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Josh Cohen

Summer's best new books -- for the beach and beyond

Summer's best new books -- for the beach and beyond

What comes to mind when you think of a "beach read"? A $7.99 mass-market novel set in Nantucket or the South Carolina low country, featuring some treacly romantic storyline and photo-realistic cover art of an Adirondack chair, sun hat and/or lighthouse? We've decided to adopt a more liberal definition: It's any book you take with you to the beach.

In fact, summer 2015 offers a better-than-average variety of releases to mingle with sand at the bottom of your beach bag: suspense thrillers; enlightening nonfiction; much-anticipated new novels from the likes of Milan Kundera and Harper Lee; searing memoirs and more. Following is a list — extensive but not exhaustive — of books...

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