Beach Reads

A great beach read is light, fun, and uplifting. Celebrate summer with these feel-good books!

Updated May 28, 2024
LINCC (Libraries in Clackamas County)Milwaukie Ledding Library
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Every time I go on vacation, someone dies
Mack, Catherine
Paper Book
Ten days. Eight suspects. Six cities. Five authors. Three bodies. One trip to die for. Eleanor Dash, bestselling author of the Vacation Mysteries series, is on a book tour along the gorgeous Amalfi Coast when life starts imitating art as her ex-boyfriend (and book...
The flatshare
O'Leary, Beth
Paper Book
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP FIVE BESTSELLER | NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES 'Beth O'Leary is that rare, one-in-a-million talent who can make you laugh, swoon, cry and ache all in the same book' Emily Henry 'Beth O'Leary crafts novels with such wit,...
The long weekend : a novel
Macmillan, Gilly
Paper Book
'Fast paced and incredibly compelling' Shari Lapena ___________________________________ By the time you read this, I'll have killed one of your husbands. In an isolated retreat, deep in the Northumbria moors, three women arrive for a weekend...
One summer
Baldacci, David.
Paper Book
People we meet on vacation
Henry, Emily
Paper Book
TWO FRIENDS. TEN SUMMER TRIPS. THEIR LAST CHANCE TO FALL IN LOVE. 12 SUMMERS AGO- Poppy and Alex meet. They hate each other, and are pretty confident they'll never speak again. 11 SUMMERS AGO- They're forced to share a ride home from...
Pineapple Street: A Novel
Jackson, Jenny
Paper Book
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Searing, hilarious and poignant' MIRANDA COWLEY HELLER 'Smart and clever' GUARDIAN 'A killer debut about class, love and money' GRAZIA 'Marvellous - clever, funny and brilliantly well observed' INDIA...
Summer of '69
Hilderbrand, Elin
Paper Book
'I just LOVE [Elin Hilderbrand's] books, they are such compulsive reads' - Marian Keyes 'The beach read of the summer . . . A must buy' - Library Journal Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century ....

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