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Summer is in full swing and there's zilch similar heading to the embankment — or the park — sitting past the water, contemplating the view, grabbing a good book and simply immersing ourselves in it. That's 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 total page-turners or grant some instant gratification — or both. And all of them will ship you to faraway places or the kind of setting you lot'd enjoy spending a holiday at, either because of when they were written or where they are set.
"The Talented Mr. Ripley" by Patricia Highsmith (1955)
The oldest volume on this list is the first one in a series of five psychological thrillers that Patricia Highsmith wrote well-nigh her infamous Tom Ripley character. Fifty-fifty if he's a sociopath with more than murderous tendencies, the reader tin can't avoid being on Ripley's side while reading Highsmith's engrossing novels.
The whole serial is set in Europe with the first book taking its protagonist and the reader to San Remo, Rome, Palermo and Venice. Plus, there'due south a constant longing for a trip to Greece.
This Australian classic is set in 1900 and features a group of boarders from an all-girls schoolhouse in Victoria as they take a day trip to the nearby geological formation Hanging Rock. There are enough of descriptions of proper picnic attire, the beauty of the mural and the relationships that bond this group of teenagers and their teachers.
And while Joan Lindsay's writing style and the setting for this novel may have yous drawing some parallels with other classic coming-of-age novels written by and starring women, the catastrophe of Picnic at Hanging Rock could only accept been written in the 1960s.
"Los mares del Sur" (Southern Seas) past Manuel Vázquez Montalbán (1979)
Allow me the hometown reference with this Spanish novel set up in Barcelona in 1979. Written by 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'due south every bit obsessed with food, literature and the urban center of Barcelona.
As well a methodical description of the urban center in the late 1970s, the book also includes references to a trip to the Southern Seas that never was.
"Norwegian Wood" by Haruki Murakami (1987)
Written past 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'due south trying to figure out his life in Tokyo in the 1960s and ends up in relationships with ii women who couldn't be more different: there'southward Naoko, the onetime girlfriend of his best friend, and Midori, i of his classmates.
The story takes the reader from the bustling streets of Tokyo to the peaceful quietness of a rehab center lost in the mountains nearby Kyoto.
"Go Shorty" by Elmore Leonard (1990)
Pocket-size-time Miami loan shark Chili Palmer travels to Las Vegas, hoping to go a debt paid, and ends upwardly in Los Angeles, where he learns about the moving-picture show-making business and how to become a producer. Ready in Hollywood in 1990, this California archetype masterfully blends suspense, thrills, sense of humor and even the slightest hint of a Western.
This story is so quintessentially Hollywood that there'south a 1995 moving picture adaptation starring John Travolta and a 2017 Tv set bear witness with Chris O'Dowd, but you lot should definitely outset with the Elmore Leonard novel.
"Death at La Fenice" by Donna Leon (1992)
American novelist Donna Leon has been calling Venice habitation for years. Her start book in the mystery series that stars the Venetian police detective Guido Brunetti follows the investigation of a music conductor's death after he's poisoned during the interruption of a Verdi opera at La Felice.
Leon has been steadily publishing one new Commissario Guido Brunetti installment a yr for decades. So if you lot love the Venitian setting, crime stories and the constant descriptions of all the delicious foods (and drinks) that Brunetti ingests on a daily footing, this could definitely be the series for you.
"Telephone call Me by Your Name" by André Aciman (2007)
Chances are we'll never get to meet Luca Guadagnino'due south sequel to his Call Me by Your Proper name pic accommodation. And while André Aciman'southward follow-up novel, Detect Me, may leave hardcore fans of Elio and Oliver a picayune bit underwhelmed, in that location'due south zippo similar going back to the original material.
Fix against the backdrop of the Italian Riviera, this coming-of-age story follows the precocious Elio equally he falls in love with Oliver, a graduate educatee and Elio's parents' invitee for the summer. This iconic summer read perfectly captures the feeling of longing for someone and it features plentiful, engaging conversations, early morning swims, leisurely bike rides, a furtive relationship and a passionate trip to Rome.
"Americanah" by 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 every bit an engaging and entertaining novel but too as a study about race in America from the perspective of a non-American Black person. The novel also packs a circuitous love story between Ifemelu and Obinze, who moves to London and has to live there as an undocumented immigrant.
"Big Picayune Lies" past Liane Moriarty (2014)
I don't intendance if you've already seen the star-packed HBO miniseries and know not only who the killer of this story is but also the identity of the person who dies and whose investigation propels the whole plot, Liane Moriarty'southward soapy thriller still very much deserves a read.
On the one hand, instead of the rugged declension of Northern California, the novel Big Little Lies is set in the suburban Northern Beaches of Sydney. On the other hand, the book jams enough humor and sharp banter — especially when information technology comes to the inclusion of dialogue from the police interrogations among the many parents who accept their kids to the same school as our protagonists — that you'll find plenty nuggets of new material 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 world of present-day New York and the archetype 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-changing luck.
The novel guides the reader through a series of interviews betwixt 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'southward Pulitzer Prize-winning novel stars Arthur Less every bit a novelist with a dwindling career and a cleaved centre. Every bit if all of that wasn't enough already, Less is on the brink of turning 50. When his former long-time swain invites Less to his nuptials, our hapless protagonist decides to commence on a serial of dorsum-to-back international trips with a "ramshackle itinerary" to avert the much-dreaded event.
Greer's fun and never-repose novel takes the reader and its protagonist from the foggy shores of San Francisco to New York Metropolis, Mexico City, Turin, Paris, Berlin, Morocco, India and Japan.
"Amanuensis Running in the Field" by John le Carré (2019)
The last 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 reluctanthoped-for-out-of-the-field agent in his late forties, who has had a long career developing sources in Russia. Nat's back in London and somehow tin can't avoid getting himself involved in yet another surveillance plot. The book is set in 2018 and there'due south constant chatter among its characters regarding Brexit and the Trump administration. Le Carré favors none of those.
Even if you lot don't similar international thrillers featuring double agents that much — who doesn't though? — Agent Running in the Field is all the same worth a read if only to appreciate Le Carré'south succinct all the same masterfully rich and descriptive prose.
"Embankment Read" past Emily Henry (2020)
Let's add Beach Readto this list of embankment reads because Emily Henry'south romance novel truly does its title justice. Prepare in a small-scale Michigan town, the novel tells the story of bestselling romance writer January and acclaimed fiction writer Gus. They end upwardly existence neighbors and living side-by-side in lakefront cottages.
One thing leads to another and they end upward making a deal: past the finish of the summer he'll be the one to pen a romance book and she'll write a dark and bleak i. They both demand 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 grade, besides all the procrastinating and writing, there's too time for love.
"The Vanishing Half" by Brit Bennett (2020)
Concluding year's revelatory novel The Vanishing Half tackles the subject of passing when information technology comes to racial identity. The Brit Bennett-penned historical novel, which is already being adult into a limited series by HBO, tells the story of two identical twin sisters from a small boondocks in rural Louisiana where the majority Blackness population is so lite-skinned that 1 of the sisters passes as a white woman for most of her life after fleeing boondocks.
The activity encompasses several decades starting in the 1950s and weaves together the life of the alloyed sister — who'southward leading a double life in New Orleans outset and then Los Angeles — with that of the other one, who is forced to return home.
"Velvet Was the Night" by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (2021)
Permit'southward close this list with an August release from 1 of 2020'south bestselling authors. Later her Mexican Gothicwas chosen as Best Horror novel last year by the Goodreads users, author Silvia Moreno-Garcia returns with Velvet Was the Night.
The Mexican Canadian writer sets the action in 1970s Mexico City and writes virtually 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 i.
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