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Adult Summer Reading Goals Sheet

Suggestions for Reading Goals

Read a book that is set in Maine

• The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne by Ron Currie
• Everything You Love Ends Up in a Yard Sale by Jennifer Braunfels
• The Road to Dalton series by Shannon Bowring
• Birdlane Island by V.C. Andrews
• Hazel Says No by Jessica Berger Gross

Read a book about climate change

• Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
• 2084: A Novel of Future War by Elliot Ackerman
• Onward: 16 Climate Fiction Short Stories to Inspire Hope
• World Without End: An Illustrated Guide to the Climate Crisis by Jean-Marc Jancovici
• Hope Dies Last by Alan Weisman

Read a book that has been made into a movie

• Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
• Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
• The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
• Project Hail Mary by Any Weir
• The Housemaid by Freida McFadden

Read a book that is set at sea

• The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty
• A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks by David Gibbins
• The Amalfi Curse by Sarah Penner
• The Odyssey by Homer
• A Marriage at Sea by Sophie Elmhirst

Read a book that takes place in a made up world

• The Lost Story by Meg Shaffer
• The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
• Lady Tremaine by Rachel Hochhauser
• This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me by Ilona Andrews
• The Once and Future Queen by Paula Lafferty

Read a book with the word “summer” in the title

• Kakigori Summer by Emily Itami
• That Last Carolina Summer by Karen White
• The Summer Guests by Tess Gerrtisen
• The Summer War by Naomi Novik
• These Summer Storms by Sarah MacLean

Read a book that is set in the future

• I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger
• Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
• In the Lives of Puppets by T.J. Klune
• Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
• Ode to the Half-Broken by Suzanne Palmer

Read a book that has been translated into English

• Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
• Beartown by Fredrik Backman
• When There Are No More Stars Left to Count by Maria Martinez
• When the Cranes Fly South by Lisa Rizdén

Read a book with a green cover

• Small Things Like These by Claire Keenan
• The Moorings of Mackerel Sky by MZ
• Six Days in Bombay by Alkha Joshi
• The Time Hop Coffee Shop by Phaedra Patrick
• Fangirl Down by Tessa Bailey

Read a book that is first in a series

• The Chowder House Murder by Lee Hollis
• Breaking the Dark by Lisa Jewell
• Still Life by Louise Penny
• Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
• Story of My Life by Lucy Score

Read a book that is set in the woods

• The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
• North Woods by Daniel Mason
• The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
• The Sisters of the Winter Wood by Rena Rosser
• Black Woods Blue Sky by Eowyn Ivey

Read a book that is a debut novel from 2025 or 2026

• The Names by Florence Knapp
• The Bright Years by Sarah Damoff
• The Original Daughter by Jeremiah Wei
• The Sea Child by Linda Wilgus
• Good People by Patmeena Sabit