Part cultural history, part memoir, Beach Reading: A History tells the story of how the beach became our favorite place to read.  Revealing the forgotten precursors to beloved names like Elin Hilderbrand and Jenny Jackson, Beach Reading shows how the earliest “beach reads” shaped a set of attitudes about coastal leisure, race and the natural world, popular culture, sexuality, and ecology. Beach Reading is about how and what we read at the beach and ultimately about how we read ourselves.