Are you ready for some Fun Summer Reading with Cannell Library?
Summer is here, which means it is time to go to the beach or a park (or an air conditioned home), crack open a book, and get lost in a (hopefully slightly colder) world. Come by the library this Summer and check out our Leisure Reading Collection, full of romance, action, mystery, and horror to get you back on the pleasure reading grind. Take a look at some of the books we have to offer at the library, and check out our Leisure Reading Collection online for even more fun-in-the-sun reads!
Here are some suggestions from Librarians to get you started on a reading journey this summer:
- Catch up on your romantasy with A Court of Mist and Fury and A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas (you can request the first one from one of our partner libraries)
- Malas by Marcela Fuentes, "a novel with alternating timelines in which the consequences of one old woman's questionable curse reverberate through the generations of a Tejano family"
- Grown Women, a “novel about four generations of Black women” by Sarai Johnson
- Liddy-Jean Marketing Queen and the Matchmaking Scheme, a romance by Mari SanGiovanni
- The Fortunate Fall, a new edition of the 1996 science fiction novel by Cameron Reed
- One of Us Knows by Alyssa Cole, a thriller recommended by librarian Laura!
- You Like It Darker, stories by master of horror, Stephen King
- Chicano Frankenstein by Daniel A. Olivas, “elements of science fiction, horror, political satire and romance”
- Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange, “both a prequel and sequel” to this Cheyenne and Arapaho author’s first book, There There (also recommended by Laura)
- The Night Flowers, a cold case thriller by Sara Herchenroether
- Toward Eternity, a science fiction novel by Anton Hur
- The Hitchcock Hotel, a (you guessed it) mystery by Stephanie Wrobel

