19 Best Beach Reads, According to Our Editors 2019

by Marie Claire

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19 books

Even though it's been touch and go, it seems that summer will officially arrive any minute now. Time to prepare by putting away your peacoat, stocking up on delicious popsicles, tons of SPF, and planning all the page-turners you'll be reading by a body of water for the next three months.

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Daisy Jones and the Six

Taylor Jenkins Reid, 2020

Pieces of Her

Karin Slaughter, 2018

City of Girls

Elizabeth Gilbert, 2019

The Incendiaries

R. O. Kwon, 2018

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Ocean Vuong, 2021

The Lost Night

Andrea Bartz, 2020

The Other's Gold

Elizabeth Ames, 2019

The Woman in the Dark

Vanessa Savage, 2019

The Favorite Sister

Jessica Knoll, 2019

The Pisces

Melissa Broder, 2019

Black Swans

Eve Babitz, 2018

Do This for Me

Eliza Kennedy, 2019

I'll Be Gone in the Dark

One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

Michelle McNamara, 2019

Playing with Matches

Hannah Orenstein, 2018

The Sun and Her Flowers

Rupi Kaur, 2017

When Katie Met Cassidy

Camille Perri, 2019

You Think It, I'll Say It

Ten scorching stories of self-deception by the Sunday Times bestselling author

Curtis Sittenfeld, 2018

The Last Mrs. Parrish

Liv Constantine, 2017

Lies She Told

Cate Holahan, 2017