Summer "beach read" preview

Summer is just about here! Just the other day I was reevaluating some fiction books and one had sand trapped in the book jacket. I thought 'oh, this must have been a good beach read'. I don't know about you, but I am looking forward to sitting by the beach, or even right in my backyard with a cool lemonade and a good read (nothing too heavy of course, after all, it's "relaxing"!).

Here are some "beach reads" you might look out for in the next coming months, make sure to have your name put on the list so you don't miss out!


The Island - Elin Hilderbrand
After her daughter, Chess, breaks off an engagement and her fiance subsequently dies in a rock-climbing accident, divorcee Birdie Cousins encourages her younger daughter, Tate, and her sister, India, to join her and Chess on Tuckernack Island for a month, a time when deep secrets are soon revealed.

Beachcombers - Nancy Thayer
Reuniting on Nantucket to start a business and keep an eye on their father's new romance, three sisters work, gossip and squabble while struggling with respective approaches to their responsibilities and losses

Beach Week - Susan Coll
A planned week at the beach for recent high-school graduate Jordan and her friends proves more precarious than anticipated in the face of her parents' marital tensions, a house that is not selling and a growing stack of bills.

Thin, Rich, Pretty - Beth Harbison
Holly and Nicola became fast friends at summer camp 20 years ago, united in their hatred of rich, spoiled Lexi, who loved making fun of the shy Nicola and the overweight Holly. Now in their late thirties, Holly is an art gallery owner, Nicola is a Hollywood star, and Lexi, well, she's just been tossed out of her home when her father dies and her stepmother seizes everything.

The Icing on the Cupcake - Jennifer Ross
When Ansley Waller's fiance Parish cancels their upcoming wedding, Ansley decides to leave Dallas and make a fresh start. In a surprise move, she heads to New York City to live with her recently widowed grandmother Vivian, who gives Ansley an ultimatum: get a job or go home. Before long, she's opening up her own cupcake shop and even trying her hand at dating.

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake - Aimee Bender
Discovering in childhood a supernatural ability to taste the emotions of others in their cooking, Rose Edelstein grows up to regard food as a curse when it reveals everyone's secret realities.

The Summer We Read Gatsby - Danielle Ganek
Forced to set aside their differences when they jointly inherit a rundown cottage in the Hamptons, practical-minded journalist Cassie and her dreamer half-sister Peck struggle with disparate opinions on what to do with the house, which comes with a resident artist plagued by bad luck.