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
9 of 15
The Bonfire of The Vanities
By Tom Wolfe
704 pages;
Picador
What do you get when a philandering wall Street WASP accidentally hits a young black man with his Mercedes somewhere in the Bronx? In Wolfe's hands, you get a hilariously astute slice of social commentary—of gilded age excess, ego and maneuvering—with precious few innocents in sight. Irresistible. The Dylan's Candy bar of novels.
— Leigh Haber
Published 06/20/2014
