52. Beach Reads, Baby!

DECEADENT READS

• Anything from Sarah Addison Allen (5 in total) magical realism
• Garden Spells and First Frost about Waverley Family
• It’s Not Me It’s You by Mhairi McFarlane

BRIT Chic-lit

• The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
• Where’d you Go Bernadette by Marie Semple

CHILLING READS

• The Collector by John Fowles
• Flowers in the Attic by  V.C. Andrews
• Sharp Objects  by  Gillian Flynn

CHILLIN' READS

• Naked by David Seders
• Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
• Tortilla Curtain by TC Boyle LA 
• Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
• Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty

POST-APOCALYPSE/PRETERNATURAL READS

• The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• The Witching Hour by Anne Rice
• The Matched Series by Allyson Braithwaite Condie
• Anthem by Ayn Rand

LEARN A LITTLE SOMETHIN’

• Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
• Grain Brain by David Perlmutter
• Other Boleyn Girl by Phillipa Gregor
• Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader  Anne Fadiman

BETTER THAN THE MOVIE BOOKS

• The Martian by Andy Weir
• Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
• Interview With a Vampire by Anne Rice
• The Giver by Lois Lowry

HONORABLE MENTION BOOKS

• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Annie Barrows & Mary Ann Shafer
• A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
• What She Knew by Gilly McMillan
• Defending Jacob byWilliam Landay