The Best Summer Beach Reads for 2024
We’ve got all the must-read summer beach reads for 2024 and we cannot wait to be laying out in the sun with one of these gripping books!
There is no better time for reading than during summer. Whether you’re traveling to the beach, renting a lake house or just sitting by a local pool, this is the season for picking up a page-turner and heading for sunshine and water.
Grab these can’t-miss thrillers, pulse-pounding romcoms and luxurious literary reads for the best books of summer 2024.
Here are the best summer beach reads for 2024!
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‘All the Summers in Between’ by Brooke Lea Foster
In this Hamptons-set historical fiction, two best friends meet in 1967–a vivacious and wealthy out-of-towner and a local girl. Margot and Thea are inseparable until a tragic event splits them apart for over a decade. Now, Margot is back and in frantic need of Thea’s help. Though Thea is excited to have the thrill of her presence in her domestic life, she knows trusting Margo is a dangerous game. As the two navigate a dangerous past and an uncertain future, they’ll test the bounds of friendship.
All the Summers In Between
‘Anna Bright is Hiding Something’ by Susie Orman Schnall
Anna Bright is a Silicon Valley sweetheart as the successful founder of a multibillion-dollar company. The problem? She’s committing fraud. Jamie, a journalist ready to make a name for herself, is onto Anna, and ready to expose her lies. With BrightLife’s IPO days away, Anna will stop at nothing to keep Jamie from airing out her dirty laundry.
Anna Bright Is Hiding Something: A Novel
‘Between Friends & Lovers’ by Shirlene Obuobi
Dr. Jojo is a social media sensation, doling out advice to an audience of thousands. Her personal life, however, isn’t as glamorous. She’s contending with a long-standing crush on her best friend Ezra, a romcom star, when he shows up with her childhood bully on his arm. Malcolm is a debut author navigating the spotlight that comes from unexpected success. Dr. Jojo drops into his life exactly when he needs her. The three must all navigate personal and public lives, friendship and love, as they straddle the line between fame and reality.
Between Friends & Lovers: A Novel
‘Just Some Stupid Love Story’ by Katelyn Doyle
She writes romcoms for Hollywood and doesn’t believe in love. He is a divorce attorney who happens to think soulmates are for real. Molly and Seth were high school sweethearts until she ghosted him at graduation. Fifteen years later, they reunite at a reunion–drink too much, hookup–and now they’ve made a bet. The two will wager on the outcome of five relationships, the fifth one is theirs. Molly is convinced it will all fall apart and Seth is certain she will fall in love with him.
Just Some Stupid Love Story: A Novel
‘Little Rot’ by Akwaeke Emezi
A sex party that goes awry sends a recently separated couple into the underbelly of the Nigerian elite. Also ensnared in the chaos are two sex workers navigating the dangerous landscape. As events unfold, all their worlds collide in a swirl of corruption blended with the glimmer of wealth. From the award-winning author of You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty comes a fast-paced, thrilling new read.
Little Rot: A Novel
‘Margo’s Got Money Troubles’ by Rufi Thorpe
Margo wasn’t quite sure where her life was heading, but being single and pregnant after an affair with her English professor wasn’t it. She needs money quickly, but, fortunately, she isn’t without skills. Her mother was a Hooters waitress and her father a pro wrestler, so she uses her inherited showmanship and starts an OnlyFans page. When it starts to gain traction, her income issues resolve, but her place in the spotlight is a new trouble to contend with.
Margo's Got Money Troubles: A Novel
‘Rip Tide’ by Colleen McKeegan
The Devine sisters swore they’d never return home after a traumatic incident fifteen years before. Yet both are now back in Rocky Cape. Kimmy has fled her high-powered job to help her dad run his hardware stores and Erin is coping with fertility issues and a divorce. Now, a body has been found floating in the water that threatens to reopen all their old wounds and put the sisters front and center in a suspense-filled mystery.
Rip Tide: A Novel
‘The Break Up Pact’ by Emma Lord
June and Levi were once adolescent best friends, but now they live their separate lives. She is struggling to keep her tea shop afloat and he’s an unhappy New York hedge fund manager. When both experience a public breakup that goes viral on TikTok (and everywhere else) the world is watching. A photo of them together leads people to believe they’re dating so they agree to fake it in order to recuperate their personal lives. But true feelings are entering the staged relationship and both must come to terms with what is real.
The Break-Up Pact: A Novel
‘The Design of Us’ by Sajni Patel
Bhanu and Sunny are competing co-workers who just happened to end up in Hawai’i at the same time. She is sunshine incarnate and he is a grump. When Bhanu overhears Sunny’s ex chastising him for being single, she jumps in and pretends to be his girlfriend. Now the two must play the part amidst her meddling family and his overzealous friends. Though they are complete opposites who drive each other crazy vying for the same promotion, their fake dating scenario is drumming up some new feelings.
The Design of Us
‘The Nature of Disappearing’ by Kimi Cunningham Grant
Emlyn has tried to forget the past, including the best friend, Janessa, she no longer speaks to and the boyfriend, Tyler, who left her for dead on the side of the road three years ago. Her quiet life as a hunting and fishing guide suits her fine. But when Tyler shows up to tell her Janessa is missing, they must track her social media posts documenting her #vanlife into the woods. As they do, Emlyn and Tyler’s chemistry is undeniable, but soon, Emlyn is convinced she may also be in danger.
The Nature of Disappearing: A Novel
‘The Plus One’ by S.C. Lalli
For fans of White Lotus comes a wealthy wedding gone awry. The marriage of Raj and Radhika is supposed to be the union of two Indian-American dynasties. Instead, the couple is found dead in their hotel room the morning of their wedding. Now, it’s up to Shay, an outsider dating Raj’s best friend, to untangle the lies, deceit and accusations. She’ll have to get to the truth while trying to keep her own secrets under wraps.
The Plus One: A Novel
‘The Rom-Commers’ by Katherine Center
Emma is desperate to be a screenwriter and when she gets the chance to go to Hollywood for six weeks to help rehab a script for the famous Charlie Yates, it feels like the big break she’s been looking for. Leaving the caretaking responsibilities of her father to her sister, she arrives to find that not only is the script in shambles, but Charlie could care less about this story. And love in general. If Emma is going to transform this opportunity into her dream, she must not only fix the script, but perhaps Charlie’s whole outlook on love. By any means necessary.
The Rom-Commers: A Novel
‘The Summer Pact’ by Emily Giffin
hen four friends meet in college, an unbreakable bond is formed. At the end of their schooling, a tragic event occurs leading them to make a promise to one another that they will always be there. When one of them calls on their pact in the midst of a crisis, they reunite, true to their word, and bring their individual baggage along with. In a story about friendship, grief, love and connection, Emily Giffin delivers another unforgettable tale.
The Summer Pact: A Novel
‘This Used to Be Us’ by Renee Carlino
Bestselling author Reneé Carlino is back with a beautiful book that delves into the pain, grief and growth of divorce. After twenty-two years, Danielle and Alex are calling it quits. They’ve decided to keep their family home and trade off living in an apartment in order to continue co-parenting their kids. As they share this space and move through separation, the two sides of their story that led them from falling in love to falling apart is revealed. Despite all they’ve endured, both are confronted with the real feelings that brought them together in the first place.
This Used to Be Us: A Novel
‘Under the Palms’ by Kaira Rouda
In the next book of The Kingsleys series, Paige, the new president of the family empire, has called everyone for a retreat in Laguna Beach. Though the hope of succession is still lingering with the sons of Richard Kingsley, the women of the family are holding a secret that could bring down their family’s legacy. In a story of leverage, revenge, power and money, no one in the family is safe from the potential fallout.
Under the Palms: A Novel (The Kingsleys)
‘What Fire Brings’ by Rachel Howzell Hall
When a writer-in-residence joins a former bestseller in Topanga Canyon to help put him back on top, she enters into a thriller story of her own. Bailey is not here to help Jack Beckham. She’s here to find her missing friend, Sam Morris who disappeared around Beckham’s home. As she plays the part while looking for Sam, she finds herself in the crosshairs of a dangerous string of disappearances that could be linked to strange events that happened decades ago on this estate.
What Fire Brings: A Thriller
‘You Will Never Be Me’ by Jesse Q. Sutanto
Meredith taught Aspen everything she knows about becoming an influencer, so she feels rightfully scorned when Aspen leaves her behind. This leads to some “light” stalking and sabotage that Meredith believes is well within her right to do. Meanwhile, Aspen doesn’t understand why her life is falling apart offline. The momfluencer is losing sponsors and her husband. But when Meredith disappears, Aspen has to fight to hold onto what is hers.
You Will Never Be Me
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