LONG READS
Need something long but readable and fun to sink into for a beach day? These picks will keep ya engrossed + entertained from sunrise to sunset and are all 500+ pages!
Free Food For Millionaires Min Jin Lee
Casey Han, a Princeton grad and daughter of Korean immigrants, is struggling post-grad, jobless and in debt from trying to keep up with Manhattan’s glittering society. She’s determined to live the life she feels she’s entitled to and works to become an investment banker, but she soon finds that her dream lifestyle comes at a cost. Through 550 (!!) pages, Lee covers complex familial relationships as well as issues of wealth and class. This one is super character-driven, but has just the perfect punch of plot to keep things moving along. It feels like an elevated beach read because you’ll tear through the story while marveling at the writing.
The Most Fun We Ever Had Claire Lombardo
THE MOST FUN WE EVER HAD follows the Sorenson family from the 1970s to present in Chicago. We become deeply entwined in the lives and histories of David, Marilyn and their four daughters: Wendy, a widow still processing her grief with wine and men; Violet, a stay at home mom harboring a deep secret; Liza, a professor whose personal life is in shambles when she finds out she’s pregnant by a man she’s no longer in love with; and Grace, who is living an elaborate lie across the country in Oregon. Their lives are further thrown for a loop when Jonah Bendt, a child given up by one of the daughters fifteen years ago resurfaces.
11/22/63 Stephen King
I would literally go to war for this book. It’s not just historical fiction, but it’s sci-fi and romance and just a plain old amazing book. Jake is sent back to the 1960s to prevent John F. Kennedy from being assassinated. While in the 60s, he falls in love and runs into some issues, as he realizes the things he does in preparation to stop the killing will have profound effects on not only the people he’s come to love in his new life in the past, but the history of the world as he once knew it. This book is long, but it’s so amazing. It’s smart and funny and while parts of the middle are a little slow, the entire thing is so engrossing and unputdownable.
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