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Books for the Beach

Submitted by Grace Lillevig [1] on Fri, 07/31/2009 - 11:07am

Are you planning a trip to the beach and looking for something to read?  Take some inspiration from NPR.  NPR asked their book-loving listeners to pick their best beach reads in a Best Beach Books Ever poll.  The top pick, not surprisingly, is the Harry Potter [2] series.  The top five books are:

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone [3]To Kill a Mockingbird [4]The Kite Runner [5] Bridget Jones's Diary [6] Pride and Prejudice [7]

  1. The Harry Potter [8] series by J.K. Rowling
  2. To Kill a Mockingbird [4] by Harper Lee
  3. The Kite Runner [5] by Khaled Hosseini
  4. Bridget Jones’s Diary [6] by Helen Fielding
  5. Pride and Prejudice [7] by Jane Austen

Leave your favorite beach read in the comments!

The 100 Best Beach Books Ever [9] list

Source: The Early Word [10]


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[4] http://newcatalog.hcpl.net/hcpl/?q=To+Kill+a+Mockingbird+lee+harper
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[9] http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106983620
[10] http://www.earlyword.com/2009/07/29/npr-listeners-pick-best-beach-reads/
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