Are you packing for Koh Samui and find yourself stuck for a good book?

Last summer, NPR compiled a list of the 200 best beach books of all time - which the voting public then whittled to a tidy list of a hundred.

Here are the top 10:

1. The Harry Potter series, by J.K. Rowling
2. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
3. The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini
4. Bridget Jones’s Diary, by Helen Fielding
5. Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
6. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, by Rebecca Wells
7. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
8. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
9. Fried Green Tomatoes, by Fannie Flagg
10. The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver

Read the rest of the list at the NPR.

Second-hand bookshops abound in Koh Samui and we’ve got plenty of our own beach books with which to stock the shelves of our not-quite-finished villa.

Might that irritating boy wizard be less so when read poolside, in our cushioned, shady sala? Quite possibly.

As for the rest of your suitcase

• Check out our recommended books about Thailand.
• Our Thailand packing checklist is helpful, too.

With love,
  Koh Samui Sunset

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