Still Not Ready for Summer to End? Read a Tropical Novel Before Spooky Season Hits

After their journalist mother died on assignment, sisters Marin and Sadie adjusted their lives very differently: Marin doesn’t leave the house, while photographer Sadie jets off at the slightest mention of adventure. Nevertheless, Sadie convinces Marin to spend a spa weekend on the West Indian island of Saba with her…but then misses her flight, leaving Marin to the wiles of the handsome stranger who ends up seated next to her instead. Read it!

A classic enemies-to-lovers by your favorite rom-com duo, “The Unhoneymooners” finds Ethan and Olive, the best man and maid of honor at an elaborate wedding, as the only two who don’t fall prey to food poisoning at said wedding. As such, they’re convinced to go on the couple’s dream vacation in Maui so that it doesn’t go to waste. Who could resist sharing a honeymoon suite with your worst nightmare? Read it!

The Pacific island of Meroe is rumored to be cursed, but the characters of “Reckless Girls” never subscribed to scary stories. Instead, the six strangers jump at the chance to join a charter to a deserted island, full of sun-soaked days and giant handles of liquor. Soon, though, the rumors about Meroe begin to take shape, and one murder and another disappearance later, they all begin to rethink the vacation. Read it!

Elin Hilderbrand’s stories usually stay put on Nantucket, but in this first installment of a trilogy, she trades New England for the Virgin Islands. Upon learning of family patriarch Russell’s death via helicopter crash, the Steele family head to St. John to discover an entire secret life he’d been hiding. As they parse out what was true and false about Russ, the island and its residents start to leave their mark. Read it!

Partly set on an undisclosed West Indian island, “Black Cake” follows present-day Benny and Byron and their mother from the past. As the siblings listen to tapes recorded by their late mother before her death, they find that the person they knew left behind secrets and still-unsolved mysteries that chartered the course of all of their lives. Read it!

Erin and Mark’s honeymoon on Bora Bora starts as any other, with snorkeling, over-water bungalows and couples’ massages. But an underwater discovery leads them down a path of nightmares. Soon, the happy couple doesn’t know who they can trust — most of all not each other. Read it!

Local Dominican woman Laura has worked hard, and now it’s paid off: She’s the manager of the luxe Grand Paloma Resort. But her sister Elena, charged with babysitting the rich resort guests’ children, has landed herself in trouble, and doesn’t mind a bribe in exchange to make it all disappear. But will it? Read it!

This Emily Henry favorite will hit Netflix in January, so it’s the perfect time to finally give it a read! Our main characters Alex and Poppy, friends for years, head out on a trip together every year. Not every destination is tropical, but they do hit up Sanibel Island, so count it! Over the years, they of course begin to wonder if there’s something more between them…but friends-to-lovers is a slippery slope. Read it!