the worst problem in the world. Especially when there’s a breathtaking vista, a full-service chef and housekeeper, a cozy fire to keep you warm, and others to keep you company. Unless that company happens to be eight coworkers…each with something to gain, something to lose, and something to hide.

When the cofounder of Snoop, a trendy London-based tech start-up, organizes a weeklong trip for the team in the French Alps, it starts out as a corporate retreat like any other: PowerPoint presentations and strategy sessions broken up by mandatory bonding on the slopes. But as soon as one shareholder upends the agenda by pushing a lucrative but contentious buyout offer, tensions simmer and loyalties are tested. The storm brewing inside the chalet is no match for the one outside, however, and a devastating avalanche leaves the group cut off from all access to the outside world. Even worse, one Snooper hadn’t made it back from the slopes when the avalanche hit.

As each hour passes without any sign of rescue, panic mounts, the chalet grows colder, and the group dwindles further…one by one.

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The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
by Lisa See

In this powerful family drama, a mother and daughter reconnect across space and time. Li-yan has always lived in the isolated village of Yunnan, making tea. When a stranger arrives and introduces this insular community to the outside world, Li-yan eschews tradition by abandoning her child—born out of wedlock—and striking out on her own. As the years go by, Li-yan longs for her daughter while the child comes of age as Haley, a privileged California girl. But Haley is determined to follow the clues of the tea cake she was found with to discover her true origins.

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The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
Lisa See

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa See, “one of those special writers capable of delivering both poetry and plot” (The New York Times Book Review), a moving novel about tradition, tea farming, and the bonds between mothers and daughters.

In their remote mountain village, Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. For the Akha people, ensconced in ritual and routine, life goes on as it has for generations—until a stranger appears at the village gate in a jeep, the first automobile any of the villagers has ever seen.

The stranger’s arrival marks the first entrance of the modern world in the lives of the Akha people. Slowly, Li-yan, one of the few educated girls on her mountain, begins to reject the customs that shaped her early life. When she has a baby out of wedlock—conceived with a man her parents consider a poor choice—she rejects the tradition that would compel her to give the child over to be killed, and instead leaves her, wrapped in a blanket with a tea cake tucked in its folds, near an orphanage in a nearby city.

As Li-yan comes into herself, leaving her insular village for an education, a business, and city life, her daughter, Haley, is raised in California by loving adoptive parents. Despite her privileged childhood, Haley wonders about her origins. Across the ocean Li-yan longs for her lost daughter. Over the course of years, each searches for meaning in the study of Pu’er, the tea that has shaped their family’s destiny for centuries.

A powerful story about circumstances, culture, and distance, The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane paints an unforgettable portrait of a little known region and its people and celebrates the bond of family.

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The Secret Book of Flora Lea
by Patti Callahan Henry

Sent to a small village to escape World War II London, teenaged Hazel and her younger sister, Flora, fill their time with games of make believe in the woods. But when Flora goes missing, Hazel blames herself. Years later, Hazel receives a mysterious book, one that seems to know all the secrets of that long-ago world she invented to keep her sister entertained. Now Hazel must follow the book to discover what really happened to her sister in this absorptive read that will enchant readers with its fairy tale–esque quality.

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The Secret Book of Flora Lea
Patti Callahan Henry

When a woman stumbles across a mysterious children’s book, long-held secrets about her missing sister and their childhood spent in the English countryside during World War II are revealed in this “transporting, heartfelt, and atmospheric” (Christina Baker Kline, #1 New York Times bestselling author) novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Surviving Savannah and Becoming Mrs. Lewis.

1939: Fourteen-year-old Hazel and five-year-old Flora evacuate their London home for a rural village to escape the horrors of the Second World War. Living with the Aberdeen family in a charming stone cottage, Hazel distracts her young sister with a fairy tale about a magical land, a secret place they can escape to that is all their own: Whisperwood.

But the unthinkable happens when Flora suddenly vanishes after playing near the banks of the River Thames. Shattered, Hazel blames herself for her sister’s disappearance, carrying the guilt into adulthood.

Twenty years later, Hazel is back in London, ready to move on from her job at a cozy rare bookstore for a career at Sotheby’s. With a cherished boyfriend and an upcoming Paris getaway, Hazel’s future seems set. But her tidy life is turned upside down when she unwraps a package containing a picture book called Whisperwood and the River of Stars. Hazel never told a soul about the storybook world she created just for Flora. Could this book hold the secrets to Flora’s disappearance? Could it be a sign that her beloved sister is still alive after all these years? Or is something sinister at play?

For fans of Kate Morton, Janet Skeslien Charles, and Kristin Hannah, this is a “fantastical” (Jamie Ford, New York Times bestselling author) celebration of sisterhood and the magic of storytelling wrapped up in a “heartrending, captivating tale of family, first love, and fate” (Kristin Harmel, New York Times bestselling author).

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Solito
by Javier Zamora

In this powerful memoir, nine-year-old Javier embarks on a three-thousand-mile trek from his small hometown in El Salvador to the US border, hoping to reunite with parents he barely remembers. While he expects the journey to take only two weeks, the perilous path takes him and his group of fellow migrants through ill-fated boat trips, desert marches, and dangerous checkpoints, amounting to two unimaginable months. In this 400-page book, perfect for an extended deep read, readers will feel engrossed in Javier’s journey of found family.

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Solito
Javier Zamora

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All the Beauty in the World
by Patrick Bringley

This short but mesmerizing workplace memoir packs in a lifetime of details that’ll keep you gripped and entertained, and will educate you about museums. Patrick Bringley worked as a staffer at The New Yorker until brother was diagnosed with fatal cancer. Eager to retreat from the bustle of regular life, Patrick becomes a guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. There, he sinks into the artwork around him and becomes engrained in the community of his colleagues—a collection of artists, immigrants, and blue-collar workers. Soon, what started as a short-term job becomes a decade-long calling that brings him closer to life.

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All the Beauty in the World
Patrick Bringley

A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former New Yorker staffer who spent a decade as a museum guard.

Millions of people climb the grand marble staircase to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art every year. But only a select few have unrestricted access to every nook and cranny. They’re the guards who roam unobtrusively in dark blue suits, keeping a watchful eye on the two million square foot treasure house. Caught up in his glamorous fledgling career at The New Yorker, Patrick Bringley never thought he’d be one of them. Then his older brother was diagnosed with fatal cancer and he found himself needing to escape the mundane clamor of daily life. So he quit The New Yorker and sought solace in the most beautiful place he knew.

To his surprise and the reader’s delight, this temporary refuge becomes Bringley’s home away from home for a decade. We follow him as he guards delicate treasures from Egypt to Rome, strolls the labyrinths beneath the galleries, wears out nine pairs of company shoes, and marvels at the beautiful works in his care. Bringley enters the museum as a ghost, silent and almost invisible, but soon finds his voice and his tribe: the artworks and their creators and the lively subculture of museum guards—a gorgeous mosaic of artists, musicians, blue-collar stalwarts, immigrants, cutups, and dreamers. As his bonds with his colleagues and the art grow, he comes to understand how fortunate he is to be walled off in this little world, and how much it resembles the best aspects of the larger world to which he gradually, gratefully returns.

In the tradition of classic workplace memoirs like Lab Girl and Working Stiff, All The Beauty in the World is a surprising, inspiring portrait of a great museum, its hidden treasures, and the people who make it tick, by one of its most intimate observers.

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Beartown
by Fredrik Backman

A profound look at small-town life, BEARTOWN is a captivating bestselling novel and now also a HBO miniseries. Small and isolated, Beartown has been down and out for years. But this season, its junior ice hockey team’s winning streak is offering some redemption. When the group of teenage boys begin to feel the pressure mounting from the demands of their community, the tension explodes in a shocking way at the semifinals, a young girl is traumatized, and the town is devastated. Soon, neighbors turn on one another, and it seems Beartown is more at risk than ever. The first in a trilogy, this series will keep you engaged for multiple weekends, and is perfect for those who enjoy an emotional page-turner.

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Beartown
Fredrik Backman

Now an HBO Original Series

“You’ll love this engrossing novel.” —People

Named a Best Book of the Year by LibraryReads, BookBrowse, and Goodreads

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anxious People, a dazzling and profound novel about a small town with a big dream—and the price required to make it come true.

By the lake in Beartown is an old ice rink, and in that ice rink Kevin, Amat, Benji, and the rest of the town’s junior ice hockey team are about to compete in the national semi-finals—and they actually have a shot at winning. All the hopes and dreams of this place now rest on the shoulders of a handful of teenage boys.

Under that heavy burden, the match becomes the catalyst for a violent act that will leave a young girl traumatized and a town in turmoil. Accusations are made and, like ripples on a pond, they travel through all of Beartown.

This is a story about a town and a game, but even more about loyalty, commitment, and the responsibilities of friendship; the people we disappoint even though we love them; and the decisions we make every day that come to define us. In this story of a small forest town, Fredrik Backman has found the entire world.

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Time and Again
by Jack Finney

After finding a partially destroyed letter from 1880s New York, Si Morley joins a government experiment set on sending someone back in time. Si is quickly engrossed in his new, exciting surroundings and the charming woman he meets in the fin de siècle metropolis. But when he is called back to the present, Si must decide between the two worlds—and his two lives—once and for all. A time-traveling classic, TIME AND AGAIN is also a richly researched historical fiction that features beautiful, one-of-a-kind illustrations to bring its unique story to life.

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Time and Again
Jack Finney

The 50th anniversary edition of the beloved classic that Stephen King has called “THE great time-travel story.” Featuring a brand-new introduction by the New York Times bestselling author of Recursion, Blake Crouch.

When advertising artist Si Morley is recruited to join a covert government operation exploring the possibility of time travel, he jumps at the chance to leave his mundane 20th-century existence and step into the past. But he also has another motivation for going back in time: a half-burned letter that tells of a mysterious, tragic death and ominously of “fire which will destroy the whole world.”

Traveling to New York City in January 1882 to investigate, he finds a Manhattan teeming with a different kind of life, the waterfront unimpeded by skyscrapers, open-air markets packed with activity, Central Park bustling with horse drawn sleighs—a city on the precipice of great things. At first, Si welcomes these trips as a temporary escape but when he falls in love with a woman he meets in the past, he must choose whether to return to modern life or live in 1882 for good.

“Pure New York fun” (Alice Hoffman, New York Times bestselling author), Time and Again is meticulous recreation of New York in the late nineteenth century, exploring the possibilities of time travel to tell an ageless story of love, longing, and adventure. Finney’s magnum opus has been a source of inspiration for countless science fiction writers since its first publication in 1970.

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One True Loves
by Taylor Jenkins Reid

This epic love story from the author of THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO follows one woman as she is forced to choose between the two men she loves. Emma is in her twenties when she marries her high school sweetheart, Jesse, and begins a life of adventure with him. But when Jesse’s helicopter disappears over the Pacific, it seems he’s gone forever. Years later, Emma moves home and reconnects with Sam, an old friend. After their engagement, Emma discovers that Jesse is still alive; now Emma must choose who she loves and which life she wants to lead.

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One True Loves
Taylor Jenkins Reid

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You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
by Akwaeke Emezi

Akwaeke Emezi’s romance novel has such a fun, enticing premise that’ll pull you through a long weekend since you’ll need to find out what happens. In the story, it’s been five years since the death of her partner, and artist Feyi thinks she’s finally ready for love again. After a passionate chance encounter, Feyi suddenly finds herself on a whirlwind vacation to a tropical island at the behest of a curator who could change her art career forever. But while it seems like this man should be her dream guy, she can’t stop feeling drawn to the person she knows she shouldn’t want: his father. Akwaeke Emezi’s lush and complex romance novel is an intense portrait of love against the odds.

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You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
Akwaeke Emezi

A New York Times bestselling author, National Book Award finalist, and “one of our greatest living writers” (Shondaland) reimagines the love story in this fresh and seductive novel about a young woman seeking joy while healing from loss.

Feyi Adekola wants to learn how to be alive again.

It’s been five years since the accident that killed the love of her life and she’s almost a new person now—an artist with her own studio, and sharing a brownstone apartment with her ride-or-die best friend, Joy, who insists it’s time for Feyi to ease back into the dating scene. Feyi isn’t ready for anything serious, but a steamy encounter at a rooftop party cascades into a whirlwind summer she could have never imagined: a luxury trip to a tropical island, decadent meals in the glamorous home of a celebrity chef, and a major curator who wants to launch her art career.

She’s even started dating the perfect guy, but their new relationship might be sabotaged before it has a chance by the dangerous thrill Feyi feels every time she locks eyes with the one person in the house who is most definitely off-limits. This new life she asked for just got a lot more complicated, and Feyi must begin her search for real answers. Who is she ready to become? Can she release her past and honor her grief while still embracing her future? And, of course, there’s the biggest question of all—how far is she willing to go for a second chance at love? ​

Akwaeke Emezi’s vivid and passionate writing takes us deep into a world of possibility and healing, and the constant bravery of choosing love against all odds.

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Hopeless
by Colleen Hoover

Wondering what all the Colleen Hoover hype is about? HOPELESS is a perfect point of entry for Hoover’s emotionally charged romances because it introduces a cast of side characters that populate Hoover’s other novels. Sky is a senior in high school with a traumatizing past. When she meets Dean Holder—an enigmatic man with a racy reputation—she can’t seem to stay away from him. But, as their bond grows deeper, Holder’s own troubled past surfaces, forcing Sky to face what she’d hoped to keep buried and question if it’s ever possible to trust those you love. If you read and enjoy this book, then you’re all set to have an amazing summer of CoHo.

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Hopeless
Colleen Hoover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of All Your Perfects and It Ends With Us comes the beginning of Sky and Dean’s passionate love story—where well-kept secrets threaten to opens wounds of a dark past.

Would you rather know a truth that makes you feel hopeless, or keep believing the lies?

Beloved and bestselling author Colleen Hoover returns with the spellbinding story of two young people with devastating pasts who embark on a passionate, intriguing journey to discover the lessons of life, love, trust—and above all, the healing power that only truth can bring.

Sky, a senior in high school, meets Dean Holder, a guy with a promiscuous reputation that rivals her own. From their very first encounter, he terrifies and captivates her. Something about him sparks memories of her deeply troubled past, a time she’s tried so hard to bury. Though Sky is determined to stay far away from him, his unwavering pursuit and enigmatic smile break down her defenses and the intensity of the bond between them grows. But the mysterious Holder has been keeping secrets of his own, and once they are revealed, Sky is changed forever and her ability to trust may be a casualty of the truth.

Only by courageously facing the stark revelations can Sky and Holder hope to heal their emotional scars and find a way to live and love without boundaries. Hopeless is a novel that will leave you breathless, entranced, and remembering your own first love.

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