Summer Challenge 2026: One-Word Title

Looking for help completing your Summer Challenge Bingo Card? Here are some books with one-word titles!

Updated June 13, 2026
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Summer Challenge 2026: One-Word Title

Looking for help completing your Summer Challenge Bingo Card? Here are some books with one-word titles!

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Whistler
Patchett, Ann
Paper Book
A Katie Couric Book Club Pick / A Good Housekeeping Book Club Pick / A GoodReads Most Anticipated Book of Summer "Ann Patchett's new novel is a rare phenomenon in contemporary fiction: a novel both majestic and intimate, original and masterful in its structure, crystalline in its...
Haven
Katz, Ani
Paper Book
"Absorbing and uncanny." --Tracy Sierra, author of Nightwatching A summer retreat to an elite island enclave tied to a Big Tech company becomes a mother's worst nightmare in this gripping thriller After months of financial strain and escalating arguments,...
Tata
Perrin, Valřie
Paper Book
The new novel by the international bestselling author of Fresh Water for Flowers
Villain: A Novel
Walschots, Natalie Zina
Paper Book
The Boys meets Assistant to the Villain in the electrifying, sharp, violent, and hilarious sequel to the highly acclaimed novel, Hench. Filled with a queer and neurodiverse cast, Villain asks the question: what happens when a diabolically brilliant henchperson looks back at their...
Hooked: A Novel of Obsession
Yuzuki, Asako
Paper Book
A Paperback Original Named a Most Anticipated Book by The New York Times, The Guardian, Forbes, Oprah Daily, Lit Hub, and Publishers Weekly From the author of the international bestseller Butter comes a chilling and...
Ruins
Brooks-Dalton, Lily
Paper Book
From critically acclaimed, bestselling author of The Light Pirate comes a powerful, deeply resonant novel about an ambitious archaeologist in pursuit of a rare artifact from an ancient civilization that would not only change her life but potentially society at large. ...
Nonesuch
Spufford, Francis
Paper Book
A spellbinding tale about an ambitious young woman who must thwart an occult plot by time-traveling fascists during the chaos of the London Blitz--from "one of our most powerful writers of wayward historical fiction" (The Washington Post). "The novel fairly cackles with...
Entwined: The Entwined Duology
Long, H. M
Paper Book
Ottilie Rushforth hides from the mighty Sorcerer's Guild as secretary to a has-been detective. But Ottilie is also Entwined - threads of magic run beneath her skin, and the Guild would trap her in service. Working on a plan to escape the Guild forever with her estranged fiancé, the...
Crescendo: A Gripping Love Triangle in Glamorous 1950s Paris
Healey, Jane
Paper Book
A piano virtuoso and his twin sister become rivals for a new spotlight-the adoration of a mysterious French patron-during the hot Parisian summer of 1957. "Crescendo is the psychologically gripping story of two siblings, the music that moves them, and the love they...
Vigil : a novel
Saunders, George
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "A scorching portrait of modern America. And yet it also brings a sense of sense of hope, not only because [it] reminds us how powerful a great novel can be, but because of the sense . . . that a universal justice will prevail."--R. J. Palacio for Time,<...
Foe
Reid, Iain
Paper Book
A taut, psychological mind-bender from the bestselling author of I'm Thinking of Ending Things. We don't get visitors. Not out here. We never have. In Iain Reid's second haunting, philosophical puzzle of a novel, set in the near-future, Junior and...
Kin : A Novel
Jones, Tayari.
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR  OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK * A magnificent new novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of An American Marriage--Tayari Jones has written an unforgettable novel that sparkles with wit...
Crux
Tallent, Gabriel
Paper Book
"Insanely big-hearted." --The Washington Post "Electric." --The New York Times "Tender, immersive, and thrilling." --Gabrielle Zevin, author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow "One of the best novels I've ever read about...
Detour
Rake, Jeff
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A space shuttle flight crew discovers that the Earth they've returned to is not the home they left behind in the first book of this emotional, mind-bending thriller series from the creator of the hit Netflix show Manifest and the bestselling author of The Warehouse...
Flesh: A Novel
Szalay, David
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE 2025 BOOKER PRIZE AND A NATIONAL BESTSELLER 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.....
Hemlock
Faliveno, Melissa
Paper Book
A woman haunted by a dark inheritance returns to the woods where her mother vanished, in this queer Gothic novel-a butch Black Swan. Sam, finally sober and stable with a cat and a long-term boyfriend in Brooklyn, returns alone to Hemlock, her family's deteriorating...
Escape!
Fishbach, Stephen
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER A propulsive debut novel following a has-been reality TV star and a disgraced producer who get one last shot at redemption on a show set on a remote island, only to discover that the plot twists are beyond what they ever imagined. ...
James : a novel
Everett, Percival
Paper Book
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER * #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER * A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and darkly humorous, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view * In development as a feature film to be...
Flashlight : a novel
Choi, Susan
Paper Book
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker * Time * New York * The Washington Post * NPR * Los Angeles Times * The Boston Globe * The Guardian * Vanity Fair * Elle *...
Martyr!
Akbar, Kaveh
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD * ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR * A TIME MUST-READ BOOK OF THE YEAR * A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and...
Homeseeking
Chen, Karissa
Paper Book
A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK * Named a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by Vogue, Good Housekeeping, Elle, and Electric Lit "Exceptional." --Los Angeles Times "Unforgettable."--The Washington Post "Storytelling magic."--...
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