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Best Beach & Pool Books for Summer Reading
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items The best summer beach reads — romance novels, page-turners, and absorbing fiction that are perfect for lazy poolside days and long afternoons in the sun. These are the books I'd pack in my beach bag right now.
If Emily Henry liked it, I'm going to try it.
Every Summer After
USA Today said this was a laugh-out-loud summer rom-com. I'm game!
Till Summer Do Us Part: Fake Marriage Rom-Com
Emily Henry did it again.
Beach Read
Hint of teen romance type book
The Summer of Skinny Dipping
Memorial Day Weekend Romance
The Summer After You and Me
A big, absorbing novel about modern health obsessions, relationships, and what we think it means to live well — perfect for the beach because once you start you won't want to put it down.
Wellness: A novel
Picture this: a sun-soaked lake town, a slow-burn opposites-attract romance, and just enough banter to make you forget your phone is even in your bag. Emily Henry does it again with this one — Daphne and Miles are messy and real in the best way, and ...
Funny Story
This is fake-dating-turned-real-feelings done so well — a broke artist and her practically-a-stranger husband pretending to be in love for a massive inheritance, set against gorgeous backdrops that'll make you want to book a trip.
The Paradise Problem
I went in expecting a space drama and came out an emotional wreck in the best way — this love story between two astronauts in 1980s NASA training is the kind of slow, aching romance that sneaks up on you.
Atmosphere: A Love Story
If you love a juicy, witty look inside a wealthy, slightly dysfunctional family, this is your book — it's basically Succession but funnier and easier to read in a beach chair.
Pineapple Street: A GMA Book Club Pick: A Novel
This is hands-down the book everyone's going to be talking about this summer — Elin Hilderbrand herself called it the book of the summer, and I get why. It's set on Block Island and has that warm, bittersweet, coming-of-age feeling that makes you wan...
June Baby: A Novel (Thousand Voices)
This is the fake-dating, grumpy-meets-sunshine romance everyone's been buzzing about for a reason — it's swoony, a little chaotic, and exactly the kind of book that makes a flight or a beach day fly by.
The Spanish Love Deception: A Novel
There's something so comforting about this one — part love story, part grief story, with just a touch of magic that makes it feel like nothing else on your shelf. It's the kind of book that makes you cry and then immediately want to hand it to a frie...
The Seven Year Slip
doubles as a picnic blanket or beach blanket.
MSGKV Boho 60x80 Cotton Throw Blanket
Best friends, one impossible week, and a beach in Tofino
Our Perfect Storm
It follows two people finding, losing, and finding each other again over decades, with that swoony, cinematic feel that got it picked for Reese's Book Club. Perfect for the reader who wants her beach read to actually make her feel something.
Into the Blue: Reese's Book Club Love Story
https://amzn.to/4pDlp2D
Summer State of Mind
It's the kind of romance that makes you laugh out loud on a lounge chair and then get a little emotional two chapters later. Funny and heartfelt in one book, exactly what I want on vacation.
The Shippers: A Novel
It's smart, funny, and just spicy enough to make the afternoon fly by. This is the one for when you want your beach read to have a little bite to it.
Two Can Play
It's a friends-to-lovers story about how one small decision can ripple through an entire life, and it stays with you well after you close it. If you want your beach read to have real heart, this is it.
The Night We Met (Deluxe Edition)