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Reading List for Adult Readers and Perfect for Summer

Association of Texas Professional Educators
Association of Texas Professional Educators

Date Posted: 5/19/2021

Escape into a good book this summer. Check out the Lariat Adult Fiction Reading List from the Texas Library Association (TLA) for some recommendations. 

According to TLA, “the goal of the Lariat Adult Fiction Reading List has been to highlight outstanding fiction that is simply ‘a pleasure to read’” since 2009. The list includes 25 books. Here’s 2021’s list: 

  1. Betty by Tiffany McDaniel (Knopf/PRH)
  2. Blacktop Wasteland: A Novel by S.A. Cosby (Flatiron Books/Macmillan Publishers)
  3. The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate  (Ballantine/PRH)
  4. The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel  (Gallery Books/Simon & Schuster)
  5. Darling Rose Gold by Stephanie Wrobel (Berkley/PRH) )
  6. Deacon King Kong by James McBride (Riverhead Books/PRH)
  7. The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi (Riverhead Books/PRH)
  8. Eight Perfect Murders: A Novel by Peter Swanson (William Morrow/HarperCollins)
  9. Ghosts of Harvard: A Novel by Francesca Serritella (Random House/PRH)
  10.  The God Game: A Novel by Danny Tobey  (Martin’s Press/Macmillan Publishers)
  11.  The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune (Tor Books/Macmillan Publishers)
  12.  The Imperfects: A Novel by Amy Meyerson (Park Row-Harlequin/HarperCollins)
  13.  The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner  (St. Martin’s Press/Macmillan Publishers)
  14.  Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey Books/PRH)
  15.  Miss Benson’s Beetle: A Novel by Rachel Joyce (Dial Press/PRH)
  16.  My Dark Vanessa: A Novel by Kate Elizabeth Russell  (William Morrow/HarperCollins)
  17.  The Roxy Letters: A Novel by Mary Pauline Lowry (Simon & Schuster)
  18.  The Stone Girl: A Novel by Dirk Wittenborn  (W.W. Norton & Company)
  19.  Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi (Knopf/PRH)
  20.  Valentine: A Novel by Elizabeth Wetmore (HarperCollins)
  21.  We Are All the Same in the Dark: A Novel by Julia Heaberlin  (Ballantine Books/PRH)
  22.  Weather: A Novel by Jenny Offill (Knopf/PRH)
  23.  Where We Come From: A Novel by Oscar Cásares
  24.  A Witch in Time by Constance Sayers (Redhook Publishing/Hachette)
  25.  You Had Me at Hola: A Novel by Alexis Daria (Avon Publishing/HarperCollins)

Want more? TLA has curated reading lists for all ages on their site. Visit txla.org/tools-resources/reading-lists to see them all.

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