Level Up at Your Library!
Join our 2025 Summer Reading Program for adults and you will have the chance to win weekly prizes! Complete reading goals and review the books you read and you can enter to win one of our three grand prize baskets!
To access the 2025 Adult Summer Reading Goals, click here. Completing all the goals on the page will earn you an extra 10 tickets to enter for one of the grand prizes!
To access the review forms that are used for your entry into the raffles, click here
Adult Summer Reading Program 2025 Book Suggestions
Not sure what to read for a certain goal? Here are some suggestions!
Read a book about a sports team
- Beartown by Fredrik Backman
- What Happened to the McCrays? by Tracey Lange
- The Last One Out of Town Turn Out the Lights by David Albee
- Sooley by John Grisham
- The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
Read a book that is set in Maine
- The Cliffs by J. Courtney Sullivan
- Paul Doiron’s Mike Bowditch series
- The Savage, Noble Death of Bab Dionne by Ron Currie
- Hazel Says No by Jessica Berger Gross
- The Road to Dalton by Shannon Bowring
Read a book that was banned or challeneged in Maine
- Gender Queer by Maria Kobabe
- Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison
- White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
- A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
Read a book that has been made into a movie
- Conclave by Robert Harris
- Dune by Herbert Frank
- News of the World by Paulette Jiles
- Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
- Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
Read a book that has video games as a subject
- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
- A/S/L by Jeanne Thornton
- Ripper by Isabel Allende
- Single Player by Tara Tai
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Read a book by an Indigenous author
Read a non-fiction book about the American Revolution
- In the Hurricane’s Eye by Nathaniel Philbrick
- Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
- Revolutionary Mothers by Carol Berkin
- Founding Partisans by H.W. Brands
- American Rebels by Nina Sankovitch
Read a book by a Black author
Read a book with the word “summer” in the title
- The Year Without a Summer by Joseph Hardy
- The Summer of 1876 by Chris Wimmer
- Summer of ’69 by Elin Hilderbrand
- Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez
- The Summer Guests by Tess Gerritsen
Read a book that has the word “game” in the title
- A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
- The Family Game by Catherine Steadman
- Molly’s Game by Molly Bloom
- A Queen’s Game by Katherine McGee
- Game On by Janet Evanovich
Read a book that is 150 pages or less
- The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar
- The Wood at Midwinter by Susanna Clarke
- The Deal of a Lifetime by Fredrik Backman
- All the Horses of Iceland by Sarah Tolmie
- The Mistletoe Mystery by Nita Prose
Read a book that has been translated into English
- The Kamogawa Food Detectives by Hisashi Kashiwai
- A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
- The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
- We Do Not Part by Han Kang
Read a book in verse or a book of poetry
- Ædnan by Linnea Axelsson
- The Odyssey by Homer
- A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ni Ghriofa
- An American Sunriseby Joy Harjo
- Maine in Four Seasons
Read a book that is a debut novel
- Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
- Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Torsz
- The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
- The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown
- The Henna Artistby Alka Joshi