Book Recommendations

2024 Adult Summer Reading Challenge

• Time Travel Book Recommendations
• Books where characters are stranded and must fight for survival
• Fiction books where characters go on a road trip
• Graphic novels set in another country
• Mysteries where a character solves the case while traveling
• Read a book set in an alternate reality
• Read a romantic comedy that takes place in another country or involves travel
• Read a historical fiction book where characters travel by sea
• Space Travel Book Recommendations
• Non-fiction books on unfamiliar cultures
• Non-fiction books on food travel
• Biographies of people from different countries
• Non-fiction history books on different countries
• International spy thrillers
• Audiobooks on Libby or hoopla where a character goes on a family vacation

Fiction Book Lists

• Beach-Themed Mysteries and Thrillers
• Beach Vibes Book Recommendations
• Books With Witches
• Climate Fiction
• Cosmic Horror Book Recommendations
• Cozy Mysteries
• Dark Academia Recommendations
• Dystopian Fiction Recommendations
• Dystopian Novels About Rising Sea Levels
• Fantasy Novels Set in or Near the Ocean
• Food-Centric Mystery Series
• French Books in Translation
• Gentle Reads Fiction Recommendations
• Gothic Fiction Recommendations
• Haunted Horror Recommendations
• Historical Fiction Set Near the Ocean
• LGBTQIA+ Romance Novels
• Mental Health in Fiction
• Mysteries That Cross Genres
• Mysteries With Amateur Sleuths
• Mysteries Without Murder
• Mysteries With Pets
• Mystery/Crime With Characters Who Are POC, LGBTQIA, or Have a Disability
• New Fiction by Black Authors (June 2023)
• New Books by Hispanic/Latinx Authors (Sept 2024)
• New Fiction by Hispanic/Latinx Authors (Sept. 2022)
• New Fiction by Hispanic/Latinx Authors (Sept. 2023)
• New Fiction by Indigenous Authors (Oct. 2022)
• New Fiction by Indigenous Authors (Nov. 2023)
• New Fiction Featuring Transgender or Gender-Nonconforming Characters (March 2023)
• Novels Set on Boats
• Novels Where a Character Travels Somewhere Unknown
• Novels With a Treasure Hunt
• Police Procedurals
• Pride and Prejudice Retellings
• Readalikes for Lessons in Chemistry
• Readalikes for A Man Called Ove
• Readalikes for The Murderbot Diaries
• Readalikes for The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
• Readalikes for Verity by Colleen Hoover
• Romantasy Book Recommendations
• Scandinavian Mysteries
• Sherlock Holmes Adaptions and Updates
• Spanish Books in Translation
• Staff’s Best Books of 2023
• Staff’s Best Books of 2022
• Vampire Horror Book Recommendations
• 2022 Pride Fiction
• 2023 Pride Fiction
• 2024 Pride Fiction
• 2024 Disability Pride Month Fiction

Mixed Lists

• ART 2023 Reading Companion for Being Heumann by Judith Heumann and Kristen Joiner
• Books to Read for Transgender Day of Visibility
• Our Favorite Books of 2021
• Our Favorite Books of 2022
• Pirates in Fiction and Nonfiction
• Short Stories and Essay Collections
• Transgender Awareness Week: November 13-19 (Nov. 2021)

Nonfiction Book Lists

• ART 2024: Book Recommendations Based on Solito by Javier Zamora
• Black History Month 2023: Books on Display
• Books on AI and ChatGPT
• Books on Cybersecurity
• Books on Stargazing
• Books About Sustainable Seafood
• Books on Writing
• Books on the Indigenous History of the United States of America
• Books on Pre-Colombian Civilizations in Latin America
• Books on Sustainable Living
• Books on Witchcraft
• Climate Change and Sea Levels
• Hunger Action Month Book Recommendations (2024)
• Massachusetts History
• Microhistories
• Naval History and Sea Transportation
• Scientific Discoveries
• True Crime

Lists by format

• 2022 American Library Association Best Graphic Novels for Adults
• Graphic Novels About Disability
• Graphic Novels by Hispanic and Latinx creators
• Horror Graphic Novels (October 2023)
• Mystery Graphic Novels
• Noir Mystery eBooks
• Ocean-Themed Audiobooks on Hoopla
• Ocean-Themed Graphic Novels
• LGBTQIA+ Graphic Novels and Memoirs
• Science Fiction Graphic Novels
• Thrillers on Audio