42 ratings | 27 reviews | avg rating:4.69

Lauren’s Year In Books

Lauren’s 2025 Year in Books

Take a look at Lauren’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.

Go to Lauren’s 2025 Year in Books

Lauren Parvizi’s Followers (112)

Lauren’s Bookshelves

to-read (333)
currently-reading (2)
read (440)

Lauren’s Friends (53)

Erin Quinn-Kong

284 books | 14 friends

Karen

1,966 books | 21 friends

Karen

1,016 books | 45 friends

Jamie

1,398 books | 116 friends

Vanessa Scott

1,055 books | 77 friends

Rachael Cardoza

343 books | 2 friends

Chelsea Sorich

17 books | 34 friends

Marilyn Rothstein

126 books | 2,418 friends

More friends…

Lauren Parvizi

Goodreads Author

Website

https://www.laurenparvizi.com/

Genre

Contemporary

Member Since

February 2009

edit data

Lauren Parvizi is the author of Trust Me on This and La Vie, According to Rose, winner of the 2024 Women’s Fiction Writers Association STAR Award in the Debut category. She worked for more than a decade as a digital editor and content writer, and earned an MFA from San Francisco State University. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and sons.

Combine Editions
Lauren Parvizi’s books

Average rating: 4.04 · 6,966 ratings · 542 reviews · 2 distinct works • Similar authors

	La Vie, According to Rose really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4,660 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Trust Me on This 4.12 avg rating — 2,306 ratings — published 2025 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

* Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. To add more, click here.

Lauren is Currently Reading

Lauren Parvizi is currently reading

Junie

by Erin Crosby Eckstine (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading

Rate this book

Clear rating

1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

Dec 18, 2025 11:29AM

Lauren Parvizi is currently reading

The Road to Tender Hearts

by Annie Hartnett (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading

Rate this book

Clear rating

1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

Dec 14, 2025 10:00PM

rss
Lauren’s Recent Updates

Lauren Parvizi wants to read Before I Forget by Tory Henwood Hoen (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Dec 31, 2025 08:43AM · like · preview book See a Problem? We’d love your help. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of Before I Forget by Tory Henwood Hoen. Problem: Details (if other): Thanks for telling us about the problem. Not the book you’re looking for? Preview — Before I Forget by Tory Henwood Hoen <iframe sandbox id="wrongBookKindlePreviewScreen">
Lauren Parvizi wants to read One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad (Goodreads Author) Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee in Readers' Favorite Nonfiction	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Dec 29, 2025 09:02AM · like · preview book See a Problem? We’d love your help. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad. Problem: Details (if other): Thanks for telling us about the problem. Not the book you’re looking for? Preview — One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad <iframe sandbox id="wrongBookKindlePreviewScreen">
Lauren Parvizi wants to read Audition by Katie Kitamura (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Dec 29, 2025 09:01AM · like · preview book See a Problem? We’d love your help. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of Audition by Katie Kitamura. Problem: Details (if other): Thanks for telling us about the problem. Not the book you’re looking for? Preview — Audition by Katie Kitamura <iframe sandbox id="wrongBookKindlePreviewScreen">
Lauren Parvizi wants to read The Ten Year Affair by Erin Somers (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Dec 29, 2025 09:01AM · like · preview book See a Problem? We’d love your help. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of The Ten Year Affair by Erin Somers. Problem: Details (if other): Thanks for telling us about the problem. Not the book you’re looking for? Preview — The Ten Year Affair by Erin Somers <iframe sandbox id="wrongBookKindlePreviewScreen">
Lauren Parvizi wants to read The Wonder Test by Michelle Richmond (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Dec 29, 2025 08:10AM · like
Lauren Parvizi wants to read Famished: On Food, Sex, and Growing Up as a Good Girl by Anna Rollins (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Dec 23, 2025 08:10PM · like
Lauren Parvizi wants to read Tunnel 29: The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall by Helena Merriman (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Dec 22, 2025 06:59AM · like · preview book See a Problem? We’d love your help. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of Tunnel 29 by Helena Merriman. Problem: Details (if other): Thanks for telling us about the problem. Not the book you’re looking for? Preview — Tunnel 29 by Helena Merriman <iframe sandbox id="wrongBookKindlePreviewScreen">
Lauren Parvizi wants to read A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon by Kevin Fedarko (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Dec 22, 2025 06:58AM · like · preview book See a Problem? We’d love your help. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of A Walk in the Park by Kevin Fedarko. Problem: Details (if other): Thanks for telling us about the problem. Not the book you’re looking for? Preview — A Walk in the Park by Kevin Fedarko <iframe sandbox id="wrongBookKindlePreviewScreen">
Lauren Parvizi wants to read How to Read a Book by Monica Wood	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Dec 22, 2025 06:57AM · like · preview book See a Problem? We’d love your help. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of How to Read a Book by Monica Wood. Problem: Details (if other): Thanks for telling us about the problem. Not the book you’re looking for? Preview — How to Read a Book by Monica Wood <iframe sandbox id="wrongBookKindlePreviewScreen">
Lauren Parvizi wants to read This Motherless Land by Nikki May (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Dec 22, 2025 06:56AM · like · preview book See a Problem? We’d love your help. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of This Motherless Land by Nikki May. Problem: Details (if other): Thanks for telling us about the problem. Not the book you’re looking for? Preview — This Motherless Land by Nikki May <iframe sandbox id="wrongBookKindlePreviewScreen">

More of Lauren's books…

Quotes by Lauren Parvizi (?)

“what you do is who you are.”
― Lauren Parvizi, La Vie, According to Rose

1 likes

“All these years haven’t been wasted; they were just your inner fermentation process at work.”
― Lauren Parvizi, La Vie, According to Rose

1 likes

“... her grandmother's love and the flavor of the food so intertwined until she couldn't think of one without the other.”
― Lauren Parvizi, Trust Me on This

0 likes

See all Lauren Parvizi's quotes »

Topics Mentioning This Author

topics	posts	views	last activity
Book Snails Book ...: Summer Reading Diversity Challenge 2023	19	12	Jul 10, 2023 12:12PM
Aussie Readers: April Featured Author - Richard Flanagan	136	118	May 15, 2025 08:10PM
Romance Readers R...: Meet & Greet Challenge Round 69 (Apr/May) - Participants' Thread	33	57	Jun 04, 2025 12:20PM

More…

Lauren’s Quotes

“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

8351 likes

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

tags: books, reading

27734 likes

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: inspirational

11454 likes