The sun is shining, the air is warm, and the beach is calling our name, which means it’s time to break out those beach reads. We reached out to our community of bookworms, asking them to weigh in on the best summer reads, and got hundreds of great
responses that made us eager to drop everything and get reading. Ranging from thrillers to rom-coms to memoirs, there’s a book for every beach bum to love on this list of the best summer reads, complete with reader reviews and publishers’ descriptions.