It's The Most Wonderful Time of the Year - Summer Reading Lists!

Lazy days of summer bring long daylight hours to sit outside, soak up the sun, and read. The television and computers are switched off and we awaken our imagination, knowledge, and dreams. Do you have a favorite author you like to read over the summer? Maybe you enjoy reading old classics or eagerly anticipate the "Hot Summer Reads" Duxbury Free Library orders each year from a list of favorites identified throughout the year.

The beginning of summer also brings "Summer Reading Lists": from schools, newspapers/magazines, and bloggers. I pour through the reading lists marking the ones that interest me, never worrying about the time it will actually take to read them all.

I've gathered a number of lists that have made it into my inbox. Access to the "Duxbury Free Library Hot Summer Reading" list will be available all summer on my blog and highlighted just right of the blog post.

Are you a patron of the Duxbury Library? Credit yourself with all those books you will read this summer by signing up for the Adult Summer Reading Challenge where you will be entered into a gift certificate raffle drawing for each book you read and log over the summer. Also, if you read the most books you will win a gift certificate. This summer there are fun programs for all ages at the Duxbury Library.

Enjoy these lazy days of summer! I hope to hear about your favorite summer reads through the comments on this post or Facebook.

Here are some great summer reading ideas:

Duxbury Hot Summer Reads - Fiction List

Duxbury Hot Summer Reads - Non-Fiction List

The Boston Globe Summer Reading List

From "Read It Forward": author Taylor Jenkins Reid ("The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo") shares her summer poolside recommendations.

Goodreads Popular Summer Read Shelf for 2018

PBS The Great American Read

Chronicle Books Top 10 Summer Reads for Kids

"Stellar Reads for the Dog Days Ahead" :  shared by LivingTheSecondAct.com - a new blog of real stories by women jumping in with both feet and tackling it all. One of the co-editors is based in the Boston area.

If all the Elin Hildebrand books are checked out...

My favorite source for summer reading for grades 2 - 12. Connecticut Nutmeg Award Winners (4 age ranges of books nominated by librarians and winners chosen by the kids who read them throughout the year)