What are your all-time favorite beach reads? (please don't say Michel Foucault...)?

Question

There's nothing like sitting on a sunny beach reading a great trashy or frothy book, like Bergdorf Blondes or Flowers in the Attic. What are your favorite beach books?

Answer 1

I'll admit, reading on the beach in Hawaii for my honeymoon last month, I brought a bunch of Lisa Klepyas and Stephanie Laurens (romance).

My fiance read "The Economist," "The Art of War," and a book of teachings by Plato.

He just doesn't get the concept of beach reading.

Answer 2

Rebecca Paisley-A basket of wishes.
Its about a fairy Splendour who is ordered to marry a human( a duke).The poor hero is confused by the woman who will shrink if not kissed regularly,drinks apricot face lotion.On top of that he is harassed by splendour's sister who even turns him into a snail.His cousin Emil thinks that Splendour is exactly what the doctor ordered for the staid ,boring Jordan.

Mary Balogh-Lady with a black umbrella(Funny romance).The heroine is always rescuing the hero-whether he wants to be rescued or not.

Lynsay Sands-A bride promises her father that she'll obey her husband 'always'.I mean 'always'.The poor groom didn't know what he was going to get when he was coarced to marry the king's daughter.

Anne Gracie-The perfect rake.The heroine just wants to save her sisters from their abusive grand father.However one lie led to another and another.The hero was perfectly willing to go along with the charades.

Really great romance novels
You belong to me-Johanna lindsey
A dark champion,Born in sin-Kinley Macgregor
Angel rogue,One perfect rose,The wild child-Mary jo Putney
Mary Balogh-Slightly tempted,A famous heroine,The temporary wife
The de burgh bride-Deborah Simmons
Isn't it romantic-Ronda Thompson
How to treat a lady-Karen Hawkins(and the rest of the Talisman ring series)
Lord of the storm,The sky pirate-Justine Davis

Answer 3

I like a good Mary Higgins Clark mystery when I'm on vacation. They move quickly, don't require my attention too much, and are entertaining. I read The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber last summer, and oh my!, that was a good, scandalous beachy read.

Answer 4

Last Chance Saloon, by Marion Keyes
Bridget Jones, by Helen Fielding

Answer 5

The last book I read on the beach was Chocolat, about four years ago. Good book.

Answer 6

Anything by Kurt Vonnegut because his books are breezy, easy reads that makes me laugh. If I had to choose one Vonnegut book, I'd make an unusual choice and say _Hocus Pocus_, an underrated book.

Answer 7

Anything by Anne Rivers Siddons.

Answer 8

anything by Sherrilyn Kenyon