Today's episode is all about our picks for your beach reads this year! 

As a reminder, the beach is a closed ecosystem and what you read there does not transcend into other realms. Like the airport, nothing matters here. Read your crazy books, be free, have fun. 

BEACH READS: 

• Bull Moon Rising by Ruby Dixon
• Funny Story by Emily Henry
• The Fake Boyfriend Fiasco by Talia Hibbert
• Gravity & The Other Side of the Story by Tal Bauer
• Here We Go Again by Alison Cochrun
• You With a View by Jessica Joyce
• The Five Year Lie by Sarina Bowen
• Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
• The Displacements by Bruce Holsinger

Recent Reads:

• This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel
• Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid
• Ariadne by Jennifer Saint

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