Summer Reading 2025 Adult Suggestions

Updated May 7, 2025
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Learn to dye & print fabric using shibori, tie-dye, sun printing, and more : techniques, projects, tips, and tricks
Berkau, Elisabeth
Paper Book
Learn to dye and print your own textiles and create stunning home décor accents, clothes, and more! Learn to Dye and Print Fabric Using Shibori, Tie-Dye, and Sun Print is the ultimate beginner-friendly guide that will show you everything you need to know to accomplish seven different fabric...
Delilah Green doesn't care
Blake, Ashley Herring
Paper Book
Delilah Green swore she would never go back to Bright Falls. Her life is in New York, with her photography career finally gaining steam and her bed never empty. Sure, it's a different woman every night, but that's just fine with her. When Delilah's estranged stepsister, Astrid, pressures her into...
Loving Frank : a novel
Horan, Nancy.
Paper Book
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,...
Stan Lee's how to draw superheroes
Lee, Stan
Paper Book
The third installment in comics icon Stan Lee's series showing readers how to draw some of the most exciting and dynamic superheroes of all time. Spider-Man, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, Iron Man, the Incredible Hulk, and the Avengers all share a common trait -- these hugely popular...
Keeping a nature journal : discover a whole new way of seeing the world around you
Leslie, Clare Walker.
Paper Book
Originally published in 2000 with endorsements from E.O. Wilson and Jane Goodall, Clare Walker Leslie's Keeping a Nature Journal was at the forefront of the nature observation and journaling movement. Leslie's approach has long been acclaimed for its accessible style of teaching people to see...
The art forger : a novel
Shapiro, Barbara A.
Paper Book
"[A] highly entertaining literary thriller about fine art and foolish choices." --Parade  "[A] nimble mystery." --The New York Times Book Review "Gripping." --O, The Oprah Magazine
Metropolis : a novel
Shapiro, Barbara A.
Paper Book
The New York Times bestselling author of The Art Forger delivers a spellbinding and moving novel about what we hang on to, what we might need to let go, and how unexpected events can lead us to deeper truths. Six people, six secrets, six different...
The last painting of Sara De Vos
Smith, Dominic
Paper Book
"Written in prose so clear that we absorb its images as if by mind meld, "The Last Painting" is gorgeous storytelling: wry, playful, and utterly alive, with an almost tactile awareness of the emotional contours of the human heart. Vividly detailed, acutely sensitive to stratifications of...
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,...
The passion of Artemisia
Vreeland, Susan.
Paper Book
In her luminous debut, Susan Vreeland told the story of a Vermeer painting that transformed the lives of many owners with its beauty. Now, in her stunning new novel, she tells the story of a painter who transformed Renaissance Italy with the beauty of her work. The Passion of Artemisia chronicles...

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