You know how there are moments where you’re just in the mood that will soothe your soul. Like when a show or movie is finished and you sit there in silence and all you’re left with is grief that it’s over and you don’t know what to do. Well that feeling is exactly what a good book can sort out. It keeps you busy for a long time, it takes you on a journey and actually inspires you to be curious on what to do next. This series of Between the pages is to take you on a ride with a lot of things. That is to be romantic, a thinker, turning daydreams into stories and sometimes being the main character who can solve all the problems. And as always let there be no filter and no fillers. Let’s get into it.
01 of 04
ROMANCE
People We Meet on Vacation
EMILY HENRY
Slow burn friends to lovers emotional gut-punchone-sitting read
Alex and Poppy have been best friends for a decade. Every summer, one trip. Different cities, same dynamic — the kind of easy, electric friendship that makes you wonder how two people who are in sync never just… went there. And then something happened two years ago. Now Poppy’s planning one last trip to fix everything she broke, except the only person she needs to face is the one she can’t stop thinking about. This book alternates between past summers and the present, and every chapter from the past is like finding an old photo you forgot you loved.
Perfect if you loved: the almost-moments in your binge guides — this is the book version of exactly that.
02 of 04
FICTION · PHILOSOPHICAL
The Midnight Library
MATT HAIG
deeply movinglife-affirmingthought-provokingweekend read
Somewhere between life and death exists a library. And in that library, every book is a different version of your life — every choice unmade, every road not taken. Nora Seed finds herself there after her worst night, and she has the chance to try on every version of herself she ever wondered about. The Olympic swimmer. The Rockstar. The person who stayed. What this book does so quietly and cleverly is make you sit with the question: what if the life you have, in all its mess, is the one worth living? It’s fiction that reads like a letter to yourself.
Perfect if you loved: the yoga and letting-go-of-control energy from the Enchanted Pen archives — same emotional territory, different form.
03 of 04
PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER
The Woman in the Window
A.J. FINN
unreliable narrator can’t put it downplot twists atmospheric
Anna Fox hasn’t left her house in months. She watches her neighbors from the window — it’s all she can do. Until one night, she sees something she was never supposed to see. The problem? Nobody believes her. This is the kind of book where you’re not sure if you trust the person telling the story, and that uncertainty is exactly what makes it unputdownable. Hitchcock vibes, New York brownstone setting, a mystery that genuinely surprises. It was adapted into a Netflix film — but read the book first, always.
Perfect if you loved: Red Queen from Part 2 — same slow dread, same obsessive need to know what happens next.
04 of 04
NON-FICTION · CREATIVE GROWTH
Big Magic
ELIZABETH GILBERT
for creatives inspiring warm & honest dip in and out
If you write, create, blog, teach, or make anything at all — this book is for you. Elizabeth Gilbert (yes, the Eat Pray Love author) writes about creativity not as some dramatic gift handed to special people, but as something available to anyone willing to show up for it. She talks about ideas as living things that choose you, about fear as a passenger you can’t kick out of the car, and about making things even when the world hasn’t asked you to yet. This one is oddly personal to read as a blogger. You’ll know what I mean when you get there.
Perfect if you loved: the wellness and growth side of Enchanted Pen — this is the self-help pick that doesn’t feel like homework.
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