The 52 Book Club: 2025 / 2026 Challenge discussion

1) Choose your road trip DESTINATION A: The Beach

For this prompt, read a book set at the beach. This should be one of the primary settings for the book, but it may also include secondary locations.



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I read Penguin on Vacation by Salina Yoon, 3.5 Stars

I am thinking either: the Light Between Oceans, the Boardwalk Bookstore, or The Blue Bistro, all of which are on my REAL TBR shelves

Update: I read the Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin. Takes place on an island

I read The Girls of Summer by Katie Bishop. This is a dual timeline book with the bulk of the story set in the past where the main character spent a summer working in a bar on the beach on a remote Greek island.

In The Secret Life of Miss Mary Bennet by Katherine Cowley, Mary finds a dead body on a beach.

My Killer Vacation by Tessa Bailey 4/5

The Whale Rider
Just finished this audio book and loved it.

I went with Beach Read by Emily Henry because it has been on my TBR for awhile! 3.5 stars.

I read Happy Place by Emily Henry

The Cottage by the Sea by Debbie Macomber

I read Summer with a Star by Merry Farmer, set in the seaside community of Summerbury, Maine.
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I don't like to read books about beaches or water. I've almost drowned three times, so I suppose it's okay to look at in pictures, but I'd rather not deal with it any more than that.

So my pick is Travelling Cat Chronicles by Arikawa Hiro.

It's a secondary location in the book, but provides some much needed humor when the cat, Nana, realizes that the ocean may produce what he most loves to eat, but is not quite the paradise of gastronomic delight that he'd hoped. I related to Nana very much in that chapter.