If you loved the heartwarming friendships (and drama) of The Five-Star Weekend starring the incredible Jennifer Garner, you’ll probably want to add one of the books below to your TBR. Featuring tight knit friend groups, rebuilding after loss, and some gorgeous ocean views, these books are like a warm Nantucket breeze.

Our Last Vineyard Summer by Brooke Lea Foster

Betsy Whiting wants a summer with her boyfriend following the death of her father and her first semester of graduate school at Columbia. Instead her mother brings her and her sisters back to Martha’s Vineyard to sell their summer house. When she arrives on the island, she is navigating strained relationships, a complicated past, and what family legacy means.

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The Bookshop By The Bay by Pamela Kelly

After her marriage implodes, Jess takes a break from her career as a high-profile lawyer and heads to her childhood home on Cape Cod with her adult daughter hoping to reconnect with her longtime best friend. Alison’s career as an editor for a Cape Cod magazine is sadly coming to an end but her favorite bookstore on the Cape is being sold giving Alison a new dream. Together as Jess and Alison work to reopen the bookstore, they learn that life is always full of new opportunities. 

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Summer on the Bluffs by Sunny Hostin

Oak Bluffs is one of the most exclusive black neighborhoods in the world, where the Obamas vacation and Megan Markle has house shopped. This little posh slice of Martha’s Vineyard is the epitome of “old money”. It is where Amelia Vaux Tanner and her husband built a home thirty years ago. It is where “Ama” has hosted cultural icons, stock market titans, and even American presidents but her favorite guests are her three goddaughters. Growing up Perry, Olivia, and Billie would leave their very different backgrounds and spend their summer together in Oak Bluffs. Now as adults, they come to spend time with Ama and to relax by the beach, but this summer is going to be the last. Ama, now seventy-one, is moving to the south of France come fall and she plans to give one of the girls the house. This last summer, they will spend competing to win the house, though each has a secret that could devastate their chances. What they don’t know is that Ama has some secrets of her own.

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The Coastal Book Club by Fiona Baker

Eleanor Bradshaw’s life is rocked when her husband announces she’s become too “boring” and he is divorcing her. Heartbroken but determined to rebuild on her own, Eleanor impulsively buys a rundown house in a charming beach town called Magnolia Shore. Her plans to renovate and make the house her new home will be harder than she expected, but she’ll find that she had the courage that she needed all along.  

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The Celebrants by Steven Rowley

A college friend group is now twenty-eight years removed from their graduation, but they are still none the wiser and trying to figure life out. Jordan, Jordy, Naomi, Craig, and Marielle are reuniting in Big Sur to honor an age-old pact they have made. They throw each other living “funerals” to remind themselves how much life matters and how much they mean to each other. This reunion will be different than all others, though, because Jordan has a secret that will turn the pact upside down.  

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The Summer Swap by Sarah Morgan

Celia Lapthorne has escaped her own seventy-fifth birthday party to go back to Dune Cottage, a place she said she’d never go again. The remote Cape Cod cottage is full of memories, some good like the early days with her husband, and some that she has never told anyone. Aspiring artist Lily is cleaning houses on Cape Cod to get by after dropping out of medical school. Because it’s been sitting empty for years, she decides to hide away in Dune Cottage which is great until Celia arrives. Though the beginning was very awkward, Celia invites Lily to stay with her and an unlikely friendship is formed. Lily isn’t expecting her crush and Celia’s grandson, Todd, to show up and it sends shock waves through her relationship with Celia. In their time together, can Celia learn to let go of the past and move forward and will Lily find the courage to go after the life that she really wants?

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The Bookshop Sisterhood by Michelle Lindo-Rice

Best friends, Celeste, Yasmeen, Toni and Leslie have had a dream of owning a bookstore together and finally after years of hard work and dedication, they are approaching the opening. However, life goes sideways for the group before their doors can open. Months before her wedding, Toni receives horrible news while Celeste’s marriage is on the verge of collapsing. A well kept family secret shocks Leslie, and Yasmeen’s life is changed for the worse with a lottery ticket. Luckily these four girls have each other to lean on and even though they are going through ups and downs, they’ll find a way to open their bookstore together.

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Barefoot by Elin Hilderbrand

Three women, toting their unruly children, large sunhats, and apparent emotional issues, have somehow arrived in Nantucket in one piece. Vicki is processing and dealing with learning that she has a serious illness. Her sister, Brenda, was caught in an affair with a student and has left her job. Their friend, Melanie, after multiple rounds of IVF has discovered she is finally pregnant but she has just found out that her husband is having an affair. They have come to enjoy the sun and sand and hopefully find some piece but then comes twenty-two-year-old Josh Flynn into their already chaotic lives. 

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So Young So Old by Grant Ginder

Over the course of twenty years, five different parties will bring six friends close together. Marco and Mia, Sasha and Theo, Richie and Adam have had constantly changing lives since graduation with new jobs, moves, marriages, and children. The one constant that they have is each other or so they thought because time has a sneaky way of changing friendships and breaking bonds.

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Honorable mention: The Five-Star Weekend by Elin Hilderbrand

Naturally, we can’t talk about The Five-Star Weekend without mentioning the source material. Food blogger Hollis Shaw is dealing with the loss of her husband by hosting four of her best friends from different periods of her life for a weekend in Nantucket, but the weekend doesn’t exactly turn out as planned. 

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