There’s nothing like being on vacation with a good book in your hands and it’s a well-known fact that reading while on vacation is the uttermost relaxing part of travelling! We’ve found 10 books to cram into your suitcase before your next departure, or perhaps when you’re perusing the shelves in your fabulous holiday location!

These books are not only small and easy to tackle between activities and sightseeing, but are also fast paced to help keep you engaged with every page you turn. In between plane rides, Instagram posts and sightseeing, these books are the perfect companion to keep you hooked on your relaxing adventure.

Read on to discover our picks and tell us in the comments below if you will be checking any of these out!

The False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielsen | Goodreads

A kingdom under threat of civil upheaval. Conner, a nobleman of the court devises a plan to have a child impersonate the king’s long-lost son. His mission is to install the impersonator as a puppet prince, to work for Conner’s wishes. Sage, an orphan is looking for any way to better his life, and Conner’s plan is all too enticing. However, Sage is not the only boy fighting for the throne, three other orphans are competing alongside him. Those who are not picked to play the prince will face certain death in this middle grade fantasy filled with politics and plot twists.

Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy Anthology | Goodreads

This YA anthology is filled with such great authors that readers are bound to find a story they love. Each story follows an infamous villain with authors such as Victoria Schwab, Renee Ahdieh, Marissa Meyer and many more, pairing up with Booktubers. There’s nothing better than a short book that allows you to read mini stories making it perfect for short train rides or before bed. This little wonder gives you the taste of many fantasy book in one convenient paperback.

Roman Crazy by Alice Clayton and Nina Bocci | Goodreads

Avery Bardot is a soon-to-be divorcee. After catching her “perfect” husband cheating on her, she decides to take a sporadic trip to Rome to get her mind off things. When her expat best friend throws her a welcoming party, Avery sees a man she thought she would never lay eyes on again, Marcello. Her past colliding with her present, Avery is stuck between wanting a new life and experiencing her past again. Clayton and Bocci are at it again with an adult romance filled with wanderlust, sightseeing and descriptions that make you feel like you’re in Rome right beside Avery! A fast swoon worthy romance that has you wishing for a summer romance as well.

Carry On by Rainbow Rowell | Goodreads

Based off the ever-cherished Harry Potter series, Carry On follows the life of Simon, the worst Chosen One ever. When he’s not being abducted, saving the world or studying at Watford School of Magicks, he’s plotting the demise of his roommate and nemesis, Baz, who just happens to be a vampire. A darkness is looming, the Humdrum is impersonating Simon and attacking the school and all the wizards surrounding it. Simon, his friends, and an unlikely Baz set out to find and destroy the Humdrum, saving the world of wizardry once and for all.. or so they think. Spells, action, male romances and Harry Potter nostalgia, Rainbow Rowell hit the nail on the head in this #1 New York Times bestseller.

Ingo by Helen Dunmore | Goodreads

A middle grade fantasy with mermaids… need I say more? Sapphire’s life is turned upside down when her father mysteriously disappears in the sea off the Cornwall coast and Sapphire is left with many questions. Rumours spread that her father ran off with another woman or that he travelled to Ingo, the wold of Mer, a place her father used to mention in tales to her before bed. Now, Ingo is calling her, is she in for the adventure of a life time or will she meet the same fate as her father?

The Cruel Prince by Holly Black | Goodreads

Holly Black delivers again with a story of politics, betrayal and most importantly—fae. Jude was only a young girl when her parents were murdered and she and her sisters were swept away by the killer to the High Court of Faerie. Living as a human, she is a visible minority amongst the world of fae and she wants to be like them—beautiful, strong and immortal. Prince Cardan is one of the many heirs to the fae throne, and when he’s not attending royal parties, he is tormenting Jude and her sisters. Jude wishes to show him and all the other fae that she is worthy of immortality, and she can fight just as well as any other faerie. When a threat to the throne is presented, Jude finds herself in the middle of keeping her family and the throne safe from harm. The Cruel Prince is everything a faerie story needs, political intrigue, fierce heroines and a love-to-hate relationship.

The Royals series by Erin Watt | Goodreads

The only reason I recommend the entire series is because there’s no way you’ll be able to read just one! Instantly hooked with one sentence, Erin Watt never fails to please. Ella Harper is a survivor, after her mother’s death she is left to fend for herself, stripping at the local club in order to have a roof over her head. Everything is fine until Callum Royal enters the scene, sweeping her off her feet into his massive mansion, claiming to be paying a debt to Ella’s long-lost and dead father. Ella seems to enjoy her new life, chefs, maids and fast cars, however, Callum’s five sons are making it their number one objective to ruin Ella’s life. Deception, lies, wealth and drama, this series is one you won’t be able to live without. Plus there’s even two new spin-off books, Fallen Heir and Cracked Kingdom, which were just released this month!

All Fall Down by Ally Carter | Goodreads

The first in the Embassy Row series, Ally Carter continues to amaze. Grace Blakely has been through it all, after her mother’s murder, she seeks revenge, however, no one believes her about her mother’s death. She is sent off to live with her grandfather, a powerful ambassador living on Embassy Row, a line of the most powerful ambassadors and diplomats from all countries. Everybody wants Grace to put on a dress, a smile and pretend like nothing ever happened. As Grace fights to find out the truth about her mother’s demise, she starts to realise Embassy Row is not as it seems, and they just might have something to do with her painful past.

My Not So Perfect Life by Sophie Kinsella | Goodreads

Your life is only as good as your Insta posts and for Katie Brenner, she seems to have the perfect life: a flat in downtown London, a fancy admin job, and thousands of Instagram followers. Little do her followers know that she has a long sweaty commute on the metro every day during rush hour and she can’t afford to pay her bills, forcing her to go without electricity. When Katie loses her job, all hope is lost. She has to move back in with her parents in the middle of nowhere and help with their glamping business. But when her diva ex-boss shows up, Katie finds out she wasn’t the only one lying about her life.  A perfect read in between your famous Insta posts, this book is perfect for travel and every social media fiend.

Let’s Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir by Jenny Lawson | Goodreads

Internet star Jenny Lawson aka The Bloggess, makes her literary debut. She chronicles the good, the bad and the dirty. This short read will have you LOLing with every page. From her bizarre upbringing in rural Texas, wearing a meat suit, and her relationship with her long-suffering husband, Lawson writes it all. With chapters that include: “Stanley the Magical Talking Squirrel” , “My Vagina is Fine” and “And Then I Snuck a Dead Cuban Alligator on the Airplane” humour is Lawson’s forte and she executes it so well.

What books have you enjoyed on your travels? Tell us in the comments below!

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If you’re after a contemporary, try either A Girl Like That or American Panda! And if you’re after a little fantasy or science fiction, pick up The Traitor’s Game or Ink, Iron and Glass!

Read on to discover our YA picks and tell us in the comments below if you will be reading any!

Tempests and Slaughter by Tamora Pierce | Goodreads

Arram Draper is a boy on the path to becoming one of the realm’s most powerful mages. The youngest student in his class at the Imperial University of Carthak, he has a Gift with unlimited potential for greatness–and for attracting danger. At his side are his two best friends: Varice, a clever girl with an often-overlooked talent, and Ozorne, the “leftover prince” with secret ambitions. Together, these three friends forge a bond that will one day shape kingdoms. And as Ozorne gets closer to the throne and Varice gets closer to Arram’s heart, Arram begins to realise that one day soon he will have to decide where his loyalties truly lie.

A Girl Like That by Tanaz Bhathena | Goodreads

Sixteen-year-old Zarin Wadia is many things, including a troublemaker whose many romances are the subject of endless gossip at school. So how is it that eighteen-year-old Porus Dumasia has only ever had eyes for her? And how did Zarin and Porus end up dead in a car together, crashed on the side of a highway in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia? When the religious police arrive on the scene, everything everyone thought they knew about Zarin is questioned. And as her story is pieced together, told through multiple perspectives, it becomes clear that she was far more than just a girl like that.

Heart of Iron by Ashley Poston | Goodreads

Seventeen-year-old Ana was found as a child drifting through space with a sentient android called D09 and saved by a fearsome space captain and the grizzled crew she now calls family. But D09—one of the last remaining illegal Metals—has been glitching, and Ana will stop at nothing to find a way to fix him. She embarks on a quest to steal the coordinates to a lost ship, but a spoiled Ironblood boy beats her and he doesn’t care what he’ll sacrifice to keep them. The pair end up as fugitives on the run. Now their entire kingdom is after them—and the coordinates—and not everyone wants them captured alive.

Assassin of Truth by Brenda Drake | Goodreads

The gateways linking the great libraries of the world don’t require a library card, but they do harbor incredible dangers. And it’s not your normal bump-in-the-night kind. The threats Gia Kearns faces are the kind with sharp teeth and knifelike claws. The kind that include an evil wizard hell-bent on taking her down. Gia can end his devious plan, but only if she recovers seven keys hidden throughout the world’s most beautiful libraries. And then figures out exactly what to do with them.

Honor Among Thieves by Rachel Caine | Goodreads

Petty criminal Zara Cole has a painful past that’s made her stronger than most, which is why she chose life in New Detroit instead moving with her family to Mars. Still, when Zara commits a crime that has her running scared, jail might be exactly where she’s headed. Instead Zara is recruited into the Honors, an elite team of humans selected by the Leviathan—a race of sentient alien ships—to explore the outer reaches of the universe as their passengers.

The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza by Shaun David Hutchinson | Goodreads

Sixteen-year-old Elena Mendoza is the product of a virgin birth. This can be scientifically explained (it’s called parthenogenesis), but what can’t be explained is how Elena is able to heal Freddie, the girl she’s had a crush on for years, from a gunshot wound in a Starbucks parking lot. Or why the boy who shot Freddie, David Combs, disappeared from the same parking lot minutes later after getting sucked up into the clouds.

The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton | Goodreads

Camellia Beauregard is a Belle and they control Beauty, a commodity coveted above all else. Camellia wants to be the favourite—the Belle chosen by the Queen of Orléans to tend to the royal family. But once she arrives, it becomes clear that being the favourite is not everything she always dreamed it would be.

Ink, Iron, and Glass by Gwendolyn Clare | Goodreads

A certain pen, a certain book, and a certain person can craft entirely new worlds through a branch of science called scriptology. Elsa comes from one such world that was written into creation by her mother. But when her home is attacked and her mother abducted, Elsa must cross into the real world and use her own scriptology gifts to find her. In an alternative 19th-century Italy, Elsa finds a secret society of pazzerellones—young people with a gift for mechanics, alchemy or scriptology—and meets Leo, a gorgeous mechanist with a smart mouth and a tragic past. She recruits the help of these fellow geniuses just as an assassin arrives on their doorstep.

The Traitor’s Game by Jennifer A. Nielsen | Goodreads

Kestra Dallisor has spent three years in exile in the Lava Fields, but that won’t stop her from being drawn back into her father’s palace politics. He’s the right hand man of the cruel king, Lord Endrick, which makes Kestra a valuable bargaining chip. A group of rebels knows this and they kidnap her. The kidnappers want her to retrieve the lost Olden Blade, the only object that can destroy the immortal king, but Kestra is not the obedient captive they expected.

American Panda by Gloria Chao | Goodreads

At seventeen, Mei should be in high school, but skipping fourth grade was part of her parents’ master plan. Now a freshman at MIT, she is on track to fulfill the rest of this predetermined future: become a doctor, marry a preapproved Taiwanese Ivy Leaguer, produce a litter of babies. With everything her parents have sacrificed to make her cushy life a reality, Mei can’t bring herself to tell them the truth–that she (1) hates germs, (2) falls asleep in biology lectures, and (3) has a crush on her classmate Darren Takahashi, who is decidedly not Taiwanese.

The Prince and The Dressmaker by Jen Wang | Goodreads

Prince Sebastian is looking for a bride―or rather, his parents are looking for one for him. Sebastian is too busy hiding his secret life from everyone. At night he puts on daring dresses and takes Paris by storm as the fabulous Lady Crystallia―the hottest fashion icon in the world capital of fashion! Sebastian’s secret weapon (and best friend) is the brilliant dressmaker Frances―one of only two people who know the truth: sometimes this boy wears dresses. But Frances dreams of greatness, and being someone’s secret weapon means being a secret. Forever. How long can Frances defer her dreams to protect a friend?

The Last To Let Go by Amber Smith | Goodreads

Junior year for Brooke Winters is supposed to be about change. But all of her dreams are shattered one hot summer afternoon when her mother is arrested for killing Brooke’s abusive father. No one really knows what happened that day, if it was premeditated or self-defense, whether it was right or wrong. And now Brooke and her siblings are on their own. In a year of firsts—the first year without parents, first love, first heartbreak, and her first taste of freedom—Brooke must confront the shadow of her family’s violence and dysfunction, as she struggles to embrace her identity, finds her true place in the world, and learns how to let go.

What February YA release are you most excited for? Tell us in the comments below!

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