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The ten best beach reads
1 In his memoir Crazy for the Storm (Ecco; out now), Norman Ollestad’s athletic prowess was put to the test when a chartered plane carrying him to a ski championship crashed into a mountain. Click to buy
2 Lee Child delivers the quintessential fast-paced, beach-perfect tome with Gone Tomorrow (Delacorte Press; out now), an antiterrorism thriller that opens on the 6 train. Click to buy
3 Reading Archie Brown’s The Rise and Fall of Communism (Ecco; out now) just might inspire you to find a time capsule of the Soviet lifestyle right here in New York City. Click to buy
4 Brooklyn author Jonathan Ames is notoriously neurotic and sex-obsessed. His latest book, The Double Life Is Twice as Good (Scribner; July 14), doesn’t stray from the path, with a characteristic mix of essays and fiction. Click to buy
5 Grab a copy of the latest Alice Hoffman novel, The Story Sisters (Shaye Areheart Books; out now), about siblings living in a house that’s under a spell. Click to buy
6 In Colson Whitehead’s Sag Harbor (Doubleday; out now), 15-year-old Benji Cooper starts the summer of 1985 as an awkward Dungeons & Dragons and Star Wars fanatic. But after spending the warm months in Long Island’s Sag Harbor, he undergoes a total transformation. Click to buy
7 No Wave founder Lydia Lunch offers a wild collection of interviews, poetry and creative nonfiction in Will Work for Drugs (Akashic Books; out now). Click to buy
8 Oscar Casares’s debut novel, Amigoland (Little, Brown; August 10), follows two brothers who live in a small town on the Mexican border, struggling to reconcile their family’s past with their own future. Click to buy
9 Contradictions abound in Trouble (Doubleday; out now) by Kate Christensen, about a rock star escaping a scandal and a New York psychiatrist escaping her husband. Click to buy
10 The beach and the book: Elinor Lipman brings Manhattan—and family strife—to life in her screwball New York comedy, The Family Man (Houghton Mifflin; out now). Click to buy
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