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NPR’s Audience Picks: 100 Best Beach Books Ever

Literanista July 31, 2009

NPR ’s asked their audience to name their favorite beach reads. Almost 16,000 people particpated and entered 136,000 votes. From the votes, NPR picked the top 100.

Here’s a selection of the top 100:

#27. Like Water for Chocolate, by Laura Esquivel

#35. One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#56. Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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    I spent most of last summer reading Bleak House on the beach…why isn't THAT on the list? It's oh-so-beachy. 😉

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