Beach Reads Are The Best!

Living in Hawai`i, I have the pleasure of going to the most beautiful white-sandy beaches in the world, which are almost in my backyard. Getting absorbed in a good book while the warm turquoise water laps at my feet and chair is my favorite way to spend a day. As an author, I strive to give my readers an experience they can get lost in no matter where they're reading.

Here are some of my favorite beach reads. What are yours?

Summer Collection

(It's always summer in Hawai`i.)

All-Time Favorites

Read and Enjoyed

Some of the books that engaged my imagination and heart over the years. Not all are considered classics, but they are to me.

Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry
The Sword of Shannara, by Terry Brooks
Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte
Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
Rebecca, by Daphne Du Maurier
Three Musketeers, by Alexandre Dumas
Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton
Gone With The Wind, by Margaret Mitchell
Harry Potter books, by J.K. Rowling
Dune books, by Frank Herbert
Outlander books, by Diana Gabaldon

I was captured by these books in more recent years.

The Nightingale, by Kristin Hannah
The Tattooist of Auschwitz, by Heather Morris
The Fortune Hunter, by Daisy Goodwin
The American Heiress, by Daisy Goodwin
Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn
The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
The Memory Thief, by Emily Colin
Where The Crawdads Sing, by Delia Owens
Me Before You, by Jojo Moyes
The Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger

On My List

Books I will be reading in the very near future.

The Second Mrs. Astor, by Shana Abe
The Missing Pages, by Alyson Richman
Typewriter Beach, by Meg Waite Clayton
The Lost Apothecary, by Sarah Penner