Are you looking for a hot novel to read while you chill at the beach? Maybe something like Lessons in Chemistry or Happy Place? Well, get in line--you'll have a bit of a wait for those titles, unfortunately. But hey, there were plenty of great books that came out last year, and I bet you haven't read all of them yet! Here are some great beach reads that should be a little easier to get your hands on this summer. (And if you want to go back further in time, here's our 2022 list of Beach Reads Without a Wait.)
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All this could be different
by Sarah Thankam Mathews Follows a young Indian American woman who is grappling with graduating into a recession, working a grueling entry-level corporate job and trying to date Marina, a beautiful dancer who always seems just beyond her grasp. |
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Black cake
by Charmaine Wilkerson Two estranged siblings try to reclaim the closeness they once shared while trying to piece together their late mother's life story and fulfill her last request of sharing a traditional Caribbean black cake--when the time is right. |
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A Caribbean heiress in Paris
by Adriana Herrera Three best friends at the 1889 Worlds Fair have goals: going to the most scandalous places in Paris, kissing disreputable men and absolutely not falling in love in the first novel of a new series. |
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Carrie Soto is back : a novel
by Taylor Jenkins Reid A retired tennis champion comes out of retirement at age 37 after watching a young phenom beat her long-standing record at the 1994 US Open in the new novel from the New York Time best-selling author of Malibu Rising. |
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Counterfeit : a novel
by Kirstin Chen Ava Wong, a strait-laced Chinese American lawyer and her former college roommate from Mainland China, who dropped out under mysterious circumstances, join forces in an ingenious counterfeit operation selling replica luxury handbags. |
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Every summer after
by Carley Fortune Persephone, a magazine writer, returns to her lake hometown for a funeral and lands straight in to the orbit of her ex- best friend and lover, Sam, and must reconcile the choices she made since their breakup. |
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The force of such beauty : a novel
by Barbara Bourland The princess of a tiny European kingdom, Caroline uses her once-powerful body to smile, wave and produce children with perfect grace until she begins to open her eyes to the world around her and becomes desperate to escape this gilded prison. |
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Honey and spice
by Bolu Babalola A young black British woman with a popular student radio show that dishes out relationship advice finds her show and her reputation on the line after she publicly makes out with a man she publicly denounced. |
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Kamila knows best
by Farah Heron Too busy with her friends' love lives, hardly giving thought to her own, Kamila Hussain refuses to let herself get distracted by her growing feelings for a longtime friend of the family until her secret nemesis sets her sights on him. |
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A lady for a duke
by Alexis J. Hall Presumed dead, Viola Carroll takes the opportunity to live freely despite losing her wealth, title and closest companion, unaware of the shattering impact she had on her closest companion, in the new novel from the author of Boyfriend Material. |
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Mademoiselle revolution
by Zoe Sivak Fleeing from Haiti to Paris in 1791, Sylvie de Rosiers quickly becomes enamored with the aims of the Revolution, as well as with revolutionaries Robespierre and his mistress, Cornélie Duplay, and must decide whether to be an accomplice or risking losing her head as the Reign of Terror descends. |
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Mika in real life : a novel
by Emiko Jean Getting to know Penny, the daughter she placed for adoption 16 years ago, 35-year-old Mika Suzuki finds unexpected love with Penny's widowed father and finally has a chance to have the life and family she's always wanted until her deceptions catch up with her. |
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More than you'll ever know : a novel
by Katie Gutierrez Told through alternating timelines, this gripping mystery and wrenching family drama follows struggling crime writer Cassie Brown as she becomes obsessed with a 1985 murder case involving a woman whose double life led to murder and vows to tell the real story. |
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Neruda on the park : a novel
by Cleyvis Natera While her mother, an elder in a predominantly Dominican part of NYC, devises increasingly dangerous schemes to stop construction of luxury condos, her daughter, an associate at a top Manhattan law firm, becomes distracted by a romance with the white developer of the company her mother so vehemently opposes. |
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The old place : a novel
by Bobby Finger Retired teacher Mary Alice Roth, while working her way back to a comfortable friendship with her neighbor, finds the careful shell she's built around her life threatened by her sister who delivers a staggering piece of news that could send shockwaves through her small Texas town. |
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The paper palace
by Miranda Cowley Heller While staying at“The Paper Palace”— the family summer place she has visited every summer of her life, 50-year-old Elle must decide between the life she has built with her husband and the life she always imagined she would have had with her childhood love. |
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The Paris apartment
by Lucy Foley Arriving in Paris to stay with her brother Ben, Jess learns that he has gone missing, and to find him, starts digging into his life, realizing even though she has come to the City of Lights to escape her past, it’s his future hanging in the balance. |
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The patron saint of second chances : a novel
by Christine Simon In a tiny village in Italy, the self-appointed mayor (and vacuum cleaner repairman) Signor Speranza will do anything he can to save his beloved town. When he learns that the water is going to be cut off in sixty days unless he can come up with some quick cash, he tries to boost tourism by spreading a harmless rumor that major movie star Dante Rinaldi is planning to film a movie in the village. The plan works a little too well...As the entire town becomes involved in the movie...Signor Speranza starts to think he might be able to pull this off...until word reaches Dante Rinaldi's ears. |
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People we meet on vacation
by Emily Henry Best friends Alex and Poppy try to repair their relationship two years after a disastrous vacation together by planning another vacation together in the new novel from the New York Times best-selling author of Beach Read. |
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These impossible things
by Salma El-Wardany Each navigating love, sex and the one night that changes it all, three Muslim best friends, Malak, Kees and Jenna, as their lives begin to take different paths, must find a way back to each other as they reconcile faith, family and tradition. |