Summer Reads

By Julie Duffin
June 2024 View more Books

Whether you’re hammocking or relaxing poolside, ’tis the season to log some reading time. With so many beach reads and page-turners out there, we asked our librarian friends at the Naperville Public Library for some of their top selections:

For adults

• Famous in a Small Town by Viola Shipman
• Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto
• Same Time Next Summer by Annabel Monaghan
• Meet Me at the Lake by Carly Fortune
• One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle

For teens

• Rez Ball by Byron Graves
• Blood Debts by Terry J. Benton-Walker
• Thieves’ Gambit by Kayvion Lewis
• I Hope This Doesn’t Find You by Ann Liang
• The Princess and the Grilled Cheese Sandwich by Deya Muniz

For kids

• Have You Seen My Invisible Dinosaur? by Helen Yoon
• Roll, Roll, Little Pea by Cécile Bergame, illustrated by Magali Attiogbé, translated by Angus Yuen-Killick
• Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir by Pedro Martin
• How to Catch a Polar Bear by Stacy DeKeyser
• Don’t Trust the Cat by Kristen Tracy

Photo: Julie Duffin