Streaming Now on Netflix: PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION, Emily Henry’s #1 Bestseller

Netflix’s film adaptation of the #1 New York Times bestseller PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION by Emily Henry(published by Berkley in 2021, with subsequent editions, including a deluxe and movie tie-in collector’s edition in 2025) debuted on Friday, January, 9, and quickly became the #1 movie in the U.S. on Netflix.

In the run-up and following its release, the buzz around PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION has been nonstop. As of the first week of release, the social hashtag #peoplewemeetonvacation has already amassed about 60K+ posts on Instagram, 560+ million views on TikTok, and on the day of release, it was trending with over 3 million posts on Threads.

Emily Henry and her Berkley team attended the official premiere in Los Angeles last week, and over the weekend, Netflix amplified excitement with a sun-drenched, immersive experiencein New York City where Emily and members of the cast made a surprise appearance.

From Glamour to The New Yorker to People, interviews with Emily Henry surrounding the film’s release have been everywhere. She has also joined the film’s lead actors, Emily Bader and Tom Blyth, in a slew of coverage from outlets including The New York Times, Elle, and Variety.

A standout moment from the film—Alex and Poppy’s dance scene set to Paula Abdul’s “Forever Your Girl”—even earned a seal of approval from Paula Abdul herself, who praised it on Instagramas “a rom-com dance scene done right.”

And the buzz is only just beginning: Tom Blyth and Emily Bader appeared on NBC’s Today Show last week, with upcoming appearances expected this week on The Tonight Show, The Kelly Clarkson Show, The View, and The Drew Barrymore Show.

All signs point to PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION being the rom-com of the season—and proof that Emily Henry’s stories resonate just as powerfully on screen as they do on the page.

About PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION by Emily Henry

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Funny Story comes a sparkling novel that will leave you with the warm, hazy afterglow usually reserved for the best vacations.

Two best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall in love.

Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She’s a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. For most of the year they live far apart—she’s in New York City, and he’s in their small hometown—but every summer, for a decade, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together.

Until two years ago, when they ruined everything. They haven’t spoken since.

Poppy has everything she should want, but she’s stuck in a rut. When someone asks when she was last truly happy, she knows, without a doubt, it was on that ill-fated, final trip with Alex. And so, she decides to convince her best friend to take one more vacation together—lay everything on the table, make it all right. Miraculously, he agrees.

Now she has a week to fix everything. If only she can get around the one big truth that has always stood quietly in the middle of their seemingly perfect relationship. What could possibly go wrong?