Starr Struck Summer Reading List 2018: Beach Reads Galore!

Oh you guys, last week's trip to Nantucket was so dreamy! As you probably saw on Instagram (where all the Starr Struck action is happening these days), the trip included 6 adults and 1 toddler [who took long daily naps] and I actually got to read on the beach twice. TWICE!!! As a #todlermom, I seriously felt like I was living my best possible "vacation" life on this trip.

Plus, doing that tiny bit of beach reading got me thinking about how much I want to do lots more beach reading this summer (a fantasy that might be possible given that we live 5 mins from the beach...), and reminded me to pull together my summer reading list to share with you. Thus, today's post! 

Here are some of the fun, beachy, *mostly* light-hearted fiction books that are on my 2018 Summer Reading List:

• The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai: Amazon describes this book as "a dazzling new novel of friendship and redemption in the face of tragedy and loss, set in 1980s Chicago and contemporary Paris." Sounds good to me!
  
  
• Tell Me Lies: A Novel by Carola Loverling: This book as has been on almost every "Summer Must-Read List" that I've seen this year and that's all I need. It follows a couple through college and their post-college life in NYC, alternating between their voices + experiences. Yes, please! I'm a sucker for a book written from different points of view. 
  
  
• When Katie Met Cassidy by Camille Peri: Another book that has been making it's rounds on the recommended reading lists and it sounds really interesting--it's about a recently-dumped, traditional Kentuckian (now living in NYC) who falls for a woman for the first time in her life. 
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• Girl, Wash Your Face: Stop Believing the Lies About Who You Are So You Can Become Who You Were Meant To Be by Rachel Hollis: You've probably heard of this book already because it's a NYT Bestseller and has been on the top of all of the charts, but if you haven't and like funny, honest, direct life stories and advice, I recommend you pick it up. I'm so excited about reading it!
  
  
• The Perfect Couple by Elin Hilderbrand: Hilderbrand has been called the "Queen of the Summer Beach Read" and with her novels based on Nantucket (in wedding season, no less!), that's no surprise. However, this one involves a dead body that washes up on the beach and turns everyone involved in a big wedding into a suspect. Duh duh duh... ;) 
  
  
• All We Ever Wanted by Emily Giffin: I've enjoyed Giffin's past novels and have heard that just like her others, this one is a total page-turner (in that great beach read kind of way). The basic premise? Three different characters are all brought together by a single photograph shared on social media, and the story is told in their three distinct voices. 
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• When Life Gives You LuluLemons by Lauren Weisberger: The sequel to A Devil Wears Prada! That's all I need to know. Can't wait to find out what's been happening in Emily Charlton's life since she left Miranda Priestly's office...
  
  
• The Terrible by Yrsa Daley-Ward: This is definitely the heaviest, most non-Beach-Read book on this list, but I had to include it because I really want to read it. It's a new memoir by Yrsa Daley-Ward (of Instagram Poetry fame) and it's supposed to be really incredible. I've never met a memoir I didn't like so it's obviously on my list.
  
  

8 Books for this summer! Do you think I can do it? Here's to hoping...and I hope that you, too, can find some time to head to the beach (or pool, or lake, or heck, bathtub!) and do some fun, carefree reading this summer. 

Happy July, happy warm weather, happy reading, + happy Independence Day to you!