Summer Reading Lists

Week 22 of 2025

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Rosieness Revue
May 30th, 2025

How we love a summer reading list. As school children we clutched our mimeographed list and went off to our local book fairs and libraries.

These days every publication and celebrity seem to produce reading lists, and they are fun to peruse - Here are some of our favorites -

Happy Reading!

New York Public Library 2025 Picks for Adults

Find your new favorite reads with this collection of top titles curated by our expert librarians.

www.nypl.org/books-more/recommendations/staff-picks/adults

24 Books to Get Lost in This Summer from Atlantic Magazine

The Atlantic’s writers and editors have chosen fiction and nonfiction to match all sorts of moods.

www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2025/05/summer-reading-2025/682549

75 books we’re most excited to read this summer - The Boston Globe

The Globe’s annual summer reading preview features 75 books — fiction, nonfiction, romance, and mystery — we think you’ll want to slip into that beach bag, backpack, or picnic basket.

www.bostonglobe.com/2024/05/30/arts/best-books-to-read-in-2024-this-summer-exciting-titles/?event=event12

What to Read This Summer from New Yorker Magazine.

Ronan Farrow, Jia Tolentino, and other New Yorker writers on the classic books that changed their lives.

www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/summer-reading-2024

The 17 Best Books of 2025 (So Far!), According to Real Simple Editors

If you're looking for a new book to read, browse our list of the top page-turners of 2025. Whether you want a novel, romance, or short story, there's a book for you here.

www.realsimple.com/best-books-2025-11682885

New Novels to Read This Summer from The New York Times Book Review

Taylor Jenkins Reid heads to space, Megan Abbott climbs a pyramid (scheme) and Gary Shteyngart channels a 10-year-old. Plus queer vampires, a professor in hell and an actress’s revenge.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/books/review/new-fiction-books-summer-2025.html?unlocked_article_code=1.JU8.re1Y.U2GUIfGTs1Ba&smid=url-share

Most Anticipated Books of Summer 2025 - from She Reads

There’s no season like summer reading season.

shereads.com/most-anticipated-books-of-summer-2025

25 Perfect Summer Reads To Dive Into This Year from Forbes.com

Discover top books for summer , from buzzworthy new releases to unforgettable page-turners perfect for beach days and lazy afternoons.

www.forbes.com/sites/entertainment/article/best-books-for-summer

Here are more links - for celebrity book clubs and their reading lists.

Tik Tok HashTag #BookTok recommends all kinds of titles.

Everyone can make a difference

The Quilters

33m | TV-14 Inmates at a maximum-security prison in Missouri sew custom quilts for children in the adoption waiting list.

www.imdb.com/title/tt32165461/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

Word of the Week

Failson

Failson refers to an adult son of a wealthy and/or famous family who, despite being mediocre and lacking any real talent or determination, succeeds in life (or at least floats by). His success comes primarily because of family money and connections.

www.merriam-webster.com/slang/failson

What We are Reading

Quite a Year for Plums: A Novel - Bailey White

NPR Commentator Bailey White’s first novel. Quirky and Charming Characters - Each Chapter tells a little story of it’s own.

amzn.to/3H2POoL

What We are Watching

Miss Austen (TV Mini Series 2025) ⭐ 7.4 | Romance

| TV-PG Streaming on PBS - Four Episodes - Follows the lives of Jane Austen and her sister, Cassandra. With Patsy Ferran (who you may know from Living with Bill Nighy) Keeley Hawes (The Matriarch of The Darrells in Corfu) as the sisters. Phyllis Logan (Downton Abbey) plays Mrs. Austen with her real life husband, Kevin McNalley (Pirates of the Caribbean )

www.imdb.com/title/tt21096438/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

What We are Listening To

A Change of Habit: Leaving Behind My Husband, Career, and Everything I Owned to Become a Nun by Sister Monica Clare.

Read by the author. Sister Monica Clare is an Episcopal nun who became a Tik Tok Sensation in 2021 with her magical cold remedy. Her story is quite something. She is a champion of inclusion and women’s rights. A graduate of NYU she made the decision to become a nun when she was 46. You can follow her on TikTok and Instagram.

amzn.to/4dwIvSg

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