Results of Adult Summer Reading

Some stats

  • 196 entries were submitted
  • 177 unique titles
  • 137 authors or author teams involving 139 unique authors
  • Additionally, 3 books were either
    • Edited collections (2) or
    • Works with a group/corporate author (1)

Most read authors

5 entries each

  • Laura Dave
  • Kristin Hannah
  • Terry Pratchett
  • Karen White

Most read book

Laura Dave, The Last Thing He Told Me (5 entries)

All the entries

Here’s the raw list of books people read (with duplicates intact):

Author

Title

Rating

 

Notes from the Bathroom Line

 
 

Reunion Beach: Stories Inspired by Dorothea Benton Frank

 
 

Taste of Home: Sandwiches and Wraps

 

Rumaan Alam

Leave the World Behind

 

Rochelle Alers

Sanctuary Cove

 

Margaret Atwood

The Handmaid’s Tale

 

Ashley Audrain

The Push

 

David Baldacci

Memory Man

 

Robert Ballard

Into the Deep

 

Ilona Bannister

When I Ran Away

 

Brunonia Barry

The Lace Reader

4 stars

Alexandria Bellefleur

Hang the Moon

 

Alexandria Bellefleur

Written in the Stars

 

Marie Benedict

The Personal Librarian

 

Melanie Benjamin

The Children’s Blizzard

 

Elizabeth Berg

I’ll Be Seeing You

 

Dr. Kate Biberdorf

The Awesome Book of Edible Experiments

 

Katy Birchall

The Secret Bridemaid

 

Anne Bishop

Written in Red

 

Katarina Bivald

Welcome to the Pine Away Motel and Cabins

 

Amy Bloom

White House

 

Chris Bohjalian

Midwives

 

Marci Bolden

A Life Without Water

 

David Brooks

The Second Mountain

5 stars

Diane Chamberlain

The Silent Sister

 

Jenny Colgan

The Christmas Surprise

 

Julia Cooke

Come Fly the World: The Jet Age Story of the Women of Pan Am

 

Bernard Cornwell

The Winter King

 

Sophie Cousens

This Time Next Year

 

Leesa Cross-Smith

This Close to Okay

 

Blake Crouch

Dark Matter

 

Blake Crouch

Recursion

 

Laura Dave

The Last Thing He Told Me

 

Laura Dave

The Last Thing He Told Me

 

Laura Dave

The Last Thing He Told Me

 

Laura Dave

The Last Thing He Told Me

 

Laura Dave

The Last Thing He Told Me

 

Fiona Davis

The Masterpiece

 

K.J. Dell’Antonia

The Chicken Sisters

 

Jane Delury

The Balcony

4 stars

Emma Donoghue

Room

 

Jennifer Dupee

The Little French Bridal Shop

 

Selden Edwards

The Lost Prince

 

Abby Ellin

Duped

 

Alice Feeney

Sometimes I Lie

 

Lucy Foley

The Guest List

 

Lucy Foley

The Guest List

 

Lucy Foley

The Guest List

 

Bella Forrest

Harley Merlin and the Mystery Twins

 

Lauren Fox

Send For Me

 

Jeaniene Frost

Bound by Flames

 

Jeaniene Frost

Into the Fire

 

Jeaniene Frost

Outtakes from the Grave

 

Ann Wertz Garvin

I Thought You Said This Would Work

 

Laurie Gelman

You’ve Been Volunteered

 

Elizabeth Gilbert

City of Girls

 

Amanda Gorman

The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country

 

Elly Griffiths

The Night Hawks

 

James Grippando

Twenty

 

John Grisham

Sooley

4 stars

John Grisham

Sooley

 

Sanjay Gupta MD

Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age

 

Kristin Hannah

Fly Away

 

Kristin Hannah

The Four Winds

 

Kristin Hannah

The Four Winds

 

Kristin Hannah

The Nightingale

 

Kristin Hannah

The Nightingale

 

Nicola Harrison

Montauk

 

Katherine Heiny

Early Morning Riser

 

Miranda Crowley Heller

The Paper Palace

 

Grady Hendrix

Horrorstor

 

Sally Hepworth

The Good Sister

 

Sally Hepworth

The Good Sister

 

Sheila Heti

Motherhood

 

Elin Hilderbrand

The Sixth Wedding

 

Alice Hoffman

Magic Lessons

 

Colleen Hoover

Verity

 

Dr. Mark Hyman

The Pegan Diet

 

E.L. James

Freed

 

Roy Herbert Jarrett (RJH)

It Works

 

Roy Herbert Jarrett (RJH)

The Meaning of the Mark

 

Balli Kaur Jaswal

Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows

 

Pam Jenoff

The Woman with the Blue Star

 

Lisa Jewell

Invisible Girl

 

Katherine Johnson

My Remarkable Journey

 

Melonie Johnson

Once Upon a Bad Boy

 

Melonie Johnson

Smitten by the Brit

 

Tayari Jones

An American Marriage

 

Alka Joshi

The Henna Artist

 

Alka Joshi

The Secret Keeper of Jaipur

 

Alka Joshi

The Secret Keeper of Jaipur

 

Marjan Kamali

The Stationery Shop

 

Vi Keeland and Penelope Ward

Happily Letter After

 

Martha Hall Kelly

The Sunflower Sisters

5 stars

Martha Hall Kelly

The Sunflower Sisters

 

Martha Hall Kelly

Sunflower Sisters

 

Matthew Kelly

Resisting Happiness

 

Stephen King

Lisey’s Story

 

Sophie Kinsella

Love Your Life

 

Sophie Kinsella

Twenties Girl

 

Jean Hanff Korelitz

The Plot

 

Jean Hanff Korelitz

You Should Have Known

 

Christina Lauren

The Soulmate Equation

 

Stacey Lee

Luck of the Titanic

 

Elizabeth Letts

The Ride of Her Life

 

Clare Mackintosh

I Let You Go

 

Debbie Macomber

Love Letters

 

Joyce Maynard

Count the Ways

 

Charlotte McConaghy

Migrations

 

Mhairi McFarlane

Just last Night

 

Alyson McLayne

Highland Conquest

 

Alyson McLayne

Highland Promise

 

Leila Meacham

Dragonfly

 

Susan Meissner

As Bright As Heaven

5 stars

Susan Meissner

The Nature of Fragile Things

 

Susan Meissner

The Nature of Fragile Things

 

Joel Meyerowitz

Aftermath

 

Alex Michaelides

The Maidens

 

Lydia Milket

A Children’s Bible

 

Megan Miranda

Such a Quiet Place

 

Megan Miranda

Such a Quiet Place

 

Aimee Molloy

The Perfect Mother

 

Karen Marie Moning

Burned

 

Karen Marie Moning

Feverborn

 

Karen Marie Moning

The Highlander’s Touch

 

Karen Marie Moning

To Tame a Highland Warrior

 

Liane Moriarty

Big Little Lies

 

Jojo Moyes

The Girl You Left Behind

 

Jojo Moyes

Peacock Emporium

 

Beth O’Leary

The Road Trip

 

Richard Osman

The Thursday Murder Club

 

James Patterson

The Christmas Wedding

 

James Patterson

Deadly Cross

 

Nell Pattison

Silent Night

 

Sarah Pearse

The Sanatorium

 

Anne Perr

Death with a Double Edge

4 stars

Rebecca Phelps

Down World

 

Sarah Pinborough

Behind Her Eyes

 

Amy Poehler

Yes Please

 

Terry Pratchett

Feet of Clay

 

Terry Pratchett

I Shall Wear Midnight

 

Terry Pratchett

Maskerade

 

Terry Pratchett

Snuff

 

Terry Pratchett

Unseen Academicals

 

Anne Quindlen

Every Last One

 

Julia Quinn

It’s in His Kiss

 

Julia Quinn

Romancing Mr. Bridgerton

 

Julia Quinn

To Sir Phillip, With Love

 

Julia Quinn

When He Was Wicked

 

Tom Rachman

The Italian Teacher

5 stars

Taylor Jenkins Reid

Malibu Rising

 

Taylor Jenkins Reid

Malibu Rising

 

Taylor Jenkins Reid

Malibu Rising

 

Taylor Jenkins Reid

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

 

J.D. Robb

Glory in Death

 

J.D. Robb

Memory in Death

5 stars

M.J. Rose

The Last Tiara

 

Renee Rosen

The Social Graces

 

Ann Rule

In the Name of Love

 

Lisa Scottoline

Eternal

5 stars

Lisa Scottoline

Eternal

5 stars

Lisa Scottoline

Eternal

 

Yumiko Sekine

Simplicity at Home

 

Curtis Sittenfeld

Eligible

 

Danielle Steel

Nine Lives

 

Danielle Steel

The Wedding Dress

 

Mark Sullivan

Beneath a Scarlet Sky

 

Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney

Good Company

 

Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney

Good Company

 

Donna Tartt

The Secret History

 

Nancy Thayer

Family Reunion

 

Adriana Trigiani

Brava Valentine

 

Adriana Trigiani

Tony’s Wife

 

Adriana Trigiani

Very Valentine

 

Katy Tur

Unbelievable: The Front Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign In American History

 

Harriet Tyce

The Lies You Told

 

Donna VanLiere

The Christmas Promise

 

Samantha Verant

The Secret French Recipes of Sophie Valroux

 

Penelope Ward and Vi Keeland

Playboy Pilot

 

Ruth Ware

The Lying Game

 

Stephanie Warren

Beneath the Waves

 

Martha Waters

To Love and to Loathe

 

Ashley Weaver

A Peculiar Combination

4 stars

Jennifer Weiner

That Summer

 

Jeff Wheeler

The Wretched of Muirwood

 

Karen White

The Girl on Legare Street

 

Karen White

The Guests on South Battery

 

Karen White

The House on Tradd Street

 

Karen White

Return to Tradd Street

 

Karen White

The Strangers on Montagu Street

 

Isabel Wilkerson

Caste

 

Beatriz Williams

The Secret Life of Violet Grant

 

Lisa Wingate

The Book of Friends

 

Lisa Wingate

The Sea Glass Sisters

 

Steven Winn and David Merrill

Ted Bundy: The Killer Next Door

 

Rebecca Yarros

The Things We Leave Unfinished