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Family Book Club

Vacation edition
By Andria Dilling | July 25, 2025
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Melanie Promecene, Chris Promecene, Noah Promecene, Will Promecene, Angela Promecene

Summer Reading

Books recommended by Buzz residents
By Cindy Burnett | June 27, 2025
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Kelly Hogan, Kristen Perrin, Catherine Gentry, Emily Henry, Alison Espach, Sally Mason, Monica Wood, Clare Pooley, Sarah Damoff, Julie Satow, Kate Quinn, Ann Strang, Eiren Caffall, Charlotte McConaghy, Celia Anderson, J. K. Rowling, Nguyen Phan Que Mai, Paige Erwin, Percival Everett, Jay Hachen, Jennifer Haupt, Renée Ahdieh, Kristen L. Berry, Loretta Rothschild, Lidija Hilje, Jane L. Rosen, Marie Bostwick, Nathalia Holt, Besha Rodell

Summer Reading Lists for 2025

By Cindy Burnett | May 29, 2025
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Cindy Burnett, Kelly Hook, Katie Couric, Anne Bogel
First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston

Is there a Book of Summer 2024?

By Cindy Burnett | July 11, 2024
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Cindy Burnett, Catherine Gentry, Steven Rowley, Ruth Reichl, Nancy Turner, Deborah Dunkum, Ashley Elston, Nicole Anderson, Susan Rigetti, Deanna Salazar, Paige Toon
WHAT GOES AROUND

Reading for Fun: Getting over the high school hump

By Andria Dilling | May 27, 2024
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Aerin Kalmans, Matthew Desmond, Paul Tough, Belle Martire, Lisa Genova, Zoulfa Katouh, Elin Hilderbrand, Lucy Frankfort, Tim O’Brien, Ernest Hemingway
The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby

Summer Reading Lists for 2024

By Cindy Burnett | May 23, 2024
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Kelly Hooker, Anne Bogel, Victoria Wood, Amy Allen Clark
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Some of My Favorite Reads of Summer 2023

By Cindy Burnett | August 3, 2023
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Pip Williams, Bruce Borgos, Sara DiVello, Tracey Lange, Julia Heaberlin, Fiona Davis, Christina Lauren, Cindy Burnett
The End of Men by Christina Sweeney-Baird

More Summer Reading

By Cindy Burnett | June 8, 2023
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Cindy Burnett, Jamie Brenner, Jackie Collins, Judith Krantz, Clare Mackintosh, Christina Sweeney-Baird, Beatriz Williams, Emiko Jean
Summer Reading

5 Summer Reading Lists for 2023

By Cindy Burnett | May 25, 2023
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Cindy Burnett, Kelly Hooker
HAPPY READING

Summer reading 2023: Uplifting reads

By Andria Dilling | May 25, 2023
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Cindy Burnett, Carin Collins, Steven Rowley, Rachel Linden, Bonnie Garmus, Elissa Davis, Kate Bowler, Jessica Richie, Koshin Paley Ellison, Elissa Epel, Micki Fine Pavlicek
Summer reading

Summer Reading Lists for 2022

By Cindy Burnett | June 2, 2022
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Cindy Burnett, Kelly Hooker
Summer reading

Great Books for the Last Days of Summer

By Cindy Burnett | July 29, 2021
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Jamie Brenner, Clare Mackintosh, Beatriz Williams, Katherine St. John, Emma Brodie
WHAT TO READ

Five picks for July

By Cindy Burnett | June 27, 2021
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Jess McHugh, Jamie Brenner, Clare Mackintosh, Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray, Emma Brodie
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Summer Reading Lists for 2021

By Cindy Burnett | June 3, 2021
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Cindy Burnett, Elizabeth Barnhill, Kelly Hooker
WHAT TO READ

Five picks for June

By Cindy Burnett | May 24, 2021
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Jeff Arch, Christina Sweeney-Baird, Katherine Johnson, Beatriz Williams, Katherine St. John
LISTEN UP

What to listen to this summer

By Andria Dilling | May 24, 2021
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Michelle Frankfort, Tracey Blumrosen, Dionne Miller
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Discovering Magic through Reading

By Karen Vine Fuller | July 28, 2020
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Mary Wagoner
Catherine Gentry

Buzzy Books of Summer 2020

By Cindy Burnett | July 23, 2020
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Cindy Burnett, Brit Bennett, Elin Hildebrand, Michelle Juden, Amanda McGee, Andrea Link, Ibram Kendi, Catherine Gentry, Katherine Center, Emily Henry, Claire Lombardo, Amy Poeppel, Kevin Kwan, Hank Green, Jeanine Cummins, Kristy Woodson Harvey, Brooke Fossey, Ann Napolitano, Elizabeth Wetmore, Lisa Duffy, Erik Larsen

Summer reading: 2020

By Andria Dilling | June 30, 2020
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Stefanie Trachtenberg, Jacob Trachtenberg, Yaa Gyasi, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Kamila Shamsie, Georgia Hunter, Lisa Wingate, Marjan Kamali, Ann Patchett, Charles Belfoure, Elyssa Friedland, Yuval Noah Harari, Mohsin Hamid

Spotlighting Historical Fiction, Summer 2020

By Cindy Burnett | June 25, 2020
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Cindy Burnett, Kristin Harmel, Edgar Degas, Elise Hooper, Natalie Jenner, Jane Austen, Chanel Cleeton, Fiona Davis, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Celia Rees, Stephen Kiernan, Charlie Fisk, Susie Orman Schnall
Magical realism

Imagine your Stories: Magical Realism

By Delia Swanner | June 23, 2020
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Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, Alejo Carpentier, Miguel Angel Asturias, Isabel Allende, Mario Vargas Llosa, Shubhangi Swarup, Rion Amilcar Scott, Nancy Wayson Dinen, Samantha Mabry
Abigail Poag

Summer Reading: Ten Books for Teens

By Emily Burnett | June 16, 2020
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Rhea Kamat, Fredrik Backman, Emma Dickey, Soman Chainani, Abigail Poag, Celeste Ng, Maggie McCarthy, Ruth Sepetys, Katherine Ochs, Jenna Evans Welch, Maggie Stiefvater, Leigh Bardugo, Brigid Kemmerer, Claire Legrand, Alexandra Christo
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Top 9 Summer Reading Lists 2020

By Cindy Burnett | June 4, 2020
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Cindy Burnett, Megan Angelo, Nguyen Phan Que Mai, Erica Neubauer, Brit Bennett
Lily Schmitt, Scarlett Schmitt,

Enjoying Summer Page by Page: Reading for Kids

By Karen Vine Fuller | July 1, 2019
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Grant Brown, Josie Brown, Louis Sachar, Lily Schmitt, Scarlett Schmitt, Barbara O’Connor, Janice Erlbaum, Nicholas Leonard, Mary Pope Osborne, Kate Fuller, Louisa May Alcott, Jennifer Holm, Samantha Chavez, Chris Colfer, Carmela Hawney, Keenan Hawney, Jean Hawney, Cormac Hawney, Mary Kearney, Judy Blume, Beverly Cleary, Margery Williams, Bonnie Kearney, Henry Kearney
Allison Lee

Bookworming in the Summertime: Book Recommendations for Young Adults

By Allison Lee | June 10, 2019
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Allison Lee, Virginia Woolf, Richard Muller, Ryan Knightly, Wendy Mass, Ella Lee, Glen Cook, Vincent Zhang, Kentaro Miura, Eric Verchere, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Caleb Godard, Jennifer Chang
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Summertime Reads

By Elisabeth Padjen | July 17, 2018
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David Carter, Morag Hood, Kate Klise, Peg Kehret, Edgar Cantero
Young adult reads

Young Adult Summer Reading Suggestions

By Haley Kurisky | June 20, 2018
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Haley Kurisky, Meg Jay, Brock Clarke, Judd Apatow, Chris Rock, Amy Schumer, Steve Martin, Adam Sandler, Agatha Christie, Lauren Elkin, Andrew Morton, Wallis Simpson, Meghan Markle
MAKING A LIST

Summer reading – authors’ edition

By Andria Dilling | June 1, 2018
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Chris Cander, Katherine Center, Melanie Shankle
Summer reading

Summer Reading

By Mary Cohrs | May 29, 2018
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Magic of reading

Tackling Mid-Summer Boredom with Books and Activities

By Elisabeth Padjen | July 18, 2017
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Chris Grabenstein, Blue Balliett, Brett Helquist, Lissa Evans, Alice Hoffman