Welcome back to Week 2 of our adult summer reading digital displays! If you’re new to Read Beyond the Beaten Path, check out our Week 1 post here. You can also download a reading log, get more information about the program and prizes, or sign up to complete the program on Beanstack. Reminder that these posts only pertain to the adult reading program — come visit us to learn more about the youth reading program!
This week’s display is all about books you picked because of their cover and/or title alone. So this week on the blog, we’ve got two ways for you to look at books: by scrolling through some interesting covers, or by scrolling through some interesting titles — no summaries provided! Either way, you’ll be able to click a link to place a hold if any of them speak to you. We’ll also let you know if they’re available as an e-book or e-audiobook on Libby (L) or Hoopla (H).
Pick a Book by Its Cover
Books Listed:
(L = Libby, H = Hoopla)
All the Lives We Ever Lived: Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf by Katharine Smyth
( catalog entry | L )
The_Atmospherians by Alex McElroy
( catalog entry | L )
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
( catalog entry | L )
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
( catalog entry | L, H )
Instructions for a Funeral by David Means
( catalog entry | H )
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib
( catalog entry | L )
Sarahland: Stories by Sam Cohen
( catalog entry )
Speak, Okinawa by Elizabeth Miki Brina
( catalog entry | L )
There Plant Eyes: A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness by M. Leona Godin
( catalog entry )
Wilder Girls by Rory Power
( catalog entry | L )
Pick a Book by Its Title
(L = Libby, H = Hoopla)
The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa
( catalog entry | L )
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
( catalog entry | L )
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
( catalog entry | L )
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith
( catalog entry | L )
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
( catalog entry | L, H )
Does My Body Offend You? by Marie Marquardt
( catalog entry )
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
( catalog entry | L, H )
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika Sánchez
( catalog entry | L )
I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys
( catalog entry | L )
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
( catalog entry | L )
Today Tonight Tomorrow by Rachel Lynn Solomon
( catalog entry | L )
Next week we'll be diving into the category of Young Adult Fiction (though there are a few great YA picks on these lists). Happy reading!
