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Summer is in full swing and there'south zero like heading to the embankment — or the park — sitting by the water, contemplating the view, grabbing a practiced book and but immersing ourselves in it. That'southward why nosotros're throwing out some ideas for the perfect summer novels.

We are adhering to "beach reads" rules though: most of the titles here are either total page-turners or grant some instant gratification — or both. And all of them will transport y'all to faraway places or the kind of setting you'd bask spending a holiday at, either because of when they were written or where they are set.

"The Talented Mr. Ripley" by Patricia Highsmith (1955)

The oldest book on this list is the first one in a serial of five psychological thrillers that Patricia Highsmith wrote almost her infamous Tom Ripley character. Even if he's a sociopath with more than than murderous tendencies, the reader can't avoid existence on Ripley'due south side while reading Highsmith's engrossing novels.

The whole serial is set in Europe with the first book taking its protagonist and the reader to San Remo, Rome, Palermo and Venice. Plus, there's a abiding longing for a trip to Greece.

This Australian classic is set in 1900 and features a group of boarders from an all-girls school in Victoria as they have a day trip to the nearby geological formation Hanging Rock. At that place are plenty of descriptions of proper picnic attire, the dazzler of the mural and the relationships that bond this group of teenagers and their teachers.

And while Joan Lindsay's writing style and the setting for this novel may take you drawing some parallels with other classic coming-of-age novels written by and starring women, the catastrophe of Picnic at Hanging Rock could only have been written in the 1960s.

"Los mares del Sur" (Southern Seas) by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán (1979)

Allow me the hometown reference with this Castilian novel set in Barcelona in 1979. Written by the Galician-Catalan writer Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Southern Seasis the most famous of his novels starring the private detective Pepe Carvalho. He's a gourmet who'south equally obsessed with food, literature and the metropolis of Barcelona.

Besides a methodical description of the metropolis in the late 1970s, the book also includes references to a trip to the Southern Seas that never was.

"Norwegian Wood" by Haruki Murakami (1987)

Written by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami, this coming-of-age novel follows the story of Toru Watanabe, a college pupil who is obsessed with American literature. He's trying to figure out his life in Tokyo in the 1960s and ends upward in relationships with two women who couldn't exist more than different: there's Naoko, the former girlfriend of his best friend, and Midori, 1 of his classmates.

The story takes the reader from the bustling streets of Tokyo to the peaceful quietness of a rehab middle lost in the mountains nearby Kyoto.

"Get Shorty" by Elmore Leonard (1990)

Small-fourth dimension Miami loan shark Chili Palmer travels to Las Vegas, hoping to get a debt paid, and ends up in Los Angeles, where he learns about the movie-making business organisation and how to become a producer. Set in Hollywood in 1990, this California archetype masterfully blends suspense, thrills, humor and even the slightest hint of a Western.

This story is and so quintessentially Hollywood that at that place's a 1995 movie accommodation starring John Travolta and a 2017 TV evidence with Chris O'Dowd, just yous should definitely get-go with the Elmore Leonard novel.

"Death at La Fenice" by Donna Leon (1992)

American novelist Donna Leon has been calling Venice home for years. Her first volume in the mystery series that stars the Venetian police detective Guido Brunetti follows the investigation of a music conductor's expiry afterwards he's poisoned during the intermission of a Verdi opera at La Felice.

Leon has been steadily publishing i new Commissario Guido Brunetti installment a yr for decades. So if you love the Venitian setting, crime stories and the constant descriptions of all the succulent foods (and drinks) that Brunetti ingests on a daily basis, this could definitely be the series for you.

"Telephone call Me by Your Proper noun" by André Aciman (2007)

Chances are we'll never get to come across Luca Guadagnino'southward sequel to his Call Me by Your Name movie adaptation. And while André Aciman's follow-up novel, Find Me, may exit hardcore fans of Elio and Oliver a little bit underwhelmed, there's nothing like going back to the original material.

Set against the backdrop of the Italian Riviera, this coming-of-historic period story follows the precocious Elio every bit he falls in love with Oliver, a graduate student and Elio's parents' guest for the summertime. This iconic summer read perfectly captures the feeling of longing for someone and it features plentiful, engaging conversations, early morning time swims, leisurely cycle rides, a furtive relationship and a passionate trip to Rome.

"Americanah" past Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2013)

Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie sets this story — that deals with immigration, race and the feeling of belonging — in Lagos, London and New Jersey. Her protagonist is Ifemelu, a immature Nigerian woman who moves to the United States to farther her studies.

Americanahmakes for a neat read not only as an engaging and entertaining novel but too as a report about race in America from the perspective of a non-American Black person. The novel also packs a circuitous love story between Ifemelu and Obinze, who moves to London and has to alive there as an undocumented immigrant.

"Big Picayune Lies" by Liane Moriarty (2014)

I don't care if you've already seen the star-packed HBO miniseries and know non only who the killer of this story is but also the identity of the person who dies and whose investigation propels the whole plot, Liane Moriarty's soapy thriller even so very much deserves a read.

On the 1 hand, instead of the rugged coast of Northern California, the novel Big Niggling Lies is fix in the suburban Northern Beaches of Sydney. On the other hand, the book jams enough sense of humor and sharp barrack — especially when it comes to the inclusion of dialogue from the police interrogations amongst the many parents who accept their kids to the same school as our protagonists — that you'll find plenty nuggets of new textile to more than justify the read.

"The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo" by Taylor Jenkins Reid (2017)

Taylor Jenkins Reid's historical fiction bestseller is set between the publishing world of present-day New York and the classic Hollywood of the 1950s, 1960s and onward. When the relatively unknown announcer Monique Grant is tasked with writing a contour on the legendary extra Evelyn Hugo, she can't believe her career-changing luck.

The novel guides the reader through a serial of interviews between Monique and Evelyn in which the onetime star tells her origin story and the reasons behind her many marriages throughout the years.

"Less" by Andrew Sean Greer (2017)

Andrew Sean Greer's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel stars Arthur Less equally a novelist with a dwindling career and a broken heart. As if all of that wasn't enough already, Less is on the brink of turning 50. When his former long-fourth dimension boyfriend invites Less to his wedding, our hapless protagonist decides to embark on a series of back-to-back international trips with a "ramshackle itinerary" to avoid the much-dreaded event.

Greer's fun and never-quiet novel takes the reader and its protagonist from the foggy shores of San Francisco to New York City, Mexico City, Turin, Paris, Berlin, Morocco, India and Japan.

"Amanuensis Running in the Field" by John le Carré (2019)

The last published novel of late spymaster John le Carré is a return to some of his career-defining themes in the world of international espionage, which he describes with precision — and without a glimpse of glamour or spectacle.

The novel stars Nat, a reluctant-to-be-out-of-the-field agent in his late forties, who has had a long career developing sources in Russia. Nat's back in London and somehow can't avoid getting himself involved in all the same some other surveillance plot. The book is set in 2018 and there'southward constant chatter amidst its characters regarding Brexit and the Trump administration. Le Carré favors none of those.

Even if you don't like international thrillers featuring double agents that much — who doesn't though? — Agent Running in the Field is still worth a read if just to appreciate Le Carré's succinct yet masterfully rich and descriptive prose.

"Beach Read" by Emily Henry (2020)

Let'southward add Beach Readto this list of beach reads because Emily Henry'due south romance novel truly does its title justice. Fix in a modest Michigan town, the novel tells the story of bestselling romance author January and acclaimed fiction writer Gus. They end up beingness neighbors and living side-past-side in lakefront cottages.

I thing leads to another and they finish upwards making a deal: by the end of the summer he'll be the one to pen a romance volume and she'll write a dark and bleak one. They both demand to teach the other everything they need to know to be able to produce something in a genre they're not used to working in. Of course, besides all the procrastinating and writing, there's also time for love.

"The Vanishing Half" by Brit Bennett (2020)

Last year's revelatory novel The Vanishing One-half tackles the subject of passing when it comes to racial identity. The Brit Bennett-penned historical novel, which is already existence adult into a limited series by HBO, tells the story of two identical twin sisters from a small town in rural Louisiana where the bulk Black population is so light-skinned that one of the sisters passes as a white woman for most of her life after fleeing town.

The action encompasses several decades starting in the 1950s and weaves together the life of the assimilated sister — who'south leading a double life in New Orleans beginning and and so Los Angeles — with that of the other one, who is forced to return abode.

"Velvet Was the Night" by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (2021)

Let'due south shut this list with an August release from one of 2020'southward bestselling authors. Later her Mexican Gothicwas chosen every bit Best Horror novel last twelvemonth by the Goodreads users, author Silvia Moreno-Garcia returns with Velvet Was the Night.

The Mexican Canadian author sets the action in 1970s Mexico Metropolis and writes well-nigh Maite, a secretary obsessed with romance stories and her beautiful neighbor Leonora. When the object of her fixation disappears, Maite starts looking for her — only she isn't the only 1.

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