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This Summer's Best Beach Reads

Keep it cool on the beach with this summer's hottest in fiction and non-fiction novels.

Packing up for the beach? No beach bag is complete without a good book. Here a few hot titles that are flying off the shelves of the than you can chill out with at the beach this summer. Act fast, though, because several already have waitlists!

Fiction
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
A suspenseful mystery about a marriage gone wrong.

Bring up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
A sequal to Mantel’s 2009 Wolf Hall about the downfall of Anne Boleyn.

Calico Joe by John Grisham
A novel about fathers, sons, and major league baseball.

Home by Toni Morrison
Morrison’s latest novel about a man searching for himself in a world ravaged by war.

Canada by Richard Ford
A coming-of-age novel about a boy who flees for Canada after his parents commit a robbery.

Game of Thrones series by George R. R. Martin
Follow the rise and fall of kings in Martin’s fantasy series, now also a popular television show.

Non-Fiction
Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
The true story of a family trying to make it in the 21st century.

Wild by Cheryl Strayed
Strayed’s story of her 11,000 hike of the Pacific Crest Trail.

Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
The story of Army Air Force Lieutenant Louis Zamperini and his dramatic survival after his plane went down in the Pacific in World War II.

Passage of Power by Robert Caro
Book four of Caro’s biography of President Lyndon Johnson.


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