Read Aloud Books About Otters for Kids

Summer is in full swing and there's zero like heading to the beach — or the park — sitting by the water, contemplating the view, grabbing a good book and just immersing ourselves in it. That's why we're throwing out some ideas for the perfect summertime novels.

We are adhering to "embankment reads" rules though: near of the titles here are either total folio-turners or grant some instant gratification — or both. And all of them will transport y'all to faraway places or the kind of setting y'all'd enjoy spending a vacation at, either because of when they were written or where they are ready.

"The Talented Mr. Ripley" by Patricia Highsmith (1955)

The oldest book on this list is the kickoff one in a series of 5 psychological thrillers that Patricia Highsmith wrote about her infamous Tom Ripley character. Even if he's a sociopath with more than murderous tendencies, the reader can't avert existence on Ripley's side while reading Highsmith's engrossing novels.

The whole serial is set in Europe with the first book taking its protagonist and the reader to San Remo, Rome, Palermo and Venice. Plus, there's a constant longing for a trip to Greece.

This Australian archetype is gear up in 1900 and features a group of boarders from an all-girls school in Victoria every bit they take a twenty-four hour period trip to the nearby geological germination Hanging Rock. At that place are plenty of descriptions of proper picnic attire, the beauty of the landscape and the relationships that bond this group of teenagers and their teachers.

And while Joan Lindsay's writing style and the setting for this novel may take you drawing some parallels with other classic coming-of-age novels written by and starring women, the ending of Picnic at Hanging Rock could simply have been written in the 1960s.

"Los mares del Sur" (Southern Seas) by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán (1979)

Permit me the hometown reference with this Castilian novel ready in Barcelona in 1979. Written by the Galician-Catalan author Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Southern Seasis the most famous of his novels starring the private detective Pepe Carvalho. He'southward a gourmet who's equally obsessed with nutrient, literature and the urban center of Barcelona.

Also a methodical clarification of the city in the tardily 1970s, the book besides includes references to a trip to the Southern Seas that never was.

"Norwegian Wood" by Haruki Murakami (1987)

Written by Japanese author Haruki Murakami, this coming-of-age novel follows the story of Toru Watanabe, a college pupil who is obsessed with American literature. He's trying to figure out his life in Tokyo in the 1960s and ends up in relationships with two women who couldn't be more different: there's Naoko, the former girlfriend of his best friend, and Midori, one of his classmates.

The story takes the reader from the bustling streets of Tokyo to the peaceful quietness of a rehab heart lost in the mountains nearby Kyoto.

"Get Shorty" by Elmore Leonard (1990)

Small-scale-time Miami loan shark Chili Palmer travels to Las Vegas, hoping to get a debt paid, and ends up in Los Angeles, where he learns nigh the picture show-making business and how to go a producer. Ready in Hollywood in 1990, this California classic masterfully blends suspense, thrills, humor and fifty-fifty the slightest hint of a Western.

This story is then quintessentially Hollywood that there'southward a 1995 movie adaptation starring John Travolta and a 2017 TV show with Chris O'Dowd, but you should definitely showtime with the Elmore Leonard novel.

"Death at La Fenice" past Donna Leon (1992)

American novelist Donna Leon has been calling Venice dwelling for years. Her outset volume in the mystery series that stars the Venetian police force detective Guido Brunetti follows the investigation of a music conductor'due south decease later on he's poisoned during the intermission of a Verdi opera at La Felice.

Leon has been steadily publishing one new Commissario Guido Brunetti installment a year for decades. And so if you love the Venitian setting, offense stories and the constant descriptions of all the delicious foods (and drinks) that Brunetti ingests on a daily basis, this could definitely be the series for you lot.

"Call Me by Your Name" by André Aciman (2007)

Chances are nosotros'll never get to see Luca Guadagnino's sequel to his Phone call Me by Your Proper name flick adaptation. And while André Aciman's follow-upward novel, Find Me, may leave hardcore fans of Elio and Oliver a little bit underwhelmed, at that place's nothing like going back to the original material.

Set up against the properties of the Italian Riviera, this coming-of-age story follows the precocious Elio as he falls in love with Oliver, a graduate student and Elio's parents' guest for the summer. This iconic summertime read perfectly captures the feeling of longing for someone and it features plentiful, engaging conversations, early on morning swims, leisurely bike rides, a furtive relationship and a passionate trip to Rome.

"Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2013)

Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie sets this story — that deals with immigration, race and the feeling of belonging — in Lagos, London and New Bailiwick of jersey. Her protagonist is Ifemelu, a young Nigerian woman who moves to the United states to further her studies.

Americanahmakes for a great read not just every bit an engaging and entertaining novel only also as a study almost race in America from the perspective of a not-American Black person. The novel too packs a circuitous dearest story between Ifemelu and Obinze, who moves to London and has to alive there as an undocumented immigrant.

"Large Little Lies" by Liane Moriarty (2014)

I don't intendance if you've already seen the star-packed HBO miniseries and know non simply who the killer of this story is merely too the identity of the person who dies and whose investigation propels the whole plot, Liane Moriarty'due south soapy thriller even so very much deserves a read.

On the one hand, instead of the rugged coast of Northern California, the novel Large Picayune Lies is set in the suburban Northern Beaches of Sydney. On the other manus, the volume jams enough sense of humor and sharp banter — peculiarly when it comes to the inclusion of dialogue from the law interrogations among the many parents who take their kids to the aforementioned school equally our protagonists — that yous'll find enough nuggets of new cloth to more than justify the read.

"The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo" by Taylor Jenkins Reid (2017)

Taylor Jenkins Reid's historical fiction bestseller is set betwixt the publishing world of present-day New York and the classic Hollywood of the 1950s, 1960s and onward. When the relatively unknown announcer Monique Grant is tasked with writing a profile on the legendary actress Evelyn Hugo, she can't believe her career-changing luck.

The novel guides the reader through a series of interviews between Monique and Evelyn in which the former star tells her origin story and the reasons behind her many marriages throughout the years.

"Less" by Andrew Sean Greer (2017)

Andrew Sean Greer's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel stars Arthur Less every bit a novelist with a dwindling career and a cleaved centre. As if all of that wasn't enough already, Less is on the brink of turning 50. When his quondam long-time swain invites Less to his wedding, our hapless protagonist decides to embark on a series of dorsum-to-back international trips with a "ramshackle itinerary" to avert the much-dreaded event.

Greer's fun and never-quiet novel takes the reader and its protagonist from the foggy shores of San Francisco to New York Metropolis, Mexico Metropolis, Turin, Paris, Berlin, Morocco, India and Nippon.

"Agent Running in the Field" by John le Carré (2019)

The concluding published novel of late spymaster John le Carré is a render to some of his career-defining themes in the world of international espionage, which he describes with precision — and without a glimpse of glamour or spectacle.

The novel stars Nat, a reluctant-to-be-out-of-the-field agent in his belatedly forties, who has had a long career developing sources in Russia. Nat's back in London and somehow tin't avoid getting himself involved in yet another surveillance plot. The volume is set in 2018 and there'south constant churr among its characters regarding Brexit and the Trump administration. Le Carré favors none of those.

Fifty-fifty if you lot don't like international thrillers featuring double agents that much — who doesn't though? — Agent Running in the Field is all the same worth a read if only to appreciate Le Carré'south succinct yet masterfully rich and descriptive prose.

"Beach Read" past Emily Henry (2020)

Permit's add Embankment Readto this list of embankment reads considering Emily Henry's romance novel truly does its title justice. Set in a small Michigan town, the novel tells the story of bestselling romance writer Jan and acclaimed fiction writer Gus. They cease upward being neighbors and living side-by-side in lakefront cottages.

One affair leads to another and they end upward making a deal: by the finish of the summertime he'll exist the one to pen a romance book and she'll write a dark and bleak one. They both need to teach the other everything they need to know to be able to produce something in a genre they're not used to working in. Of course, as well all the procrastinating and writing, there's likewise fourth dimension for love.

"The Vanishing Half" by Brit Bennett (2020)

Concluding year's revelatory novel The Vanishing Half tackles the subject of passing when information technology comes to racial identity. The Brit Bennett-penned historical novel, which is already being developed into a limited serial past HBO, tells the story of two identical twin sisters from a small town in rural Louisiana where the majority Blackness population is so light-skinned that 1 of the sisters passes equally a white woman for most of her life after fleeing town.

The activeness encompasses several decades starting in the 1950s and weaves together the life of the assimilated sister — who'southward leading a double life in New Orleans get-go and then Los Angeles — with that of the other one, who is forced to return home.

"Velvet Was the Night" past Silvia Moreno-Garcia (2021)

Let'south close this list with an August release from one of 2020's bestselling authors. After her Mexican Gothicwas chosen as Best Horror novel last yr past the Goodreads users, writer Silvia Moreno-Garcia returns with Velvet Was the Dark.

The Mexican Canadian author sets the action in 1970s Mexico City and writes about Maite, a secretary obsessed with romance stories and her beautiful neighbour Leonora. When the object of her fixation disappears, Maite starts looking for her — but she isn't the only one.

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