Top 50 Best Beach Reads That You Need To Read This Summer

So allow us to do the honors while you worry about the packing! That’s right, we’ve already gone ahead and rounded up the 50 best beach reads to keep you busy this summer.

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50 Best Beach Reads That You Need To Read This Summer

Most of these are pretty new, too, so they’re all the rage right now. You might also be glad to know that we’ve listed our top picks from different genres to help you find exactly what you’re looking for.

Just one quick word of warning: Pack an extra suitcase, because you’re going to want to take an armful of these must-read books to the beach this summer!

Best Fiction Beach Reads

1. Remarkably Bright Creatures

Author: Shelby Van Pelt
Publisher: Ecco
Date published: 2020
Genre: Fiction

2. You Made A Fool Of Death With Your Beauty

Author: Akwaeke Emezi
Publisher: Atria Books
Date published: 2022
Genre: Fiction, Romance

3. The Very Nice Box

Author: Laura Blackett and Eve Gleichmann
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Date published: 2021
Genre: Fiction, Romance

4. How The One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House

Author: Cherie Jones
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Date published: 2021Nothing beats kicking back under the sun and on the beach with a good read, especially when the book’s a red-hot page-turner that’s impossible to put down.

And if you’re on the hunt for the best (and newest!) beach reads to dip into this summer, we’ve got you covered.

Genre: Fiction, Historical Fiction

5. The Patron Saint Of Second Chances

Author: Christine Simon
Publisher: Atria Books
Date published: 2022
Genre: Fiction, Humor

6. Black Cake

Author: Charmaine Wilkerson
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Date published: 2022
Genre: Fiction, Historical Fiction

7. With Love From London

Author: Sarah Jio
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Date published: 2022
Genre: Fiction, Romance,

8. The Secret Life Of Albert Entwistle

Author: Matt Cain
Publisher: Kensington Books
Date published: 2022
Genre: Fiction

9. One Italian Summer

Author: Rebecca Serle
Publisher: Atria Books
Date published: 2022
Genre: Fiction, Romance, Magical Realism

10. Yerba Buena

Author: Nina LaCour
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Date published: 2022
Genre: Fiction, Romance

Best Historical Fiction Beach Reads

11. Hotel Portofino

Author: J.P. O’Connell
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Date published: 2021
Genre: Historical Fiction

12. Bloomsbury Girls

Author: Natalie Jenner
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Date published: 2022
Genre: Historical Fiction

13. Before The Crown

Author: Flora Harding
Publisher: One More Chapter
Date published: 2021
Genre: Historical Fiction, Romance

14. The Magnolia Palace

Author: Fiona Davis
Publisher: Dutton
Date published: 2022
Genre: Historical Fiction, Mystery

15. The Last Grand Duchess

Author: Bryn Turnbull
Publisher: MIRA
Date published: 2022
Genre: Historical Fiction

Best Women’s Fiction Beach Reads

16. The Liz Taylor Ring

Author: Brenda Janowitz
Publisher: Graydon House
Date published: 2022
Genre: Historical Fiction, Fiction

17. An Island Wedding

Author: Jenny Colgan
Publisher: Avon Books
Date published: 2022
Genre: Romance, Fiction

18. The No-Show

Author: Beth O’Leary
Publisher: Berkley
Date published: 2022
Genre: Romance

19. The Love Of My Life

Author: Rosie Walsh
Publisher: Pamela Dorman Books
Date published: 2022
Genre: Fiction, Mystery

20. Lessons In Chemistry

Author: Bonnie Garmus
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Date published: 2022
Genre: Fiction, Historical Fiction

Best Non-Fiction Beach Reads

21. Maiden Voyages: Magnificent Ocean Liners And The Women Who Traveled And Worked Aboard Them

Author: Siân Evans
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Date published: 2021
Genre: History

22. Stay True: A Memoir

Author: Hua Hsu
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Date published: 2022
Genre: Autobiography

23. The Song Of The Cell: An Exploration Of Medicine And The New Human

Author: Siddhartha Mukherjee
Publisher: Scribner
Date published: 2022
Genre: Science

24. By Hands Now Known

Author: Margaret A. Burnham
Publisher: W. W. Norton Company
Date published: 2022
Genre: History

25. Friends, Lovers, And The Big Terrible Thing

Author: Matthew Perry
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Date published: 2022
Genre: Autobiography

Best Romance Beach Reads

26. Nora Goes Off Script

Author: Annabel Monaghan
Publisher: G.P. Putnam’s Sons
Date published: 2022
Genre: Romance

27. The Wedding Season

Author: Katy Birchall
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin
Date published: 2022
Genre: Romance

28. Hook, Line, And Sinker

Author: Tessa Bailey
Publisher: Avon US
Date published: 2022
Genre: Romance

29. How To Love Your Neighbor

Author: Sophie Sullivan
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin
Date published: 2022
Genre: Romance

30. The Arc

Author: Tory Henwood Hoen
Publisher: 2022
Date published: St Martin’s Press
Genre: Romance

Best Thriller Beach Reads

31. We Were Never Here

Author: Andrea Bartz
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Date published: 2021
Genre: Thriller, Fiction, Mystery

32. The Guilt Trip

Author: Sandie Jones
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Date published: 2021
Genre: Thriller, Mystery

33. The Club

Author: Ellery Lloyd
Publisher: Harper
Date published: 2022
Genre: Thriller, Mystery

34. The Change

Author: Kirsten Miller
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Date published: 2022
Genre: Thriller, Fantasy, Mystery

35. The Golden Couple

Author: Greer Hendricks
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Date published: 2022
Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Fiction

Best Mystery Beach Reads

36. Portrait Of A Thief

Author: Grace D. Li
Publisher: Tiny Reparations Books
Date published: 2022
Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Fiction

37. Woman On Fire

Author: Lisa Barr
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Date published: 2022
Genre: Mystery, Historical Fiction

38. Sense & Second-Degree Murder

Author: Tirzah Price
Publisher: HarperCollins
Date published: 2022
Genre: Mystery, Historical Fiction

39. The Last Thing He Told Me

Author: Laura Dave
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date published: 2021
Genre: Mystery, Thriller

40. The Christie Affair

Author: Nina de Gramont
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Date published: 2022
Genre: Mystery, Historical Fiction

Best Fantasy Beach Reads

41. The Cartographers

Author: Peng Shepherd
Publisher: William Morrow
Date published: 2022
Genre: Fantasy, Mystery

42. Under The Whispering Door

Author: T.J. Klune
Publisher: Tor Books
Date published: 2021
Genre: Fantasy, Fiction

43. The Mermaid, The Witch, And The Sea

Author: Maggie Tokuda-Hall
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Date published: 2020
Genre: Fantasy

44. Kaikeyi

Author: Vaishnavi Patel
Publisher: Redhook
Date published: 2022
Genre: Fantasy, Historical Fiction

45. A Touch Of Darkness

Author: Scarlett St. Clair
Publisher: Scarlett St. Clair
Date published: 2020
Genre: Fantasy, Romance, Mythology

Best Young Adult Beach Reads

46. Tokyo Dreaming

Author: Emiko Jean
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Date published: 2022
Genre: Young Adult, Romance

47. The Girl Who Knew Too Much

Author: Amanda Quick and Jayne Ann Krentz
Publisher: Berkley Books
Date published: 2017
Genre: Young Adult, Romance, Mystery, Historical Fiction

48. A Cuban Girl’s Guide To Tea And Tomorrow

Author: Laure Taylor Namey
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Date published: 2020
Genre: Young Adult, Romance

49. Gallant

Author: V.E. Schwab and Victoria Schwab
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
Date published: 2022
Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, Horror

50. The Ballad Of Never After

Author: Stephanie Garber
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Date published: 2022
Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, Romance

Final Word

And that wraps up our list of the top 50 best (and newest) beach reads that you’ll find impossible to put down this summer.

It won’t be easy to take all of these to the beach (unless you have a Kindle, of course, in which case go nuts!), but you’ll definitely want to take a few of them as, in our honest opinion, they’re all certified page-turners from the first page to the last.

Hey, even if you’re not heading to the beach anytime soon, still put these hot picks on your to-read-ASAP list – as these summer reads definitely won’t leave you disappointed!

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