Beach Reads Archives

The Kind of Career Writers Dream About: A Guest Post by Elin Hilderbrand

Hailed as queen of the beach read, Elin Hilderbrand’s novels have joined us on the sand and by the pool…

Sitting by the pool or on the beach is often the only time I get to read uninterrupted. It’s a…

In a world where women are constantly judged by their likability quotient, it’s refreshing when a woman—real or fictional—is wholly…

When it comes to sticking your toes in the sand and your nose in some prose, not every book measures…

Summer is here, and with summer comes the search for the perfect beach read. A beach read is a delicate…

Sometimes you want your beach reads as light and fluffy as the foam atop a piña colada. And sometimes you…

We’re already in the heat of July, and if there’s one thing I’ve learned about summer, it’s that if you…

The perfect beach book combines maximum readability with a story you can dip in and out of it without losing…

Few things go better with a sweating glass of lemonade than a hot-weather thriller to wash it down with. Or…

I could open this post with some sort of cheesy rendition of “Summer Lovin’,” but given that I’m about to…

Bestselling YA novelist Sarah Dessen knows a thing or two about sweet and sour summer romance. To celebrate the release…

Maria Semple’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette is newly out in paperback, and the cover is emblazoned with reasons you should…