The 2022 NYS Summer Reading theme is Oceans of Possibilities! Canandaigua peeps, check out this post to see how you can get involved, log your reading times, and get cool swag from Wood Library downtown:
Summer Reading At Wood Library
Here are some books to consider when looking for something to read this summer, organized into several popular genres!
“But wait, Mr. Bateman,” I can hear you ask. “CA Library is closed during the summer! How am I going to get my hands on these great books?”
That’s the best part; they’re all available as eBooks in the Sora Digital Reading App! Most are also available as an audiobook, too, so you can read (or listen) the way you want! Just follow the links to learn more about each title in Sora.
The Sora website is available on your Chromebook, laptop and/or desktop computer. You can also add the Sora app to your mobile device from either the Apple iOS store or Google Play store.
Fantasy
- A Phoenix First Must Burn: Sixteen Stories of Black Girl Magic, Resistance, and Hope, edited by Patrice Caldwell
- Ashlords by Scott Reintgen
- Curses by Lish McBride
- Kingdom Of Souls by Rena Barron
- Miss Meteor by Tehlor Kay Mejia and Anna-Marie McLemore
- The Never Tilting World by Rin Chupeco
- The Other Merlin by Robyn Schneider
- Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
- Salt by Hannah Moskowitz
- Tigers, Not Daughters by Samantha Mabry
- The Way Back by Gavriel Savit
- We Set The Dark On Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia
Graphic Novels
- Be More Chill: The Graphic Novel by Ned Vizzini, adapted by David Levithan
- Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass by Mariko Tamaki
- Poison Ivy: Thorns by Kody Keplinger
- When Stars Are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed
- Wonder Woman: Tempest Tossed by Laurie Halse Anderson and Leila del Duca
Historical Fiction
- Butterfly Yellow by Thanhhà Lai
- Corpse Queen by Heather M. Herrman
- The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee
- The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys
- Luck Of The Titanic by Stacey Lee
- My Calamity Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton and Jodi Meadows
- Someday We Will Fly by Rachel DeWoskin
- Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All by Laura Ruby
- Voices: The Final Hours Of Joan of Arc by David Elliott
- We Are Lost And Found by Helene Dunbar
- Within These Lines by Stephanie Morrill
Humor (Comedy)
- A Field Guide To The North American Teenager by Ben Philippe
- Girls Save The World In This One by Ash Parsons
- Hot Dog Girl by Jennifer Dugan
- Layoverland by Gabby Noone
- The Love Curse of Melody McIntyre by Robin Talley
- Margot Mertz Takes It Down by Carrie McCrossen and Ian McWethy
- Perfectly Parvin by Olivia Abtahi
- Pretty In Punxsutawney by Laurie Boyle Crompton
- Rayne & Delilah’s Midnite Matinee by Jeff Zentner
- Sunny Song Will Never Be Famous by Suzanne Park
- Super Fake Love Song by David Yoon
- This Book Is Not Yet Rated by Peter Bognanni
- Unpregnant by Jenni Hendriks and Ted Caplan
Mystery
- All The Bad Apples by Moira Fowley-Doyle
- A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder (Book 1) by Holly Jackson
- An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green
- Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger
- Ghost Wood Song by Erica Waters
- I Know You Remember by Jennifer Donaldson
- Killing November by Adriana Mather
- Sugar Town Queens by Malla Nunn
- That Weekend by Kara Thomas
- This Is My America by Kim Johnson
- Two Can Keep A Secret by Karen M. McManus
- When The Ground Is Hard by Malla Nunn
Nonfiction – Biography and Autobiography
- Ambushed!: The Assassination Plot Against President Garfield by Gail Jarrow
- The Beloved World of Sonia Sotomayor by Sonia Sotomayor
- The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler by John Hendrix
- Free Lunch by Rex Ogle
- The Great Nijinsky: God of Dance by Lynn Curlee
- Ida M. Tarbell: The Woman Who Challenged Big Business — and Won! by Emily Arnold McCully
- A Light in the Darkness: Janusz Korczak, His Orphans, and the Holocaust by Albert Marrin
- Popular: Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek, A Memoir by Maya Van Wagenen
- The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh by Candace Fleming
- Samurai Rising: The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune by Pamela S. Turner
- Shout: A Poetry Memoir by Laurie Halse Anderson
- The Woman All Spies Fear: Code Breaker Elizebeth Smith Friedman and Her Hidden Life by Amy Butler Greenfield
Nonfiction – General
- Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre by Brandy Colbert
- Boots on the Ground: America’s War in Vietnam by Elizabeth Partridge
- The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia by Candace Fleming
- Games of Deception: The True Story of the First U.S. Olympic Basketball Team at the 1936 Olympics in Hitler’s Germany by Andrew Maraniss
- Girls Who Run The World: 31 CEOs Who Mean Business by Diana Kapp
- How We Got to the Moon: The People, Technology, and Daring Feats of Science Behind Humanity’s Greatest Adventure by John Rocco
- Monstrous: The Lore, Gore, and Science Behind Your Favorite Monsters by Carlyn Beccia
- Spooked!: How a Radio Broadcast and The War of the Worlds Sparked the 1938 Invasion of America by Gail Jarrow
- This Land Is Our Land: A History of American Immigration by Linda Barrett Osborne
- A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II by Elizabeth Wein
- The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees by Don Brown
- We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children’s March by Cynthia Levinson
- Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And Other Questions About Dead Bodies by Caitlin Doughty
- You Call This Democracy?: How to Fix Our Government and Deliver Power to the People by Elizabeth Rusch
Novels In Verse
- Before The Ever After by Jazqueline Woodson
- Chlorine Sky by Mahogany L. Browne
- Home Is Not A Country by Safia Elhillo
- Starfish by Lisa Fipps
- Swing by Kwame Alexander
- The Truth Project by Dante Medema
- When We Make It by Elisabet Velasquez
Realistic Fiction
- The Art of Breaking Things by Laura Sibson
- Black Enough: Stories Of Being Young and Black In America, edited by Ibi Zoboi
- Break The Fall by Jennifer Iacopelli
- Color Me In by Natasha Díaz
- Darius The Great Is Not Okay (Book 1) by Adib Khorram
- Dear Haiti, Love Alaine by Maika Moulite and Maritza Moulite
- Dear Martin and Dear Justyce by Nic Stone
- Dig by A.S. King
- Fat Chance, Charlie Vega by Crystal Maldonado
- Fierce As The Wind by Tara Wilson Redd
- Fifteen and Change by Max Howard
- Here To Stay by Sara Farizan
- Heroine by Mindy McGinnis
- The How & The Why by Cynthia Hand
- How To Make Friends In The Dark by Kathleen Glasgow
- In The Wild Light by Jeff Zentner
- It’s a Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories, edited by Katherine Locke and Laura Silverman
- Lux: The New Girl (Flyy Girls Series, Book 1) by Ashley Woodfolk
- The New David Espinoza by Fred Aceves
- Off the Record by Camryn Garrett
- Sorry For Your Loss by Jessie Ann Foley
- This Time Will Be Different by Misa Sugiura
- We Are Not From Here by Jenny Torres Sanchez
- We Are The Ashes, We Are The Fire by Joy McCullough
- What I Carry by Jennifer Longo
- When You Were Everything by Ashley Woodfolk
- You Know I’m No Good by Jessie Ann Foley
Romance
- American Betiya by Anuradha D. Rajurjar
- Donuts and Other Proclamations Of Love by Jared Reck
- The Falling In Love Montage by Ciara Smyth
- Full Disclosure by Camryn Garrett
- He Must Like You by Danielle Young-Ullman
- How It All Blew Up by Arvin Ahmadi
- Prince Charming (Royals Series, Book 1) by Rachel Hawkins
- Jackpot by Nic Stone
- Like A Love Story by Abdi Nazemian
- Mad, Bad and Dangerous To Know by Samira Ahmed
- My Epic Spring Break (Up) by Kristin Rockaway
- The Passing Playbook by Isaac Fitzsimmons
- Since We Last Spoke by Brenda Rufener
- Some Girls Do by Jennifer Dugan
- Stars And The Blackness Between Them by Junauda Petrus
- Sunkissed by Kasie West
- Who Was I With Her by Nita Tyndall
- You Asked For Perfect by Laura Silverman
Science Fiction
- All These Monsters by Amy Tintera
- Aurora Rising (Book 1) by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
- Bloom by Kenneth Oppel
- The Disasters by M.K. England
- Early Departures by Justin A. Reynolds
- Stronger, Faster, and More Beautiful by Arwen Elys Dayton
- Switch by A.S. King
- War Girls by Tochi Onyebuchi
Suspense/Thriller
- Burn Our Bodies Down by Rory Power
- A Danger To Herself And Others by Alyssa Sheinmel
- Family Of Liars (The Prequel To We Were Liars) by E. Lockhart
- Girl On The Run by Abigail Johnson
- Harrow Lake by Kat Ellis
- Haunted, Book 1 by Danielle Vega
- I Dare You by Jeff Ross
- The Justice Project by Michael Betcherman
- The Liar’s Daughter by Megan Cooley Peterson
- Nowhere On Earth by Nick Lake
- Patron Saints Of Nothing by Randy Ribay
- Prom House by Chelsea Mueller
- Sanctuary by Paola Mendoza and Abby Sher
- Sink Or Swim by Tash McAdam
- Stranded by Jocelyn Shipley
- Watch Over Me by Nina LaCour
- We Were Liars by E. Lockhart