15 of Our All-Time Favorite Beach Reads
This surfside canon offers an immersion so total, you won't even notice the Channing Tatum–like lifeguard pulling on his cargo pants and calling it a day.
By Leigh Haber
13 of 15
Crossing to Safety
By Wallace Stegner
335 pages;
Modern Library
"Floating upward through a confusion of dreams and memory, curving like a trout through the rings of previous risings, I surface. My eyes open. I am awake." An incandescent novel about love, marriage, aging and being painfully, exuberantly alive.
— Leigh Haber
Published 06/20/2014