Nothing says vacation like relaxing with a juicy page-turner, but how do you choose? We searched high and low to bring you our list of the 50 ultimate beach books for you to print and keep. Tuck it in your purse or beach bag for handy reference at the library or book store. Welcome to easy summer reading!
CANADIANA
Surfacing by Margaret Atwood
By the Time You Read This by Giles Blunt
The Romantic by Barbara Gowdy
Stuck in Downward Dog by Chantel Simmons
The Ladies Lending Library by Janice Kulyk Keefer
Rush Home Road by Lori Lansens
Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie Macdonald
Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud
Montgomery
Runaway by Alice Munro
Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O'Neill
CHICKLIT
The Wonder Spot by Melissa Bank
Tara Road by Maeve Binchy
Summer Sisters by Judy Blume
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series by Ann
Brashares
Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
Sushi for Beginners by Marian Keyes
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
The Shopaholic series by Sophie Kinsella
When in Rome by Gemma Townley
Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner
CONTEMPORARY
Mr. Palomar by Italo Calvino
Town House by Tish Cohen
Middlesex by Geoffrey Eugenides
The Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon
The Beach by Alex Garland
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins
Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
CULT CLASSICS
Wifey by Judy Blume
My Uncle Oswald by Roald Dahl
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
LITERARY
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia
Marquez
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
THRILLER/SUSPENSE
An Inconvenient Woman by Dominick Dunne
Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
The Shining by Stephen King
The Husband by Dean Koontz
Harry Potter 1-7 by J.K. Rowling
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
First published in Chatelaine.com's July 2007 issue.
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