20 Best Beach Reads for Summer 2024: Explore New Books to Bring on Vacation

When Margo becomes pregnant with the professor at her junior college, she is left to fend for herself. When her father turns up at her doorstep, she uses his former pro-wrestling career advice to become an adult internet star in Margo's Got Money Troubles. 

From Crazy Rich Asians author Kevin Kwan, Lies and Weddings tells the story of Rufus Leung Gresham, a future earl. Despite a lifestyle of luxury with yachts and manors, the Gresham family is in tremendous debt, but a scheming mother has a solution: Rufus will seduce a rich woman at his sister's wedding to marry.

The Ministry of Time is spy thriller with a mix of time travel and romance. When a civil servant begins working a new time travel project, she must decide if falling in love is worth the consequences of changing history.

This immersive romance novel taking place during the Spanish Inquisition tells the story of Luzia, a magic user enlisted to help the king.

President Lincoln was only in office for five months before the Civil War began. See what unfolded in those days in Erik Larson's latest nonfiction historical thriller.

Kristin Hannah, author of The Nightingale, has a new book that's made its way onto four of the top bestseller lists. The Women tells the story of Frances, a field nurse who enters the Vietnam War to return home only to find rising political tensions. 

A Reese's Book Club Pick, First Lie Wins is a thriller that centers around Evie Porter, who is actually someone else and was given her identity by the mysterious Mr. Smith. Evie wants a new life, but one slip-up will change her future forever.

It's been the topic of multiple dystopian novels, but what would actually happen in the case of nuclear war? Nuclear War by Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen explores this scenario by interviewing military and civilian experts. 

“This book is so multi-dimensional, just as life is—Kennedy Ryan covers divorce, self-discovery, autism, raising kids, the power of friendships, and other huge life changes, but it is done in a way that is so real and relatable,” says Amazon Editor Kami Tei.

As the UFC's first female champion, Ronda Rousey has made a name for herself in the world of mixed martial arts. Sharing her journey — from the pursuit of perfection to the pursuit of happiness — this relatable story is about facing your fears.  

Currently No. 1 on Amazon's Most Sold Non-Fiction Books for the week, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up by Abigail Shrier explores the rising mental health crisis happening specifically in the Gen Z population. Interviewing experts in the field, Shrier explores some of the serious side effects of popular therapeutic approaches.

The poetic novel skin & bones by Renée Watson tells the story of Lena, whose world is rocked by a confession on her wedding day.

This much-anticipated book by Tana French tells the story of Cal Hooper, who develops a quiet life in Ireland with Lena and her unruly son Trey after retiring early from the Chicago P.D. When Trey's absent father shows up, the couple will do whatever they must to protect the boy.

In this story, a scandal rocks Caseham High School when the news of an inappropriate student-teacher relationship comes to light. However, nothing is what it seems in Freida McFadden's newest thriller.

New York Times best-selling author Rebecca Serle released a heart-wrenching story about finding love that made Amazon's best books of March. 

New York Times best-selling author Tia Williams' latest book is a No. 1 pick on Amazon. In A Love Song for Ricki Wilde, misfit Ricki Wilde moves to Harlem to open a flower shop where a mysterious stranger sets her world ablaze. 

Award-winning journalist Antonia Hylton explains the 93-year-old history of Crownsville Hospital — a segregated asylum in Maryland — in her book Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum, which was one of Amazon Editor's Best Book Picks. The hospital discussed in the book was shuttered in 2004 but the building still stands today.

Lana is a former movie star who invites her closest friends on a vacation to her private Greek island. But things suddenly take a turn when one of them is murdered in Alex Michaelides' new thriller The Fury.

Horse, which was released in mid-January, is already an award-winning novel that focuses on race, art and history.

Telling stories from those at the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, Wandering Stars spans three generations of a family detailing their struggles and hopes for the future.