Books to Bring on Your Next Beach Visit

By Grace Haya | August 5 2026 | Adult General

Happy salt air and the rust on your door season to those who celebrate. Here are some books to keep you company on your next visit to the beach (or lake, or river, or any body of water really).

Beach Read

Emily Henry

9780593817414

Now in a stunning new hardcover package: Emily Henry’s adult debut, which launched her onto the world stage as the reigning queen of romance, about a romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engaging in a summerlong challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters

$35.00 US

Oct 01, 2024

Hardcover

400 Pages

Berkley

US, Canada, Open Mkt

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Summer Girls

Jennifer Dugan

9780593696910

From the author of Some Girls Do comes a summery sapphic romance about two girls from the same vacation town, whose worlds couldn’t be farther apart. Now in paperback!

$12.99 US

Mar 31, 2026

Paperback

336 Pages

G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers

World

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Same Time Next Summer

Annabel Monaghan

9780593544969

“Bursting with the magic of first love, it’s everything I want in a summer romance.” —Carley Fortune, #1 New York Times bestselling author of EVERY SUMMER AFTER

$17.00 US

Jun 06, 2023

Paperback

336 Pages

G.P. Putnam's Sons

US, Canada, Open Mkt