Escape into Summer Stories with 2025 Beach Reads

By Kat La Mantia | May 16 2025 | BlogAdultsGeneralAll

No summer vacation is complete without a book to lay on the beach with! From hilarious and swoony rom coms to feel good cozy mysteries, the beach read is as essential as swim gear and sunscreen for a relaxing day spent on the sand.

There’s no wrong answer when it comes to curating a summer TBR list. Staple reads like Kristin Hannah’s Summer Island are great for readers looking for something more than this year’s trends, while the deluxe edition of Emily Henry’s bestselling romance Beach Read–complete with sprayed edges and endpapers in the colors of an ocean sunset–is a great option for fans who want to revisit their five star favorites and add to their bookshelf wealth! For readers plugged into the book buzz, Stuck Up and Stupid and First-Time Caller are set to be the stories of the summer that bookish influencers will be talking about, while new releases from fan-favorite authors like Ali Hazelwood, Lyla Sage, Jojo Moyes, and Annabel Monaghan are sure to reach bestseller status. For folks who like the thrill of mystery more than steamy romances, Murder by Cheesecake is a lighthearted cozy mystery that features the Golden Girls caught up in a scandal in the middle of a Miami summer, and How to Solve Your Own Murder is a New York Times bestselling twist on the classic English murder mystery with clever Agatha Christie vibes.

Pick out the perfect books for your summer displays by exploring the titles on our 2025 beach reads list, then grab a summery tote from Out of Print to create a grab-and-go, beach-ready bundle!

Top Beach Reads for Summer 2025
Summer Vibes from Out of Print

Deluxe Edition
9780593817414
Now in a stunning new hardcover package: Emily Henry’s adult debut, which launched her onto the world stage as the reigning queen of romance, about a romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engaging in a summerlong challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters
$35.00 US
Oct 01, 2024
6 x 9
Hardcover
400 Pages
Berkley

9781984806758
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by Newsweek ∙ Oprah Magazine ∙ Marie Claire ∙ Parade ∙ PopSugar ∙ BookPage ∙ BookBub ∙ Betches ∙ SheReads ∙ Good Housekeeping ∙ BuzzFeed ∙ and more!Two best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall in love. From the New York Times bestselling author of Funny Story, a sparkling new novel that will leave you with the warm, hazy afterglow usually reserved for the best vacations.
$16.00 US
May 11, 2021
5-1/2 x 8-1/4
Paperback
400 Pages
Berkley

9780593441299
Two writers compete for the chance to tell the larger-than-life story of a woman with more than a couple of plot twists up her sleeve in this dazzling and sweeping novel from Emily Henry.
$29.00 US
Apr 22, 2025
6 x 9
Hardcover
432 Pages
Berkley

A Novel
9780593600313
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In the wake of tragedy, a group of friends makes a pact that will cause them to reunite a decade later and embark upon a life-changing adventure together—from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Meant to Be.
$18.00 US
Apr 29, 2025
5-1/2 x 8-1/4
Paperback
368 Pages
Ballantine Books

9798217187430

What is wrong meets what feels right in this romance set in Italy by the New York Times bestselling author of Deep End. Maya Killgore is twenty-three and still in the process of figuring out her life. Conor Harkness is thirty-eight, and Maya cannot stop thinking about him.It’s such a cliché, it almost makes her heart implode: older man and younger woman; successful biotech guy and struggling grad student; brother’s best friend and the girl he never even knew existed. As Conor loves to remind her, the power dynamic is too imbalanced. Any relationship between them would be problematic in too many ways to count, and Maya should just get over him. After all, he has made it clear that he wants her gone from his life.But not everything is as it seems—and clichés sometimes become plot twists.

$20.00 US
May 27, 2025
5-1/2 x 8-1/4
Paperback
416 Pages
Berkley

9780593550441
A competitive diver and an ace swimmer jump into forbidden waters in this steamy college romance from the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis.
$20.00 US
Feb 04, 2025
5-1/2 x 8-1/4
Paperback
464 Pages
Berkley

9780593638927
A radiant escape to the lake from #1 New York Times bestselling author Carley Fortune
$29.00 US
May 06, 2025
5-1/2 x 8-1/4
Hardcover
400 Pages
Berkley

A Rebel Blue Ranch Novel
9780593732472
She’s the one that got away. He’s the one that never let her go. From the bestselling author of Done and Dusted and Swift and Saddled, the next book in the Rebel Blue Ranch series, a small town romance in which past lovers get a second chance to rediscover what they lost."Wild and Wrangled is the perfect farewell to the Rebel Blue Ranch series…It's comforting and soft, filled with hot cowboys (important), and serves as a reminder that home will always be there waiting for you when you're ready to go back. I dare you to get to the last page without turning right back around to walk through the gates of Rebel Blue all over again. I'll see you there." Jessica Joyce, USA Today bestselling author of The Ex Vows
$17.99 US
Apr 15, 2025
5-3/16 x 8
Paperback
368 Pages
Dial Press Trade Paperback

A Silver Pines Novel
9780593977118
In this steamy cowboy romance, a woman returns to her family's ranch after a broken engagement and finds herself falling for her brother's best friend—the first novel in the Silver Pines Ranch series.
$18.00 US
Oct 22, 2024
5-3/16 x 8
Paperback
400 Pages
Dell

A Golden Girls Cozy Mystery
9781368102988
***Instant NEW YORK TIMES bestseller***The first novel in the all-new Golden Girls Cozy Mystery Series! When Dorothy’s obnoxious date is found dead in a hotel freezer, it not only ruins a gorgeous cheesecake but threatens the elaborate St. Olaf–themed wedding Rose is hosting.
$16.99 US
Apr 15, 2025
5-1/2 x 8-1/4
Paperback
336 Pages
Hyperion Avenue

A Novel
9780593474020
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, NOW IN PAPERBACK! The dual narrative, feel good mystery in which a woman, Frances, spends a lifetime trying to prevent her murder as predicted by a fortune teller at a country fair when she was just 17. When she is in fact murdered nearly 60 years later, her great niece Annie must solve the crime to avenge her great aunt’s death,and in so doing uncovers the dark heart of the quaint English village of Castle Knoll, where she might just find herself in the path of the killer.
$18.00 US
Mar 25, 2025
5-3/16 x 8
Paperback
384 Pages
Dutton

9798217118076
COMING SOON AS THE ORIGINAL STREAMING SERIES WE WERE LIARS#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The modern, sophisticated suspense novel that became a runaway smash hit on TikTok and introduced the world to a family hiding a jaw-dropping secret—with gorgeous sprayed edges and all-new in-depth exclusive content by E. Lockhart.
$14.99 US
May 06, 2025
5-1/2 x 8-1/4
Paperback
320 Pages
Delacorte Press
Age 12 and up

9780593641194
A hopeless romantic meets a demoralized radio host in this cozy, Sleepless in Seattle–inspired love story from beloved author B.K. Borison.
$19.00 US
Feb 11, 2025
5-3/16 x 8
Paperback
448 Pages
Berkley

9780593813959
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A whirlwind romance inspired by Ferris Bueller’s Day Off about four friends whose hearts are broken and mended over the course of an epic senior skip day—from the bestselling author of The Summer of Broken Rules!
$14.99 US
Mar 04, 2025
5-1/2 x 8-1/4
Paperback
384 Pages
Delacorte Romance
Age 14 and up

9781536239034

“This sharp, hilarious, and heartfelt novel is giving major Austen vibes with a fresh twist – and we’re obsessed.”—Reese’s Book Club (Reese’s Book Club Summer ’25 YA Pick)An ordinary girl. A Hollywood star. A love story that could change everything. Pride and Prejudice gets a modern twist in this summer romance from two debut authors who deliver the perfect beach read with heart and hilarity.Lily has the whole summer stretched out before her—endless days of sunshine and friends at beautiful Pippi Beach. Then superstar Dorian Khan arrives, with his party of Hollywood types. While most of the locals, including Lily’s glamor-obsessed mum, are thrilled to be so close to the A-listers, Lily can’t help but see them as superficial and arrogant, especially Dorian, the most famous of them all. But as Lily’s and Dorian’s paths continue to cross, she begins to wonder if she’s got him all wrong.

$18.99 US
May 06, 2025
5-1/16 x 7-13/16
Hardcover
384 Pages
Candlewick
Age 14 and up

9780593815991
A new small-town romance by Ashley Herring Blake, USA Today bestselling author of Iris Kelly Doesn’t Date.
$19.00 US
May 13, 2025
5-3/16 x 8
Paperback
416 Pages
Berkley

9780593640142
Two strangers find themselves stranded at sea together in this epic new love story by bestselling author Beth O’Leary.
$19.00 US
Apr 01, 2025
5-3/16 x 8
Paperback
384 Pages
Berkley

9780593714102
The Instant New York Times bestseller“Poignant, funny, and bingeable, Annabel Monaghan writes five star reads.” —Abby Jimenez From the USA Today bestselling author of Nora Goes Off Script, a novel about a former adolescent TV actress-turned-Hollywood producer whose “fake it till you make it” mantra sets her on a crash course with her past, forcing her to spend a week on Long Island with the last man she thinks might make her believe in love.
$19.00 US
May 27, 2025
5-3/16 x 8
Paperback
368 Pages
G.P. Putnam's Sons

9780593714089
AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER“A BINGEABLE FIVE-STAR READ.” —ABBY JIMENEZ, #1 New York Times bestselling author"I loved it—brims with heart, wit, and longing.”—CARLEY FORTUNE, #1 New York Times bestselling authorThe romantic and hilarious story of a professional organizer whose life is a mess, and the summer she gets unstuck with the help of someone unexpected from her past, by the bestselling author of Nora Goes Off Script.
$19.00 US
Jun 04, 2024
5-3/16 x 8
Paperback
368 Pages
G.P. Putnam's Sons

A Novel
9780593183359
From the beloved New York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani, a “dazzling” storyteller (Washington Post) comes a novel about one woman’s quest to build her own life before it’s too late.
$29.00 US
Jul 08, 2025
6 x 9
Hardcover
416 Pages
Dutton

A Novel
9780593081945
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the iconic internationally bestselling author of the Crazy Rich Asians trilogy: A forbidden affair erupts volcanically amid a decadent Hawaiian wedding in this outrageous comedy of manners."Imagine Crazy Rich Asians mated with Saltburn and you've got Lies and Weddings—a heavenly summertime read!"—Plum Sykes, New York Times best-selling author of Bergdorf Blondes
$18.00 US
May 20, 2025
5-3/16 x 8
Paperback
448 Pages
Vintage

9780593896143
Beach Reads large zippered tote bag
$42.00 US
Apr 26, 2024
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