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Looking for a good book to read on the beach this summer, a friend came across this NPR article: Audience Picks: 100 Best Beach Books Ever

Almost 16,000 NPR listeners cast some 136,000 votes in the Best Beach Books Ever poll. Said NPR, "Whether such a vote can determine literary quality, who can say? But there's one thing a multitude of book-loving NPR types can most definitely do, and that's pick a list of books that will appeal to... book-loving NPR types."

The poll produced a list of audience favorites, dubbed, "The 100 Best Beach Books Ever." Here are the top 10 from the list:
1. The Harry Potter series, by J.K. Rowling
2. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
3. The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini
4. Bridget Jones's Diary, by Helen Fielding
5. Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
6. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, by Rebecca Wells
7. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
8. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
9. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, by Fannie Flagg
10. The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver
Click here for the rest of the list.

Labels: NPR Best Beach Books Ever, summer reading lists