Episode 34: Beach Reads Readalikes Yadkin County Public Library

Hello all you fans of summer and romance books! We have a brochure that lists all of the beach-y authors (both major series and standalone novels scattered throughout) available on our shelves at our branch. A great resource to see all the books in a series is fantasticfiction.com. It is open for public viewing, so you can scroll it on your phone or print it out to make a checklist as you work through an author.

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Grace Greene

Jacqueline DeGroot

Fiona Baker

Joanne Demaio

Nicholas Sparks

Mark Grady’s Mailbox By the Sea 

Catherine Miller’s The Day That Changed Everything

T. I. Lowe’s The Carolina Coast series

Dianne Ducharme’s The Outerbanks House seriesSusan Boyer’s Liz Talbot Mysteries series is set in SC



Frequently Set on the Beach or during Summer

Nicole Ellis

Wendy Francis

Michele Gilcrest

Kristy Woodson Harvey

Pamela Kelley

Jan Moran

Jessie Newton

Meredith Summers

Jennifer Weiner

Catherine Anderson (lots of cowboys too)

Mary Kay Andrews

Barbara Bretton

Robyn Carr

Holly Chamberlain

Claire Cook

Dorothea Benton Frank

Kristan Higgins

Elin Hilderbrand

Jill Marie Landis

Debbie Macomber

Susan Mallery

Mary Alice Monroe

Jill Shalvis

Anne Rivers Siddons

Nancy Thayer

Karen White

Susan Wiggs

Susan Wilson

Sheryl Woods

Specific Series

Heather Burch’s Wishing Beach series

Catherine Bybee’s D'Angelos series

Julia Clemens’ Whistling Island and Pualei Beach serieses

Terri Dulong’s Cedar Key and Ormond Beach serieses

Leigh Duncan’s Sugar Sand Beach series

Jennifer Faye’s Bluestar Island series

Kristin Harper’s Dune Island series

Rachel Hauck’s Lowcountry series

Denise Hunter’s Nantucket Love Story series

Ciara Knight’s Sweetwater County series

Emily March’s Eternity Springs series

Jennifer Probst’s Sunshine Sisters series

Christie Ridgway’s Crescent Cove, CA series

Shannon Stacey’s Blackberry Bay series

Karen Swan’s Wild Isle series

Liz Talley’s Boys of Bayou Bridge series

Courtney Walsh’s Nantucket Love Story and Harbor Pointe serieses

Marybeth Whalen’s Sunset Beach series

Sail Away series written by multiple authors https://www.fantasticfiction.com/series/sail-away/