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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:

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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

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 and Movie Award Winners

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​

https://www.goodreads.com/genres/retellings

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Maynard Public Library 77 Nason Street Maynard, MA 01754 Phone 978-897-1010 

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