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\u201cLike most people I read a book or two on holiday,\u201d says Stuart, a character in Julian Barnes\u2019 1991 novel\u00a0Talking it Over<\/a>. He does not have time for recreational reading; it must wait until he is at leisure. His best friend, the erudite but erratically employed Oliver, derides this attitude. To Oliver, a summer reader is a pedestrian one: incurious and intellectually lazy.<\/p>\n

Summer reading \u2013 or the beach read \u2013 is often associated with undemanding, enjoyable narratives: \u201cmiddlebrow\u201d literary fiction, thrillers, fantasy novels, historical and contemporary romances. This is even reflected in the physical design of books released in the summer months. Light colours and cheerful covers signal their lack of intimidating seriousness.<\/p>\n

While the term \u201cbeach read\u201d itself is\u00a0relatively recent<\/a>, first appearing in publishing lists and booksellers\u2019 catalogues in the early 1990s, traditions of summer reading are much older.<\/p>\n

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A beach read doesn\u2019t have to be trivial. Don Draper took The Inferno to Hawaii as his holiday reading. Mad Men\/AMC<\/p><\/div>\n

Holiday reading<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Communications scholar\u00a0Donna Harrington-Lueker<\/a>\u00a0notes that in the early 19th century, holiday reading was often viewed as a mark of gentility and refinement. Travellers were encouraged to use their abundant time to appreciate worthy classics.<\/p>\n

The anonymous author of the essay\u00a0Summer Philosophy<\/a>\u00a0exhorts vacationers to read books that are \u201cgood of their kind\u201d, and offers the volumes of Lord Byron and Charles Lamb\u2019s\u00a0Elia<\/a>\u00a0as examples of \u201cperfect\u201d summer reading.<\/p>\n

In the United Kingdom, summer months had traditionally been a fallow period for new books. Christmas was the more important holiday period for publishing. But in the post-Civil War United States, publishers and booksellers were becoming aware of the growing appetite for light reading among summer vacationers.<\/p>\n

Rising literacy and declining costs of production had made books increasingly accessible, typically in cheap, paper-covered formats. These \u201cdime novels\u201d largely consisted of suspenseful narratives focusing on murder, adventure, and romance. Because of their convenient formats and frequent sales at railway and dockside newsstands, sensationalist, diverting fictions became associated with summer vacation and travel.<\/p>\n

By the 1870s, American publishers had begun to capitalise on this trend, launching dedicated summer reading series of \u201clight literature\u201d. These were marketed as a respectable alternative to their dime novel competitors. Summer reads soon became a ubiquitous feature of holiday recreation.<\/p>\n

In his travel essays, Henry James, while on a steam ship, notes the presence of \u201cyoung ladies from the hotel on the deck, with copies of Lothair in their hands\u201d (this was Benjamin Disraeli\u2019s\u00a0bestselling romance<\/a>). Summer novels were typically presented as \u201cagreeable\u201d fiction, easy for vacationers to pick up and put down, cheap enough to be happily left or exchanged in hotels.<\/p>\n

Much like today, summer reading had its detractors. The form of the novel itself was still viewed with suspicion throughout much of the 19th century, and the escapist titles published during the summer season were seen as especially pernicious.<\/p>\n

The popular Brooklyn preacher\u00a0Reverend Thomas De Witt Talmage<\/a>\u00a0delivered a memorable denunciation in 1876, labelling summer novels as \u201cliterary poison\u201d and \u201cpestiferous trash\u201d, and cautioning his congregants on the shame of being found struck dead with one of those \u201cpaper covered romances\u201d in hand.<\/p>\n

Others mocked the formulaic conventions and subjects of popular summer titles. The satirical magazine\u00a0Puck<\/a>\u00a0proposed an indexation project (\u201ccastles at sunset, pp. 3, 13, heroine\u2019s dresses, pp. 38, 54, 68, 69, 120, 240, 246, 318\u201d), so that readers would be able to skip to their favourite trope.<\/p>\n

However, the books marketed as summer reading could be surprisingly diverse. Harrington-Lueker provides Scribner\u2019s advertised summer offerings in 1885 as an example.<\/p>\n

This list included Frank R. Stockton\u2019s\u00a0humorous short stories<\/a>, Frances Hodgson Burnett\u2019s passionate exploration of inequity and exploitation in the Lancashire coal pits (That Lass O\u2019 Lowrie\u2019s<\/a>), the\u00a0surreal, proto-science-fiction tales<\/a>\u00a0of Fritz James O\u2019Brien, as well as travel writing, histories, and a small collection of Plato\u2019s dialogues.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Bric-a-Brac<\/a>\u00a0series (memoirs and reminiscences of famous writers) was enormously popular in the summer months, as were reprinted editions of international fiction, and holiday collections of classic and contemporary poetry.<\/p>\n

Critics and publishers defended summer reading as a necessary \u201crelease\u201d from the stresses of the year. But a release doesn\u2019t necessarily imply triviality, and it could clearly be found in many kinds of text.<\/p>\n

Contemporary beach reads<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Contemporary beach reads have a lot in common with the summer reading traditions of the 19th century. As Henry James observed of Disareli\u2019s Lothair in 1870, there will often be a book everyone seems to be reading while on vacation.<\/p>\n

Dan Brown\u2019s\u00a0the Da Vinci Code<\/a>, Jonathan Franzen\u2019s\u00a0Freedom<\/a>, Gillian Flynn\u2019s\u00a0Gone Girl<\/a>, and Liane Moriarty\u2019s\u00a0Big Little Lies<\/a>\u00a0are all examples from their years of publication. What grips our collective imagination in any given summer may be quite revealing.<\/p>\n

Lothair was not just a melodramatic potboiler, but also grappled with the challenges of reconciling organised religion with personal faith and morality, which would have resonated with 19th century readers. Popular beach reads may engage with familiar concerns and preoccupations \u2013 family, gender roles, history, wealth \u2013 in ways that offer a cathartic sense of release and escape.<\/p>\n

Like the dime novels and holiday editions of the 19th century, beach reads are often disposable and exchangeable. The remnants of past summer reading seasons can be found in beachside secondhand bookstores, the common rooms of hostels, and on living-room shelves in Airbnbs. Fat, faded books with broken spines, warped and wrinkled from the sand encrusted between their pages.<\/p>\n

Beach read as serendipity<\/strong><\/h4>\n

A beach read can also be an experiment, a chance encounter. Discarded summer reading piles have led me to some amazing discoveries. Like the cynical, subversive fantasy novels of the New Zealand author\u00a0Hugh Cook<\/a>, or the exactingly described technical operations of a B52 bomber in Dale Brown\u2019s\u00a0Flight of the Old Dog<\/a>. Or Donna Tartt\u2019s iconic story of murder, college and mythology,\u00a0the Secret History<\/a>. My copy of the latter \u2013 lifted from a backpackers\u2019 in 1999 \u2013 has now fallen apart after repeated summer re-readings.<\/p>\n

The best lesson to take from the history of the beach read is that if you can only get through a book or two while on holiday, then make sure they are ones you will like.<\/p>\n

This year, a friend of mine will be taking\u00a0Ulysses<\/a>\u00a0with them on vacation, so they can be completely immersed \u2013 whereas I\u2019m still looking for a worthy successor to Samantha Shannon\u2019s\u00a0The Priory of the Orange Tree<\/a>, which kept me hooked all last summer. Both are perfectly fine beach reads.<\/p>\n

As\u00a0Fran Leibowitz<\/a>\u00a0says: \u201cI have no guilty pleasures because pleasure never makes me feel guilty.\u201d This should be our attitude to recreational reading all the time, but the summer beach read provides the best opportunity to fully embrace it.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s summer reading lists \u2013 literary, historical, fantasy, thriller, and more \u2013 probably contain many novels that are \u201cgood of their kind\u201d, regardless of their genre or cover design. And if they\u2019re not, then you might enjoy them anyway.<\/p>\n

Everyone needs their own kind of release.<\/p>\n

Author Bio:<\/strong> Julian Novitz is a Senior Lecturer, Writing, School of Media and Communication at Swinburne University of Technology<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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