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
7 of 15
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
By Milan Kundera
320 pages;
Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Prepare to be transported—to Prague, to bedrooms where a deeply erotic love triangle plays out, to a heady milieu of musings on the meaning of life. As transfixing a world as prose can conjure.
— Leigh Haber
Published 06/20/2014