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Do you like chick-lit type books?
I really like Marian Keyes for fluffy reading. If you'd like something a little less romance-heavy, I enjoyed The Night Circus, A Discovery of Witches, the Divergent series, the Thirteenth Tale. I'm sure I'll think of more!

@babybean404: Ooh, that gives me more ideas then!

The Line series by JD Horn- a little bit darker, but I'm a huge wimp and could handle them
Anything by Sophie Kinsella or Emily Giffin.
Have you read the City of Bones books? Decent, for YA books.
I've heard great things about John Green and Maureen Johnson as well.

If you choose to go the John Green route as suggested above you may cry through parts of some of the books. It's worth it though.

The Glass Kitchen by Linda Francis Lee was light, fluffy reading. As is anything by Sarah Addison Allen, I especially liked Garden Spells. Beach Town by Mary Kay Andrews- all great chick-lit reads! Lisa Wingate has great light reads too.

I loves the YA dystopian series Delirium and Matched.

Ready Player One was a fun, fast read all about the 80's pop culture in a dystopian world.

I'm fairly certain all of those steer clear of those topics you want to avoid. It's been a while since I read some of them, though.

I hunt killers trilogy! Don't be dismayed by the title! It's YA about a teen who's father was a serial killer so he helps police catch serial killers bc he was raised by one. Not gory or anything bc it's YA. It was quick addicting reads for me.
Code name verity was good too! It took a few chapters to get in to it!

I totally loved the stephanie plum series! Technically they are sort of cop(ish)/often murder mysteries. But they are meant to be funny. Main character is a woman bounty hunter who has pretty much no business being a bounty hunter.

What about Nora Roberts? She's a little Danielle Steele-y but not too bad. She also gets weirdly into paranormal business sometimes, but I love and reread the Brides Quartet and the Inn Boonsboro trilogy.

And if you like YA, I can't say enough good things about Sarah Dessen.

Chicklit, Jennifer Weiner. I just finished her most recent, Who Do You Love, and it was sweet and cute. My favourite is Little Earthquakes but the main characters loses a child to SIDS (before the book starts, not a spoiler) so you might want to skip that one. Good in Bed is another good one.