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Summer is in full swing and there'southward zippo like heading to the beach — or the park — sitting by the water, contemplating the view, grabbing a practiced book and just immersing ourselves in it. That's why we're throwing out some ideas for the perfect summer 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 transport y'all to faraway places or the kind of setting you'd enjoy spending a vacation at, either because of when they were written or where they are set.

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

The oldest book on this list is the first 1 in a series of five psychological thrillers that Patricia Highsmith wrote about her infamous Tom Ripley character. Even if he'southward a sociopath with more than than murderous tendencies, the reader can't avert being on Ripley'south side while reading Highsmith'southward 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, in that location's 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 school in Victoria as they take a solar day trip to the nearby geological germination Hanging Stone. In that location are enough 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'southward writing manner and the setting for this novel may have you cartoon some parallels with other classic coming-of-age novels written by and starring women, the catastrophe of Picnic at Hanging Rock could simply take been written in the 1960s.

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

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

Likewise a methodical clarification of the urban center in the tardily 1970s, the volume 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-age novel follows the story of Toru Watanabe, a college educatee who is obsessed with American literature. He'southward trying to figure out his life in Tokyo in the 1960s and ends up in relationships with two women who couldn't be more unlike: in that location'due south Naoko, the former girlfriend of his all-time friend, and Midori, 1 of his classmates.

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

"Go Shorty" by Elmore Leonard (1990)

Small-time Miami loan shark Chili Palmer travels to Las Vegas, hoping to get a debt paid, and ends upwardly in Los Angeles, where he learns near the motion picture-making concern and how to become a producer. Set in Hollywood in 1990, this California archetype masterfully blends suspense, thrills, sense of humour and even the slightest hint of a Western.

This story is so quintessentially Hollywood that there's a 1995 picture show adaptation starring John Travolta and a 2017 Idiot box show with Chris O'Dowd, just you 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 home for years. Her first book in the mystery series that stars the Venetian police detective Guido Brunetti follows the investigation of a music usher'south expiry afterwards he'southward poisoned during the pause of a Verdi opera at La Felice.

Leon has been steadily publishing 1 new Commissario Guido Brunetti installment a year for decades. And then if y'all love the Venitian setting, law-breaking stories and the constant descriptions of all the succulent foods (and drinks) that Brunetti ingests on a daily basis, this could definitely exist the series for you.

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

Chances are we'll never go to see Luca Guadagnino'southward sequel to his Phone call Me past Your Proper noun movie adaptation. And while André Aciman'due south follow-up novel, Find Me, may leave hardcore fans of Elio and Oliver a piffling bit underwhelmed, there's nothing similar going back to the original fabric.

Set up against the backdrop of the Italian Riviera, this coming-of-historic period story follows the precocious Elio as he falls in beloved with Oliver, a graduate student and Elio'due south parents' guest 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 clearing, race and the feeling of belonging — in Lagos, London and New Jersey. Her protagonist is Ifemelu, a young Nigerian woman who moves to the The states to further her studies.

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

"Big Niggling 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 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 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 book jams enough sense of humor and sharp banter — especially when it comes to the inclusion of dialogue from the constabulary interrogations among the many parents who take their kids to the aforementioned schoolhouse as our protagonists — that you lot'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 set betwixt the publishing world 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 extra Evelyn Hugo, she can't believe her career-changing 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" past Andrew Sean Greer (2017)

Andrew Sean Greer's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel stars Arthur Less as a novelist with a dwindling career and a broken heart. As 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 hymeneals, our hapless protagonist decides to embark on a series of back-to-back international trips with a "ramshackle itinerary" to avert the much-dreaded result.

Greer's fun and never-tranquillity novel takes the reader and its protagonist from the foggy shores of San Francisco to New York City, United mexican states City, Turin, Paris, Berlin, Morocco, Bharat and Japan.

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

The terminal published novel of belatedly 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-exist-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 can't avoid getting himself involved in still another surveillance plot. The book is prepare in 2018 and there's constant churr among its characters regarding Brexit and the Trump administration. 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's succinct still masterfully rich and descriptive prose.

"Beach Read" by Emily Henry (2020)

Let's add Beach Readto this list of embankment 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 writer January and acclaimed fiction author Gus. They end upward being neighbors and living side-by-side in lakefront cottages.

One matter leads to another and they stop up making a deal: by the end of the summertime he'll be the ane to pen a romance book and she'll write a dark and bleak one. They both need to teach the other everything they need to know to be able to produce something in a genre they're non used to working in. Of course, as well all the procrastinating and writing, there's also time for love.

"The Vanishing Half" by Brit Bennett (2020)

Concluding year's revelatory novel The Vanishing Half tackles the subject of passing when it comes to racial identity. The Brit Bennett-penned historical novel, which is already being developed into a limited series by HBO, tells the story of 2 identical twin sisters from a small town in rural Louisiana where the majority Black population is then calorie-free-skinned that one of the sisters passes as a white woman for most 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's leading a double life in New Orleans offset and then Los Angeles — with that of the other one, who is forced to render dwelling.

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

Let's close this listing with an August release from one of 2020's bestselling authors. After her Mexican Gothicwas chosen as Best Horror novel last year past the Goodreads users, author Silvia Moreno-Garcia returns with Velvet Was the Dark.

The Mexican Canadian author sets the action in 1970s Mexico Metropolis and writes about 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 one.

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