Beach Reads To Get Lost In

A comedy writer thinks she’s sworn off love until a dreamy pop star flips the script on all her assumptions — a “smart, sophisticated, and fun” (Oprah Daily) novel from the author of Eligible, Rodham, and Prep.

This summer they’ll keep their promise. This summer they won’t give into temptation. This summer will be different … A glorious and tantalizing new escape from #1 New York Times bestselling author Carley Fortune.

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.

Long-standing tensions between a husband, his wife, and her best friend finally come to a breaking point in this sharp domestic comedy of manners. Told in three taut, mesmerizing parts — the wife, the husband, and the best friend — over the course of one day.

From the celebrated New York Times bestselling author of Such a Fun Age comes a fresh and provocative story about a residential assistant and her messy entanglement with a professor and three unruly students.

A D.C. philanthropist suspects that her seemingly perfect employee is secretly plotting to steal her husband, her reputation — even her life — in this seductive novel of psychological suspense from the internationally bestselling author of The Last Mrs. Parrish.

From the bestselling author of Mexican Gothic and Velvet Was the Night comes a lavish historical drama reimagining of The Island of Doctor Moreau set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Mexico.

Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life, but everything changes when she has a chance encounter with a stranger. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is the smart, warm, and uplifting story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit make for an irresistible journey as she realizes … the only way to survive is to open your heart.

New York Times bestselling author Caroline Kepnes, whose acclaimed YOU series inspired the hit show on Netflix, follows “addictively charming antihero” (The Washington Post) Joe Goldberg to the hallowed halls of Harvard, where he leaves crimson in his wake.

From the bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You and Our Missing Hearts comes a riveting novel that traces the intertwined fates of the picture-perfect Richardson family and the enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives. Little Fires Everywhere explores the weight of secrets, the nature of art and identity, and the ferocious pull of motherhood — and the danger of believing that following the rules can avert disaster.

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.

Twenty-seven years before the events of We Were Liars comes another summer, another generation, and the secrets that will haunt them for decades — a story that is scandalous, tragic, and layered with mystery.

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.

From the author of Dear Edward comes a “powerfully affecting” (People) family story that asks: Can love make a broken person whole? An exquisite homage to Louisa May Alcott’s timeless classic, Little Women, Hello Beautiful is a profoundly moving portrait of what is possible when we choose to love someone not in spite of who they are, but because of it.

Introducing Claudia Lin: A sharp-witted amateur sleuth for the 21st century. This debut novel follows Claudia as she verifies people’s online lives, and lies, for a dating detective agency in New York City. Until a client with an unusual request goes missing …

Three generations of women in the Ferrari family must heal the broken pieces of their lives on a trip of a lifetime through picturesque Italy from New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Probst.

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.

From Samantha Irby, beloved author of We Are Never Meeting in Real Life, a rip-roaring, edgy, and unabashedly raunchy new collection of hilarious essays. Wow, No Thank You. is “stay-up-all-night, miss-your-subway-stop, spit-out-your-beverage funny … irresistible as a snack tray, as intimately pleasurable as an Irish goodbye” (Jia Tolentino).

Joy is secretly in love with her best friend Malcolm, but she’s never been brave enough to say so. When he unexpectedly announces that he’s met the love of his life — and no, it’s not Joy — she’s heartbroken. Malcolm invites her on a weekend getaway, and Joy decides it’s her last chance to show him exactly what he’s overlooking. But maybe Joy is the one missing something … or someone … and his name is Fox.

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.

Emma loves her husband Leo and their young daughter Ruby: She’d do anything for them. But almost everything she’s told them about herself is a lie. Even her name isn’t real. When the very darkest moments of Emma’s past finally emerge, she must somehow prove to Leo that she really is the woman he always thought she was … But first, she must tell him about the other love of her life. From the New York Times bestselling author of Ghosted comes an up-all-night page-turner that has “cleverly integrated twists that not even jaded readers will be able to predict …” (Publishers Weekly).

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.

In this exhilarating novel by the bestselling author of The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry two friends — often in love, but never lovers — come together as creative partners in the world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and ultimately, a kind of immortality.

Eve has an adoring girlfriend, an impulsive streak, and a secret fear that she’s wasting her brief youth with just one person. So one evening she posts some nudes online. This is how Eve meets Olivia, and through Olivia the charismatic Nathan. Despite her better instincts, the three soon begin a relationship — one that disturbs Eve as much as it enthralls her. In the way only great fiction can, Acts of Service takes between its teeth the contradictions written all over our ideas of sex and sexuality. At once juicy and intellectually challenging, Lillian Fishman’s riveting debut is bold, unabashed, and required reading of the most pleasurable sort.

Kathleen Cheng has blown up her life. She’s gone through a humiliating breakup, dropped out of her graduate program, and left everything behind. Now she’s back in her childhood home in Oakland, wondering what’s next. Grasping for direction, Kathleen takes a job at a start-up that specializes in an unconventional form of therapy based on touch, which pushes her to rethink her relationships — especially the one with her mother. Brilliantly observed, tender, and warm, Holding Pattern is a hopeful novel about immigration and belonging, mother-daughter relationships, and the many ways we learn to hold each other.