Nancy Thayer is an American novelist who has written twenty-three books. She lives in Nantucket, Massachusetts, with her husband, Charles Walters. They have two children: Joshua Thayer and Samantha Wilde, who is also a novelist.
Last Summer at Maine Chance (2026) Jessica Everett "The Last Summer at Maine Chance by Jessica Everett is the perfect summer read. This fun, fascinating novel set in 1954 is as relevant and significant to women today as it was back then. Book clubs will love it!"
Sweet Vidalia (2024) Lisa Sandlin "Lisa Sandlin's Sweet Vidalia does what the very best books do. Eliza Kratke shows us with her courageous, steady enterprise how to brave life's blows and start again, and again, every day. She is a heroine of the first order and I wish she lived next door."
The Housekeeper's Secret (2024) Iona Grey "Iona Grey's The Housekeeper's Secret is a luscious novel, with a spellbinding plot told in gorgeous writing. Cancel your plans. You won't want to put this one down."
The Summer Club (2024) Hannah McKinnon "THE SUMMER CLUB is the star of the summer, a quick, enjoyable read about a father and daughter and a posh golf club that we all might want to join, if we didn't know the truth. I couldn't put the book down, and the ending had me surprised and moved to tears."
A Novel Summer (2024) Jamie Brenner "Packed with best friends, betrayals, books, and the beach, Jamie Brenner's A Novel Summer is the perfect summer novel."
The Summer of Songbirds (2023) Kristy Woodson Harvey "The Summer of Songbirds is a champagne toast to friendship, love, and the joys of summer. Read the brilliant first sentence and you'll be right there at Camp Holly Springs and you'll never want to leave. This is a wonderful summer read!"
Famous in a Small Town (2023) Viola Shipman "Reading Viola Shipman's novels is like talking with your best friend and wanting never to hang up the phone."
The Seaside Library (2023) Brenda Novak "The Bookstore on the Beach is a page-turner with a deep heart. You'll cheer for these admirable, complicated women. You'll be breathless (and smiling) when you read the surprising end. (Don't peek!)"
Daughters of Nantucket (2023) Julie Gerstenblatt "Brings us Nantucket's whaling days in compelling, breath-taking, life. Artfully weaves in modern issues and challenges in this gorgeously written novel, leaving us wiser and more optimistic for our own times."
Paradise Girls (2022) Sandy Gingras "The Paradise Girls is a heavenly book, wise and funny, surprising, realistic, and a joy to read from the first page to the last. I recommend this book, heart and soul!"
Write My Name Across the Sky (2021) Barbara O'Neal "Barbara O’Neal weaves an irresistible tale of creativity, forgery, family, and the FBI in Write My Name Across the Sky. Willow and Sam are fascinating, and their aunt Gloria is my dream of an incorrigible, glamorous older woman."
Freya Sampson "The Last Chance Library is absolutely irresistible! Curl up and indulge in Freya Sampson’s charming novel about a shy librarian in a small town with a great cause. You’ll have such a good time and you'll love the unexpected twist at the end!"
The Summer of Lost Letters (2021) (Golden Doors, book 1) Hannah Reynolds "The Summer of Lost Letters by Hannah Reynolds is an absolute gem. It's a story full of love, family, and secrets, told with humor and wisdom. I couldn't turn the pages fast enough. Spend a perfect Nantucket summer with The Summer of Lost Letters."
Haven Point (2021) Virginia Hume "Unfolding from WWII to the present day, this delicious, intricate novel is woven together with romance, tragedy, family secrets and breath-taking surprises. I will read Haven Point over and over. I'll give it to my friends. I'll read anything Virginia Hume ever writes."
Margreete's Harbor (2021) Eleanor Lincoln Morse "I was held spellbound by the brilliance and beauty of Margreete's Harbor. The family, the children, the music, the pets, the senile grandmother, the idealistic father, still live in Maine, in my heart and mind, like all the very best novels we are given to treasure."
Summer Darlings (2020) Brooke Lea Foster "Summer Darlings is a perfect summer book, packed with posh people, glamor, mystery, and one clever, brave, young nanny. This book just might be the most fun you'll have all summer."
East Coast Girls (2020) Kerry Kletter "Kerry Kletter's East Coast Girls is a mix of gorgeous writing and page-turning suspense as four friends enjoy summer pleasures that lead to terrible mistakes, desperate choices, and, as we all hope from the ones we love, the grace of forgiveness."
Last Day (2020) (Detective Conor Reid, book 1) Luanne Rice "Last Day, by Luanne Rice, shines with its brilliant plot about four women friends, their families and loves, and, shockingly, a murder. Rice’s writing is flawless and fast, her characters are like the women I have coffee with, and the desire, violence, and betrayals shock me and remind me of Liane Moriarty’s Big Little Lies."
The Favorite Daughter (2019) Patti Callahan Henry "A layered, spellbinding novel about families and lovers and the meaning of home. Above all, it’s about memory, how it shapes us, fools us, and warms our hearts. This is one truly beautiful book."
Christmas at the Chalet (2018) Anita Hughes "Christmas at the Chalet is the most sparkling and glamorous of all Anita Hughes's wise and gorgeous books."
Good Luck with That (2018) Kristan Higgins "I LOVED Good Luck with That! It’s hilarious, heartbreaking, surprising,and so true to life."
The High Season (2018) Judy Blundell "The High Season is a wickedly good read—hilarious, poignant, and insightful—with a breathtaking finale. If you’ve ever served on a committee, or lived in a resort town, or had friends or parents or children or an infuriating spouse, you will love this book. I did!"
Women in Sunlight (2018) Frances Mayes "Frances Mayes's novel about the feasts and friendships of four American women in the Tuscan countryside is a joy for the senses and an awakening for us all to the possibilities in our lives. Women in Sunlight is one of those novels you'll want to linger in, to leave open on your bedside table, to read each page again and again."
Good Karma (2017) Christina Kelly "Good Karma is a fast-paced, funny, great good fortune of a novel that has it all: a love story, a mystery, eccentrics, adorable dogs, and even an alligator. Christina Kelly has a talent for touching our hearts even as she has us falling off the sofa with laughter."
The Halo Effect (2017) Anne D Leclaire "After I finished reading The Halo Effect, I sat thinking for a long time about the people in this beautiful novel, so much like the ones I know and love."
The Bloom Girls (2017) Emily Cavanagh "Emily Cavanagh’s The Bloom Girls unfolds as smoothly as petals on summer flowers. This novel will be nectar to anyone who has a deep secret, a troubled love, or a wonderful, irritating, comforting family."
Miss You Most of All (2010) Elizabeth Bass "A funny, poignant, and deeply satisfying novel. What I loved about it most of all was the authentic portrait of a family with all its imperfect and humble acts of love-those things that truly make our lives worthwhile."
Revenge of the Kudzu Debutantes (2006) (Kudzu Debutantes, book 1) Cathy Holton "It's great fun reading about these women as they trade their tea for tequila and get smart, get out, and get even, with amusing, and surprising results."
(b.1943)
