Our beach fiction picks for summer

As June turns into July and the school year winds down, many of us will be looking forward to jetting off to foreign parts or settling down on a beach closer to home.

Even if you’re simply spending time at home in the garden soaking up the sun what better way to pass the time than by catching up on your reading?

There are plenty of great reads out there now. Whether you’re into hard-bitten noir detective stories, historical fiction or chick lit, we have picked a few books that should definitely be in your suitcase this summer.

Crime/Thriller

• The Outsider – Stephen King
• The President is Missing – Bill Clinton and James Patterson
• The Fallen – David Baldacci
• The Cabin at the End of the World – Paul Tremblay
• MacBeth – Jo Nesbo
• Down the River unto the Sea – Walter Moseley
• Babylon Berlin – Volker Kutscher
• Forever and a Day – Anthony Horowitz

Historical fiction 

• Warlight – Michael Ondaatje
• Circe – Madelaine Miller
• The Atomic City Girls – Janet Beard
• The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock – Imogen Hermes Gowar
• The Burning Chambers – Kate Mosse
• Jane Seymour: The Haunted Queen – Alison Weir
• The Falcon of Sparta – Conn Iggulden

Romance

• Shelter in Place – Nora Roberts
• The Family Gathering – Robyn Carr
• The Good Luck Charm – Helen Hunting
• Surprise Me – Sophie Kinsella
• Daisy’s Vintage Cornish Camper Van – Ali McNamara
• Crudo – Olivia Lang
• Coming Home – Fern Britton
• The Summer of Impossible Things – Rowan Coleman

Children and Young Adult

• Children of Blood and Bone – Tomi Adeyemi
• The Moxie – Jennifer Mathieu
• The Start of You and Me – Emery Lord
• Not if I Save you First – Ally Carter
• One of us is Lying – Karen McManus
• The Hate U Give – Angie Thomas
• The Kissing Booth – Beth Reekles
• Letters from the Lighthouse – Emma Carroll
• The Legend of Podkin One-Ear – Kieran Larwood
• See you in the Cosmos – Jack Cheng
• The Girl Who Drank the Moon – Kelly Barnhill
• The Book of Dust – Philip Pullman

There are some great titles in here. There’s nothing wrong with getting your books online, but if you can, and there is one where you live, do consider using your independent bookshop.

Hope you have a great time this summer.