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Summer is in full swing and there's nil like heading to the beach — or the park — sitting by the water, contemplating the view, grabbing a good book and only immersing ourselves in information technology. That's why we're throwing out some ideas for the perfect summer novels.

Nosotros 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 transport you to faraway places or the kind of setting y'all'd bask spending a vacation at, either because of when they were written or where they are prepare.

"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 near her infamous Tom Ripley character. Even if he'southward a sociopath with more than than murderous tendencies, the reader tin can't avoid being on Ripley'southward side while reading Highsmith'due south engrossing novels.

The whole series is ready in Europe with the first volume 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 as they accept a solar day trip to the nearby geological formation Hanging Rock. There are plenty of descriptions of proper picnic attire, the beauty of the landscape 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-historic period novels written by and starring women, the catastrophe of Picnic at Hanging Rock could simply have been written in the 1960s.

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

Let 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'south equally obsessed with food, literature and the urban center of Barcelona.

Too a methodical description of the urban center in the belatedly 1970s, the volume as well 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's trying to figure out his life in Tokyo in the 1960s and ends upwards in relationships with 2 women who couldn't be more different: at that place'south Naoko, the quondam girlfriend of his best friend, and Midori, one of his classmates.

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

"Get Shorty" by Elmore Leonard (1990)

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

This story is so quintessentially Hollywood that there's a 1995 movie adaptation starring John Travolta and a 2017 TV show with Chris O'Dowd, but yous should definitely get-go with the Elmore Leonard novel.

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

American novelist Donna Leon has been calling Venice abode for years. Her get-go book in the mystery series that stars the Venetian law detective Guido Brunetti follows the investigation of a music usher's death after he's poisoned during the suspension of a Verdi opera at La Felice.

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

"Call Me by Your Name" past André Aciman (2007)

Chances are we'll never go to run across Luca Guadagnino'southward sequel to his Call Me by Your Name flick adaptation. And while André Aciman's follow-upwardly novel, Notice Me, may get out hardcore fans of Elio and Oliver a picayune chip underwhelmed, at that place'southward nothing like going dorsum to the original material.

Fix against the backdrop of the Italian Riviera, this coming-of-historic period story follows the precocious Elio as he falls in love with Oliver, a graduate educatee and Elio'south parents' guest for the summertime. This iconic summer read perfectly captures the feeling of longing for someone and it features plentiful, engaging conversations, early morning time swims, leisurely bike rides, a furtive human 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 Bailiwick of jersey. Her protagonist is Ifemelu, a young Nigerian woman who moves to the United States to further her studies.

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

"Big Piddling Lies" by Liane Moriarty (2014)

I don't care 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's soapy thriller still very much deserves a read.

On the ane hand, instead of the rugged coast of Northern California, the novel Big Picayune Lies is set in the suburban Northern Beaches of Sydney. On the other hand, the volume jams enough humour and abrupt barrack — especially when it comes to the inclusion of dialogue from the police interrogations among the many parents who take their kids to the same school every bit our protagonists — that you lot'll find plenty nuggets of new material to more than than justify the read.

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

Taylor Jenkins Reid'southward historical fiction bestseller is prepare between the publishing earth of present-solar 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 serial 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 as a novelist with a dwindling career and a broken centre. Equally if all of that wasn't enough already, Less is on the brink of turning 50. When his former long-time boyfriend invites Less to his wedding, our hapless protagonist decides to commence on a series of dorsum-to-dorsum international trips with a "ramshackle itinerary" to avoid the much-dreaded event.

Greer'southward fun and never-serenity novel takes the reader and its protagonist from the foggy shores of San Francisco to New York City, United mexican states Urban center, Turin, Paris, Berlin, Kingdom of morocco, India and Japan.

"Agent 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 reluctant-to-be-out-of-the-field agent in his belatedly forties, who has had a long career developing sources in Russia. Nat'southward dorsum in London and somehow can't avoid getting himself involved in yet another surveillance plot. The book is gear up in 2018 and there'south constant chatter among its characters regarding Brexit and the Trump assistants. Le Carré favors none of those.

Even if you don't like international thrillers featuring double agents that much — who doesn't though? — Agent Running in the Field is still worth a read if but to appreciate Le Carré'south succinct yet masterfully rich and descriptive prose.

"Beach Read" by Emily Henry (2020)

Permit's add together Embankment Readto this list of beach reads because Emily Henry's romance novel truly does its title justice. Fix in a small Michigan town, the novel tells the story of bestselling romance author January and acclaimed fiction author Gus. They finish up beingness neighbors and living side-past-side in lakefront cottages.

1 thing leads to some other and they finish up making a deal: by the end of the summer he'll be the one to pen a romance book and she'll write a night and dour ane. They both need to teach the other everything they need 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'southward also time for love.

"The Vanishing Half" by Brit Bennett (2020)

Concluding twelvemonth'south revelatory novel The Vanishing Half tackles the discipline 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-scale boondocks in rural Louisiana where the majority Black population is so light-skinned that ane of the sisters passes as a white woman for most of her life after fleeing boondocks.

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 beginning and then Los Angeles — with that of the other one, who is forced to return dwelling house.

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

Let'southward shut this list with an August release from i of 2020'south bestselling authors. After her Mexican Gothicwas chosen equally Best Horror novel terminal twelvemonth by the Goodreads users, writer Silvia Moreno-Garcia returns with Velvet Was the Night.

The Mexican Canadian author sets the action in 1970s Mexico Metropolis and writes near Maite, a secretary obsessed with romance stories and her beautiful neighbour Leonora. When the object of her fixation disappears, Maite starts looking for her — only she isn't the just 1.

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