30 Books to Pick Up Before You Go on Vacation With Your Best Friends

If you abide by the saying that you shouldn't judge a book by its cover, don't judge a book by its disappointing movie adaptation, either. This insanely popular YA series might be about vampires, but at its core, Vampire Academy has one of the best portrayals of female friendship that the genre has ever seen. Rose Hathaway is a Dhampir — a human-vampire hybrid — whose job is to protect the life of her best friend, Lissa Dragomir, a Moroi — a mortal, peaceful kind of vampire — while they attend the supersecret St. Vladamir's Academy. Supernatural hijinks ensue, obviously.