5 Best Taylor Jenkins Reid books that you should buy and place on your bookshelf today
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Retired and formerly famous Hollywood star Evelyn Hugo wants to reveal all about her glamorous life.
But she has chosen a rookie reporter Monique Grant to tell her story.
Monique is shocked as to why Evelyn Hugo has shown interest in her, an unknown magazine reporter, to tell the truth about her life.
Monique is looking forward to this interview as a way to move ahead on the professional front.
Her personal and professional life is going nowhere as of now.
Evelyn Hugo starts revealing her story to Monique in her lavish apartment.
She tells about her entrance to showbiz in the 1950s, her rise to fame, her seven husbands, ambition, forbidden love, and her voluntary retirement from show business in the 1980s.
As Evelyn to Monique tells all about her, she begins to sense a personal connection with the aging star.
The story takes a wild turn when Monique finds her past coinciding with Evelyn’s in a tragic manner.
Daisy Jones and The Six
Daisy Jones and The Six is a band documentary written in the form of interview transcripts by Taylor Jenkins Reid.
This novel is about the union and break-up of Daisy Jones, with a band ‘The Six’ led by Billy Dunne.
Daisy Jones is an open-minded girl in LA in the late 60s. She enjoys sex, and she enjoys drugs but she is more thrilled by Rock and Roll.
By the time she turns 20, her voice has started receiving attention.
On the other hand, is a band ‘The Six’ rising in popularity led by Billy Dunne on whose first tour his girlfriend finds out that she is pregnant.
A producer sees a big opportunity in uniting Daisy Jones and The Six and he does so. But what happens because of which at the height of their popularity, Daisy Jones breaks up with ‘The Six’?
Carrie Soto Is Back
Carrie Soto is a star tennis player whose relentless determination to win, has won her twenty grand slam titles.
She has been coached and trained by her father, Javier from the age of two.
Carrie has sacrificed many things to get to this success.
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But 6 years after retirement from Tennis, Carrie sees a stupendous player Nicki Chan breaking her record in the 1994 US Open.
Carrie thus gets motivated and gets filled with the determination to reclaim her record. Thus, she decides to come back to the game at the age of 37.
She wants her father to coach her for one final year, one final season.
Carrie Soto is back to Tennis despite all odds and thus follows a heartfelt, emotional sports drama.
One True Loves
Emma Blair is in her twenties when she marries her high school sweetheart Jesse.
Their life is perfect, they travel the world together, never leaving an opportunity for an adventure.
In short, Jesse and Emma are living their life to the fullest.
But their life hits a rough road when on the first anniversary of their wedding, Jesse goes missing. Over the pacific, Jesse went on a helicopter ride which was never found.
Emma is shattered. She wants to put her life together so she goes back home quitting her job.
Emma is now in her thirties. One fine day she meets an old friend Sam.
She falls for Sam and they get engaged.
When it seems that life is giving her a second chance, Jesse is back, he was alive all this time and was trying to get back to her.
Emma now has to choose between her husband who she loved and who was gone for a long time and her fiance who she is in love with now.
How will Emma find out whom she wants? Who is her One True Love?
Malibu Rising
Malibu Rising is the story of one night that centers around the four siblings of the Riva family - Nina, Jay, Hud, and Kit.
They are the children of a famous Legendary singer Mick Riva.
It’s August 1983 and it’s Nick Riva’s annual end-of-summer party in Malibu. The party is going to turn more and more electric as the night progresses.
But Nick Riva is not looking forward to her own party. She has been recently publicly renounced by her tennis player husband.
Hud is also on the back foot because of withholding a confession to someone from whom he has been inseparable since birth.
Jay is also looking forward to meeting a girl who is always in her head and who has promised to meet him this night and Kit has invited someone without informing or consulting with anyone.
The night is young but by midnight the atmosphere will turn electric.
The party will see alcohol, there will be music and all the fun that a typical end-of-summer party must have, but in the dawn something terrible will happen because of which the life of these 4 siblings will change forever.
What will that be? Grab a copy and find it out.
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