Adult Summer Reading List
Mystery
Whiskey Business by Andrea Andover
The Queens of Crime by Marie Benedict
Mastering the Art of French Murder by Colleen Cambidge
Mrs. Christie at the Mystery Guild Library by Amanda Chapman
The Resurrectionist by A. Rae Dunlap
The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra by Vaseem Khan
Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke
The Maid by Nita Prose
Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto
The Mysterious Death of Jenetta Plum by Valerie Wilson Wesley
Non-Fiction
On a MOVE by Mike Africa, Jr.
American Flygirl by Susan Tate Ankeny
Book of Lives by Margaret Atwood
The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy by Damien Lewis
The Library Book by Susan Orlean
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Educated by Tara Westover
Romance
The Austen Affair by Madeline Bell
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
A Daughter of Fair Verona by Christina Dodd
A Dawn of Onyx by Kate Golden
Loathe to Love You by Ali Hazelwood
Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert
Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez
How Stella Got Her Groove Back by Terry MacMillan
Riley Thorn and the Dead Guy Next Door by Lucy Score
In the Likely Event by Rebecca Yarros
Graphic Novel
Love Languages by James Albon
Ducks by Kate Beaton
Where the Body Was by Ed Brubaker
Monica by Daniel Clowes
My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris
Goodbye, Eri by Tatsuki Fujimoto
Feeding Ghosts by Tessa Hulls
Parasyte by Hitoshi Iwaaki
Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow by Tom King
Insectopolis: A Natural History by Peter Kuper
Classic
Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
The Tales of South Pacific by James Michener
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Bestseller
Violeta by Isabel Allende
This is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
Teen Summer Reading List
Mystery
This Poison Heart by Kaylnn Bayron
The Agathas by Kathleen Glasgow
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
One of Us is Lying by Karen McManus
Non-Fiction
The Mona Lisa Vanishes by Nick Day
Death in the Jungle by Candace Fleming
White House Secrets: Medical Lies and Cover-Ups by Gail Jarrow
Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults by Robin Wall Kimmerer
American Spirits by Barb Rosenstock
Romance
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han
My Life with the Walter Boys by Ali Novak
Her Hidden Fire by Cliodhna O’Sullivan
The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh
Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
Graphic Novel
In the Shadow of the Fallen Towers by Don Brown
Heartstopper by Alice Oseman
Nimona by ND Stevenson
Brownstone by Samuel Teer
Lunar New Year Love Story by Gene Luen Yang
Classic
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Bestseller
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Maze Runner by James Dashner
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
