Her Radar’s Picks: 30 Beach Books

Here are our picks of the best beach books for this year. Picks include the very popular Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (because the movie just came out) to Confessions of a Shopaholic to A Year in the Merde. We hope you enjoy your reading!

1. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, by J.K. Rowling
2. The Josephine B. Trilogy, by Sandra Gulland
3. Bridget Jones’s Diary, by Helen Fielding
4. Life of Pi, by Yann Martel
5. The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan

6. Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
7. The World According to Garp, by John Irving
8. St. Urbain’s Horseman, by Mordecal Richer
9. Grown Up Digital, by Don Tapscott
10. Pillars of the Earth, by Ken Follett

11. Under the Tuscan Sun, by Frances Maves
12. Confessions of a Shopaholic, by Sophie Kinsella
13. The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
14. Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
15. The Little Prince, by Antoine De Saint-Exupery

16. A Year in Merde, by Stephen Clarke
17. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
18. Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje
19. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
20. Dom Casmurro by Joaquim Machado de Assis

21. Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
22. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
23. A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
24. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
25. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

26. The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
27. Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
28. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
29. My Sister’s Keeper, by Jodi Picoult
30. The Book of Negroes, by Lawrence Hill