Whether you’re headed to the pool or beach, taking a road trip, or stuck in the house during a summer thunderstorm, our librarians have you covered! Here’s our staff picks for this summer’s best reads, road trip audiobooks, and rainy day movies. Some of our selections are new releases coming out later in the summer (as noted), so you can plan ahead!
Summer Reads
Adult
- All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda – released June 28, 2016 (Mystery/Thriller)
- All the Single Ladies by Rebecca Traister (Nonfiction)
- Bird Box by Josh Malerman (Fiction)
- Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman (Fiction)
- Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters (Mystery)
- Dark Matter by Blake Crouch – released July 26, 2016 (Science Fiction/Thriller, set in Chicago)
- First Comes Love by Emily Giffin – released June 28, 2016 (Women’s Fiction)
- If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin (Fiction)
- Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (Fiction)
- Nine Women, One Dress by Jane L. Rosen – released July 12, 2016 (Women’s Fiction)
- The Assistants by Camille Perri – released May 3, 2016 – good for Devil Wears Prada, The Knockoff fans (Fiction)
- The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield (Fiction)
- The Long, Hot Summer by Kathleen MacMahon – released July 5, 2016 – for Maeve Binchy and Liane Moriarty fans (Fiction)
- The One that Got Away by Leigh Himes – released May 31, 2016 (Women’s Fiction)
- The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware – releases July 19, 2016 (Mystery/Thriller)
- The Year We Turned Forty by Liz Fenton and Lisa Steinke (Fiction)
- Those Girls by Chevy Stevens (Fiction)
- Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty – released July 26, 2016 (Women’s Fiction)
- Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person by Shonda Rhimes (Nonfiction)
- You Will Know Me by Megan Abbott – releases July 26, 2016 (Mystery/Thriller)
Young Adult
- The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson (Teen Science Fiction/Fantasy)
- The Selection Series by Kiera Cass – A cross between the book Divergent by Veronica Roth and the TV Show the Bachelor, The Selection series will turn into your newest guilty pleasure. (Teen Fiction)
- The Star-Touched Queen by Roshani Chokshi (Teen Fiction)
Children
- Let’s Play by Herve Tullet – This is an interactive picture book that your child will love! Follow the yellow dot and make a paint-filled, magical mess — without any of the cleanup! (Picture Book)
- The Wild Robot by Peter Brown (Fiction)
Road Trip Audiobooks
Adult
- Elizabeth Is Missing by Emma Healy (Mystery)
- Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert (Historical Fiction)
- A Stir of Echoes by Richard Matheson (Horror)
- The Pecan Man by Cassie Dandridge Selleck (Fiction)
- Wildflower by Drew Barrymore – Good for moms and daughters (Autobiography)
Family
- Grimm’s Fairy Tales – Read by a full cast
- Nooks & Crannies by Jessica Lawson – Historical fiction mystery with elements of Dickens and Roald Dahl
- The Apothecary trilogy by Maile Meloy
- The Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling (narrated by Jim Dale) – These audiobooks are great for children all the way through adults.
- Under the Egg by Laura Max Fitzgerald – Modern-day art themed mystery with WWII connections
- Any of Beverly Cleary’s audiobooks
