Some authors simply reign supreme when it comes to the beach-read game, no matter the season. Check out our picks below, borrow one through Libby, and let us know which authors are on your must-read list!<\/p>\n
Emily Henry<\/strong><\/p>\n People We Meet On Vacation<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Two best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall in love.<\/p>\n Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She\u2019s a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. For most of the year they live far apart\u2014she\u2019s in New York City, and he\u2019s in their small hometown\u2014but every summer, for a decade, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together.<\/p>\n Until two years ago, when they ruined everything. They haven’t spoken since.<\/p>\n Poppy has everything she should want, but she\u2019s stuck in a rut. When someone asks when she was last truly happy, she knows, without a doubt, it was on that ill-fated, final trip with Alex. And so, she decides to convince her best friend to take one more vacation together\u2014lay everything on the table, make it all right. Miraculously, he agrees.<\/p>\n Now she has a week to fix everything. If only she can get around the one big truth that has always stood quietly in the middle of their seemingly perfect relationship. What could possibly go wrong?<\/p>\n Book Lovers<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n One summer. Two rivals. A plot twist they didn’t see coming…<\/p>\n Nora Stephens’ life is books\u2014she\u2019s read them all\u2014and she is not that type of heroine. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a cutthroat literary agent, and her beloved little sister Libby.<\/p>\n Which is why she agrees to go to Sunshine Falls, North Carolina for the month of August when Libby begs her for a sisters\u2019 trip away\u2014with visions of a small town transformation for Nora, who she\u2019s convinced needs to become the heroine in her own story. But instead of picnics in meadows, or run-ins with a handsome country doctor or bulging-forearmed bartender, Nora keeps bumping into Charlie Lastra, a bookish brooding editor from back in the city. It would be a meet-cute if not for the fact that they\u2019ve met many times and it\u2019s never been cute.<\/p>\n If Nora knows she\u2019s not an ideal heroine, Charlie knows he\u2019s nobody\u2019s hero, but as they are thrown together again and again\u2014in a series of coincidences no editor worth their salt would allow\u2014what they discover might just unravel the carefully crafted stories they\u2019ve written about themselves.<\/p>\n Carley <\/strong>Fortune<\/strong><\/p>\n Every<\/em><\/strong> Summer<\/em><\/strong> After<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Six summers to fall in love. One moment to fall apart. A weekend to get it right.<\/p>\n They say you can never go home again, and for Persephone Fraser, ever since she made the biggest mistake of her life a decade ago, that has felt too true. Instead of glittering summers on the lakeshore of her childhood, she spends them in a stylish apartment in the city, going out with friends, and keeping everyone a safe distance from her heart.<\/p>\n Until she receives the call that sends her racing back to Barry\u2019s Bay and into the orbit of Sam Florek\u2014the man she never thought she\u2019d have to live without.<\/p>\n For six summers, through hazy afternoons on the water and warm summer nights working in his family\u2019s restaurant and curling up together with books\u2014medical textbooks for him and work-in-progress horror short stories for her\u2014Percy and Sam had been inseparable. Eventually that friendship turned into something breathtakingly more, before it fell spectacularly apart.<\/p>\n When Percy returns to the lake for Sam\u2019s mother\u2019s funeral, their connection is as undeniable as it had always been. But until Percy can confront the decisions she made and the years she\u2019s spent punishing herself for them, they\u2019ll never know whether their love might be bigger than the biggest mistakes of their past.<\/p>\n Told over the course of six years and one weekend, Every Summer After is a big, sweeping nostalgic story of love and the people and choices that mark us forever.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Elin <\/strong>Hilderbrand<\/strong><\/p>\n Golden<\/em><\/strong> Girl<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n On a perfect June day, Vivian Howe, author of thirteen beach novels and mother of three nearly grown children, is killed in a hit-and-run car accident while jogging near her home on Nantucket. She ascends to the Beyond where she’s assigned to a Person named Martha, who allows Vivi to watch what happens below for one last summer. Vivi also is granted three \u201cnudges\u201d to change the outcome of events on earth, and with her daughter Willa on her third miscarriage, Carson partying until all hours, and Leo currently \u201coff again\u201d with his high-maintenance girlfriend, she\u2019ll have to think carefully where to use them.<\/p>\n From the Beyond, Vivi watches \u201cThe Chief\u201d Ed Kapenash investigate her death, but her greatest worry is her final book, which contains a secret from her own youth that could be disastrous for her reputation. But when hidden truths come to light, Vivi\u2019s family will have to sort out their past and present mistakes\u2014with or without a nudge of help from above\u2014while Vivi finally lets them grow without her.<\/p>\n With all of Elin\u2019s trademark beach scenes, mouth-watering meals, and picture-perfect homes, plus a heartfelt message\u2014the people we lose never really leave us\u2014Golden Girl is a beach book unlike any other.<\/p>\n Christina <\/strong>Lauren<\/strong><\/p>\n Love<\/em><\/strong> and<\/em><\/strong> Other<\/em><\/strong> Words<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Macy Sorensen is settling into an ambitious if emotionally tepid routine: work hard as a new pediatrics resident, plan her wedding to an older, financially secure man, keep her head down and heart tucked away.<\/p>\n But when she runs into Elliot Petropoulos\u2014the first and only love of her life\u2014the careful bubble she\u2019s constructed begins to dissolve. Once upon a time, Elliot was Macy\u2019s entire world\u2014growing from her gangly bookish friend into the man who coaxed her heart open again after the loss of her mother…only to break it on the very night he declared his love for her.<\/p>\n Told in alternating timelines between Then and Now, teenage Elliot and Macy grow from friends to much more\u2014spending weekends and lazy summers together in a house outside of San Francisco devouring books, sharing favorite words, and talking through their growing pains and triumphs. As adults, they have become strangers to one another until their chance reunion. Although their memories are obscured by the agony of what happened that night so many years ago, Elliot will come to understand the truth behind Macy\u2019s decade-long silence, and will have to overcome the past and himself to revive her faith in the possibility of an all-consuming love.<\/p>\n BK <\/strong>Borison<\/strong><\/p>\n First<\/em><\/strong>–Time<\/em><\/strong> Caller<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Aiden Valentine has a secret: he\u2019s fallen out of love with love. And as the host of Baltimore\u2019s romance hotline, that\u2019s a bit of a problem. But when a young girl calls in to the station asking for dating advice for her mom, the interview goes viral, thrusting Aiden and Heartstrings into the limelight.<\/p>\n Lucie Stone thought she was doing just fine. She has a good job; an incredible family; and a smart, slightly devious kid. But when all of Baltimore is suddenly scrutinizing her love life\u2014or lack thereof\u2014she begins to question if she\u2019s as happy as she believed. Maybe a little more romance wouldn\u2019t be such a bad thing.<\/p>\n Everyone wants Lucie to find her happy ending\u2026even the handsome, temperamental man calling the shots. But when sparks start to fly behind the scenes, Lucie must make the final decision between the radio-sponsored happily ever after or the man in the headphones next to her.<\/p>\n Lucy <\/strong>Foley<\/strong><\/p>\n The<\/em><\/strong> Guest<\/em><\/strong> List<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n The bride \u2013 The plus one \u2013 The best man \u2013 The wedding planner \u2013 The bridesmaid \u2013 The body<\/p>\n On an island off the coast of Ireland, guests gather to celebrate two people joining their lives together as one. The groom: handsome and charming, a rising television star. The bride: smart and ambitious, a magazine publisher. It\u2019s a wedding for a magazine, or for a celebrity: the designer dress, the remote location, the luxe party favors, the boutique whiskey. The cell phone service may be spotty and the waves may be rough, but every detail has been expertly planned and will be expertly executed.<\/p>\n But perfection is for plans, and people are all too human. As the champagne is popped and the festivities begin, resentments and petty jealousies begin to mingle with the reminiscences and well wishes. The groomsmen begin the drinking game from their school days. The bridesmaid not-so-accidentally ruins her dress. The bride\u2019s oldest (male) friend gives an uncomfortably caring toast.<\/p>\n And then someone turns up dead. Who didn\u2019t wish the happy couple well? And perhaps more important, why?<\/p>\n The<\/em><\/strong> Paris<\/em><\/strong> Apartment<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Jess needs a fresh start. She\u2019s broke and alone, and she\u2019s just left her job under less than ideal circumstances. Her half-brother Ben didn\u2019t sound thrilled when she asked if she could crash with him for a bit, but he didn\u2019t say no, and surely everything will look better from Paris. Only when she shows up \u2013 to find a very nice apartment, could Ben really have afforded this? \u2013 he\u2019s not there.<\/p>\n The longer Ben stays missing, the more Jess starts to dig into her brother\u2019s situation, and the more questions she has. Ben\u2019s neighbors are an eclectic bunch, and not particularly friendly. Jess may have come to Paris to escape her past, but it\u2019s starting to look like it\u2019s Ben\u2019s future that\u2019s in question.<\/p>\n The socialite \u2013 The nice guy \u2013 The alcoholic \u2013 The girl on the verge \u2013 The concierge<\/p>\n Everyone’s a neighbor. Everyone’s a suspect. And everyone knows something they\u2019re not telling.<\/p>\n The<\/em><\/strong> Hunting<\/em><\/strong> Party<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n During the languid days of the Christmas break, a group of thirtysomething friends from Oxford meet to welcome in the New Year together, a tradition they began as students ten years ago. For this vacation, they\u2019ve chosen an idyllic and isolated estate in the Scottish Highlands\u2014the perfect place to get away and unwind by themselves.<\/p>\n The trip begins innocently enough: admiring the stunning if foreboding scenery, champagne in front of a crackling fire, and reminiscences about the past. But after a decade, the weight of secret resentments has grown too heavy for the group\u2019s tenuous nostalgia to bear. Amid the boisterous revelry of New Year\u2019s Eve, the cord holding them together snaps, just as a historic blizzard seals the lodge off from the outside world.<\/p>\n Two days later, on New Year\u2019s Day, one of them is dead. . . and another of them did it.<\/p>\n Keep your friends close, the old adage says. But how close is too close?<\/p>\n DON’T BE LEFT OUT. JOIN THE PARTY NOW.<\/p>\n Janet<\/strong> Evanovich<\/strong><\/p>\n Now<\/em><\/strong> Or<\/em><\/strong> Never<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n She said yes to Morelli. She said yes to Ranger. Now Stephanie Plum has two fianc\u00e9s and no idea what to do about it. But the way things are going, she might not live long enough to marry anyone.<\/p>\n While Stephanie stalls for time, she buries herself in her work as a bounty hunter, tracking down an unusually varied assortment of fugitives from justice. There\u2019s Eugene Fleck, a seemingly sweet online influencer who might also be YouTube star Robin Hoodie, masked hero to the homeless, who hijacks delivery trucks and distributes their contents to the needy. She\u2019s also on the trail of Bruno Jug, a wealthy and connected man in the wholesale produce business who is rumored to traffic young girls alongside lettuce and tomatoes. Most terrifying of all is Zoran\u2014a laundromat manager by day and self-proclaimed vampire by night with a taste for the blood of pretty girls. When he shows up on Stephanie\u2019s doorstep, it\u2019s not for the meatloaf dinner.<\/p>\n With timely assists from her stalwart supporters Lula, Connie, and Grandma Mazur, Stephanie uses every trick in the book to reel in these men. But only she can decide what to do about the two men she actually loves. She can\u2019t hold Ranger and Morelli at bay for long, and she\u2019s keeping a secret from them that is the biggest bombshell of all. Now or never, she\u2019s got to make the decision of a lifetime.<\/p>\n Jodi <\/strong>Picoult<\/strong><\/p>\n Small<\/em><\/strong> Great<\/em><\/strong> Things<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Ruth Jefferson is a labor and delivery nurse at a Connecticut hospital with more than twenty years\u2019 experience. During her shift, Ruth begins a routine checkup on a newborn, only to be told a few minutes later that she\u2019s been reassigned to another patient. The parents are white supremacists and don\u2019t want Ruth, who is Black, to touch their child. The hospital complies with their request, but the next day, the baby goes into cardiac distress while Ruth is alone in the nursery. Does she obey orders or does she intervene?<\/p>\n Ruth hesitates before performing CPR and, as a result, is charged with a serious crime. Kennedy McQuarrie, a white public defender, takes her case but gives unexpected advice: Kennedy insists that mentioning race in the courtroom is not a winning strategy. Conflicted by Kennedy\u2019s counsel, Ruth tries to keep life as normal as possible for her family\u2014especially her teenage son\u2014as the case becomes a media sensation. As the trial moves forward, Ruth and Kennedy must gain each other\u2019s trust, and come to see that what they\u2019ve been taught their whole lives about others\u2014and themselves\u2014might be wrong.<\/p>\n![\"1](\"https:\/\/www.highpoint.edu\/library\/files\/2026\/09\/1-henry-201x300.jpg\")
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