NPR's finalists for "best beach books ever"

[Jonathan, the skipper]

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I was expecting the list to be evenly divided between Stephen King and chick-lit writers.

Golly. The Alexandria Quartet? Really? The whole damned thing??? (Not currently a Durrell fan ... probably never.)

I liked seeing Triple Zeck: A Nero Wolfe Omnibus on the list. Something I'd take.

[Brian, just a child's imagination]

pretty good list though the ones i've read i didn't read at the beach... damn. war and peace? beach book? just how long are we staying at the beach?

[Jonathan, the skipper]

. . . yeah, no doubt . . . surprised finnegans wake wasn't on the list!

[Jennifer, hot tamale]

i actually did read part of cold sassy tree on the beach earlier this summer. it got prety soaked and was a pitiful falling apart book there at the end. i can't imagine reading these longer russian books on the beach. they would be for me the anti beach read.