All Points West June 2025: Adult Recommendations Based on Childhood Favourites

Books recommendations based on your childhood favourites.

Updated June 12, 2025
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All Points West June 2025: Adult Recommendations Based on Childhood Favourites

Books recommendations based on your childhood favourites.

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Overgrowth
Grant, Mira
Paper Book
Day of the Triffids meets Invasion of the Body Snatchers in this full-on body horror / alien invasion apocalypse. This is just a story. It can't hurt you anymore. Since she was three years old, Anastasia Miller has been telling anyone...
Anne of Green Gables
Montgomery, L. M.
Paper Book
Read the timeless classic about the beloved Anne Shirley, a red-haired orphan with a fiery spirit, behind the hit Netflix series Anne with an E-now celebrating a hundred years of this children's favorite. " Anne is the dearest and most lovable child in fiction since the...
Kristy's great idea
Martin, Ann M.
Paper Book
Follows the adventures of Kristy and the other members of the Baby-sitters Club as they deal with crank calls, uncontrollable two-year-olds, wild pets, and parents who do not always tell the truth.
The BFG
Dahl, Roald
Ebook
'Human beans is not really believing in giants, is they? Human beans is not thinking we exist.' On a dark, silvery moonlit night, Sophie is snatched from her bed by a giant. Luckily it is the Big Friendly Giant, the BFG, who only eats snozzcumbers and glugs frobscottle....
Circe : a novel
Miller, Madeline
Paper Book
This #1 New York Times bestseller is a "bold and subversive retelling of the goddess's story" that brilliantly reimagines the life of Circe, formidable sorceress of The Odyssey (Alexandra Alter, TheNew York Times). In the house of Helios,...
The lion, the witch and the wardrobe
Lewis, C. S.
Paper Book
A beautiful hardcover edition of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, book two in C. S. Lewis's classic fantasy series, The Chronicles of Narnia.  The full-color jacket features art by three-time Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator David Wiesner. The interior includes ...
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