Color Our World

The 2025 Summer Reading theme is Color Our World! Check out one of these colorful books 🎨

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Updated May 29, 2025
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Red River Road : a novel
Downes, Anna
Paper Book
Anna Downes's extraordinary next thriller Red River Road follows a woman desperate to discover what happened to her sister on a solo road trip through the Australian outback. Katy Sweeney is looking for her sister. A year earlier, just three weeks into a solo vanlife...
City of orange
Yoon, David
Paper Book
A man wakes up in an unknown landscape, injured and alone.      He used to live in a place called California, but how did he wind up here with a head wound and a bottle of pills in his pocket?     He navigates his...
Yellowface : a novel
Kuang, R. F. (Rebecca F.)
Paper Book
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK "Hard to put down, harder to forget." -- Stephen King, #1 New York Times bestselling author White lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences... Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she...
Green dot : a novel
Gray, Madeleine 1994-
Paper Book
"Madeleine Gray takes a scalpel to millennial malaise, office romance, and infidelity, and the result is a brainy, gutsy, nervy--and hilarious--wonder of a novel." --Meg Howrey, author of They're Going to Love You An irresistible and...
The Blue Hour
Hawkins, Paula.
Paper Book
A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK "The best Paula Hawkins yet - by a tense and haunting mile." - Lee Child "An atmospheric, stylish puzzle box of a thriller... truly exceptional." - Liz Moore, New York Times bestselling author of The God of the Woods "A masterful...
Riders of the purple sage
Grey, Zane 1872-1939
Paper Book
`With searching eyes he studied the beautiful purple, barren waste of sage. Here was the unknown and the perilous.' The novel that set the pattern for the modern Western, Riders of the Purple Sage was first published in 1912, immediately selling over a million copies. In the remote border country of...
The indigo girl : a novel
Boyd, Natasha
Paper Book
In this incredible story of ambition, betrayal, and sacrifice, an extraordinary sixteen-year-old girl in Colonial South Carolina defies all expectations to achieve her dream. The year is 1739. Eliza Lucas is sixteen years old when her father leaves her in charge of their family's three...
Acts of violet
Montimore, Margarita
Paper Book
A DAZZLING NEW NOVEL FROM NATIONAL BESTSELLING AND GMA BOOK CLUB PICK MARGARITA MONTIMORE, AUTHOR OF OONA OUT OF ORDER "[A] twisty, genre-defying family drama...Reminiscent of Taylor Jenkins Reid's Daisy Jones & the Six." --Shelf Awareness (starred...
Pink lemonade cake murder
Fluke, Joanne 1943-
Paper Book
Fans of deliciously charming, page-turning whodunits rejoice! Beloved New York Times bestselling author and Queen of the Culinary Mystery Joanne Fluke delivers the twenty-eighth mouthwatering Hannah Swensen Mystery! The Tri-County Summer Solstice Celebration has come to town, and...
White Cat, Black Dog
Link, Kelly/ Tan, Shaun (ILT)
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE * "The Brothers Grimm meet Black Mirror meets Alice in Wonderland. . . . In seven remixed fairy tales, Link delivers wit and dreamlike intrigue."--Time   FINALIST FOR THE LOCUS AWARD...
Gray Mountain
Grisham, John
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER * John Grisham has a new hero ... and she's full of surprises. The year is 2008 and Samantha Kofer's career at a huge Wall Street law firm is on the fast track--until the recession hits and she gets downsized, furloughed, escorted out of the...
Brown Dog : novellas
Harrison, Jim 1937-2016
Paper Book
"Among the most indelible American novelists of the last hundred years. . . . [Harrison] remains at the height of his powers."--Dwight Garner, The New York Times on The River Swimmer New York Times best-selling author Jim Harrison is one of America's...

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