Dive into Summer: Twenty Fun and Steamy Beach Reads for 2024
Hey there, fellow e book lovers! Summer is nearly right here, and it’s time to chill, chill out, and dive into some pleasant reads. Whether you’re lounging on the sand, chilling by the pool, or simply absorbing the solar in your yard, I’ve bought a listing of 5 unbelievable seaside reads that can make your summer time further particular. These up to date romance novels, historic romances and romantic comedies, are all set towards the charming backdrop of the seaside or sizzling and sunny journey locations and have been written in the previous few years. Let’s get into it!
Twenty Fun And Easy Beach Reads for A Steamy Summer
Christina Lauren, returns with a scrumptious new romance between the buttoned-up inheritor of a grocery chain and his free-spirited artist ex as they faux their relationship so as to obtain a large inheritance.
Anna Green thought she was marrying Liam “West” Weston for entry to sponsored household housing whereas at UCLA. She additionally thought she’d signed divorce papers when the commencement caps had been tossed, and so they each went on their merry methods.
Three years later, Anna is a ravenous artist residing paycheck to paycheck whereas West is a Stanford professor. He could also be considered one of 4 heirs to the Weston Foods conglomerate, however he has little curiosity in working for the heartless company his household constructed from the bottom up. He is , nevertheless, in his one-hundred-million-dollar inheritance. There’s only one catch.
Due to an antiquated clause in his grandfather’s will, Liam received’t see a penny till he’s been fortunately married for 5 years. Just when Liam thinks he’s within the residence stretch, stress mounts from his household to see this mysterious partner, and he has no alternative however to show to the one individual he’s afraid to introduce to his one-percenter dad and mom—his unpolished, not-so-ex-wife.
But within the presence of his household, Liam’s fears rapidly shift from whether or not the feisty, foul-mouthed, paint-splattered Anna can play the half as to whether the poisonous world of wealth will corrupt somebody as pure of coronary heart as his surprisingly grounded and constant spouse. Liam must ask himself if the value tag on his flimsy cowl story is price dropping real love that sprouted from a lie.
Benefits of a summer time romance: it’s all the time enjoyable, all the time temporary, and nobody will get their coronary heart damaged.
There aren’t sufficient labeled glass containers to include the mess that’s Ali Morris’s life. Her mother died two years in the past, then her husband left, and he or she hasn’t worn pants with a zipper in longer than she cares to recollect. She’s knowledgeable organizer whose pantry is a shame.
No one is extra stunned than Ali when the primary time she takes off her marriage ceremony ring and places on pants with {hardware}—overalls depend, proper?—she meets somebody. Or relatively, her canine claims a person for her in the identical means he claimed his favourite of her three youngsters: by peeing on him. Ethan smiles at Ali like her pants are good—like he likes what he sees. The very last thing Ali wants is to make her life messier, however there’s no hurt in slightly Summer Romance. Is there?
Lifelong greatest buddies spend a fateful summer time discovering what would possibly occur in the event that they had been to be one thing extra on this radiant, heart-clenching grownup debut.
Laniah Thompson is a homebody who craves privateness. Issac Jordan is web well-known and spends his days adopted by paparazzi. She runs a small enterprise together with her mother in her hometown. He runs a world model.
And they’ve been greatest buddies since childhood.
When Issac comes residence to Providence for the primary time in months and discovers Laniah’s dream is slipping out of attain as she and her mother battle to pay the payments at Wildly Green, their pure hair retailer, she refuses to take a dime from him. And so, he does what any self-respecting greatest buddy would do: tells the world they’re relationship.
Suddenly enterprise is booming, and Laniah agrees to his ridiculous plan to fake to be lovers for the course of the summer time. Just lengthy sufficient to catch the attention of an investor and get her dream again on observe, like she helped him accomplish that a few years in the past, he reminds her.
Too quickly, although, Laniah is aware of she’s enjoying with hearth, as a result of for so long as they’ve been buddies there’s an simple pull they’ve by no means given in to. And because the traces between artwork and life—actual and fake—blur, it turns into more durable and more durable to see the place friendship ends and one thing else begins….
Told over the course of three scorching summer time months, A Love Like the Sun is about shared historical past, those that make us our bravest selves, and love in its many varieties.
A younger journal author in Mumbai should show her matchmaking expertise—and take care of rising emotions for her shut household buddy—on this debut desi romance.
Confident fashionista Jia Deshpande spends her days writing cliché-ridden listicles for Mimosa, Mumbai’s prime ladies’s journal. When she will, Jia dishes in regards to the messy reality of actual love on her nameless weblog, attends her household’s weekly recreation nights, and ignores her true emotions for her childhood buddy. If that wasn’t sufficient, Jia must efficiently arrange a coworker together with her good match to get the inexperienced gentle for her new matchmaking column. Thankfully, organizing meet-cutes has by no means been tough for her.
Local pub proprietor and cocktail genius Jaiman Patil can’t assist however be enamored with Jia and her meddling spirit. He’s all the time been an honorary a part of her household, however much more so since his personal moved to America. Life with the Deshpandes is chaotic and loud, but it surely’s additionally extra loving than something he skilled rising up, and he wouldn’t threat dropping that for the world. It feels manageable—till his pub begins to battle and his long-hidden emotions for Jia develop deeper.
When Jia’s makes an attempt at workplace matchmaking go haywire, risking new friendships and her relationship with Jaiman, she should reevaluate her personal ideas on love. For the primary time, Jia Deshpande realizes that love could also be much more sophisticated than she thought. Luckily, happily-ever-afters are by no means in brief provide in Mumbai.
After ten years as a flight attendant, Ava Greene is poised to hold up her wings and at last put down roots. She’s bought one journey left earlier than she bids her previous life farewell, and he or she plans to take pleasure in each second of it. But then she discovers that former pilot Jack Stone — the absurdly attractive, ridiculously cocky man she’s held a secret grudge towards for years — is on her flight. And he has the nerve to flirt together with her, as if he doesn’t bear in mind the function he performed in probably the most humiliating night time of her life. Good factor she by no means has to see him once more after they land….
But when their airplane encounters mechanical issues, what ought to have been a fast cease on the Belize airport all of a sudden turns into a weekend layover. Getting caught on a three-hour flight together with her nemesis was dangerous sufficient. Being stranded with him at a luxurious resort in paradise? Even with the sultry breeze and white sand to distract her, it is going to take all of the rum punch within the nation to drown out his larger-than-life presence.
Yet the extra time Ava spends with him underneath the recent Caribbean solar, the extra she begins to second-guess every thing she thought she knew about him… and every thing she thought she wished from her life. And all too quickly, she might need to decide on between protecting her toes on the bottom and her head within the clouds….
An sudden tropical layover together with her nemesis turns a flight attendant’s life the other way up on this witty, breezy debut romantic comedy about life — and love — 30,000 toes above the bottom.
A pleasant queer Victorian love story, that includes a boldly brash trans hero, the beguiling botanist who captures his coronary heart, and a buoyant bicycle race by the British seaside — from the creator of The Duke Undone.
Former painter and unreformed rake Kit Griffith is forging a brand new life in Cornwall, selecting freedom over an id that didn’t match. He knew that leaving his Sisterhood of girls artists would possibly imply forfeiting inventive group without end. He didn’t notice he would lose his means to color altogether. Luckily, he has different skills. Why not dedicate himself to promoting bicycles and trysting with the holidaymakers?
Enter Muriel Pendrake, the feisty New-York-bound botanist who has come to St. Ives to fee Kit for illustrations of British seaweeds. Kit shouldn’t settle for Muriel’s provide, however he should enlist her assist to show to an all-male biking membership that girls can experience in addition to males. And she received’t agree until he offers her what she desires. Maybe that’s precisely the problem he wants.
As Kit and Muriel spend their days biking collectively, their want begins to burn with the warmth of the summer time solar. But are they pedaling towards one thing unattainable? The previous is certain to catch as much as them, and on the season’s finish, their paths will diverge. With solely their hearts as guides, Kit and Muriel should resolve in the event that they’re prepared to race into the unknown for the journey of a lifetime.
In this steamy Regency romp, Lady Selina is set to seek out the Duke of Stanhope the proper spouse―the one downside is she’s beginning to assume that could be her.
Peter Kent―newly inherited Duke of Stanhope and not too long ago of New Orleans, Louisiana―should change into respectable. Between his radical politics and the time he interrupted a minor royal marriage ceremony with a flock of sheep―not his fault!―he’s developed a scandalous popularity at odds along with his purpose of turning into guardian to his half siblings. For assist, he turns to the cleverest and most managing lady of his acquaintance, Lady Selina Ravenscroft.
Selina is society’s most correct debutante, save one tiny secret: she runs an erotic circulating library for ladies. When Peter asks for her assist, she suggests courtship and marriage to a woman of unimpeachable popularity. (Which is to say, positively not herself.)
But matchmaking doesn’t go based on plan. Peter’s siblings run rampant on Bond Street. Selina leads to the Serpentine. And worst of all, the scorching chemistry between Peter and Selina proves unattainable to withstand. For the disreputable duke and his unpredictable matchmaker, falling in love simply could be the last word scandal.
This summer time they’ll preserve their promise. This summer time they received’t give into temptation. This summer time will likely be completely different.
Lucy is the vacationer vacationing at a seaside home on Prince Edward Island. Felix is the native who exhibits her an excellent time. The solely downside: Lucy doesn’t know he’s her greatest buddy’s youthful brother. Lucy and Felix’s chemistry is unreal, however the checklist of the explanation why they should steer clear of one another is lengthy, and so they vow to by no means repeat that electrical night time once more.
It’s simpler mentioned than finished.
Each yr, Lucy escapes to PEI for an enormous breath of coastal air, contemporary oysters and crisp vinho verde together with her greatest buddy, Bridget. Every go to begins with a protracted stroll on the seaside, beneath hovering purple cliffs and a golden solar. And each go to, Lucy guarantees herself she received’t wind up in Felix’s mattress. Again.
If Lucy can’t assist being drawn to Felix, at the very least she’s all the time saved her coronary heart out of it.
When Bridget all of a sudden flees Toronto every week earlier than her marriage ceremony, Lucy drops every thing to comply with her to the island. Her mission is to assist Bridget via her disaster and resist the one man she’s by no means been in a position to. But Felix’s glowing eyes and flirty quips have been changed with one thing new, and Lucy’s starting to surprise simply how secure her coronary heart really is.
From New York Times bestselling creator Jennifer Probst comes a brand new ladies’s fiction novel that includes three generations of Ferrari ladies who must heal the damaged items of their lives…and one journey of a lifetime via Italy.
Workaholic, career-obsessed Francesca is fiercely impartial and profitable in all areas of life besides one: household. She struggles to find time for her relationship together with her teenage daughter, Allegra, and the 2 have change into virtually strangers to one another. When Allegra hangs out with a brand new crowd and is arrested for drug possession, Francesca offers in to her mom’s want that they take one epic summer time trip to hint their household roots in Italy. What she by no means anticipated was to be confronted with the selection of a lifetime. . . .
Allegra desires to make her grandmother joyful, however she hates the concept of pressured time together with her mom and vows to combat each step of the ridiculous tour, till a younger man on the verge of priesthood begins to indicate her the ability of acceptance, therapeutic, and the heartbreaking problems of affection.
Sophia is aware of her women are in bother. A summer time stuffed with the chance for change is what all of them desperately want. Among the ruins of historic Rome, the small church buildings of Assisi, and the rolling hills of Tuscany, Sophia hopes to indicate her women that the bonds of household are every thing, and to remind them that they’ll all the time lean on each other, earlier than it’s too late.
Justin has a curse, and due to a Reddit thread, it’s now all around the web. Every lady he dates goes on to seek out their soul mate the second they break up. When a girl slides into his DMs with the identical downside, they provide you with a plan: They’ll date one another and break up. Their curses will cancel one another’s out, and so they’ll each go on to seek out the love of their lives. It’s a bonkers thought… and it simply would possibly work.
Emma hadn’t deliberate that her subsequent task as a touring nurse can be in Minnesota, however she and her greatest buddy agree that relationship Justin is just too good of a chance to cross up, particularly once they get to hire an cute cottage on a non-public island on Lake Minnetonka.
It’s alleged to be a fast fling, only for the summer time. But when Emma’s poisonous mom exhibits up and Justin has to imagine guardianship of his three siblings, they’re all of a sudden navigating much more than they anticipated–together with catching actual emotions for one another. What if this time Fate has truly introduced the proper pair collectively?
A messy household drama and a steamy little romance unfold underneath the Mediterranean solar for the proper summer time escape…
Celebrated romance creator Catherine Swift has topped the bestseller lists for many years, although her private story hasn’t been fairly so profitable. Three failed marriages have left her relationship together with her daughters strained, however that’s about to be rectified. Engaged but once more, Catherine is relying on this marriage ceremony to be what lastly brings them collectively as a household, and he or she’ll do no matter it takes to make that occur.
Adeline doesn’t know what’s worse—that her mom is getting married a fourth time, or that she’s being guilted into witnessing the prepare wreck at Catherine’s luxurious villa in Corfu. It brings again the ache of her dad and mom’ cut up, of her mom’s infidelity and the child that was the consequence. Not that she blames her half sister, Cassie, however then she’s by no means made an effort to know her, both.
Cassie, however, is thrilled by her mom’s information and admires Catherine’s resilience. She’s equally enthusiastic about assembly the thriller groom, and on the prospect of spending her summer time in Corfu, the place she will course of a secret of her personal she’s been protecting from everybody.
As Cassie and Adeline arrive on the island, they every have very completely different expectations of what this week will deliver—they haven’t been completely sincere with their mom about their lives, both—however within the lead-up to the marriage, all will likely be revealed, for higher or worse.
When thirty-year-old English trainer Anna Emerson is obtainable a job tutoring T.J. Callahan at his household’s summer time rental within the Maldives, she accepts with out hesitation; a working trip on a tropical island trumps the library any day.
T.J. Callahan has no want to go away city, not that anybody requested him. He’s virtually seventeen and if having most cancers wasn’t dangerous sufficient, now he has to spend his first summer time in remission along with his household—and a stack of overdue assignments—as a substitute of his buddies.
Anna and T.J. are en route to affix T.J.’s household within the Maldives when the pilot of their seaplane suffers a deadly coronary heart assault and crash-lands within the Indian Ocean. Adrift in shark-infested waters, their life jackets preserve them afloat till they make it to the shore of an uninhabited island. Now Anna and T.J. simply need to survive and so they should work collectively to acquire water, meals, hearth, and shelter.
Their primary wants could be met however as the times flip to weeks, after which months, the castaways encounter loads of different obstacles, together with violent tropical storms, the various risks lurking within the sea, and the chance that T.J.’s most cancers might return. As T.J. celebrates yet one more birthday on the island, Anna begins to surprise if the largest problem of all could be residing with a boy who’s regularly turning into a person.
Joy is in love with Malcolm.
But Malcolm actually likes Summer.
Summer is in love with love.
And Fox is Summer’s ex-boyfriend.
Thirty, flirty, and asexual Joy is secretly in love together with her greatest buddy Malcolm, however she’s by no means been courageous sufficient to say so. When he unexpectedly publicizes that he’s met the love of his life—and no, it’s not Joy—she’s heartbroken. Malcolm invitations her on a weekend getaway, and Joy decides it’s her final likelihood to indicate him precisely what he’s overlooking. But possibly Joy is the one lacking one thing…or somebody…and his identify is Fox.
Fox sees a kindred spirit in Joy—and decides to assist her. He proposes they fake to fall for one another on the weekend journey to make Malcolm jealous. But spending time with Fox exhibits Joy what it’s wish to not be the third wheel, and there’s no mistaking the way in which he makes her really feel. Could Fox be the romantic accomplice she’s all the time deserved?
They say you’ll be able to by no means go residence once more, and for Persephone Fraser, ever since she made the largest mistake of her life a decade in the past, that has felt too true. Instead of glittering summers on the lakeshore of her childhood, she spends them in a classy residence within the metropolis, going out with buddies, and protecting everybody a secure distance from her coronary heart.
Until she receives the decision that sends her racing again to Barry’s Bay and into the orbit of Sam Florek—the person she by no means thought she’d must stay with out.
For six summers, via hazy afternoons on the water and heat summer time nights working in his household’s restaurant and curling up along with books—medical textbooks for him and work-in-progress horror quick tales for her—Percy and Sam had been inseparable. Eventually that friendship changed into one thing breathtakingly extra, earlier than it fell spectacularly aside.
When Percy returns to the lake for Sam’s mom’s funeral, their connection is as simple because it had all the time been. But till Percy can confront the selections she made and the years she’s spent punishing herself for them, they’ll by no means know whether or not their love could be greater than the largest errors of their previous.
Told over the course of six years and one weekend, Every Summer After is an enormous, sweeping nostalgic take a look at love and the individuals and selections that mark us without end.
Six summers to fall in love. One second to crumble. A weekend to get it proper.
An Angsty, Single Parent Romance
CALEB
I got here to the lake to be left alone, to lick my wounds. I wasn’t relying on neighbors and I particularly wasn’t relying on her.
Lucie was slightly child the final time I used to be right here. Now she’s grown—and God, did she ever develop up—with two little children of her personal.
She’s in all places I look, regardless of how onerous I attempt to keep away from her. I’d forgotten all of the issues I used to need, used to dream about. She’s reminding me…and making me need each final considered one of them once more.
LUCIE
From the second I first noticed Caleb once I was six, I knew he belonged to me. And I knew I’d have to avoid wasting him—as a result of how else does the woman no person desires win over the boy beloved by all?
Nothing about his life or mine has gone to plan. He’s remoted and depressing. I’ve bought a vindictive ex and extra issues than I can depend.
But what hasn’t modified is that this: it nonetheless seems like he’s mine.
And I nonetheless assume I may have to avoid wasting him.
Journalist Margaret loves her job, writing necessary tales in regards to the impression of presidency selections on day-to-day lives for a revered newspaper in Johannesburg. There’s just one her co-worker, Jagger Villain. Is that even his actual identify? she typically wonders. Jagger spends his days writing fluff items on every thing from the worst-rated barber in Johannesburg to hurry relationship to male intercourse toys. To make issues worse, they share a cubicle and a desk, and day-after-day he finds new methods to drive her to distraction. She wants a trip!
Thankfully the upcoming firm quiz night time has the proper first a deluxe journey to a resort in Zanzibar. It would be the good escape for Margaret and her mom after a tough yr coping with the loss of life of her father and divorce. Margaret’s by no means met a quiz night time she will’t win, however then she’s by no means competed towards Jagger. That’s when the unthinkable occurs. They tie. They each win. They each get to go to Zanzibar.
It’s dangerous sufficient that Margaret needs to be on the identical island as Jagger, however at the very least she has her widowed mom together with her to assist her keep away from her co-worker and whoever he brings. However, Jagger’s plus one isn’t what she anticipated. It’s not some woman of the second, it’s his father, which shakes up her opinion of him . . . at the very least a bit. And that’s when the complete scenario goes from farce to horror their dad and mom fall in love and resolve to get married.
Suddenly Margaret and Jagger go from co-workers who dislike one another (but in addition ‘accidentally’ had intercourse one night time,) to step siblings who dislike one another (but in addition ‘accidentally’ had intercourse one night time!). But possibly they don’t dislike one another as a lot as they initially thought they did?
The final summer time nostalgia learn, about an engaged lady who comes nose to nose together with her old flame who she hasn’t seen in fourteen years, however who she spent each summer time with from age 5 to seventeen when he broke her coronary heart, calling into query every thing she thought she knew about their love story, and herself.
Beach Rules:
Do take lengthy walks on the sand.
Do put an umbrella in each cocktail.
Do NOT run into your old flame.
Sam’s life is on observe. She has the proper physician fiancé, Jack (his strict routines are factor, actually), an excellent job in Manhattan (until they hearth her), and is about to tour a marriage venue close to her household’s Long Island seaside home. Everything ought to go to plan, but the minute she arrives, Sam senses one thing is off. Wyatt is right here. Her Wyatt. But there’s no purpose for a thirty-year-old engaged lady to really feel panicked across the man who broke her coronary heart when she was seventeen. Right?
Yet being again at this seaside, listening to notes from Wyatt’s guitar float throughout the night time air from subsequent door as if no time has handed—Sam’s recollections come flooding again: the texture of Wyatt’s pores and skin on hers, their nights within the treehouse, and the reality behind their cut up. Sam remembers who she was, and as Wyatt reenters her life their connection is as simple because it all the time was. She can have to choose.
One bump. Two strangers. Three days to fall in love.
Tessie Truelove has spent her complete life avoiding. . .effectively, real love. And why wouldn’t she? Her canine ran off, her father left to go get cigarettes and by no means got here again, and her mom handed away years in the past. Instead, Tessie, a star inside designer, clings to her to-do lists and her Pantone colours and her poisonous job to keep away from extra heartbreak. But after an excessive amount of whiskey and a wild night time with a rugged stranger has her seeing two little pink traces, she vows to do motherhood all by herself. After all, it could be her one shot at real love. Nothing will interrupt her plans. Not even Solomon Wilder—her muscled, bearded, brooding child daddy—who stomps his means into her completely deliberate babymoon after studying about her being pregnant.
Stuck collectively in paradise, the 2 strike a spend three days collectively to determine tips on how to increase their son. Complete opposites, they don’t have anything in widespread besides the bump between them. Tessie has her glamorous profession in LA, and Solomon has his wild life in Alaska. Yet because the babymoon takes a flip for the steamy and Solomon breaks via the emotional partitions Tessie’s spent years guarding, she begins to surprise if she and this gruff, flannel-wearing mountain man could be meant to do extra than simply share a child—they could be meant to share a coronary heart.
Two stranded strangers conform to journey collectively so as to return residence, however when a slew of misadventures derail their plans, it would imply an opportunity to fall in love . . .
A steamy, opposites appeal to romance, ideally suited for followers of Emily Henry, Beth O’Leary and Christina Lauren.
You don’t actually know a man till you’ve vacationed with him…
When Drew Wilson’s ex-boyfriend Joel “Six” Bailey asks her to go on his household journey to Hawaii with him simply as her life is falling aside, she decides it’s the proper time to offer him one other likelihood.
The hitch? The Bailey household contains Six’s impolite older brother, Joshua—a hot-nerd physician who has hated Drew for the reason that second they met and as soon as steered she’d steal the household silver.
Drew is set to win the Baileys over and provides this factor with Six a good shot…however Joshua is making that tough. Not just because he’s in her means at each flip, however as a result of—as one tropical journey results in the subsequent—she’s starting to surprise if obnoxious, odious Joshua could be the brother she truly belongs with.
After ten years as a flight attendant, Ava Greene is poised to hold up her wings and at last put down roots. She’s bought one journey left earlier than she bids her previous life farewell, and he or she plans to take pleasure in each second of it. But then she discovers that former pilot Jack Stone — the absurdly attractive, ridiculously cocky man she’s held a secret grudge towards for years — is on her flight. And he has the nerve to flirt together with her, as if he doesn’t bear in mind the function he performed in probably the most humiliating night time of her life. Good factor she by no means has to see him once more after they land….
But when their airplane encounters mechanical issues, what ought to have been a fast cease on the Belize airport all of a sudden turns into a weekend layover. Getting caught on a three-hour flight together with her nemesis was dangerous sufficient. Being stranded with him at a luxurious resort in paradise? Even with the sultry breeze and white sand to distract her, it is going to take all of the rum punch within the nation to drown out his larger-than-life presence.
Yet the extra time Ava spends with him underneath the recent Caribbean solar, the extra she begins to second-guess every thing she thought she knew about him… and every thing she thought she wished from her life. And all too quickly, she might need to decide on between protecting her toes on the bottom and her head within the clouds….
An sudden tropical layover together with her nemesis turns a flight attendant’s life the other way up on this witty, breezy debut romantic comedy about life — and love — 30,000 toes above the bottom.
“The Summer Job” by Lizzy Dent is a contemporary and humorous romantic comedy that you just’ll devour very quickly. When Birdy Finch impulsively decides to take over her greatest buddy’s summer time job at a highland Scottish lodge, chaos and hilarity ensue. Birdy’s misadventures on the earth of hospitality, paired with a blossoming romance with an enthralling chef, make this e book a pleasant and lighthearted learn that’s good for the seaside.
So, there you’ve got it—5 enjoyable and straightforward seaside reads to take pleasure in this summer time. Each of those books provides a singular mix of romance, humour, and the irresistible attraction of the seaside. Grab your sun shades, a comfy seaside chair, and considered one of these pleasant reads to make your summer time really unforgettable. Happy studying, and should your summer time be stuffed with limitless sunshine and nice tales!
Here’s some critiques of some extra Beach Reads I’ve finished: Beach Read by Emily Henry and One Hot Italian Summer by Karina Halle. Take a take a look at extra books being revealed in June!
