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Recommend your #1 beach read
Headed to the beach starting next weekend, and I'm looking for a book. List your #1 beach read, please!
Re: Recommend your #1 beach read
Eat, Pray, Love
The Kite Runner
A Thousand Splendid Suns
The Glass Castle
If you haven't already read it or seen the movie - Nights in Rodanthe by Nicholas Sparks. The book was way better than the movie and I read it last Summer at the beach - perfect beach read.
The Choice by Nicholas Sparks was also really good.
Remember Me? by Sophie Kinsella (of the Shopaholics series)
Sleeping Arrangements by Madeleine Wickham (who writes as Sophie Kinsella)
Cocktails for Three by Madeleine Wickham
Remember Me? or The Unddomestic Goddess by Sophie Kinsella
The Beach House by Jane Green
Anything by Emily Giffin: Something Borrowed, Something Blue, Love The One You're With, Babyproof
Just throwing out some of my favorites (because frankly, I could care less if I was on a beach, in my house, at a lake, etc., when I'm reading... I'm just happy to have time to read at all!):
- The Time Traveler's Wife - if you haven't read this, you must. It is an AMAZING book, and the movie comes out next weekend (!!!).
- Twilight series - seriously perfect beach read, as the series is total brain candy.
- Anything Jodi Picoult - my personal favorites are Nineteen Minutes and The Pact.
- Outlander series - I'm a book nerd and enjoy nothing more than a HUGE book, so this is right up my alley. I've always enjoyed historical fiction, but this is a totally different spin on that.
- Jen Lancaster's novels are hilarious, too - I'm in the midst of reading her newest (Pretty in Plaid) here at the beach now and can't stop laughing. Bitter is the New Black was her first, if I remember right.
Honestly, if you go lurk on TNBC, those girls always have amazing suggestions and I've found lots of great stuff that way. Have fun at the beach!
... every single day of forever.
Thought provoking: The Life of Pi (SOOOOO Good!!!)
Fun/Witty: Good in Bed. -It's not a trashy Danielle Steele kind of thing, despite the title. Not that Danielle Steele is bad, if that's what you're looking for, but this isn't that. I did not expect to like this book, but my friend highly recommended it, and it was great!
Uplifting/Touching: Always Looking Up: Adventures of an Incurable Optimist by Michael J Fox. This is another one that usually isn't my thing (I'm not the beggest fan of memoirs), but this book had me laughing and crying at the same time, and really made me think about things differently- it's so hard not to smile after reading this! Sorry for the cliches, but there's not much else to say about it...
I also love The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time. It's an easy, quick read, and it's really quirkly (which I love!)
Thanks, ladies. I've read some of your suggestions already. I found "Remember Me" on my bookshelf - I think my sister gave it to me relatively close to the time my daughter was born, so naturally I forgot I had it. I've started it, and I may wind up finishing it before I get to the beach!
I'll try some of the other ones, too!
If you like murder/mysteries - these 2 by James Patterson are really good (and they are beach-themed)
The Lifeguard
Beach Road
I think I read Beach Road in about 2 days...it jumps around a lot, but not too much to be confusing. Both have really short chapters (the author is known for that) so you can put it down to do something else and not feel like you need to re-read a huge chapter to catch up where you left off.