Find your next summer read with suggestions from library staff! Every summer, we make a list of the best books we’ve read this year, along with a few all-time favorites.
In case you’re participating in Book Genre Bingo, matching genres are listed after each title.
The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman — Mystery, Detective
The Ink Black Heart by Robert Galbraith — Mystery, Detective, Thriller
A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi — Romance, Historical Fiction
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens — Mystery, Detective
A Calder at Heart by Janet Dailey — Romance, Historical Fiction
The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont — Mystery, Historical Fiction
The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie — Mystery, Detective, In A Series
Jesus and Gender by Elyse Fitzpatrick — Nonfiction
Strengths Based Leadership by Tom Rath — Nonfiction
The Demigod Diaries by Rick Riordan — Fantasy
Blood Red Road by Moira Young (Dustlands series) — In A Series, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Adventure, Dystopian
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness (Chaos Walking series) — In A Series, Science Fiction, Dystopian
The Road to Ever After by Moira Young — Adventure
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness — Fantasy
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold — Nonfiction
At Home: A short history of private life by Bill Bryson (Anything by Bill Bryson) — Nonfiction
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman — Romance
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce — Humorous Fiction
The Brides of Rollrock Island by Margo Lanagan — Fantasy
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr — Science Fiction, Historical Fiction
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles — Historical Fiction
Love and Other Consolation Prizes by Jamie Ford — Historical Fiction
Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune — Romance, Humorous Fiction
Forest Walking: Discovering the Trees and Woodlands of North America by Peter Wohlleben — Nonfiction, Translated
Telling the Bees by Peggy Hesketh — Historical Fiction, Mystery
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt — Mystery
The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See — Historical Fiction
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather (Great Plains Trilogy) — Classic
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab — Fantasy, Historical Fiction
The Last Chairlift by John Irving — Historical Fiction
Identical by Ellen Hopkins — Novel In Verse
The Big Book of Herbs by Tucker and DeBaggio — Nonfiction
Oblivion: stories by David Foster Wallace
Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut — Science Fiction
Blindness by José Saramago — Dystopian, Translated
Your Disgusting Head by Dr. and Mr. Doris Haggis-On-Whey
We, the Drowned by Carsten Jensen — Historical Fiction, Adventure, Translated
Runaway: Stories by Alice Munro
This is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz — Romance
The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley — Thriller, Mystery, Suspense
Always the Last to Know by Kristan Higgins — Romance
The Survivors by Alex Schulman — Thriller, Translated
Double Fudge Murder by Jan Fields — Mystery, Detective
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens — Mystery, Detective
Keep the Memories, Lose the Stuff by Matt Paxton — Nonfiction
When Action Follows Heart : 365 Ways to Share Kindness by Susan Spencer — Nonfiction
Out of my Heart by Sharon M. Draper — In A Series
Faith, Farming, and Family : Cultivating Hope and Harvesting Joy Wherever You Are by Caitlin Henderson — Nonfiction
Frontier follies : adventures in marriage & motherhood in the middle of nowhere by Ree Drummond — Autobiography
Flamer by Mike Curato — Graphic Novel
Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe — Graphic Novel
All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto by George M. Johnson — Autobiography
The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta — Novel In Verse
The Big Reveal: An Illustrated Manifesto of Drag by Sasha Velour — Autobiogrpahy
Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes du Mez — Nonfiction
The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang — Graphic Novel
Darius the Great Is Not Okay by Adib Khorram —
Into the Riverlands by Nghi Vo — In A Series, Fantasy
Several People Are Typing by Calvin Kasulke — Humorous Fiction
The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty — Adventure, Fantasy, Historical Fiction
Babel by R.F. Kuang — Fantasy
Book of Night by Holly Black — Fantasy, Thriller
The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd — Historical Fiction
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel — Science Fiction
Fairy Tale by Stephen King — Fantasy, Thriller
The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi — Science Fiction, Fantasy, Adventure, Humorous Fiction
Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett — Magic Realism, Fantasy
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers — Science Fiction
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler — Science Fiction, Dystopian, Classic
All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood
It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover — Romance, In A Series
Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney — Thriller, Mystery, Suspense
Hidden by Fern Michaels — Thriller, Suspense
The Neighbor’s Secret by L. Alison Heller — Mystery, Detective, Thriller
Adelaide by Genevieve Wheeler — Romance
The Last Party by Clare Mackintosh — Thriller, Mystery, Detective, Suspense
Ties That Tether by Jane Igharo — Romance
The Soulmate by Sally Hepworth — Thriller, Suspense
Leo the Late Bloomer by Robert Kraus (children’s book)
Now Is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin Wilson
This Bird Has Flown by Susanna Hoffs — Romance
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker — Biography, Nonfiction
The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes — Mystery, In A Series
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls — Autobiography
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr — Historical Fiction
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick — Science Fiction
The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean — Fantasy
Iona Iverson’s Rules for Commuting by Clare Pooley
Holes by Louis Sachar — Mystery, Adventure