Because you'll need to find some way to occupy your time on the beach. Also check out the must-have queer summer reads!
1. The Lover by Marguerite Duras
2. The Stench of Honolulu by Jack Handey
3. Box Girl by Lilibet Snellings
4. The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon
5. Memories of My Melancholy whor*s by Gabriel García Márquez
6. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
7. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
8. The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith (aka J.K. Rowling!!!)
9. Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
10. Paper Towns by John Green
11. Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
12. Wild by Cheryl Strayed
13. The Empathy Exams: Essays by Leslie Jamison
14. A Hundred Summers by Beatriz Williams
15. Birds of a Lesser Paradise
16. The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson
17. Y: The Last Man by Brian K. Vaughn
18. Death In Venice by Thomas Mann
19. The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank
20. Carnet De Voyage (Travel Journal) by Craig Thompson
Whether or not you're a fan of graphic novels, it's impossible not to feel like you're traveling alongside Thompson as he recounts the three months he spent traveling through Barcelona, the Alps, France, and Morocco. The 224 page novel is filled with stunning art and will inspire all travel enthusiasts to explore their surroundings with a more astute eye.
21. Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
One of the best parts of summer is the promise of new possibilities, which is a lot of what Sloan's adventure story is all about. There's a semi-secret society trying to desperately translate a 500-year-old text, hot geeks, and our hero: a graphic designer who's forced to take a job at a bookstore during the recession.
22. The Last Summer of the Camperdowns by Elizabeth Kelly
Kelly's novel is engrossing and filled with almost unbearable tension. It's set on Cape Cod and follows our narrator, Riddle Camperdown, as she remembers a disastrous summer from two decades ago.