Since I was going to look up all the book recommendations I recently received I thought I would link to them here in case anyone else might be interested in reading about them. I'll be looking for some of these books very soon to read. You can see related lists here and here and here.
Solomon Time: An Unlikely Quest in the South Pacific, Will Randall
Beach Music, Pat Conroy
Sullivan's Island, Plantation, Isle of Palms, Dorothea Benton Frank
Summer Sisters, Judy Blume - By chance I found this yesterday at Walmart (of all places). I always look at their racks of books and never find anything (which doesn't stop me from looking), but as I was scanning the rows, voila, there was Summer Sisters. I think they are gearing up for summer as their were lots of beach-reading type books (this was the only one I was familiar with however).
Rich in Love, Josephine Humphreys
The Sea, John Banville
The Sea, The Sea, Iris Murdoch
Away, Jane Urquhart
The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
The Trembling of a Leaf, W. Somerset Maugham (short stories)
The Great Western Beach: A Memoir of a Cornish Childhood Between the Wars, Emma Watson
The Summer Book, Tove Jansson
Still Cover Journal and My Own Cape Cod, Gladys Taber
The Sea, The Sea, Xenophon
Beach Trip, Cathy Holton
The Cape Cod Mystery: An Asey Mayo Mystery, Phoebe Atwood
The Ladies' Lending Library, Janice Kulyk Keefer
Isabel's Bed, Elinor Lipman
The Sea House, Esther Freud
A Proper Holiday, Ann Oakley
Jumping the Queue and Camomile Lawn, Mary Wesley
The Forgotten Island, Sasha Troyan
Castle Ugly, Mary Ellin Barrett
The Beach Book (short stories)
To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home, George Howe Colt
In Summer Light, Zibby O'Neal
A Walk on the Beach, Joan Anderson
The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod, Henry Beston
Saplings, Noel Streatfeild
Castaway, Lucy Irvine
Coastliners, Joanne Harris
Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters
The French Lieutenant's Woman, John Fowles
Orlando the Marmalade Cat: A Seaside Holiday, Kathleen Hale
Beachcombing, Maggie Dana - Elaine just raved about this one, so I had to add it to the list!
Many thanks for all the great suggestions. I'm going to enjoy looking for these (a few I actually have on my shelves, so must go and dig them out). I think the list should keep me nice and busy for a while (at least until next summer...).