NPR's "100 Best Beach Books Ever--the 200 Finalists"

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Why are there 193? Probably something to do with the number of series on the list, but I honestly can’t say.

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  1. 2.
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Puffin Classics)
    by Mark Twain

  2. 3.
    Affinity
    by Sarah Waters

  3. 4.
    The Alexandria Quartet
    by Lawrence Durrell

  4. 7.
    The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
    by Michael Chabon

  5. 8.
    Angle of Repose (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
    by Wallace Stegner

  6. 9.
    Animal Dreams
    by Barbara Kingsolver

  7. 10.
    Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Leo Tolstoy

  8. 11.
    The Art of Racing in the Rain: A Novel
    by Garth Stein

  9. 12.
    Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress: A Novel
    by Dai Sijie

  10. 13.
    The Beach
    by Alex Garlad

  11. 14.
    The Beach House
    by Mary Alice Monroe

  12. 15.
    Beach Music: A Novel
    by Pat Conroy

  13. 16.
    Beginner's Greek: A Novel
    by James Collins

  14. 17.
    Bel Canto (P.S.)
    by Ann Patchett

  15. 18.
    The Big Sleep
    by Raymond Chandler

  16. 19.
    Big Sur
    by Jack Kerouac

  17. 20.
    The Bonfire of the Vanities: A Novel
    by Tom Wolfe

  18. 21.
    Bonjour Tristesse
    by Francoise Sagan

  19. 22.
    Breakfast of Champions: A Novel
    by Kurt Vonnegut

  20. 23.
    Bridget Jones's Diary (movie tie-in)
    by Helen Fielding

  21. 24.
    The Brothers Karamazov
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

  22. 25.
    Cannery Row: (Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck

  23. 26.
    Catch-22: A Novel (Simon & Schuster Classics)
    by Joseph Heller

  24. 27.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J. D. Salinger

  25. 28.
    Cat's Cradle: A Novel
    by Kurt Vonnegut

  26. 29.
    Cold Mountain: A Novel
    by Charles Frazier

  27. 30.
    Cold Sassy Tree
    by Olive Ann Burns

  28. 31.
    Compromising Positions
    by Susan Isaacs

  29. 32.
    A Confederacy Of Dunces
    by John Kennedy Toole

  30. 33.
    The Corrections: A Novel
    by Jonathan Franzen

  31. 34.
    The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)
    by Alexandre Dumas père

  32. 35.
    Cryptonomicon
    by Neal Stephenson

  33. 36.
    Dead Until Dark (Southern Vampire Mysteries, No. 1)
    by Harris Charlaine

  34. 37.
    The Deptford Trilogy
    by Robertson Davies

  35. 38.
    Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins Mysteries)
    by Walter Mosley

  36. 39.
    Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
    by Anne Tyler

  37. 40.
    Disgrace: A Novel
    by J. M. Coetzee

  38. 41.
    Divided Kingdom
    by Rupert Thomson

  39. 42.
    Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
    by Rebecca Wells

  40. 43.
    The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Vintage International)
    by Jean-Dominique Bauby

  41. 44.
    Dolores Claiborne
    by Stephen King

  42. 45.
    Dracula (Barnes & Noble Classics)
    by Bram Stoker

  43. 46.
    Drifters
    by James A. Michener

  44. 47.
    Drop City
    by T.C. Boyle

  45. 48.
    Dune, 40th Anniversary Edition (Dune Chronicles, Book 1)
    by Frank Herbert

  46. 49.
    East of Eden (Oprah's Book Club)
    by John Steinbeck

  47. 50.
    Empire Falls
    by Richard Russo

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