If you want to keep a handy list of beach reads you can revisit each summer and track your reading each year (or try to get through them all in one season–go, you!), we’ve got you covered with this handy dandy printout collecting all of the books on this list. And if you need more, more, more books, here are 63 titles we nominated that didn’t make the cut:
A Half-Baked Murder by Emily George
A Letter to the Luminous Deep by Sylvie Cathrall
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter
A Sweet Mess by Jayci Lee
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
Aniana del Mar Jumps In by Jasminne Mendez
Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala
Big Gay Wedding by Byron Lane
Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall
Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Chlorine by Jade Song
Death in the Air by Ram Murali
Delilah Green Doesn’t Care by Ashley Herring Blake
Devil’s Chew Toy by Rob Osler
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies by Catherine Mack
Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley
Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson
How to Find a Princess by Alyssa Cole
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant
Juliet Takes a Breath by Gaby Rivera
Less by Andrew Sean Greer
Like Lovers Do by Tracey Livesay
Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
The Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee
Seashell Key by Lourdes Heuer
Seating Arrangements by Maggie Shipstead
Skye Falling by Mia Mckenzie
So Far From God by Ana Castillo
Summer on the Bluffs (Oak Bluffs series) by Sunny Hostin
Summer Sisters by Judy Blume
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks by Shauna Robinson
The Deep by Rivers Solomon
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
The Girl from the Sea by Molly Knox Ostertag
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
The Guncle by Steven Rowley
The Heartbreak Bakery by A.R. Capetta
The Last Train to Key West by Chanel Cleeton
The Proposal by Jasmine Guillory
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson, translated by Thomas Teal
The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
This is What it Feels Like by Rebecca Barrow
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han
Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
You Had Me at Hola by Alexis Daria
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi
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