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Best Beach Reads: Essential Summer Reading List

The best beach reads share a single quality: they make time disappear. You look up and the sun has moved across the sky. These are the books people devour on vacation, by the pool, on a plane — stories propulsive enough to drown out everything else. This essential summer reading list spans coastal thrillers, swoony romance, and gripping mystery. From the addictive unreliability of The Girl on the Train to the lush summer nostalgia of The Summer I Turned Pretty, these are the books readers reach for when they want something they genuinely cannot put down. Pack accordingly.