{"id":24301,"date":"2025-07-20T18:11:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T18:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/24301\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T18:11:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T18:11:09","slug":"best-books-to-read-by-virginia-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/24301\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Books to Read by Virginia Waters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-dominant-color=\"bf9684\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #bf9684;\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"664\" height=\"1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-193528 size-full not-transparent perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GoodMaterial_Cover-664x1024.webp.webp\"  data-\/><\/p>\n<p>Good Material by Dolly Alderton<\/p>\n<p>Sandbridge Beach, Virginia Beach<\/p>\n<p>This romantic comedy follows a struggling comedian who is blindsided when his girlfriend ends their relationship. Read about his attempts to cope with the breakup, while navigating the challenges of dating, as the waves crash on Sandbridge Beach. (Fig Tree, 2023)<\/p>\n<p>Arcadia by Tom Stoppard<\/p>\n<p>Shearando Lake, Lyndhurst<\/p>\n<p>Float between two time periods in one of Stoppard\u2019s most revered works as the relationships between past and present, order and disorder, certainty and uncertainty are explored. Scenic<br \/>Shearando Lake makes the perfect backdrop for reading this very British stage play. (Faber &amp; Faber, 1993)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-dominant-color=\"63943d\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #63943d;\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"334\" height=\"500\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-193529 size-full not-transparent perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/384597.webp.webp\"  data-\/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-dominant-color=\"2a474b\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #2a474b;\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"675\" height=\"1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-193530 size-full not-transparent perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/81ZHTLC2j3L-675x1024.webp.webp\"  data-\/><\/p>\n<p>This is Why We Lied by Karin Slaughter<\/p>\n<p>Claytor Lake Park, Dublin<\/p>\n<p>Up your camping game\u2014and scare yourself silly in this spooky state park\u2014with a thriller by bestselling crime writer Karin Slaughter: A mysterious family, eight suspicious guests, and one death all collide at a vast, mountaintop property.<br \/>(William Morrow, 2024)<\/p>\n<p>Modern Love, edited by Daniel Jones<\/p>\n<p>Belle Isle, Richmond<\/p>\n<p>What better place to read about love than in bustling River City? This collection, compiled by Daniel Jones, longtime editor of The New York Times\u2019 \u201cModern Love\u201d column, explores love, heartbreak, and digital-age romance through diverse voices. (Crown, 2019)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-dominant-color=\"e1cfd0\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #e1cfd0;\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"664\" height=\"1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-193531 size-full not-transparent perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ModernLove_Cover-664x1024.webp.webp\"  data-\/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-dominant-color=\"f9d6c9\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #f9d6c9;\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"678\" height=\"1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-193532 size-full not-transparent perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/71GyNDegmYL-678x1024.webp.webp\"  data-\/><\/p>\n<p>Blush by Jamie Brenner\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Algonkian Regional Park, Sterling<\/p>\n<p>While lounging in Loudoun County, home to more than 50 wineries, what could be better than a book following three generations of women trying to save their winery\u2014and their relationships?<br \/>(G.P. Putnam\u2019s Sons, 2021)<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.virginialivingstore.com\/products\/current-issue-august-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">August 2025<\/a>\u00a0issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good Material by Dolly Alderton Sandbridge Beach, Virginia Beach This romantic comedy follows a struggling comedian who is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[21609,223,690,88],"class_list":{"0":"post-24301","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-august-2025-issue","9":"tag-books","10":"tag-culture","11":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}