Toddlers and Preschoolers
- The Daddy Mountain by Jules Feiffer
- Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell
- Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
- Gossie by Olivier Dunrea
- How Do Dinosaurs Play with Their Friends? by Jane Yolen and Mark Teague (and all the How Do Dinosaurs books)
- Llama Llama Mad at Mama by Anna Dewdney (and all the Llama Llama books)
- My Friend Rabbit by Eric Rohmann
- Pajama Time! by Sandra Boynton
- We're Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury
- Where is Baby's Belly Button? by Karen Katz
Early Elementary Age
- Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday by Judith Viorst
- Amelia Bedelia Means Business by Herman Parish
- The Astonishing Secret of Awesome Man by Michael Chabon
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
- The Dot by Peter Reynolds
- Fancy Nancy by Jane O'Connor
- Fanny's Dream by Caralyn Buehner and Mark Buehner
- How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell
- Ivy + Bean by Annie Barrows
- Kelsey Green, Reading Queen by Claudia Mills
- The Matchbox Diary by Paul Fleischman
- The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams Bianco
- The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Middle Graders
- The Call of the Wild by Jack London
- Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
- Crow by Barbara Wright
- The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
- The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis (Book One in the Chronicles of Narnia series)
- The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Lucy Dakota: Rocky Mountain Beginnings by Carol Sue Shride
- Parched by Melanie Crowder
- Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan (Book One in the Percy Jackson series)
- Ramona and Her Father by Beverly Cleary
- Scepter by Scott Collins (Book One in the Scepter series)
- A Summer of Sundays by Lindsay Eland
- Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (Book One in The Wrinkle in Time series)
- Zero Tolerance by Claudia Mills
Teens & Young Adults
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
- Delirium by Lauren Oliver (Book One in the Delirium trilogy)
- Divergent by Veronica Roth (Book One in the Divergent trilogy)
- Earthrise: My Adventures as an Apollo 14 Astronaut by Edgar Mitchell
- Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
- Finnikin of the Rock by Melina Marchetta
- The Fault in our Stars by John Green
- The Giver by Lois Lowry
- The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- If I Stay by Gayle Forman (Book 1 of 2)
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- The Maze Runner by James Dashner (Book One in a trilogy)
- The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki
- We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Adults
- The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philipp Sendker
- The Bees by Laline Paull
- China Dolls by Lisa See
- Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
- Euphoria by Lily King
- The Girls at the Kingfisher Club by Genevieve Valentine
- Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
- I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You by Courtney Maum
- The Matchmaker by Elin Hilderbrand
- Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King
- No Good Deed by M.P. McDonald (Book One in the Mark Taylor series)
- The One & Only by Emily Giffin
- The Painter by Peter Heller
- Summer House with Swimming Pool by Herman Koch
- The Vacationers by Emma Straub
(Plus, a few of Merri's favorite recent adult books:)
- The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty
- Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
- Me Before You by JoJo Moyes
- And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
- The Lost Wife by Alyson Richman
- The Sisters Weiss by Naomi Ragen
- The Last Time I Saw Paris by Lynn Sheene
- This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper
- The White Queen Series by Phillipa Gregory
- Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
Merri's Note: I will be adding on adult books throughout the summer. Feel free to add on your favorite children's and adults books in the Comments section below!