Quickest Beach Reads, For Those Of You Who Waited Until Last Minute To Impress Your Book Club

[Photo via] Little Bee by Chris Cleave, 271 pages Don’t judge a book by its volume. At fewer than 300 pages, this dramatic and intense novel about two fierce female characters delivers quite the bite. The distraught story is one of the most powerful reads yet. It is definitely a twice-read classic for the bookshelf.