Join our Adult Summer Reading program!
With weekly prize drawings and an End-of-Summer Prize Giveaway
Just fill out the Adult Summer Reading Book Review for any books you read this summer. Drop it in the jar and you’ll be entered into the weekly and End-of-Summer drawings. Find your next summer read here with recommendations from library staff and links to bestseller lists.
Well, just one bestseller list for now, the granddaddy of them all: New York Times Best Sellers List
Library Staff Summer Reading Suggestions 2019
Michelle Obama’s Becoming was recommended by two staff members, and The Storyteller’s Secret by Sejal Badani made it onto 3 staff lists!
(loves coming-of-age novels and historical fiction)
The Storyteller’s Secret by Sejal Badani
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
The Gown by Jennifer Robson
The Accidental Beauty Queen by Teri Wilson
Written In The Stars by Aisha Saeed
Missing Isaac by Valerie Fraser Luesse
Almost Home by Valerie Fraser Luesse
The Taster by V. S. Alexander
The Memory of Butterflies by Grace Greene
Absalom’s Daughters by Suzanne Feldman
The Dress in the Window by Sofia Grant
The Story of Arthur Truluv by Elizabeth Berg
Jackie, Janet & Lee by J. Randy Taraborelli
Revenge of the Kudzu Debutantes by Thomas Pierce
Best Beach Ever by Wendy Wax
Summer of ’69 by Elin Hilerbrand
A Beach Wish by Shelley Noble
The Cliff House by RaeAnne Thayne
The Mother-In-Law by Sally Hepworth
Surfside Sisters by Nancy Thayer
Forget You Know Me by Jessica Strawser
The Summer Retreat by Sheila Roberts
Paranoid by Lisa Jackson
The Perfect Dress by Carolyn Brown
The View from Alameda Island by Robyn Carr
(says she will read anything. We assume she means anything good!)
The Storyteller’s Secret by Sejal Badani
Educated: a memoir by Tara Westover
All the Light We Cannot See: a novel by Anothony Doerr
The Taster by V. S. Alexander
Becoming by Michelle Obama
The Book of Essie by Meghan MacLean Weir
Wonder by R. J. Palacio
The President is Missing: a novel by Bill Clinton & James Patterson
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
Mrs. Sherlock Holmes by Brad Ricca
Updike by John Begley
Glass Houses by Louise Penny
Secret Lives of Dogs by Jana Murphy
Black Ascot by Charles Todd
The Clocks by Agatha Christy
The Case of the Sleepwalker’s Niece by Erle Stanley Gardner
(‘s favorite genre is biography/memoir. This year’s list is mostly fiction.)
The Storyteller’s Secret by Sejal Badani
Descent by Tim Johnston
Just Kids by Patti Smith
The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
Don’t Let Go by Harlan Corben
The Memory House by Rachel Hauck
Above the East China Sea by Sarah Bird
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Lisa See
Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
(enjoys memoirs and biographies)
Becoming by Michelle Obama
The Next Person You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
This is What Happy Looks Like by Jennifer E. Smith
Mediator: Shadowland by Meg Cabot
The Christmas Angel by Jane Maas
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
The Diary of Anne Frank by Ann Frank
A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety by Jimmy Carter
(reads mostly science fiction and YA fantasy)
Last Tango in Cyberspace by Steven Kotler
La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman
Tess of the Road by Rachel Hartman
Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor
The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders
The Hazel Wood: a novel by Melissa Albert
How to Stop Time by Matt Haig
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics translated by Simon Carnell & Erica Segree
(has recommended his favorites in a variety of genres, but prefers science fiction and fantasy)
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
Pawn of Prophecy (The Belgariad Book 1) by David Eddings
The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, Book 1) by Stephen King
The Camel Club (The Camel Club, Book 1) by David Baldacci
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O’Brien
Watership Down by Richard Adams
Watchmen by Alan Moore
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer