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2025 Adult Summer Reading

Welcome!

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

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

#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

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!