The Best Beach-Worthy Books to Read This Summer

The mysterious Monsieur Perdu is the proprietor of a floating bookstore on a barge in the Seine—and he has an uncanny talent for prescribing, as a doctor would, the perfect book to heal any lovelorn, broken, or weary heart. Add into the mix an Italian chef, an author, an old, unread love letter and the French countryside, and you have a warmly intoxicating book that feels like a love letter to literature itself.