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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The invasion
Grine, Chris
Paper Book
The wildly popular, bestselling sci-fi series by Katherine Applegate and Michael Grant returns in a new full-color graphic novel series, adapted by Chris Grine.Sometimes weird things happen to people. Ask Jake. He could tell you about the night he and his friends saw a strange light in the sky that...
This is how you lose the time war
El-Mohtar, Amal
Paper Book
HUGO AWARD WINNER: BEST NOVELLA NEBULA AND LOCUS AWARDS WINNER: BEST NOVELLA ONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters--and fall in love...
Anne of Green Gables
Dussling, Jennifer
Paper Book
Anne is a young orphan who finally finds a home at Green Gables, but it's not exactly smooth sailing. Anne always seems to find herself getting into scrapes! This easy-to-read adaptation of L.M. Montgomery's classic is guaranteed to hook beginning readers not yet ready to tackle the original.
Becoming Green Gables : the diary of Myrtle Webb and her famous farmhouse
MacEachern, Alan
Paper Book
In 1909 Myrtle and Ernest Webb took possession of an ordinary farm in Cavendish, Prince Edward Island. Ordinary but for one thing: it was already becoming known as inspiration for Anne of Green Gables, the novel written by Myrtle's cousin Lucy Maud Montgomery and published to international...
Kristy's great idea
Martin, Ann M.
Paper Book
Kristy thinks the Baby-sitters Club is a great idea. She and her friends Claudia, Stacey, and Mary Anne all love taking care of kids. A club will give them the chance to have lots of fun -- and make tons of money. But nobody counted on crank calls, uncontrollable two-year-olds, wild pets, and...
You had me at Hola
Daria, Alexis
Ebook
National Bestseller "I could not get enough of Jasmine and Ashton! I adored Jasmine--her ambition, her confidence, her attacks of self-doubt, and especially her hilarious, snarky, and loving cousins. She and Ashton have such a steamy, swoony, love story that I didn't want the book to end!"...
The BFG
Dahl, Roald
Paper Book
The hike
Magary, Drew
Paper Book
A man named Ben decided to take a hike. He didn't plan on being out that long. He had a business meeting later that night and a family to return home to the next day. He didn't expect to get lost. He didn't expect to stumble upon a scene of unimaginable horror, forcing him to run down a deep and...
Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire's Book of Greek myths
D'Aulaire, Ingri
Paper Book
"I doubt I would have grown up to be the writer and artist I became had I not fallen in love withD'Aulaire's Book of Greek Mythsat the age of seven."-R. J. Palacio, author of Wonder. Now updated with a new cover and an afterword featuring never-before-published drawings...
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,...
Ella enchanted
Levine, Gail Carson
Ebook
This beloved Newbery Honor-winning story about a feisty heroine is sure to enchant readers new and old.  At her birth, Ella of Frell receives a foolish fairy's gift--the "gift" of obedience. Ella must obey any order, whether it's to hop on one foot for a day and a half, or to chop off...
Half a soul
Atwater, Olivia
Paper Book
"Whimsical, witty, and brimming over with charm" (India Holton), Olivia Atwater's delightful debut will transport you to a magical version of Regency England, where the only thing more meddlesome than a fairy is a marriage-minded mother! It's difficult to find...
Scariest. book. ever.
Stine, R. L.
Paper Book
Goosebumps now on Disney+! The only thing to fear . . . is everything. Twins Betty and Billy are visiting their Uncle Wendell at his secluded house in the Wayward Forest. What they think is going to be a boring stay quickly turns into a real nightmare. Wendell is in possession of the...
My best friend's exorcism
Hendrix, Grady
Paper Book
Soon to be a major motion picture. From the New York Times best-selling author of The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires, this unholy hybrid of Beaches and The Exorcist blends teen angst and unspeakable horrors into a pulse-pounding...
Paperbacks from Hell : the twisted history of '70s and '80s horror fiction
Hendrix, Grady
Paper Book
From the New York Times best-selling authorof The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires comes a nostalgic and unflinchingly funny celebration of the horror fiction boom of the 1970s and '80s. Take a tour through the horror paperback novels of two iconic...
The lion, the witch, and the wardrobe
Lewis, C. S.
Paper Book
Don't miss one of America's top 100 most-loved novels, selected by PBS's The Great American Read. A mass-market paperback edition of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, book two in the classic fantasy series The Chronicles of Narnia. This edition features cover art by Cliff Nielsen and...
The summer tree
Kay, Guy Gavriel
Paper Book
The wandering fire
Kay, Guy Gavriel
Paper Book
The darkest road
Kay, Guy Gavriel
Paper Book

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