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2025 Adult Summer Reading: Level Up At Greenwich Library!

Below you will find a sampling of suggested reading to complete the reading challenge this summer--nonfiction, fiction, biography/memoir, graphic novels, and books published in 2025!

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  • Funny Because It's True

    How The Onion Created Modern American News Satire

    Wenc, Christine,
    Discover the real truth behind the original fake news with this in-depth history of beloved humor publication, The Onion.
    Book, 2025Philadelphia : Running Press, 2025. — 051 WENC
  • The Fifteen

    Murder, Retribution, and the Forgotten Story of Nazi POWs in America

    Geroux, William,
    The true story of the long-forgotten POW camps for German soldiers erected in hundreds of small U.S. towns during World War II, and the secret Nazi killings that ensnared fifteen brave American POWs in a high-stakes showdown.
    Book, 2025New York : Crown, [2025] — 940.5472 GEROU
  • Cue the Sun

    the Invention of Reality TV

    Nussbaum, Emily, 1966-
    This sharp and immersive history traces the chaotic rise of reality television, revealing how a quest for authenticity within manufactured drama reshaped pop culture—and America itself. With behind-the-scenes stories and a critical eye, it exposes…
    Book, 2024New York : Random House, [2024] — 791.456 NUSSB
  • Warhol's Muses

    the Artists, Misfits, and Superstars Destroyed by the Factory Fame Machine

    Leamer, Laurence,
    From the New York Times bestselling author of Capote's Women comes an astonishing account of the revolutionary artist Andy Warhol and his scandalous relationships with the ten women he deemed his "superstars," beginning in 1964 and culminating four…
    Book, 2025New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2025] — 700.9227 WARHO LEAME
  • Puzzle master Mike Brink is invited to Japan to attempt the impossible: unlocking the Dragon Box, a deadly 150-year-old enigma built to conceal an Imperial secret. Every twelve years, the box challenges a new contender with traps, poisons, and…
    Book, 2024New York : Random House, [2024] — FICTION TRUSS...D
  • A single mother joins a deadly island game set up by a charismatic daredevil and extreme adventurer, but a monstrous storm and an unseen menace transform the social media stunt into a ruthless fight for survival.
    Book, 2025Toronto, Ontario : Park Row Books, [2025] — MYSTERY UNGER...L
  • When elite coder Eliza Bright reports workplace harassment at a top video game company, she unintentionally ignites a digital firestorm that turns her life into a real-world cat-and-mouse game. As anonymous online mobs track her every move and…
    Book, 2021New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2021. — FICTION OSWOR...A
  • When Earth is transformed into an 18-level, planet-sized dungeon, survival becomes a bloodsport broadcast to the galaxy—and the only way out is down. Carl, an unremarkable man with his ex-girlfriend’s cat, must battle monsters and rack up views to…
    Book, 2024New York : Ace, 2024. — SCIFI DINNI...M
  • Pinball

    A Graphic History of the Silver Ball

    Chad, Jon
    In this dynamic, nonfiction graphic novel, Jon Chad illustrates the little-known story of pinball—how it works and why it all matters in an age of special effects and on-screen gaming.
    Graphic Novel, 2022New York, USA : First Second, 2022. — GRAPHIC CHAD...J
  • Yuna never wanted to adopt a dog. But with her partner in mourning–and in desperate need of a boost in morale–she gives in to his humble request. And in the grand tradition of reluctant pet owners, she and their puppy soon become inseparable. The…
    Graphic Novel, 2024United States : Drawn & Quarterly, a client publisher of Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2024. — GRAPHIC GENDR...K
  • In Alison Bechdel’s hilariously skewering and gloriously cast new comic novel confection, a cartoonist named Alison Bechdel, running a pygmy goat sanctuary in Vermont, is existentially irked by a climate-challenged world and a citizenry on the brink…
    Graphic Novel, 2025New York : Mariner Books, [2025] — GRAPHIC BECHD...A
  • The Heart That Fed

    a Father, a Son, and the Long Shadow of War

    Sciacchitano, Carl,
    A brilliant graphic memoir debut, this is a loving son’s exploration of his tumultuous relationship with his father, told through the lens of the Vietnam War and its lasting effects long after returning home.
    Graphic Novel, 2024New York, NY : Gallery 13, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, LLC, 2024. — GRAPHIC SCIAC...C
  • Becoming Spectacular

    the Rhythm of Resilience From the First African American Rockette

    Jones, Jennifer, 1967-
    "The first African American Rockette charts her journey to one of the world's most celebrated dance troupes in this gripping memoir that, for the first time, goes behind the velvet curtains at Radio City's legendary holiday show."
    Book, 2025New York : HarperCollins Publishers [2025] — 792.8092 JONES JONES
  • "A spare and profoundly moving memoir that joins the classics of the genre, Memorial Days is a portrait of a larger-than-life man and a timeless love between souls that exquisitely captures the joy, agony, and mystery of life."
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Viking, [2025] — 823.914 BROOK BROOK
  • "In a memoir where heroism meets humor, NBC News anchor and correspondent Vicky Nguyen tells the story of her family’s daring escape from communist Vietnam and her unlikely journey from refugee to reporter."
    Book, 2025New York : Simon & Schuster, 2025. — 070.92 NGUYE NGUYE
  • A Fatal Inheritance

    How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery

    Ingrassia, Lawrence,
    "Weaving his own moving family story with a sweeping history of cancer research, Lawrence Ingrassia delivers an intimate, gripping tale that sits at the intersection of memoir and medical thriller."
    Book, 2024New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2024. — 616.994 INGRA
  • The old-money Wieland family has it all—wealth, status, power. They’re also famously cursed.
    Book, 2025New York : MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025. — FICTION SLIGA...S
  • After being fired and facing yet another novel rejection, aspiring author Zelu writes a futuristic epic about AI and robots, unknowingly setting herself on a path to literary stardom that could change the future of humanity.
    Book, 2025[New York, NY] : William Morrow & Company, 2025. — SCIFI OKORA...N
  • In Summer of Blood, the first history of the German Peasants' War in a generation, historian Lyndal Roper exposes the far-reaching ramifications of this rebellion. Though the war's victors portrayed the uprising as naive and inchoate, Roper reveals…
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Basic Books, 2025. — 943.031 ROPER
  • After the glaciers melt, Nonie, her sister, parents, and researcher friends create a settlement on the roof of the American Museum of Natural History in nearly deserted New York City, following the rule to take from exhibits only in dire need. They…
    Book, 2025New York : St. Martin's Press, 2025. — FICTION CAFFA...E