
Adult Summer Reading:
Level Up at Your Library
Mon. June 30 - Sat. August 16, 2025
For ages 18-108
About Adult Summer Reading
How it works:
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Pick up a Bibliopoly game board at Circulation or download one here.
- Choose a a color set and complete each challenge in the set. You can record your progress on the back of the game board. Pick a book that matches each challenge on your own or consult the suggested book lists below.
- When your color set is complete, fill out this form to register your raffle entry.
- Complete more color sets to earn more raffle entries. You can also:
- Complete all 4 corner challenges
- Complete 2 Chance challenges [Spin the Chance wheel here]
- Attend or participate in 2 MPL events online or in person (including submitting a Tiny Art Work and attending the Summer Concert)
- Complete 4 challenges of any color
- Complete the entire board for 3 additional raffle tickets
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Double-dipping is okay. For example, you could go to the library, check out a cookbook and then attend Cookbook Club to fulfill three challenges!
- Register all your raffle entries by Saturday, August 16. Prizes will be awarded on Monday, August 18.
Prizes
Prizes will be gift cards to local businesses. Check back to see the list of prizes!
Summer Events
Check www.maynardpubliclibrary.org/calendar
for library events you may be interested in, such as the summer concert or the Tiny Art Show. You can sign up to receive the weekly email newsletter here.
Book Lists and Resources
MPL Resources
View the items in the Library of Things
Watch a film on Kanopy
Read a book or magazine on Libby
Watch a recorded library program on MPL's YouTube Channel
Borrow a Museum Pass
Mass Center for the Book (MCB) Challenges and Booklists
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July: A book you were drawn to by its cover (or see fiction display on 2nd floor)
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August: A book with a protagonist who is a teenager or senior citizen
A Few Celebrity Book Groups
https://www.oprahdaily.com/entertainment/books/g23067476/oprah-book-club-list/
https://reesesbookclub.com/our-picks/
https://www.today.com/shop/read-with-jenna
Nonfiction Call Numbers
Games 795
Crafts 745
Food and Cooking 641.3-8
Biographies and Memoirs BIO [Last name], 920
(See the nonfiction display on 2nd floor for celebrity memoirs)
Poems 811-813
Essays 814
Short story collections are in fiction by author and have spine labels like this
Some Book Awards
https://newenglandbooks.org/page/book-awards
https://www.massbook.org/mass-book-awards/
https://www.nationalbook.org/national-book-awards/years/
https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-categories
https://lithub.com/here-are-all-the-award-winning-novels-of-2024/
https://fivebooks.com/books/award-winning-books-of-2024/
Book Reviews
https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/books/reviews/
https://www.npr.org/sections/book-reviews/
Book lists for Chance and Corners
In July, see fiction display on 2nd floor (Summer Beach Reads)
Travel books and travel writing are in nonfiction 914-919
https://www.nypl.org/blog/2022/07/15/national-parks-reading-list
https://pen.org/banned-books-list-2025/
https://www.ala.org/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/top10
Books about books, bookstores, or libraries
Books Made into Movies
MCB June 2024 A Book that Inspired a Film or TV Series
https://catalog.minlib.net/MyAccount/MyList/8434
Books Set in Your Hometown (mostly in Mass)
MCB February 2023: A Book Set in Your Home Town/City or State
Books with an LGTBQ+ Character
https://catalog.minlib.net/MyAccount/MyList/30539
Retellings of a Classic
