Weekends are a great opportunity not only to get enough sleep, chat with friends and family, but also to enjoy reading an interesting book. Not for work or trends, but for your own enjoyment.

Work.ua has selected books that can be read without too much stress. They are suitable for travelling, holidays in the country, hiking - anywhere.

"All That Invisible Light” by Anthony Dorr

No wonder this novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 2015. In France during the Second World War, a French girl who has lost her eyesight and a German boy break through the darkness. The girl's father receives the famous blue diamond for safekeeping, which, according to legend, dooms the loved ones of its owner to cruel trials. The novel was included in the lists of the best books of 2014 by The New York Times and Wired.

"We all grew up before we became adults", "Just Together” by Anna Gavalda

When two lonelinesses meet, they often fail. You can't make happiness out of two misfortunes. What if there are three lonelinesses? A girl who lives in the attic and works part-time cleaning offices. A workaholic boyfriend who works as a chef in a restaurant. A man with excellent manners who lives in an apartment in the center of Paris that he inherited. Could the characters from different income levels and social backgrounds have anything in common? Anna Gavalda is sure that there is. And she closely intertwines their fates.

"Good Omens”, Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman

It's a fun pre-apocalyptic story, a bit crazy, sometimes dark. It's about how, with a bit of luck, you can ruin anything - even the Apocalypse. There are millennial superstitions and peculiar Christian customs, prophecies and signs.

All this is accompanied by Queen's music and a combination of ridiculous coincidences that may not be coincidental at all. The book is about how the approaching Apocalypse turns both heaven and hell on their ear. Note to self: never trust satanic nuns if you suddenly need to put the Antichrist in safe hands.

"Grandma said to bow and tell her she was sorry" by Frederick Bachmann

The protagonist of this book is an almost eight-year-old girl who gets along with the whole world, wears a Gryffindor scarf, reads a lot of Wikipedia, and suffers from bullying by her peers because she is "not like everyone else". Her only friend is her grandmother. She has a weirdness. She does crazy things, smokes, boldly expresses her opinion, and drives a car. Furthermore, she has created a different, magical world for Elsiego, where she is a knight, not a loser.

But one day, her beloved grandmother dies of cancer and leaves her granddaughter a game - she has to find letters and deliver them to different people. The book explains complex truths in simple language. It doesn't even explain them, it makes you feel them with your whole soul.

"The One Who Runs with the Wind” by Khaled Hosseini

A heartfelt story about friendship and loyalty, betrayal and redemption. It begins in pre-war Kabul in the 1970s, where two boys of the same age, Amir and Hassan, live. One belongs to the local aristocracy, the other to a despised minority. One has a handsome and respectable father, the other a lame and miserable one. Master and servant, prince and beggar, handsome and crippled. There are no two people in the world closer than these two boys. But life throws up a terrible accident and puts the friends to the test of their strength. And then the war makes its own changes, scattering them to different continents.

"My Incredible Friend” by Elena Ferrante

This is a story of female friendship. The pages of the book take the reader to the beggar's quarter of Naples in the 50s, with all its dirt, impulsive residents and the secrets of their lives. Murders, arrests, madness, domination of one over the other, against this backdrop, the friendship of two girls who are completely different from each other develops.

One is a fearless badass who succeeds in everything she does, and when she grows up, she outshines everyone with her beauty. The second is timid and insecure, constantly envying the first and trying to keep up.

Through the story of friendship, the author tells about the dramatic changes in the life of the neighborhood, the city, the country: from fascism and mafia rule to the rise of the communist movement, and how these changes affect the relationship between the characters.

"Thirst” is a detective thriller by Yoo Nesbø, 

Even if you are not a fan of the detective genre, this work will surprise you and may become your favorite. It captivates from the very first chapter, keeping your attention until the very end. It has a charismatic hero, and crimes are committed in an unusual way, but most importantly, the ending is meant to be unexpectedly surprising.