The 30 Best Beach Reads to Add to Your Summer Reading List

"The Summer Wives" ($10, originally $20) by Beatriz Williams is an excellent beach read for lovers of historical fiction. In 1951, Miranda is cast into a sparkling world of the society elite when her mother marries a rich, well-connected man and they begin spending summers on Winthrop Island.

There's a divide on the island, though, between the carefree socialites who summer there and the working-class people who live there all year. Nearly 20 years after that first summer, Miranda returns, a successful actress hiding a heartbreak and determined to uncover the truth about a terrible tragedy that once cost her everything.