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Sunlit Pages: Fiction for Long Summer Days ⛱️🍹🌴☀️
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items Welcome, sunshine seeker—your perfect summer read awaits.
Dive into stories as warm as the sun and as easy as a lazy afternoon. Whether you’re by the beach or in your backyard, these books are made for unwinding, escaping, and savoring every page.
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Four famous siblings throw an epic party to celebrate the end of the summer. But over the course of twenty-four hours, their lives will change forever.
Malibu Rising (Read with Jenna Pick) by Taylor Jenkins Reid, Paperback
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Told over the course of six years and one weekend, Every Summer After is a big, sweeping nostalgic look at love and the people and choices that mark us forever.
Six summers to fall in love. One moment to fall apart. A weekend to get it right.
Every Summer After by Carley Fortune, Paperback
Belly measures her life in summers. Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer, a place away from the beach house, away from Susannah, and most...
The Summer I Turned Pretty (Summer I Turned Pretty Series #1)
Belly finds out what comes after falling in love in this follow-up to The Summer I Turned Pretty from the New York Times bestselling author of To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before (soon to be a major motion picture!), Jenny Han.
Can summer be truly sum...
It's Not Summer Without You (Summer I Turned Pretty Series #2) by Jenny Han ...
It's been two years since Conrad told Belly to go with Jeremiah. She and Jeremiah have been inseparable ever since, even attending the same college—only, their relationship hasn't exactly been the happily ever after Belly had hoped it would be. And w...
We'll Always Have Summer (Summer I Turned Pretty Series #3) by Jenny Han ...
Katy is devastated after the death of her mother, Carol, who was also her closest friend, and struggles with going alone on the trip they had planned together to Positano. While there, the beauty of the Amalfi Coast begins to heal her, and she unexpe...
One Italian Summer: A Novel - Rebecca Serle
Justin and Emma both believe they’re cursed in love, so they hatch a wild plan: date each other, break up, and let fate finally lead them to their true soulmates. But what starts as a carefree summer fling quickly turns complicated when real-life cha...
Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez, Paperback
A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters.
Beach Read by Emily Henry, Paperback
Alice returns to the lake where a life-changing summer shaped her, hoping to recapture its magic while caring for her injured grandmother. There, she reconnects with Charlie, the boy from a photograph who is now grown and impossible to ignore. As the...
One Golden Summer by Carley Fortune, Paperback
Meredith's family's annual game of assassin at Martha's Vineyard during a summer wedding is the perfect chance to honor her sister's legacy, and finally join the world again. But when she forms an alliance with a cute groomsman, she's at risk of losi...
The Summer of Broken Rules (Collector's Edition)
Fern never forgot Will, the man she shared a perfect, life-changing day with—only for him to break their promise to meet again a year later. Now struggling to run her family’s failing lakeside resort, she’s shocked when Will reappears nine years too ...
Meet Me at the Lake by Carley Fortune, Paperback
In turns absurdly funny and devastatingly tender, Alison Espach’s The Wedding People is a nuanced and resonant look at the winding paths we can take to places we never imagined—and the chance encounters it sometimes takes to reroute us.
The Wedding People: A Novel by Alison Espach, Hardcover
Six summers to fall in love. One summer to change everything.
Seven Summers by Paige Toon, Paperback
A hitmaking songwriter and a bitter musician share a startling and inexplicable connection that they’ll do anything to shake, in the next sparkling, magical book from Ashley Poston.
Sounds Like Love (B&N Exclusive Edition) by Ashley Poston, Paperback
The story of the heart can never be unwritten.
Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren, Paperback
Olive is always unlucky: in her career, in love, in…well, everything. Her identical twin sister Ami, on the other hand, is probably the luckiest person in the world. Her meet-cute with her fiancé is something out of a romantic comedy (gag) and she’s ...
The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren, Paperback
Benefits of a summer romance: it’s always fun, always brief, and no one gets their heart broken.
There aren’t enough labeled glass containers to contain the mess that is Ali Morris’s life. Her mom died two years ago, then her husband left, and she h...
Summer Romance by Annabel Monaghan, Paperback
An overworked book publicist with a perfectly planned future hits a snag when she falls in love with her temporary roommate…only to discover he lives seven years in the past, in this witty and wise new novel from the New York Times bestselling author...
The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston, Paperback
Catalina Martín desperately needs a date to her sister’s wedding. Especially since her little white lie about her American boyfriend has spiralled out of control. Now everyone she knows—including her ex and his fiancée—will be there and eager to meet...
The Spanish Love Deception by Elena Armas, Paperback
From the author of the Goodreads Choice Award winner The Spanish Love Deception, the eagerly anticipated follow-up featuring Rosie Graham and Lucas Martín, who are forced to share a New York apartment.
The American Roommate Experiment: A Novel by Elena Armas, Paperback
“I made the wrong choice.”
Lina is spending the summer in Tuscany, but she isn’t in the mood for Italy’s famous sunshine and fairy-tale landscape. She’s only there because it was her mother’s dying wish that she get to know her father. But what kind...
Love & Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch, Paperback
Pride and Prejudice has charmed generations of readers for more than two centuries. Jane Austen's much-adapted novel is famed for its witty, spirited heroine, sensational romances, and deft remarks on the triumphs and pitfalls of social convention. A...
Pride and Prejudice (Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions) by Jane Austen ...
Sally Rooney brings her brilliant psychological acuity and perfectly spare prose to a story that explores the subtleties of class, the electricity of first love, and the complex entanglements of family and friendship.
Normal People by Sally Rooney, Paperback
Tessa Bailey is back with a Schitt’s Creek-inspired rom-com about a Hollywood “It Girl” who is cut off from her wealthy family and exiled to a small Pacific Northwest beach town... where she butts heads with a surly, sexy local who thinks she doesn’t...
It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey, Paperback
By the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Summer of '69: Their secret love affair has lasted for decades -- but this could be the summer that changes everything.
28 Summers by Elin Hilderbrand, Paperback
Filled with the emotional tension and multiple points of view that characterize Elin's books (The Blue Bistro, Golden Girl) as well as an added touch of historical reality, Hotel Nantucket offers something for everyone in this summer drama for the ag...
The Hotel Nantucket by Elin Hilderbrand, Paperback
In turns absurdly funny and devastatingly tender, Alison Espach’s The Wedding People is a nuanced and resonant look at the winding paths we can take to places we never imagined—and the chance encounters it sometimes takes to reroute us.
The Wedding People: A Novel by Alison Espach, Hardcover
Two writers compete for the chance to tell the larger-than-life story of a woman with more than a couple of plot twists up her sleeve in this dazzling and sweeping new novel from Emily Henry.
Great Big Beautiful Life (B&N Exclusive Edition) by Emily Henry, Hardcover
A brilliant and touching romantic comedy about two polar opposites, one adorable dog, and living each day to its fullest.
Life's Too Short by Abby Jimenez, Paperback
Sybil Van Antwerp’s life of letters might not be an extraordinary one, but she also might be one of the most memorable characters you will ever read.
The Correspondent: A Novel by Virginia Evans, Hardcover
There was a time when the world was sweeter...when the women in Beaufort, North Carolina, wore dresses, and the men donned hats...when something happened to a seventeen-year-old boy that would change his life forever. Every April, when the wind blows...
A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks, Paperback
Written with the superb wit and emotional sensitivity fans and critics of Lily King have come to adore, Heart the Lover is a deeply moving story that celebrates love, friendship, and the transformative nature of forgiveness. Wise, unforgettable, and ...
Heart the Lover by Lily King, Hardcover
The extraordinary novel that asks: Can a name change the course of a life?
The Names (A Read with Jenna Pick) by Florence Knapp, Hardcover
Remarkably Bright Creatures, an exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope, tracing a widow's unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus.
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt, Paperback
In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself one of America’s finest writers.
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett, Paperback