Looking for fun beach reads for spring break? Here’s a list I put together of my favorites and a few favorites from my mom.

Westleigh, my niece, and my sister all took off yesterday for a cruise that’s leaving from Puerto Rico.

And as we were weighing her suitcase to take on the trip, it was over by 4 pounds.

Can you guess what the extra four pounds were?

Books.

I come from a family of readers, and now the next generation is continuing the tradition. It’s a family pastime, reading and discussing and sharing books that we love (and some that we might not want to read again).

There’s just something about spring break and books.

I posted this list last year, but I’ve read so many really good beach reads between now and then that I wanted to update it.

And to make it even more fun?

So today I asked for help from my mother and asked for everyone’s favorite beach read on Facebook.

So my mother has a few book recommendations and I have a few recommendations, and all of you had a few recommendations.

And between all of us?

Here are 10 of the best beach reads for your spring break.

10 of the best beach reads

// the last dance of the debutante //

1. The Last Dance Of the Debutante

We’ll start with a choice that my mother picked.

It’s a story about Lily Nichols, a debutante with a glittering entrance into the world of high society.

Except.

Except she discovers a family secret that could change everything and she has to choose between the life she’s always known and one that she is going to create for herself.

You can see it here.

// The Correspondent //

2. The Correspondent

This was a recommendation right off the list on Facebook.

And it was one of our book club books, too.

And the host of the book club sent us all letters.

Because the book is all about letters written by Sybil Van Antwerp. The letters help her examine her life and confront a painful past, helping her find forgiveness and move forward.

You can see The Correspondent here.

// The Paradise Problem //

3. The Paradise Problem

This is my recommendation, and it’s the perfect beach read.

It has romance and mystery and a remote island and a billionaire.

Can it get any better?

Anna Green marries Liam Weston to get into married student housing, and then she thinks they are divorced.

Except.

Except they never got divorced, and she finds out later that she’s still married to him and he’s a gazillionaire. He asks her to accompany him to a resort for his sister’s wedding and pretend to be in love with each other.

It’s so good and the love story is even better.

You can see The Paradise Problem here.

// The Five Star Weekend //

4. The Five-Star Weekend

This is a book directly from the list on Facebook (but I love it, too). Elin is the queen of the beach read, and she has two books on this list.

I’ve read tons of her books, and I chose two of my favorites, and this is one of them.

Maybe I love it so much because it’s about a food blogger named Hollis.

She’s recovering from tragedy and invites five of her closest friends from different eras of her life to a weekend at her house in Nantucket.

I loved it because the descriptions of Nantucket are so good and there’s an amazing twist at the end.

You can see The Five Star Weekend here.

// The Lost Summers of Newport //

5. The Lost Summers Of Newport

This book is amazing because there are three different stories in different time periods that all come together.

There are three timelines—1899, 1958, and the present day.

It starts with a modern-day television show about old historic homes and when they tour the mansion in Newport, another story from another time emerges. 

You know how much I love this time period, and I’ve been to Newport to tour the houses, so it really brought the novel to life.

You can see the book here.

// The Forgotten Garden //

6. The Forgotten Garden

It’s all about a little girl who was discovered sitting on a port in Australia after (apparently) taking a two-month ship voyage by herself from England.

She’s adopted by the port master and when she grows up, she tries to discover the mystery of who she is.

But she’s unable to discover who her family was, so it’s left to her granddaughter to uncover the mystery.

You can see The Forgotten Garden here.

// Theo of Golden //

7. Theo of Golden

This is such a feel good read. It’s a story that makes you believe in humanity again. It starts one day in early spring when an 86-year-old man arrives in the town of Golden. He sees a wall of portraits at the local gallery and begins to “bestow” the portraits back to their owners.

What happens next is nothing short of miraculous. Lives are changed. People achieve more than they ever thought they could—all because someone believed in them.

And there’s a twist at the end that I didn’t see coming.

Amazing book. Truly amazing.

You can see Theo of Golden here.

// The Room On Rue Amelie //

8. The Room On Rue Amelie

This is another recommendation from my mother.

The book unfolds in Nazi-occupied Paris, where American bride Ruby Benoit lives with her husband.

And then?

He vanishes and everyone is suspicious that he’s in the resistance.

Ruby has a young Jewish neighbor, Charlotte Dacher, who she hides along with a stranded British RAF pilot, Thomas Clarke. It’s all about bravery in the face of overwhelming challenge.

You can see it here.

// Broken Country //

9. Broken Country

This was my book club book this month, and it was also a Reese’s book club pick.

It’s really popular right now, so many of you may have read it already.

It’s set in rural Dorset, England, and the novel goes back and forth between the past and the present (with the same characters). Beth, now married to Frank, a local farmer, is pulled back into a childhood romance when Gabriel—her first love—returns with his son, 

There’s a tragic event that happens, and she has to choose between the two loves of her life.

You can see Broken Country here.

// The Hotel Nantucket //

10. The Hotel Nantucket

Here’s the second of Elin’s books to make the list.

Lizbet Keaton had a really bad break-up, and she takes a job to revive the once-grand, but now dilapidated, Hotel Nantucket.

The hotel was just purchased by British billionaire owner, Xavier Darling, who’s determined to impress high-profile travel influencer (another influencer book, do you see a pattern). 

There’s a mystery and 5 or 6 different storylines all involving drama (and a little romance).

You can see The Hotel Nantucket here.

I hope you enjoyed the list.

So many good recommendations and so many good books to go on an adventure with.

Here’s to spring break.

Here’s to a book you can’t put down.

And a beach to share it with.

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