We asked on Facebook: What are the best books to read poolside and on the beach this summer?

“The Honey Bus: A Memoir of Loss, Courage and a Girl Saved by Bees.”

Deeva Brantley

“The Happiness List” by Annie Lyons.

Jan Trevathan Rotenberry

“Mimosa Grove” by Sharon Sala and “Cemetery Road” by Greg Iles.

Marsha Knapp

Couldn’t put down a copy of “Crazy Rich Asians” on the beach last summer and burnt my hands pretty badly.

Addie Wakao

“China Rich Girlfriend” by Kevin Kwan.

Katherine Adams

“Where the Crawdads Sing” by Delia Owens. Ivan Doig’s “Last Bus to Wisdom.”

Deni Mize

“Where the Crawdads Sing.” Great read. One you need to read twice.

Catharine Conlon-Townsend

“The Dry” by Jane Harper.

Trudy Sander Trochesset

“Gifts from the Sea.”

Kathleen Tiernan

“The Seven Sisters” series by Lucinda Riley.

Jenny Senter

“The Better Sister” by Alafair Burke.

Cheryl Fortune

“The Girls of Atomic City.” It’s about the women in a factory town in Tennessee created by the U.S. government to build the fuel cells for the atomic bomb.

Anne B. Darring

“I’ll Be Gone in the Dark” by Michelle McNamara. Next, I’m reading “The Devil in the White City” by Erik Larson. We all remember his book “Isaac’s Storm.”

Ginny McDonald

Recommend “Murder in the One Percent” by Galveston’s own Saralyn Jacobson Richard. It’s a great read.

Neige Cahier

“Redemption” by David Baldacci.

Kristen Carlson

“Gusher.” A novel of the Rockefeller oil empire. It’s a page-turner and a great beach read!

Bob Davis

“Swabbed & Found” by local Chief Meteorologist Frank Billingsley.

Kevin Gilliard

“Janet Evanovich” series with Stephanie Plum as the private investigator. The titles have numbers in them. They are laugh-out-loud funny.

Carolyn L. Sunseri