BOOKED SOLID: A New Canaan Library Podcast for Adventurous Readers Across All Genres

Booked Solid's Annual Summer Reading Roundup 2025

Episode Summary

Booked Solid is on break until the fall… but before we go, our hosts have joined forces with New Canaan Library’s Adult Summer Reading program for our Summer Reading Roundup! In this episode, Kathleen, Kat, and James recommend books that are both great summer reads and can be used to complete this year’s Adult Summer Reading challenges.

Episode Notes

Featured Titles:

Woodworking by Emily St. James

Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan

The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter

Hungerstone by Kat Dunn

Sister Deborah by Scholastique Mukasonga

The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins

Spent by Alison Bechdel

All Systems Red by Martha Wells

Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane

When the World Tips Over by Jandy Nelson

Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez

Magnolia Wu Unfolds it All by Chanel Miller

The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young

Katabasis by R.F. Kuang

Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green