Adult Summer Reading BINGO Book Lists
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Biographies & Memoirs
- My Beloved World/Mi Mundo Adorado by Sonya Sotomayor
- Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
- Storyteller by Davd Grohl
- The Answer Is… Reflections on My Life by Alex Trebek
- Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
- The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
- Wake Up With Purpose!: What I’ve Learned in My First Hundred Years by Sister Jean Delores Schmidt
- Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
- The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women–and Women to Medicine by Janice P. Nimura
- Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life by Alice Wong
Banned or Challenged Books
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker
- Naked by David Sedaris
- Dreaming in Cuban by Christina Garcia
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
- Native Son by Richard Wright
- The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
- Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
- The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
Neurodivergent Author or Author with a Disability
- Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoag (ASD)
- Let’s Pretend This Never happened by Jenny Lawson (Depression)
- Fledgling by Octavia Butler (Dyslexia)
- Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune (ADHD)
- True Biz by Sara Novic (Deaf)
- Hild by Nicola Griffith (MS)
- Get a Life Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert (Autism/Fibromyalgia)
- Sister by A. Manette Ansay (Wheelchair Bound)
- The Grass Harp by Truman Capote (Epilepsy)
- Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges (Blind)
Book with a Number in the Title
- No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
- Two Sisters Detective Agency by James Patterson
- Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu
- Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
- Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie
- Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Seven and 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
- The Eight by Katherine Neville
- Ninth House by Leah Bardugo
- The Woman in Cabin Ten by Ruth Ware
Author from Outside the US
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (Nigeria)
- The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes (South Africa)
- The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami (Japan)
- Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney (Ireland)
- The Silence of the Sea by Yrsa Sigurdardottir (Iceland)
- Love in the Time of Cholera/El Amor en los Tiempos del Colera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Colombia)
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (Brazil)
- Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi (Iran)
- The Bat by Jo Nesbo (Norway)
- Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigera)
- The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk (Poland)
- Violeta by Isabel Allende (Chile)
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (Sweden)
- The Last Templar by Raymond Khoury (Lebanon/England)
- The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood (Canada)
Book Written Before You Were Born
1930s
- The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
- Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
1940s
- All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
- The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
- The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
1950s
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
- The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
- My Cousin Rachel by Daphne DuMaurier
1960s
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- Slaughterhouse- Five by Kurt Vonnegut
1970s
- The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Persig
- The World According to Garp by John Irving
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
1980s
- Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
- Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
- Mists of Avalon by Marion Bradley Zimmer
- Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice
1990s
Book by a NYS Author
- Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
- Babysitter by Joyce Carol Oates
- Ironweed by William Kennedy
- Kiss the Girls and Make Them Cry by Mary Higgins Clark
- The Godfather by Mario Puzo
- Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
- Lone Women by Victor Lavell
- The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer
- Cult Classic by Sloane Crosley
- Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
Book with a Red Cover
- The Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
- A Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin
- Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
- The Fiery Cross by Diana Gabaldon
- Wicked Appetite by Janet Evanovich
- Me Before You by JoJo Moyes
- Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
- The Library Book by Susan Orlean
- No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
- The Rosie Project by Graeme C. Simsion
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