This Riot Recommendation collecting your favorite books set on islands is sponsored by Flatiron Books.
A lifetime of secrets. A history untold. No. It is a simple word, uttered on a summer porch in 1936. And it will haunt Kitty Milton for the rest of her life and its consequences will ripple through the Milton family for generations. Moving through three generations and back and forth in time, The Guest Book asks how we remember and what we choose to forget, and tells the story of a family and a country that buries its past in quiet, until the present calls forth a reckoning.
From deserted islands to island life, we are always here for a great read set on an island. So we asked you for your favorite books set on islands to stuff our empty beach bags with! *Cracks open coconut* Here are a bunch of your recommendations sure to whisk you away—or keep you running away from a murderer!
Moloka’i by Alan Brennert
They All Fall Down by Rachel Howzell Hall
Dear Haiti, Love Alaine by Maika Moulite, Maritza Moulite
The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
A Fierce and Subtle Poison by Samantha Mabry
Rani Patel in Full Effect by Sonia Patel
Mama Day by Gloria Naylor
The Dragonfly Sea by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
The Girl From Everywhere by Heidi Heilig
The Island by Elin Hilderbrand
Elisabeth Ogilvie’s Tide Trilogy
Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
Land of Love and Drowning by Tiphanie Yanique
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
Burn for Burn by Jenny Han and Siobhan Vivian
The Jumbies by Tracey Baptiste
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by by Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer
Written in Bone by Simon Beckett
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
On the Island by Tracey Garvis Graves
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Baby Island by Carol Ryrie Brink
Jade City by Fonda Lee
The Cay by Theodore Taylor
Hawaii by James Michener
The Weight of Water by Anita Shreve
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell
Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island by Earl Swift
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
Circe by Madeline Miller
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
America Pacifica by Anna North
The Island by Olivia Levez
