Beach Reads To Get Lost In

Maya Killgore is 23 and still in the process of figuring out her life. Conor Harkness is thirty-eight, and Maya cannot stop thinking about him … What is wrong meets what feels right in this romance set in Italy by the New York Times bestselling author of Deep End.

She’s the one that got away. He’s the one that never let her go … From the bestselling author of Done and Dusted and Swift and Saddled, the next book in the Rebel Blue Ranch series, a small-town romance in which past lovers get a second chance to rediscover what they lost.

Alice lives behind a lens. As a photographer, she’s most comfortable on the sidelines, letting other people shine. But she never anticipated Charlie Florek. Charlie makes Alice long to be seventeen again, when life was simpler, when taking pictures was just for fun. Sun-slanted days and warm nights out on the lake with Charlie are a balm for Alice’s soul, but when she looks up and sees his piercing green gaze directly on her, she begins to worry for her heart. Because Alice sees people — that’s why she is so good at what she does — but she’s never met someone who looks and sees her right back … A radiant escape to the lake from #1 New York Times bestselling author of Every Summer After and This Summer Will Be Different.

Avery Jensen is almost 30, fresh off a breakup, and she’s tired of always being so uptight and well-behaved. One problem: Avery doesn’t know where to start. Enter Taylor Cameron, Napa Valley’s biggest flirt and champion heartbreaker who offers to give Avery flirting lessons. At first, Avery is stiff and nervous, but Taylor is patient and encouraging, and soon, Avery looks forward to their weekly lessons. With Taylor’s help, Avery finally has the life she always wanted. The only issue is: Now she wants Taylor …

From the acclaimed author of Chef’s Kiss, a groundbreaking trans Regency romance that’s both delightfully witty and refreshingly iconoclastic. With its heady combination of dry wit, slow-burn romance, and a nuanced portrait of trans identity, A Gentleman’s Gentleman stands to transform the historical romance genre as we know it.

A young woman wins the role of a lifetime in a film about a legendary heroine — but the real drama is behind the scenes in this sumptuous historical epic from the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic.

Retired nurse, avid gardener, and renowned cake maker Miss Hortense has lived in Bigglesweigh, a quiet suburb of Birmingham, England, since she emigrated from Jamaica in 1960. Her career in nursing has left her as an expert in deciphering other people’s secrets with just a glance. When a man turns up dead, Miss Hortense must solve a mystery that will see her and the community she loves pushed to their limits. The first novel from a bold, brilliant new voice, A Murder for Miss Hortense introduces a fearless sleuth whom readers will never forget.

After a long, precarious stretch bouncing among sketchy rentals and sublets, Jane and her family are living in luxury for a year, house-sitting in the hills above Los Angeles. The gig magically coincides with Jane’s sabbatical, giving her the time and space she needs to finish her second novel. Finally, some semblance of stability and success seems to be within her grasp. But things don’t work out quite as hoped. Desperate for a plan B, like countless writers before her, Jane turns her gaze to Hollywood. Things finally seem to be going right for Jane — until they go terribly wrong … A brilliant take on love and ambition, failure and reinvention, and the racial-identity-industrial complex from the bestselling author of Caucasia.

A society matchmaker realizes she’s in danger when her clients’ weddings are sabotaged in increasingly disturbed ways — an utterly original mystery from New York Times bestselling author Aisha Saeed.

Vera Wong is back and as meddling as ever in this follow-up to the hit Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers. This time an enigmatic social media influencer is murdered. The only problem is, after his body is fished out of Mission Bay, the police can’t seem to actually identify him. Who is he? Nobody knows. Every contact is a dead end. Everybody claims not to know him, not even his parents. Now Vera is determined to solve this case.

From the author of Gold Diggers, a darkly funny, vertiginous novel about the dilemmas of procreation, pregnancy, and parenting. Goddess Complex is a twist-filled psychological thriller and a feminist satire of our age of GirlBosses turned self-care influencers, optimization cults, internet mommy gurus, egg freezing, and so much more.

A romantic coming-of-age story about one woman’s inspiring journey to find self-love, reconnect with family, and forge a new path for her future, from the author of the Good Morning America Book Club pick Dirty Laundry.

When she learns she has a big Italian family she never knew about, a lonely woman travels to Sicily for a life-changing summer in the new romance from New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Probst.

A young woman with Bollywood roots hires a barista to act as her boyfriend for her cousin’s wedding — only to learn you can’t fake chemistry like theirs — in this desi romance from the author of Match Me If You Can.

In this twisted psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling co-author of the Reese’s Book Club pick The Last Mrs. Parrish, a woman is tormented by nightmarish visions of her future — and then they start to come true …

“A bottomless champagne flute of a novel,” (The Washington Post) The Husbands delights in asking: How do we navigate life, love, and choice in a world of never-ending options?

Meet Elizabeth Zott: “A gifted research chemist, absurdly self-assured and immune to social convention” (The Washington Post) in 1960s California whose career takes a detour when she becomes the unlikely star of a beloved TV cooking show.

Rife with the indulgent pleasures of life among New York’s one-percenters, Pineapple Street is a smart, escapist novel that sparkles with wit, is deliciously funny, and a sharply observed debut of family, love, and class, that follows three women in one wealthy Brooklyn clan.

As death stalks a gothic mansion in Miami, the lives of two women intertwine as the past and present collide in New York Times bestselling author Chanel Cleeton’s atmospheric new novel.

The riveting new novel — “part true-crime page-turner, part campus coming-of-age” (San Francisco Chronicle) — from the author of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist The Great Believers. 

With her celebrated humor, insight, and heart, beloved New York Times bestseller Emma Straub offers her own twist on traditional time travel tropes and a different kind of love story. What if you could take a vacation to your past?

Two women — separated by decades and continents, and united by an exotic family heirloom — reclaim secrets and lost loves in this sweeping novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Wives.

A story of summer, secrets, love, and lies: In the course of a singular day on Cape Cod, one woman must make a life-changing decision that has been brewing for decades. Tender yet devastating, The Paper Palace considers the tensions between desire and dignity, the legacies of abuse, and the crimes and misdemeanors of families.

The author of the cherished bestseller The Nightingale returns with a poignant, funny, luminous novel about a mother and daughter — the complex ties that bind them, the past that separates them, and the healing that comes with forgiveness.

When a woman who’d rather do anything than read meets a swoon-worthy bookworm, sparks fly, making for one hot summer fling in New York Times bestselling author Jenn McKinlay’s new rom-com.

A “mouthwatering” (The New York Times) adventure through the food, art, and fashion scenes of 1980s Paris — from the bestselling author of Delicious! and Save Me the Plums. A feast for the senses, this novel is a testament to living deliciously, taking chances, and finding your true home.

From the iconic internationally bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians: A forbidden affair erupts volcanically amid a decadent tropical wedding in this outrageous comedy of manners.