A book with an item you'd find at the beach in the title

[poshpenny]

This one's pretty open. What items have you found on a beach?

Palm Trees in the Snow
House of Sand and Fog

[poshpenny]

Let's see what I can think of


To the Lighthouse
Wish Upon a Shell
The Lighthouse at the End of the World
The Pearl That Broke Its Shell
The Shell Collector
Under the Boardwalk
Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City
The Thing About Jellyfish
The Prince of Tides
The Black Tides of Heaven
Message In A Bottle
New England Clam Murder
Driftwood
Riptide
No Sunscreen for the Dead


Ocean Soup: Tide-Pool Poems
Surf's Up
Hello Lighthouse
Song for a Whale

[Novels and Neckties -]

The deeper the water, the uglier the fish
(not quite the relaxing summer read, but fits the prompt)

The shape of water

[poshpenny]

What's that over there?


The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World
Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells
The Cafe at Seashell Cove
Starfish
The Cove
National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Seashells
Seaweed Chronicles: A World at the Water’s Edge
The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor
Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
Kraken: The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid
Flotsam & Jetsam


Flotsam
Turtles All the Way Down
Turtle in Paradise

[Johanne]

Lots of titles with amber or stone. My family likes to go to the beach to hunt for amber and throw stones in the water.

[Ali]

I'm going to read The Umbrella Mouse by Anna Fargher with my niece. It's a story about a brave young mouse who's home is destroyed during the Blitz. She wants to travel to Italy to find her family and, on the way comes across Churchill's Secret Animal Army. A nice introduction for children to WW2.

[Johanna]

The Sandcastle Girls
The Lighthouse at the End of the World

[Nanci]

The Sandcastle Girls

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

[Karol]

Sea Glass

[Carly]

I am going with Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance. You can find sticks on a beach, right? :)

[Gina]

The Last Bathing Beauty

[Brittany]

Think I could get away with using smoke here? We always had beach fires when I was growing up so smoke was there.

[Erica]

I used The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo.

[Erin]

It's slightly morbid with this, but I really want to continue this series... One Corpse Too Many

[Raquel]

I just finish reading when we left Cuba

[Alison]

For this prompt, I am going to read Dark Shores which I have had on my TBR forever!

[Alicia]

Umbrella Summer
The Sunshine Sisters
Hello, Sunshine
The Summer of Sunshine and Margot
You, Me and a Palm Tree
Saving Fish from Drowning
Tan Lines: Sand, Surf, and Secrets / Rays, Romance, and Rivalry / Beaches, Boys, and Betrayal

[Katy]

Alicia wrote: "Umbrella Summer
The Sunshine Sisters
Hello, Sunshine
The Summer of Sunshine and Margot
You, Me and a Palm Tree
[book:S..."

At first I thought Betrayal was a full title and I was wondering what beaches you were hanging out at.

[Laura]

Erica wrote: "I used The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo."

This is incredible.

[Alicia]

Pre covid, when beaches were full of people:

The Stranger
Nine Perfect Strangers
The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story
A Stranger in the House
Beautiful Stranger
The Stranger

[Lilith]

Jonathan Livingston Seagull. I'd never read the old classic, but if you are looking for a quick uplift, this could be for you.

A palate cleanser for me in between some heavy reads.

[L Y N N]

Lilith wrote: "Jonathan Livingston Seagull. I'd never read the old classic, but if you are looking for a quick uplift, this could be for you.

A palate cleanser for me in between some heavy reads."

I read this book a couple of times as a teenager and haven't thought of it in years, but I plan to dig out my copy and reread it again just to see what I think of it now...

[Kathleen]

I read the Glass Ocean. I know it's a bit of a stretch for this one but I always grew up with the beach next to an ocean.

[Nancy]

Kathleen wrote: "I read the Glass Ocean. I know it's a bit of a stretch for this one but I always grew up with the beach next to an ocean."

This isn't a stretch at all, there's often glass on beaches.

[Erica]

Kathleen wrote: "I read the Glass Ocean. I know it's a bit of a stretch for this one but I always grew up with the beach next to an ocean."

Also in high tide the ocean is on the beach.

[Nancy]

I would consider the ocean an item at the beach, no matter the tide.

[Lilith]

Lynn wrote: "Lilith wrote: "Jonathan Livingston Seagull. I'd never read the old classic, but if you are looking for a quick uplift, this could be for you.

A palate cleanser for me in between some ..."

Lynn, I really enjoyed it! It probably seems like most of the ideas are a little trite now, but then, so many later books followed in the steps of Jonathan Livingston Seagull. This seems like the godmother of so many other writings, and it works for me spiritually :)

[Jeanne]

I just started Wally Lamb's We Are Water for this prompt.

[Kristin]

What about something with a dog? Like A Dog Year by Jon Katz. Or is it really an inanimate object??

[Megan]

Using With the Fire on High because some people make camp fires at the beach.

[Lilith]

Kristin wrote: "What about something with a dog? Like A Dog Year by Jon Katz. Or is it really an inanimate object??"

Personally, I think it would work. I used seagulls, and they are definitely animate.

I remember a conversation, either here or on Facebook, about the spirit of the prompt being basically "an entity or object you find on a beach" occurring in the title. The conversation didn't use the exact words "entity or object", but that was the jist.

ETA: correcting spelling due to a dying keyboard

[Audrey]

I used The Kite Runner for this one! Definitely a great book.

[Jenna]

Post Covid... Anxious People by Fredrik Backman :)

[Yoo]

I read The Driftwood Girls which was great. A different take on the usual detective/thriller by using an oceanographer as part of the investigation - really interesting!

[Heather L]

Jenna— ROFLMBO! 🤣