Summer Reads (Just For You)

Enjoy some great adult reads this Summer with personalised recommendations from librarians to help you find the perfect book to enjoy over the Summer break.

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Updated December 1, 2025
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Alchemised
SenLinYu
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * In this riveting dark fantasy debut, a woman with missing memories fights to survive a war-torn world of necromancy and alchemy--and the man tasked with unearthing the deepest secrets of her past. This stunning hardcover edition features a...
Atmosphere: A Love Story
Reid, Taylor Jenkins
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK * From the author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & The Six comes an epic new novel set against the backdrop of the 1980s space shuttle program about the extraordinary lengths we go...
The Book of Lost Hours
Gelfuso, Hayley
Paper Book
A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK! For fans of The Ministry of Time and The Midnight Library, a sweeping, unforgettable novel following two remarkable women moving between postwar and Cold War-era America and the mysterious time space, a library filled...
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
Schwab, V E
Paper Book
ALL first edition copies will be signed by the author! Signed copies available while supplies last. "Unmissable... Nobody can write like V. E. Schwab" --Jodi Picoult #1 New York Times bestseller * #1 USA Today bestseller * #1...
Death of the Author (Standard Edition)
Okorafor, Nnedi
Paper Book
THE INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER Recommended by New York Times Book Review * People * NPR * Rolling Stone * Los Angeles Times * Reader's Digest * and more! "This one has it all." -- George R.R. Martin * "As delicious as it...
Deep End
Hazelwood, Ali
Paper Book
The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller! This edition includes an exquisite, glistening cover with effects and brilliantly illustrated four-color interior art. A competitive diver and an ace swimmer jump into forbidden waters in this steamy college romance from...
Don't Let Him in
Jewell, Lisa
Paper Book
INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jewell, three women are connected by one man in this "shocking" (Freida McFadden, #1 New York Times bestselling author) thriller. He's the perfect man....
Dusk
Arnott, Robbie
Paper Book
A New Yorker best book of 2025 so far "Arnott has an astonishing facility with language, and his prose imbues the Tasmanian wilderness with an extraordinary, immanent beauty . . . Starkly beautiful and deeply felt." --James Bradley, The Guardian "This is a...
The Favorites
Fargo, Layne
Paper Book
To the world, they were a scandal. To each other, an obsession. NATIONAL BESTSELLER * An epic love story set in the sparkling, savage sphere of elite figure skating, starring a woman determined to carve her own path on and off the ice "Part...
First-Time Caller
Borison, B. K.
Paper Book
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A hopeless romantic meets a jaded radio host in this cozy, Sleepless in Seattle-inspired love story from beloved author B.K. Borison. Aiden Valentine has a secret: he's fallen out of love with love. And as the host of...
Five found dead
Gentill, Sulari
Paper Book
"It's a daring writer who wants to add their own spin to one of the most recognized mysteries of all time. Sulari Gentill succeeds brilliantly." Joshua Moehling, USA Today bestselling author of A Long Times Gone "Rich with quirky characters and clever misdirection." Booklist On a...
Flesh
Szalay, David
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE 2025 BOOKER PRIZE Finalist for the Kirkus Prize | Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence From "the shrewdest writer on contemporary masculinity we have" (Esquire), a "captivating...hypnotic...virtuosic" (The Baffler)...
Framed in Death
Robb, J D
Paper Book
Death imitates art in the brand-new crime thriller starring homicide cop Eve Dallas from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author J.D. Robb. Manhattan is filled with galleries and deep-pocketed collectors who can make an artist's career with a wave of a hand. But one man...
Great Big Beautiful Life
Henry, Emily
Paper Book
A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK ∙ AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ∙ Two writers compete for the chance to tell the larger-than-life story of a woman with more than a couple of plot twists up her sleeve in this dazzling and sweeping novel from Emily Henry. As...
The Hallmarked Man: A Cormoran Strike Novel
Galbraith, Robert
Paper Book
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A dismembered corpse is discovered in the vault of a silver shop. The police initially believe it to be that of a convicted armed robber - but not everyone agrees with that theory. One of them is Decima Mullins, who calls on...
Here One Moment
Moriarty, Liane
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the beloved author of Big Little Lies, Apples Never Fall, and The Husband's Secret comes a moving novel of love, marriage, family, and trying to find certainty in a fragile world. "The premise is irresistible--a woman on...
The Impossible Fortune: A Thursday Murder Club Mystery [Large Print]
Osman, Richard
Paper Book
Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron return in the brilliant new book by #1 bestseller Richard Osman in his record-breaking series The Thursday Murder Club
In Too Deep: A Reacher Novel
Child, Lee
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A gripping Jack Reacher thriller from the bestselling authors Lee Child and Andrew Child Don't miss the hit streaming series Reacher! Reacher had no idea where he was. No idea how he had gotten there. But someone...
Katabasis (Standard Edition)
Kuang, R F
Paper Book
Dante's Inferno meets Susanna Clarke's Piranesi in this all-new dark academia fantasy from R. F. Kuang, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and Yellowface, in which two graduate students must put aside their rivalry and journey to Hell to save...
The Knight and the Moth
Gillig, Rachel
Paper Book
INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! "Prepare to meet your next obsession." -- Rebecca Ross, author of Divine Rivals From New York Times bestselling author Rachel Gillig comes the next big romantasy...
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Desai, Kiran
Paper Book
BOOKER AND KIRKUS PRIZE SHORTLIST NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, Time, The Washington Post, NPR, The Financial Times, The Economist, Kirkus Reviews, Elle, Oprah Daily, Chicago Public Library...
My Friends
Backman, Fredrik
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! A Most Anticipated Book of 2025: Goodreads * USA TODAY * Marie Claire * BookPage * Literary Lifestyle * Book Riot * ...
Not quite dead yet
Jackson, Holly
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK * A WASHINGTON POST AND NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * The author of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder--now a hit Netflix series--returns with her first novel for adults: an "irresistible" (The Washington...
Of Monsters and Mainframes
Truelove, Barbara.
Paper Book
Spaceships aren't programmed to seek revenge--but for Dracula, Demeter will make an exception. Demeter just wants to do her job: shuttling humans between Earth and Alpha Centauri. Unfortunately, her passengers keep dying--and not from equipment failures, as her AI medical system,...
Onyx storm
Yarros, Rebecca
Paper Book
Discover the instant #1 New York Times bestseller! TV series now in development at MGM Amazon Studios with Michael B. Jordan's Outlier Society. Accolades for Fourth Wing Amazon Best Books of the Year, #4 * Apple Best Books of the Year 2023 * Barnes &...
Problematic summer romance
Hazelwood, Ali
Paper Book
The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller! What is wrong meets what feels right in this romance set in Italy by the New York Times bestselling author of Deep End. Maya Killgore is twenty-three and still in the process of figuring out...
The Rest of Our Lives
Markovits, Ben
Paper Book
Say You'll Remember Me
Jimenez, Abby
Paper Book
The instant #1 New York Times bestseller! "No one does funny, emotional, life-affirming love stories quite like Abby Jimenez. She just keeps outdoing herself." ―Emily Henry There's no such thing as a perfect guy, but Xavier...
The Secret Book Society (Original)
Martin, Madeline
Paper Book
A captivating new historical novel from Madeline Martin, set in Victorian London about a forbidden book club, dangerous secrets and the women who dare to break free. You are cordially invited to the Secret Book Society... London, 1885: Trapped by...
Shield of Sparrows (Deluxe Limited Edition)
Perry, Devney
Paper Book
AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Now in development as a feature film with Amazon MGM Studios, with John Wick screenwriter Derek Kolstad attached to write the script. Accolades: Nominated for Goodreads Choice Award of 2025 Shield of...
The Sirens
Hart, Emilia
Paper Book
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK * #1 LibraryReads Pick * Indie Next Pick A spellbinding novel about sisters separated by centuries, but bound together by the sea, from the author of the...
The tenant
McFadden, Freida
Paper Book
"So addictive it should come with a warning." -- Alice Feeney, New York Times bestselling author "The queen of twists has done it again!" -- Riley Sager, New York Times bestselling author A new, jaw-dropping thriller from the instant #1 New York Times...
We Are All Guilty Here
Slaughter, Karin
Paper Book
An instant #1 New York Times bestseller! The first thrilling mystery in the new North Falls series from Karin Slaughter, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Girls and the Will Trent Series. Welcome to North Falls--a small town where...
What We Can Know
McEwan, Ian
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the Booker prize-winning, bestselling author of Atonement and Saturday, a genre-bending new novel full of secrets and surprises; an immersive exploration, across time and history, of what can ever be truly known...
When the Moon Hits Your Eye
Scalzi, John
Paper Book
New York Times bestselling author John Scalzi flies you to the moon with his most fantastic tale to date: When the Moon Hits Your Eye The moon has turned into cheese. Now humanity has to deal with it. For some it's an opportunity. For...
The White Crow
Robotham, Michael
Paper Book
"No one does suspense better." --Stephen King Ambitious young London police officer Philomena McCarthy returns in this propulsive thriller by the author of When You Are Mine. Philomena McCarthy has defied the odds to become a young officer with the...
Wild Dark Shore
McConaghy, Charlotte
Paper Book
REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK * INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * #1 AMAZON BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR 2025 "A breathtaking novel of ROMANCE, MYSTERY, AND TWISTS that will shock you...I love this book so much." --Reese Witherspoon "A WILDLY TALENTED...
A witch's guide to magical innkeeping
Mandanna, Sangu
Paper Book
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! * A whimsical and heartwarming novel about a witch who has a second chance to get her magical powers--and her life--back on track, from the national bestselling author of The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches. Sera Swan...

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