Perched uncomfortably on beach chairs on Friday’s Today Show, authors Kate White and Brad Thor passionately promoted their favorite beach reads, causing the titles to move up Amazon’s sales rankings.

The two that got the strongest reactions were the books the author’s picked as the best “sexy reads.”  Brad Thor picked a title from last year, out now in paperback, You by Caroline Kepnes, which he calls “The next Gone Girl. It will be the hot read of the summer. Get this book!” (S&S/Atria/Emily Bestler).

Kate White reached back even further to The Lover by Marguerite Duras, saying “Fifty Shades of Grey doesn’t hold a candle to this one.”( RH/Pantheon).

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