Beach Reads To Immerse Yourself In Someone Else's Story

by Georgia Clark

A messy, loud Australian family and an aloof, snobby American family who have nothing in common except the marriage of their daughters are stuck for 6 weeks on a tropical island off Queensland when a nearby volcano erupts.

by Cherie Jones

Lala must deal with a chain of events that have terrible consequences when her petty criminal husband is interrupted in his attempt to rob one of the mansions in their "paradise" home of Baxter Beach, Barbados.

by Emma Straub

Celebrating their 35th anniversary and their daughter's high-school graduation during a two-week vacation in Mallorca, Franny and Jim Post confront old secrets, hurts and rivalries that reveal sides of themselves they would conceal.

by J. Courtney Sullivan

Descending on a family beach house won in a bet years earlier, three generations of women gradually impart difficult respective secrets including a pregnancy, a terrible crush and a deeply held resentment for past misdeeds.

by Sunny Hostin

In the exclusive black beach community of Oak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard, the three unofficial "goddaughters" of Amelia Vaux Tanner, successful women from different backgrounds, gather for one last summer together before Amelia moves to the south of France and gives her home to one of them.

by Kevin Kwan

When George, the man with whom she had a brief fling several years earlier, unexpectedly appears in East Hampton, newly engaged Lucie Churchill is drawn to him again and spins a web of deceit in an attempt to block him from her life—and her heart.

by Priscilla Oliveras

A social-media influencer in recovery from an eating disorder enlists the aid of a firefighter and dive captain to play the part of her boyfriend after her actual one is a no-show for a family vacation in Key West.

by Nicola Harrison

Distancing herself from her unfaithful spouse and her fellow society wives at seaside Montauk Manor, Bea Bordeaux is drawn by the village's natural beauty and community spirit before falling for a man who is nothing like her husband.

by Jennifer Weiner

At her stepdaughter's wedding day to her pandemic boyfriend—the last gathering at the family's beach house in Cape Cod—Sarah is faced with lovers being revealed as their true selves, misunderstandings, and secrets, ensuring that nothing will ever be the same.

by Emily Henry

An acclaimed but blocked literary master and a best-selling novelist who has stopped believing in true love agree to a summer-long writing project that challenges them write well in each others’ styles.

by Miranda Cowley Heller

While staying at “The Paper Palace”—the family summer place she has visited every summer of her life, 50-year-old Elle must decide between the life she has built with her husband and the life she always imagined she would have had with her childhood love.

by Robby Weber

Aspiring screenwriter Harry is determined to finish his script for an upcoming competition, but finds himself distracted by the return of his first love, Grant, who reveals a secret that could change everything.

by Alicia Bessette

Callie Padget, a former reporter-turned-bookshop clerk in the Outer Banks, is drawn into a mystery involving a deadly fall at a lighthouse that could be linked to her past.

by Ali Brady

Left a joint inheritance—the family beach house in Destine, Florida, two estranged half-sisters, immediately at odds, reluctantly join forces to renovate the dilapidated house—an endeavor that brings about new romance for each of them and teaches them how to be sisters.

by Shelley Noble

Retreating to Summer Island after heartbreak, Phoebe and her mother Ruth find themselves embraced by family and friends, new and old, until an accident threatens to destroy the tenuous tie between them, forcing Phoebe to make some serious choices

by Eva Gates

Librarian Lucy’s new historic house comes with a lot of baggage and family secrets. Can she put them to rest or will a killer bring Lucy’s family to their downfall, in the 9th Lighthouse Library mystery.