Adult Summer Reading Program 2025
Level Up at Your Library!
Join our 2025 Summer Reading Program for adults and you will have the chance to win weekly prizes! Complete reading goals and review the books you read and you can enter to win one of our three grand prize baskets!
To access the 2025 Adult Summer Reading Goals, click here. Completing all the goals on the page will earn you an extra 10 tickets to enter for one of the grand prizes!
To access the review forms that are used for your entry into the raffles, click here
Adult Summer Reading Program 2025 Book Suggestions
Not sure what to read for a certain goal? Here are some suggestions!
Read a book about a sports team
Beartown by Fredrik Backman
What Happened to the McCrays? by Tracey Lange
The Last One Out of Town Turn Out the Lights by David Albee
Sooley by John Grisham
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
Read a book that is set in Maine
The Cliffs by J. Courtney Sullivan
Paul Doiron's Mike Bowditch series
The Savage, Noble Death of Bab Dionne by Ron Currie
Hazel Says No by Jessica Berger Gross
The Road to Dalton by Shannon Bowring
Read a book that was banned or challeneged in Maine
Gender Queer by Maria Kobabe
Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison
White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
Read a book that has been made into a movie
Conclave by Robert Harris
Dune by Herbert Frank
News of the World by Paulette Jiles
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
Read a book that has video games as a subject
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
A/S/L by Jeanne Thornton
Ripper by Isabel Allende
Single Player by Tara Tai
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Read a book by an Indigenous author
Read a non-fiction book about the American Revolution
In the Hurricane's Eye by Nathaniel Philbrick
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
Revolutionary Mothers by Carol Berkin
Founding Partisans by H.W. Brands
American Rebels by Nina Sankovitch
Read a book by a Black author
Read a book with the word "summer" in the title
The Year Without a Summer by Joseph Hardy
The Summer of 1876 by Chris Wimmer
Summer of '69 by Elin Hilderbrand
Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez
The Summer Guests by Tess Gerritsen
Read a book that has the word "game" in the title
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
The Family Game by Catherine Steadman
Molly's Game by Molly Bloom
A Queen's Game by Katherine McGee
Game On by Janet Evanovich
Read a book that is 150 pages or less
The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar
The Wood at Midwinter by Susanna Clarke
The Deal of a Lifetime by Fredrik Backman
All the Horses of Iceland by Sarah Tolmie
The Mistletoe Mystery by Nita Prose
Read a book that has been translated into English
The Kamogawa Food Detectives by Hisashi Kashiwai
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
We Do Not Part by Han Kang
Read a book in verse or a book of poetry
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Ædnan by Linnea Axelsson The Odyssey by Homer A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ni Ghriofa An American Sunrise by Joy Harjo
Read a book that is a debut novel Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Torsz The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi |