In need of a pool-side easy read while you are relaxing this summer?  Check out these top beach reads!

1. One More Thing

 

Former The Office writer B.J. Novak delivers tales of his trials and tribulations growing up.  These witty, short-stories cover the topics of love, success, and social media.

 

2. The Opposite of Loneliness

 

Marina Keegan was a star on the rise when she graduated from Yale in 2012.  She had a play that was soon to be produced at the New York International Fringe Festival when she was devastatingly killed in a car accident five days after graduation.  Her essays, poems, and stories  have been gathered into a collection.  Now a critically acclaimed author, Marina’s lessons of life and the true meaning of happiness live on.

 

3. Attachments

 

This amusing fiction work follows two female co-worker’s back-and-forth emails.  As the company’s internet security officer secretly surveys these women’s emails, he finds himself falling in love with one of the women just based on her private exchanges.

 

4.  Eight Hundred Grapes

 

This impossible-to-put-down novel is witty, funny, and heartbreaking.  This heartwarming tale tells of a bride-to-be finding out a life-changing secret about her British, dreamy fiancee and driving home to Georgia.  However, once she is home, she soon realizes her fiancee wasn’t the only one keeping secrets.  This novel explores the meaning of true love, the messiness of families, and finding somewhere to call home.

 

5.  Where’d You Go, Bernadette

This tale follows a young girl, Bee, as she puts together emails, letters, and documents that her mother wrote.  She pieces together pieces of writing from the past as she begins her search to find her mother, Bernadette.