May 2012

Booklists · Beach Books

Heading for the beach or the local pool this summer? Make sure you pack some books in with your sunscreen and flip-flops. Need a few ideas? Check out our list of sizzling staff picks!

Books for Kids: Easy Books

Traction Man and the Beach Odyssey

Mini Grey

Seven Days of Daisy

Jamie Hogan

Baby Loves Summer!

Karen Katz

Beach Feet

Kiyomi Konagaya

Seven Little Mice Go to the Beach

Harou Yamashita

In the Ocean

Salina Yoon

Books for Kids: Juvenile Fiction & Nonfiction

Summer at Forsaken Lake

Michael D. Beil

Justin Case: Shells, Smells, and the Horrible Flip-Flops of Doom

Rachel Vail

Ocean Sunlight: How Tiny Plants Feed the Seas

Molly Bang

The Big Green Book of the Big Blue Sea

Helaine Becker

Water Sings Blue: Ocean Poems

Kate Coombs

Adult Nonfiction: Beach Reads

In a Sunburned Country

Bill Bryson

Close to Shore: A True Story of Terror in an Age of Innocence

Mike Capuzzo

The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean

Susan Casey

Demon Fish: Travels through the Hidden World of Sharks

Juliet Eilperin

Isaac's Storm: A Man, A Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History

Erik Larson

National Geographic Field Guide to the Water's Edge

Stephen P. Leatherman

The Ocean of Life: The Fate of Man and the Sea

Callum Roberts

Unfamiliar Fishes

Sarah Vowell

Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories

Simon Winchester

Adult Nonfiction: Summer Cooking, Grilling, Drinks & Desserts

Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams at Home

Jeni Britton Bauer

In the Kennedy Kitchen: Recipes and Recollections of a Great American Family

Neil Connolly

The River Cottage Fish Book

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

Humphry Slocombe Ice Cream Book

Jake Godby

The Maine Summers Cookbook: Recipes for Delicious, Sun-Filled Days

Linda Greenlaw

The Hamptons: Food, Family, and History

Ricky Lauren

Rao's on the Grill: Perfectly Simple Italian Recipes from My Family to Yours

Frank Pellegrino

Homemade Soda

Andrew Schloss

Perfect Pies: The Best Sweet and Savory Recipes from America's Pie-Baking Champion

Michele Stuart

Adult Fiction: General

The Dressmaker

Kate Alcott

The Half-Stitched Amish Quilting Club

Wanda E. Brunstetter

The Good Father

Diane Chamberlain

Roam: A Novel with Music

Alan Lazar

Mama Ruby

Mary Monroe

The Reverend's Wife

Kimberla Lawson Roby

The Family Business

Carl Weber

Adult Fiction: Mystery & Suspense

The Columbus Affair

Steve Berry

The Night Strangers

Chris Bohjalian

Love is Murder

Sandra Brown

Guilt by Degrees

Marcia Clark

The Cat Sitter's Pajamas

Blaize Clement

Tote Bags and Toe Tags

Dorothy Howell

Afterwards

Rosamund Lupton

The Jaguar: A Charlie Hood Novel

T. Jefferson Parker

The Expats

Chris Pavone

Adult Fiction: Romance & Chick Lit

No Tan Lines

Kate Angell

The Proposal

Mary Balogh

The Cottage at Glass Beach

Heather Doran Barbieri

Falling Together

Marisa De los Santos

Wife 22

Melanie Gideon

The Fiddler

Beverly Lewis

Beach House Memories

Mary Alice Monroe

Lucky in Love

Jill Shalvis

The Summer Garden

Sherryl Woods

Adult Fiction: Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror

Apocalypse

Troy Denning

Red, White, and Blood

Christopher Farnsworth

The Magician King

Lev Grossman

Autumn: Aftermath

David Moody

The Night Circus

Erin Morgenstern

Snuff: A Novel of Discworld

Terry Pratchett

Need more suggestions? Contact your local library and a reference librarian will be happy to assist you.