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
