Beach Reads


The Shampoo Effect
The Someday Garden
Girl's Girl
The Missed Connection
Villa Coco
Road Trip
When You Loved Me
Someone Else's Husband
Abby Offsides
Good at Being Alive
Main Characters
Lost in the Summer of '69
Valley of the Moms
Scandal of the Summer
The Summer Girlfriend (Heart Beach, #1)
Our Perfect Storm
The Five-Star Weekend (Sommer in Nantucket, #1)
Every Summer After
Dolly All the Time
People We Meet on Vacation
One Golden Summer (Barry's Bay, #2)
The Shampoo Effect
Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)
Happy Place
Love You More
The Romance Revival
Rules for the Summer
The Summer of Broken Rules
This Summer Will Be Different
Malibu Rising
Rubi Ramos's Recipe for Success by Jessica ParraThe Wrong Mr. Right by Stephanie  ArcherKiss of Life by Cassie MintThe Summer Girl by Elle KennedyWaxing His Board by Fiona Davenport
Covers with Surfboards
74 books — 17 voters
The Ornithologist's Field Guide to Love by India HoltonThe Spellshop by Sarah Beth DurstGreat Big Beautiful Life by Emily HenryThe Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon ChakrabortyMy Salty Mary by Cynthia Hand
Summer reading list for 2025
19 books — 2 voters

Complicated Moonlight by Lynessa LayneDon't Close Your Eyes by Lynessa JamesShit my History Teacher DID NOT tell me! by Karl WigginsYou Really Are Full of Shit, Aren't You? by Karl WigginsBournemouth Boys and Boscombe Girls by Danny Winter
My favorite beach reads
69 books — 25 voters
Nightshade by Lynessa LayneGuidance to Death by Daniel V. Meier Jr.Shadow & Sin by Lynessa LayneThe Write Before Christmas by Lynessa LayneThe Getaway by Lynessa Layne
Lynessa Layne books
20 books — 2 voters

Beach Read by Emily HenryPeople We Meet on Vacation by Emily HenryBook Lovers by Emily HenryIt Happened One Summer by Tessa BaileyHook, Line, and Sinker by Tessa Bailey
Contemporary Summer Romances (2022)
35 books — 11 voters
Ocean Beach by Wendy  WaxThe Best Medicine by Tracy BroganBarefoot in the Sand by Roxanne St. ClaireHoneymoon for One by Beth OrsoffSummer House by Nancy Thayer
Hammock Covers
17 books — 8 voters

Beach Read
People We Meet on Vacation
Happy Place
Every Summer After
Malibu Rising
Book Lovers
The Unhoneymooners (Unhoneymooners, #1)
The Hotel Nantucket
Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)
28 Summers
The Five-Star Weekend (Sommer in Nantucket, #1)
Funny Story
The Perfect Couple (Nantucket, #3)
The Summer I Turned Pretty (Summer, #1)
The Paradise Problem
Sarah A. Bailey
If I allowed so much as one smile, it may be enough to demolish the wall I’d so carefully built around my heart. The wall I built to keep him out.
Sarah A. Bailey, The Soulmate Theory

Caleb Wygal
He had conquered the most difficult and dangerous part of his plan, but there was something he couldn’t have planned for. Me.
Caleb Wygal, Death on the Causeway

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