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Summer is in full swing and there'due south nothing like heading to the beach — or the park — sitting by the water, contemplating the view, grabbing a adept book and just immersing ourselves in it. That'south why we're throwing out some ideas for the perfect summertime novels.

We are adhering to "beach reads" rules though: most of the titles here are either full page-turners or grant some instant gratification — or both. And all of them will send you to faraway places or the kind of setting y'all'd enjoy spending a vacation at, either because of when they were written or where they are ready.

"The Talented Mr. Ripley" by Patricia Highsmith (1955)

The oldest book on this list is the first i in a series of five psychological thrillers that Patricia Highsmith wrote about her infamous Tom Ripley graphic symbol. Even if he's a sociopath with more murderous tendencies, the reader can't avoid being on Ripley's side while reading Highsmith's engrossing novels.

The whole serial is set in Europe with the beginning book taking its protagonist and the reader to San Remo, Rome, Palermo and Venice. Plus, there's a constant longing for a trip to Hellenic republic.

This Australian classic is set up in 1900 and features a group of boarders from an all-girls school in Victoria every bit they accept a day trip to the nearby geological formation Hanging Rock. In that location are plenty of descriptions of proper picnic attire, the dazzler of the landscape and the relationships that bond this group of teenagers and their teachers.

And while Joan Lindsay'southward writing style and the setting for this novel may have you drawing some parallels with other classic coming-of-age novels written by and starring women, the catastrophe of Picnic at Hanging Rock could but have been written in the 1960s.

"Los mares del Sur" (Southern Seas) by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán (1979)

Allow me the hometown reference with this Castilian novel set in Barcelona in 1979. Written past the Galician-Catalan author Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Southern Seasis the most famous of his novels starring the private detective Pepe Carvalho. He's a gourmet who's equally obsessed with food, literature and the city of Barcelona.

Too a methodical description of the city in the tardily 1970s, the book also includes references to a trip to the Southern Seas that never was.

"Norwegian Wood" by Haruki Murakami (1987)

Written by Japanese author Haruki Murakami, this coming-of-historic period novel follows the story of Toru Watanabe, a college student who is obsessed with American literature. He's trying to figure out his life in Tokyo in the 1960s and ends upward in relationships with two women who couldn't be more different: there's Naoko, the old girlfriend of his best friend, and Midori, one of his classmates.

The story takes the reader from the humming streets of Tokyo to the peaceful quietness of a rehab center lost in the mountains nearby Kyoto.

"Get Shorty" past Elmore Leonard (1990)

Small-fourth dimension Miami loan shark Chili Palmer travels to Las Vegas, hoping to get a debt paid, and ends upwards in Los Angeles, where he learns about the movie-making business and how to become a producer. Set in Hollywood in 1990, this California archetype masterfully blends suspense, thrills, humor and even the slightest hint of a Western.

This story is so quintessentially Hollywood that there'south a 1995 motion picture accommodation starring John Travolta and a 2017 Tv set testify with Chris O'Dowd, just you should definitely start with the Elmore Leonard novel.

"Death at La Fenice" by Donna Leon (1992)

American novelist Donna Leon has been calling Venice home for years. Her first book in the mystery serial that stars the Venetian constabulary detective Guido Brunetti follows the investigation of a music conductor's death after he's poisoned during the pause of a Verdi opera at La Felice.

Leon has been steadily publishing one new Commissario Guido Brunetti installment a year for decades. So if you dear the Venitian setting, criminal offense stories and the constant descriptions of all the delicious foods (and drinks) that Brunetti ingests on a daily basis, this could definitely be the series for you.

"Telephone call Me by Your Name" by André Aciman (2007)

Chances are nosotros'll never get to run across Luca Guadagnino's sequel to his Call Me past Your Name motion-picture show adaptation. And while André Aciman'south follow-up novel, Find Me, may leave hardcore fans of Elio and Oliver a petty scrap underwhelmed, there's nothing like going back to the original material.

Set against the backdrop of the Italian Riviera, this coming-of-age story follows the precocious Elio as he falls in dear with Oliver, a graduate student and Elio's parents' guest for the summer. This iconic summertime read perfectly captures the feeling of longing for someone and it features plentiful, engaging conversations, early on morn swims, leisurely bike rides, a furtive human relationship and a passionate trip to Rome.

"Americanah" past Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2013)

Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie sets this story — that deals with immigration, race and the feeling of belonging — in Lagos, London and New Jersey. Her protagonist is Ifemelu, a young Nigerian woman who moves to the United States to further her studies.

Americanahmakes for a great read not only equally an engaging and entertaining novel but also equally a study about race in America from the perspective of a non-American Black person. The novel also packs a circuitous dearest story between Ifemelu and Obinze, who moves to London and has to live there as an undocumented immigrant.

"Large Little Lies" by Liane Moriarty (2014)

I don't care if you lot've already seen the star-packed HBO miniseries and know not only who the killer of this story is simply likewise the identity of the person who dies and whose investigation propels the whole plot, Liane Moriarty's soapy thriller still very much deserves a read.

On the one hand, instead of the rugged coast of Northern California, the novel Big Little Lies is set in the suburban Northern Beaches of Sydney. On the other hand, the volume jams plenty sense of humor and sharp banter — especially when information technology comes to the inclusion of dialogue from the police interrogations amongst the many parents who accept their kids to the same schoolhouse every bit our protagonists — that yous'll find enough nuggets of new fabric to more than justify the read.

"The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo" by Taylor Jenkins Reid (2017)

Taylor Jenkins Reid's historical fiction bestseller is prepare between the publishing globe of present-day New York and the classic Hollywood of the 1950s, 1960s and onward. When the relatively unknown journalist Monique Grant is tasked with writing a profile on the legendary actress Evelyn Hugo, she can't believe her career-irresolute luck.

The novel guides the reader through a series of interviews between Monique and Evelyn in which the former star tells her origin story and the reasons behind her many marriages throughout the years.

"Less" by Andrew Sean Greer (2017)

Andrew Sean Greer'south Pulitzer Prize-winning novel stars Arthur Less every bit a novelist with a dwindling career and a cleaved heart. Every bit if all of that wasn't enough already, Less is on the brink of turning fifty. When his one-time long-time boyfriend invites Less to his hymeneals, our hapless protagonist decides to embark on a series of back-to-back international trips with a "ramshackle itinerary" to avoid the much-dreaded upshot.

Greer'southward fun and never-repose novel takes the reader and its protagonist from the foggy shores of San Francisco to New York Urban center, Mexico Metropolis, Turin, Paris, Berlin, Morocco, India and Japan.

"Agent Running in the Field" past John le Carré (2019)

The concluding published novel of late spymaster John le Carré is a return to some of his career-defining themes in the world of international espionage, which he describes with precision — and without a glimpse of glamour or spectacle.

The novel stars Nat, a reluctant-to-be-out-of-the-field agent in his tardily forties, who has had a long career developing sources in Russia. Nat's dorsum in London and somehow can't avoid getting himself involved in yet some other surveillance plot. The book is set in 2018 and there's abiding chatter among its characters regarding Brexit and the Trump administration. Le Carré favors none of those.

Fifty-fifty if y'all don't similar international thrillers featuring double agents that much — who doesn't though? — Agent Running in the Field is however worth a read if simply to appreciate Le Carré's succinct yet masterfully rich and descriptive prose.

"Beach Read" by Emily Henry (2020)

Let'due south add Embankment Readto this list of beach reads because Emily Henry's romance novel truly does its title justice. Set in a pocket-size Michigan town, the novel tells the story of bestselling romance author January and acclaimed fiction writer Gus. They cease up beingness neighbors and living side-by-side in lakefront cottages.

I thing leads to another and they finish up making a deal: by the end of the summer he'll be the one to pen a romance volume and she'll write a night and bleak one. They both need to teach the other everything they demand to know to be able to produce something in a genre they're not used to working in. Of form, also all the procrastinating and writing, at that place'southward also time for love.

"The Vanishing One-half" by Brit Bennett (2020)

Terminal yr's revelatory novel The Vanishing One-half tackles the discipline of passing when it comes to racial identity. The Brit Bennett-penned historical novel, which is already being adult into a limited serial by HBO, tells the story of ii identical twin sisters from a small town in rural Louisiana where the majority Blackness population is so light-skinned that one of the sisters passes as a white woman for near of her life after fleeing town.

The action encompasses several decades starting in the 1950s and weaves together the life of the assimilated sister — who'southward leading a double life in New Orleans start and and so Los Angeles — with that of the other ane, who is forced to render dwelling house.

"Velvet Was the Night" by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (2021)

Let'southward close this listing with an August release from one of 2020's bestselling authors. After her Mexican Gothicwas called every bit Best Horror novel last yr by the Goodreads users, writer Silvia Moreno-Garcia returns with Velvet Was the Night.

The Mexican Canadian writer sets the action in 1970s Mexico Urban center and writes most Maite, a secretary obsessed with romance stories and her beautiful neighbor Leonora. When the object of her fixation disappears, Maite starts looking for her — but she isn't the only ane.