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    30 Last Chance Beach Reads for Summer 2019

    Dive into a new world of literature with Newsweek's top 30 picks to read during these final lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer.
    by Juliana Rose Pignataro Aug 02, 2019 6 minutes
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    The summer of 2019 is speeding by—and the season has been one for the books, literally, when it comes to must-reads. The staff at Newsweek has compiled a list of 30 books of all genres to take with you on these final days at the beach, the pool or wherever you might be cooling off this August. Here are our top picks for fiction, mysteries, science fiction and nonfiction. 

    Fiction

    A Woman Is No Man By Etaf Rum Harper | $26.99 Palestinian-American novelist Rum writes of the complexities inside the lives of Arab American women. She probes the dark and the daunting as she tells the story of a Brooklyn teenager navigating the wishes of a family who want her to marry.

    By Nicole Dennis-Benn | $26.95 Patsy leaves her native Jamaica to reunite with her oldest friend, Cicely, in America. She leaves behind her young daughter, Tru, who wrestles with her own pursuit of self, in a way that mirrors her mother's more

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