What are some of your favorite easy reads?

This sub has a lot of highbrow recommendations.

I also enjoy those types of books and have read many of the frequently recommended and similar types, such as Love in the Time of Cholera, The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, The Road, Of Mice and Men, 1984, Mudbound, To Kill a Mockingbird, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Hot Zone, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, The Things That They Carried and a ton of nonfiction and memoirs, mostly WWI and WWII related.

But for a change of place, what are your favorite simple, fun, easy books? The stuff that isn't necessarily likely to be nominated for a National Book Award or Pulitzer but is still good?
The things that you'd read at the beach or on a road trip.

You know, gateway books that might make a non-reader reconsider their lack of interest?

Books that are engaging, perhaps even somewhat serious, but not particularly challenging to read with accessible writing.
Ideally stuff written in the last 25 years!

Examples to me would be Beartown, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, the Sookie Stackhouse series, A Man Called Ove, early Stephanie Plum novels, The Outsiders, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, The Hunger Games, The Girl on the Train, James Heriott All Creature series, and my all-time favorite, World War Z.