Our Favorite Summer Reads
by Katie Auman
Communications and Development Director
Add these staff reading recommendations to your TBR (to be read) pile for fall. Favorites include both fiction and nonfiction titles with a mix of genres like science fiction, fantasy, contemporary fiction, and mystery. One of the most popular choices is the buzzworthy New York Times bestseller Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid.
You can also enjoy a variety of staff picks in each of our library locations. Look for shelves labeled “staff picks.”
Fiction
Laura
Murder on Sex Island
Jo Firestone
Amy & Jillian
James : a novel
Percival Everett
Louise
My friends : a novel
Fredrik Backman
Bonnie
Miss Buncle's book
D.E. Stevenson
Molly
I capture the castle
Dodie Smith
Alayna
The ghostwriter : a novel
Julie Clark
Nicole
Junie : a novel
Erin Crosby Eckstine
Jennifer
The Midnight Library
Matt Haig
Kaiti
The Bright years : a novel
Sarah Damoff
Christine
The dream hotel : a novel
Laila Lalami
Meg, Hannah, Ashlynn, & Paula
Atmosphere : a love story
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Nonfiction
Peggy
On tyranny : twenty lessons from the twentieth century
Timothy Snyder
Sarah
In the country we love : my family divided
Diane Guerrero
Katie
Careless people : a cautionary tale of power, greed, and lost idealism
Sarah Wynn-Williams
Steve
Behave : the biology of humans at our best and worst
Robert M. Sapolsky
Science Fiction / Fantasy
Heidi
Hollow kingdom : a novel
Kira Jane Buxton
Courtney
Kindred
Octavia E. Butler
Wendy
Of monsters and mainframes
Barbara Truelove
Janine
The priory of the orange tree
Samantha Shannon
Sage
The empress of salt and fortune
Nghi Vo
Leanne
Dungeon crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman
Miranda
In the veins of the drowning
Kalie Cassidy