In April 2023, it was announced that Beach Read is being adapted into a feature film for 20th Century Studios. Kirkus Reviews called Beach Read a 'heartfelt look at taking second chances, in life and in love.' A Publishers Weekly review said 'Readers are sure to fall hard for this meta, heartfelt take on the romance genre.' The novel was nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Romance, coming in second place. PopSugar named it the Best Romance Book of 2020. It was listed in the Indie Next List for June 2020 and chosen as one of The Oprah Magazine’s 38 Romance Novels That Are Set to Be the Best of 2020. They reconnect and bond over struggling with writer’s block they challenge each other to spend the summer writing a novel in each other’s genres.īeach Read was a New York Times Bestseller. While living in his old beach house to prepare to sell it, she runs into Augustus Everett, her former rival in college and now an acclaimed literary fiction author. January Andrews is a successful romance novel writer who is struggling after the death of her father and the discovery that he was having an affair. An audiobook was released by Penguin Random House Audio. If there’s ever a time to read a book like this, it’s now.Beach Read is a 2020 contemporary romance novel by Emily Henry. As they gradually learn to trust one another, they fall in love in such a tender, believable, real way that it’ll make you believe in people and love and happiness and the power of books to heal us. I Wish We Weren’t Related by Radhika Sanghani.

Sounds easy, right?īeach Read is about two people who are both going through hardship and struggle, who don’t believe in themselves or other people, who are scared and anxious and heartbroken. They’re both writers, and both dealing with writer’s block, so they decide to swap genres-January will teach Gus how to write a fun, swoony rom-com, and Gus will teach her how to write bleak literary fiction. January and Augustus are next-door neighbors in beach houses in a tiny vacation town. If you’re also looking for books like this, Beach Read is your exact book for this moment. Right now, I want to read books that make me forget what’s going on in the world, books that take me to another place, books that make me smile, and books that make me believe in the goodness of other people.

In this hard and stressful time, I’m all the more appreciative of books that fill me with joy.

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