Reading Colors Your World

Add some color to your reading list... and to your Summer Reading logs 😉 with these fresh picks from our Reader's Advisory librarians!

Adult Reads: "I Think the Cover Was Purple"

Curated by Librarians Stephanie Howes and Courtney Rose Gonsowski

Find a rotating display of "I Think the Cover Was ____" books on top of the New Books shelf in the lobby all summer long!

• The Color Purple by Alice Walker

• Under the Dome by Stephen King

• The Dressmaker by Kate Alcott

• The Library of Light and Shadow by M. J. Rose

• The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden

• The Postmistress by Sarah Blake

• The Girl from the Savoy by Hazel Gaynor

• The Dress In the Window by Sofia Grant

• Prudence by Gail Carriger

• It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover

• Across the Universe by Beth Revis

• We Own the Sky by Luke Allnutt

• When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore

• Geekerella by Ashley Poston

• Killing Raven by Margaret Coel

• The Gilded Years by Karin Tanabe

• Pirate Women: the Princesses, Prostitutes, and Privateers Who Ruled the Seven Seas by Laura Sook Duncombe

• Smokin' Seventeen: a Stephanie Plum Novel by Janet Evanovich

• Hunting Ground by Patricia Briggs

Teen Reads

Curated by Librarian Katie Guzan

• Shadowshaper by Daniel Jose Older

• The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X.R. Pan

• A Blade So Black by L.L. McKinney

• Draw the Line by Laurent Linn

• Blood Water Paint by Joy McCullough

• All Boys Aren’t Blue by George Johnson

• The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta

• Picture Us in the Light by Kelly Loy Gilbert

• Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard

• I Am Princess X by Cherie Priest

• Girl in the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse

• Scarlet by Marissa Meyer

• I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson

• Butterfly Yellow by Thanhha Lai

• Words in Deep Blue by Cath Crowley

For Older Kids

Curated by Librarian Ting Ko

• All the Colors of Magic by Valija Zinck

• Primer: a Superhero Graphic Novel by Jennifer Muro & Thomas Krajewski; art by Gretel Lusky

• Just Like Me by Vanessa Brantley-Newton

• Click by Kayla Miller

• Me, Frida, and the Secret of the Peacock Ring by Angela Cervantes

• From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg

Picture Books for Younger Kids

Curated by Librarian Tricia Nelson

• Bear Came Along by Richard T. Morris

• The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt

• The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson

• I Am Frida Kahlo by Brad Meltzer

• Just a Story by Jeff Mack

• Library Babies by Puck

• Love by Sophia by Jim Averbeck and Yasmeen Ismail

• The Magical Yet by Angela DiTerlizzi

• Maybe Something Beautiful by F. Isabel Campoy and Theresa Howell  

• Mix It Up! by Hervé Tullet

• No Buddy Like a Book by Allan Wolf

• The Noisy Paint Box: The Colors and Sounds of Kandinsky's Abstract Art by Barb Rosenstock

• Red: A Crayon's Story by Michael Hall

• Red House, Tree House, Little Bitty Brown Mouse by Jane Godwin

• Sky Color by Peter H. Reynolds

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