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Sun-Kissed Stories: The Best Books of Summer 2024
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items Whether you're laying on the beach or in your backyard, soak up the sun with these feel good reads 🏖️
A modern retelling of Persuasion set in the Hamptons. A romantic comedy that's perfect for summer.
Summer After Summer by Lauren Bailey
Best friend's brother trope. Be prepared to cry, swoon, ache and cheer. It's a dreamy and sexy summer novel.
This Summer Will Be Different by Carley Fortune
A shimmery and steamy romance about a buttoned-up heir of a grocery chain and his free-spirited artist ex trying to convince his snobby family their marriage of convenience is real to gain an inheritance.
The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren
This is a hilarious and sweeping love story about a comedian forced to return to her Jersey Shore hometown and confront everything she left behind ten summers before including the man who broke her heart.
Summertime Punchline by Betty Corrello
It's a romantic and funny story of a professional organizer whose life is a mess (ironically) and the summer she gets unstuck with the help of someone unexpected from her past.
Summer Romance by Annabel Monaghan
A juicy, sophisticated and thrillingly plotted story of love, money, murder, sex and the lies we tell about them all.
Lies and Weddings by Kevin Kwan
A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common
Funny Story by Emily Henry
Forced proximity and fake relationship tropes. Funny and sweet, it's the perfect beach read with a unique gamer flair.
In a Not So Perfect World by Neely Alexander
A suspenseful story about a young woman whose plans to spend the summer at the beach are derailed by the scandals of the wealthy family she is marrying into.
Tourist Season by Brenda Novak
A slow burn rom-com about two reluctant dating app stars who are cursed by a terrible track record: everyone who goes out with them rebounds and immediately finds a soul mate. So why not date each other?
Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez
A second chance-romance with a blend of friendships and secrets held within the walls of a hotel that needs rescuing.
Summers at the Saint by Mary Kay Andrews
Two sisters reconnect and pursue their dreams on the beautiful island of Nantucket, overcoming life’s challenges and finding new love.
The Summer We Started Over by Nancy Thayer
A story that follows three very different girls on summer vacation. Equal parts romance and humor this is the perfect beach read for your next getaway.
Beach Cute by Beth Reekles
A fake dating story of a woman on vacation who agrees to pose as the date of her brother’s best friend (who she despises) at the wedding of the century.
Bridesmaid for Hire by Meghan Quinn
A surprise pregnancy up ends a woman's life testing friendships and sparking unexpected romance while she tries to navigate through this unplanned chapter of her life.
Ready or Not by Cara Bastone
Shakespeare's famous comedy, A Midsummer Night's Dream, gets a modern retelling in this novel that proves 'the course of true love' (and the merging of families, for that matter) 'never did run smooth.'
It's All Relative by Rachel Magee
An aspiring screenwriter gets a chance to work on a romantic comedy script with a famous Hollywood hero who turns out to be a jerk who doesn't believe in love.
The Rom-Commers by Katherine Center
A near death experience turns a workaholic junior editor into changing her life as she decides to say Yes to everything she would normally say No to.
The Summer of Yes by Courtney Walsh
A forbidden romance about a woman who is killing it in the world of food science until her start-up is targeted by a distractingly handsome front man for a company planning a takeover.
Not in Love by Ali Hazelwood
A story about heartbreak, friendship and survival with a love story that has two endings.
Good Material by Dolly Alderton