Summer Reading 2025 Adult Suggestions

Updated May 7, 2025
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Caramelo, or, Puro cuento : a novel
Cisneros, Sandra.
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Every year, Celaya "Lala" Reyes' family--aunts, uncles, mothers, fathers, and Lala's six older brothers--packs up three cars and, in a wild ride, drive from Chicago to the Little Grandfather and Awful Grandmother's house in Mexico City for the summer. From the celebrated...
Loving Frank
Horan, Nancy.
CD
I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current. So writes Mamah Borthwick Cheney in her diary as she struggles to justify her clandestine love affair with Frank Lloyd Wright. Four years earlier, in 1903, Mamah and...
The art forger a novel
Shapiro, Barbara A.
CD
On March 18, 1990, thirteen works of art today worth over $500 million were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. It remains the largest unsolved art heist in history, and Claire Roth, a struggling young artist, is about to discover that theres more to this crime than meets the...
Just kids
Smith, Patti.
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation. Patti Smith would evolve as a poet and performer,...
Here in the dark
Soloski, Alexis
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A dark and stylish novel of psychological suspense about a young theater critic drawn into a dangerous game that blurs the lines between reality and performance A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2023: Bustle, Nylon, Chicago Review of Books,...

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