The time has come and we will have our great time at beach or at pool, now the covid situation is under control and the travel restriction will lift up soon. Reopening means the return of beach-read season, a time for titles that aren’t necessarily pure fun and froth (or necessarily read on a beach) but do have the transportive ability to separate body from mind, wherever your body happens to be. For every summer occasion, there’s a summer read; here are 10 of the best.
THIS ARE THE 10 BEST BOOKS TO READ ON BEACH.
1) Girl One by Sara Flannery Murphy
Josephine Morrow is Girl One, the first of nine “Miracle Babies” conceived without male DNA, raised on an experimental commune known as the Homestead. When a suspicious fire destroys the commune and claims the lives of two of the Homesteaders, the remaining Girls and their Mothers scatter across the United States and lose touch.
2) Seven Days In June by Tia Williams
When Shane and Eva meet unexpectedly at a literary event, sparks fly, raising not only their past buried traumas, but the eyebrows of New York's Black literati. What no one knows is that twenty years earlier, teenage Eva and Shane spent one crazy, torrid week madly in love. They may be pretending that everything is fine now, but they can't deny their chemistry-or the fact that they've been secretly writing to each other in their books ever since. Over the next seven days in the middle of a steamy Brooklyn summer, Eva and Shane reconnect, but Eva's not sure how she can trust the man who broke her heart, and she needs to get him out of New York so that her life can return to normal. But before Shane disappears again, there are a few questions she needs answered
Sestanovich’s clear and singular prose illuminates these 11 stories—each concerned with various aspects of human connection and female identity—in a way that truly makes this debut collection stand out.
4) The Startup Wife by Tahmima Anam
A female coder marries her high school crush and is catapulted into not-entirely-desired fame after writing an algorithm for an all-star tech incubator in this wise and wickedly funny novel about love, creativity, and the limitations of the tech-verse.
Set in a darkly unsettling near-future Hollywood, a novelist trying to fix his troubled marriage reckons with connectedness, ambition, and corruption in the age of ecological collapse in this piercing novel from the prize-winning author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine .
A hopeless, instantly relatable crush gets the time-traveling treatment in this long-awaited follow-up to McQuiston’s Red, White & Royal Blue. Shy loner August falls head over heels for über-cool commuter Jane only to discover that her amour fou is actually trapped in the New York subway system circa 1970.
7) Dream Girl by Laura Lippman
Author Gerry Anderson moves to Baltimore to be near his mother; his mother dies. Gerry attempts a memoir; he falls down the stairs. Confined to bed and high on pain meds, he receives a menacing phone call from someone claiming to be the protagonist of his last hit novel, “Dream Girl.” Is it one of his three ex-wives? An ex-girlfriend? Gerry thinks he’s hallucinating until he wakes up next to a dead woman. Many readers will think of Stephen King’s “Misery,” and although the comparison isn’t fair to either book, both certainly evoke the anxiety of writers forced to submit to the whims of their No. 1 fans.
8) Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Four siblings, each famous in their own right, throw a massive party at their Malibu mansion, ushering in delicious drama, chaos, and maybe arson in this novel from the author of Daisy Jones & The Six.
Jasmine Guillory is the undisputed queen of the modern-day romance, and this novel—in which a budding movie star and the ad guy tasked with making her famous fall hard for one another before encountering life’s many complications is yet another jewel in her crown.
GQ columnist and ultrabright Twitter star Sophia Benoit meditates on everything from feminism to anxiety to the profound joy of reality television in this charming and often laugh-out-loud funny book of essays.
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