Summer Reading for Adults
Don’t let the kids have all the fun! We’ve got some great books for you to read this summer. Look for the display in the Main Reading Room, or ask one of our librarians to help you find just the right book to read.
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Download a review submission form here to print at home, or pick one up at the library.
Suggested Reading List
Don’t know what to read? Check out this list for ideas:
Popular Fiction
Martine Bailey, An Appetite for Violets
Jo Baker, Longbourn
Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove
Alison Case, Nelly Dean
Bryn Greenwood, All the Ugly and Wonderful Things
Paula Hawkins, Into the Water (or) The Girl on the Train
Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale
Sadie Jones, The Uninvited Guests
Sue Monk Kidd, The Invention of Wings
Liane Moriarty, Truly Madly Guilty
Jo Nesbo, The Thirst
Ann Patchett, Commonwealth
James Patterson, 16th Seduction
Jodi Picoult, Small Great Things
J.D. Robb, Echoes in Death
Helen Simonson, The Summer Before the War
Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Project
Zadie Smith, Swing Time
Nicholas Sparks, Two By Two
Kathryn Stockett, The Help
Graham Swift, Mothering Sunday
Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow
Ruth Ware, The Woman in Cabin 10
Poetry
Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey
R.H. Sin, Whiskey, Words, and a Shovel
Biography & Autobiography
Irin Carmon, Notorious RBG
Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air
Sheryl Lee Ralph, Redefining Diva
Non-Fiction
Mary Beard, SPQR
Dalai Lama XIV, The Book of Joy
Michael Eric Dyson, Tears We Cannot Stop
Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology
David Grann, The Lost City of Z
Lin-Manual Miranda, Hamilton: The Revolution
Margot Lee Shetterly, Hidden Figures
Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy
Award Winning
Paul Beatty, The Sellout
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
Ernest Cline, Ready Player One
Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings
Paulette Jiles, News of the World
Adam Johnson, The Orphan Master’s Son
Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning
Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction
Helen MacDonald, H is for Hawk
Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen
Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer
Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch
Luis Alberto Urrea, The Water Museum
Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad
Jacqueline Woodson, Another Brooklyn
Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life