Best Beach Books By Genre

Non-Fiction

If you read one book this summer, let it be this one. “At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation from a naïve medical student “possessed,” as he wrote, “by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life” into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality.” Need more inscentive? Janet Maslin from The New York Times says, “I guarantee that finishing this book and then forgetting about it is simply not an option.” Go ahead, get your copy right here.

“Originals is one of the most important and captivating books I have ever read, full of surprising and powerful ideas. It will not only change the way you see the world; it might just change the way you live your life. And it could very well inspire you to change your world.” —Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook.

From the Amazon book page, “Using surprising studies and stories spanning business, politics, sports, and entertainment, Grant explores how to recognize a good idea, speak up without getting silenced, build a coalition of allies, choose the right time to act, and manage fear and doubt; how parents and teachers can nurture originality in children; and how leaders can build cultures that welcome dissent.” Change your world, read this book.

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

From the Amazon book page, “As the sea levels rose, every street became a canal. Every skyscraper an island. For the residents of one apartment building in Madison Square, however, New York in the year 2140 is far from a drowned city. There is the market trader, who finds opportunities where others find trouble. There is the detective, whose work will never disappear — along with the lawyers, of course.

There is the internet star, beloved by millions for her airship adventures, and the building’s manager, quietly respected for his attention to detail. Then there are two boys who don’t live there, but have no other home– and who are more important to its future than anyone might imagine. Lastly there are the coders, temporary residents on the roof, whose disappearance triggers a sequence of events that threatens the existence of all– and even the long-hidden foundations on which the city rests.” I know what I’ll be reading on the beach! Get your copy here!

All you need to know about this book is the conversation on the back cover, “‘You assume I’m brutal because that’s what you’ve heard,’ I said. ‘Well, what about what I’ve heard about you? Are you thin-skinned, a coward, a fool?’

‘You’re a Noavck,’ he siad stubbornly, folding his arms, ‘Brutality is in your blood.’

‘I didn’t choose the blood that runs in my veins,’ I replied. ‘Any more than you chose your fate. You and I, we’ve become what we were made to become.’”

I’m hooked! Get your copy here!