2025 Beach Reads

Beach read, vacation read, or summer read is that perfect kind of book you can sink into effortlessly, whether you’re lounging by the ocean, on a plane, or just hiding in the shade with something cold to drink.

Updated July 1, 2025
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Beach read
Henry, Emily.
Ebook
FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FUNNY STORY! A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters. As...
Great big beautiful life
Henry, Emily.
Ebook
A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK ∙ AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ∙ 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. As...
Just for the summer
Jimenez, Abby.
Ebook
A sharp and scintillating summer novel that will make readers laugh out loud and cry happy tears from the New York Times bestselling author of Yours Truly. Justin has a curse, and thanks to a Reddit thread, it's now all over the internet. Every woman he dates goes on to find...
Malibu rising A novel.
Reid, Taylor Jenkins.
Ebook
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Read with Jenna Book Club Pick as Featured on Today * From the author of Carrie Soto Is Back, Daisy Jones & The Six, and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo . . . "Irresistible . . . High drama at the beach,...
The paper palace A novel.
Cowley Heller, Miranda.
Ebook
REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER OVER 2 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE THE PAPER PALACE IS: "Filled with secrets, love, lies and a summer beach house. What more could you ask?"--Parade "A...
People we meet on vacation
Henry, Emily.
Ebook
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Funny Story comes a sparkling novel that will leave you with the warm, hazy afterglow usually reserved for the best vacations. Two best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall in love.
The summer getaway a novel
Mallery, Susan.
Ebook
*AN INSTANT BESTSELLER!* "The perfect escape for readers wanting to get away."--Booklist One woman takes the vacation of a lifetime in this poignant and heartwarming story about the threads that hold a family together from #1 New York Times...
The unhoneymooners
Lauren, Christina.
Ebook
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Named a "Must-Read" by TODAY, Us Weekly, Bustle, BuzzFeed, Goodreads, Entertainment Weekly, Publishers Weekly, Southern Living, Book Riot, Woman's Day, The Toronto Star,<...
The wedding people A novel
Espach, Alison.
Ebook
The runaway New York Times bestseller A Today Show #ReadwithJenna Book Club Pick, New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, and a #1 Indie Next Pick Named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian, Time, Chicago Tribune Biblioracle,...

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