With longer days and warmer weather, find a light and fun book that matches the mood. Tell your TBR list to make room for these captivating summer beach reads!
Great Big Beautiful Life: Reese’s Book Club by Emily Henry
Two writers compete for the chance to tell the larger-than-life story of a woman with more than a couple of plot twists up her sleeve in this dazzling and sweeping novel from Emily Henry.
Problematic Summer Romance by Ali Hazelwood
Maya Killgore is twenty-three and still in the process of figuring out her life. Conor Harkness is thirty-eight, and Maya cannot stop thinking about him … What is wrong meets what feels right in this romance set in Italy by the New York Timesbestselling author of Deep End.
Wild and Wrangled by by Lyla Sage
She’s the one that got away. He’s the one that never let her go … From the bestselling author of Done and Dusted and Swift and Saddled, the next book in the Rebel Blue Ranch series, a small-town romance in which past lovers get a second chance to rediscover what they lost.
One Golden Summer by Carley Fortune
Alice lives behind a lens. As a photographer, she’s most comfortable on the sidelines, letting other people shine. But she never anticipated Charlie Florek. Charlie makes Alice long to be seventeen again, when life was simpler, when taking pictures was just for fun. Sun-slanted days and warm nights out on the lake with Charlie are a balm for Alice’s soul, but when she looks up and sees his piercing green gaze directly on her, she begins to worry for her heart. Because Alice sees people — that’s why she is so good at what she does — but she’s never met someone who looks and sees her right back … A radiant escape to the lake from #1 New York Timesbestselling author of Every Summer After and This Summer Will Be Different.
A Murder for Miss Hortense by Mel Pennant
Retired nurse, avid gardener, and renowned cake maker Miss Hortense has lived in Bigglesweigh, a quiet suburb of Birmingham, England, since she emigrated from Jamaica in 1960. Her career in nursing has left her as an expert in deciphering other people’s secrets with just a glance. When a man turns up dead, Miss Hortense must solve a mystery that will see her and the community she loves pushed to their limits. The first novel from a bold, brilliant new voice, A Murder for Miss Hortense introduces a fearless sleuth whom readers will never forget.
Colored Television by Danzy Senna
After a long, precarious stretch bouncing among sketchy rentals and sublets, Jane and her family are living in luxury for a year, house-sitting in the hills above Los Angeles. The gig magically coincides with Jane’s sabbatical, giving her the time and space she needs to finish her second novel. Finally, some semblance of stability and success seems to be within her grasp. But things don’t work out quite as hoped. Desperate for a plan B, like countless writers before her, Jane turns her gaze to Hollywood. Things finally seem to be going right for Jane — until they go terribly wrong … A brilliant take on love and ambition, failure and reinvention, and the racial-identity-industrial complex from the bestselling author of Caucasia.
