Need recommendations for our Summer “Read for the Cycle” Challenge? Here’s what our community of readers recommend! Also check out the results of our Winter Reading Challenge for more recommendations: https://www.goodreads.com/group/bookshelf/168324-kaxe-kbxe-what-we-re-reading?page=1&per_page=200&utf8=%E2%9C%93&view=covers
Young Adult
-Wise Child- Monica Furlong
-Juniper - Monica Furlong
-Williwaw - Tom Bodett
-The Great Gilly Hopkins - Katherine Paterson
-The Night Bookmobile- Audrey Niffeneger
-Missing May - Cynthia Rylant
-Anne of Green Gables
-Little House on the Prairie series
-The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
-Harry Potter Series
-Heidi
-The Hobbit
-All the Bright Places -- Jennifer Niven
-The Sun is Also a Star -- Nicola Yoon
-The Queen of the Tearling series -- Erika Johansen
-Six of Crows and Shadow and Bone series -- Leigh Bardugo
-Eleanor and Park - Rainbow Rowell
-We Were Liars - E. Lockhart
-Ginny Moon, by Benjamin Ludwig.
-Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta
-The Serpent King
-Goodbye Days
-All American Boys
-The Hate U Give
-American Street
-Raymie Nightingale by Kate DiCamillo
-Auggie & Me by R.J. Palacio
-The Summer I Saved the World in 65 Days by Michele Weber Hurwitz
-The Wolf Keepers by Elise Broach
-Madeleine L'Engle's "Austin Chronicles
Mystery/Thriller
-The Distant Hours - Kate Morton
-Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
-Gods in Alabama - Joshilyn Jackson
-Brother Cadfael series by Ellis Peters
-The Cork O'Connor series by William Kent Krueger
-CJ Box
-Brian Freeman
-Dr. Siri Paiboun series by Colin Cotterill
-Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko
Non-Fiction
-The Innocent Man – John Grisham
-Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood - Trevor Noah
-Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight - Alexandra Fuller
-Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness - Alexandra Fuller
-The Tender Bar - J.R. Moehringer
-Hamlet's Dresser - Bob Smith
-Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt
-Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times - Jennifer Worth
-The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother's Hidden Life - Jasmin Darznik
-Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped Hide the Frank Family - Miep Gies & Alison Leslie Gould
-The Horse Boy: A Father's Quest to Heal His Son - Rupert Isaacson
-The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - Jean-Dominique Bauby
-The Liar's Club - Mary Karr
-Lights on a Ground of Darkness - Ted Kooser
-The Porch Sofa Almanac: On Being Minnesotan - Peter Smith
-The Cheapskate Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of Americans Living Happily Below Their Means - Jeff Yeager
-Living the Quaker Way: Discovering the Hidden Happiness in the Simple Life - Phillip Gulley (a book for everyone, feels secular)
-Eating Animals - Jonathan Safran Foer
-In Praise of Slowness: How a Worldwide Movement is Challenging the Cult of Speed - Carl Honoré
-Nickel and Dimed - Barbara Ehrenreich
-A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
-River of Doubt" by Candace Millard
-Give a Girl a Knife by Amy Thielen
General fiction
-The Shadow of the Wind, a literary novel by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
-Once in Blue Moon Lodge by Lorna Landvik
-Go set a watchman – Harper Lee
-The Weird Sisters – Eleanor Brown
-Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk – Kathleen Rooney
-Underground Railroad – Colson Whitehead
-Commonwealth – Ann Patchett
-The Art of Fielding – Chad Harbach
-Today will be different – Maria Semple
-Room – Emma Donoghue
-Hag-Seed – Margaret Atwood
-Wintering – Peter Geye
-The art of racing in the rain – Garth Stein
