Adult Summer Reading

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June 28th - August 23th, 2025

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Starting May 31, 2025, participants can pick up a Summer Reading Registration Packet at the library’s Circulation or Information Desk 

Finish a “Bingo” (horizontal, vertical, or diagonal row) and get entered into prize drawings. All participants who finish at least one “Bingo” get a Prendergast Library tote bag to fill with book sale books.

Reader’s Delight – Complete all 24 squares to be entered into a special prize drawing!

Fun bingo activities:

  • Trade a book.
  • Participate in a library program.
  • Take a nature walk.
  • Attend a community event.
  • Read a book from your childhood.
  • Read a book about a hero’s journey.
  • And lots more!

Want to Participate online?

  • Create an account on our summer reading website at READsquared or download the app from Apple or Google Play.
  • Check off your Bingo Sheet activities online starting June 29.

Prizes:

  • Reader’s Delight drawing prize: $50 Good Neighbor Bookstore gift card.
  • Halfway drawing prize: $25 Crown Street gift card.
  • Finale drawing prize: $25 Chamber of Commerce gift card.

Bingo Book Lists

  1. Wild by Cheryl Strayed
  2. Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
  3. World Travel: An Irreverent Guide by Anthony Bourdain and Laurie Woolever
  4. West with the Night by Beryl Markham
  5. In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
  1. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
  2. Native Son by Richard Wright
  3. The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
  4. Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
  5. The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
  1. March: Book One by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell
  2. Locke & Key Volume 1 by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez
  3. The Umbrella Academy Volume 1 by Gerard Way and Gabriel Ba
  4. Saga Volume 1 by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples
  5. Vox Machina Origins Volume 1 by Matthew Mercer and Matthew Colville
  1. Dune by Frank Herbert
  2. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
  3. No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
  4. True Grit by Charles Portis
  5. The Revenant by Michael Punke

The Hero’s Journey is the term used to describe the common template of stories that involve a hero who goes on an adventure, is victorious in a decisive crisis, and comes home changed or transformed.

  1. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
  2. Red Rising by Pierce Brown
  3. The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang
  4. Fairy Tale by Stephen King
  5. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
  1. Swing Time by Zadie Smith
  2. 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
  3. A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
  4. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
  5. This is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz

#OwnVoices is a term used to describe books about characters from underrepresented and/or marginalized groups in which the author shares the same identity.

  1. Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
  2. Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert
  3. Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
  4. Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
  5. Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
  1. Nora Goes Off Script by Annabel Monaghan
  2. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
  3. A is for Alibi by Sue Grafton
  4. Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes
  5. Jade City by Fonda Lee
  1. The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
  2. The Guide by Peter Heller
  3. Noor by Nnedi Okorafor
  4. How Much of These Hills is Gold by C. Pam Zhang
  5. My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
  1. The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
  2. The Evening and the Morning by Ken Follett
  3. The Valley of Amazement by Amy Tan
  4. Rise to Rebellion by Jeff Shaara
  5. Trust by Hernan Diaz
  1. The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
  2. Red at the Bone by Jaqueline Woodson
  3. The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune
  4. Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson
  5. Yellowface by R.F. Kuang

Reader's Advisory

Still looking for another book to read? Fill out our Reader’s Advisory form and a librarian will send you a personalized list of suggested books!