Did you tune into the Memorial Day edition of 94.7’s Sunday Morning Wake-up Call on May 26? A few of us JMRLians had a chance to sit down and talk with host Rick Moore to talk about our summer reading recommendations – you can listen to the podcast of that episode here.

Sunday Morning Wake-up Call host Rick Moore looks for summer reading recommendations from Jefferson-Madison Regional Library librarians Lindsay Ideson, Hayley Tompkins and Megan England.

Lindsay Ideson, Northside Library Branch Manager Recommends:

• The Secret Token by Andrew Lawler (NF)
• Dopesick by Beth Macy (NF)
• Sargent’s Women by Donna Lucey (NF)
• All Systems Red by Martha Wells (SF)
• The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee (YA)
• How to Be a Good Creature by Sy Montgomery (NF)
• Mysteries by Martin Walker, Elly Griffiths, Robert Galbraith (aka JK Rowling)

Hayley Tompkins, Crozet Library Branch Manager recommends:

• I mentioned:
  • Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos – R.L. LaFevers (great family road trip audiobook, children’s fantasy about precocious girl who removes curses from her cursed Egyptian artifacts in her parents’ museum)
  • The Rock and the River – Kekla Magoon (young adult fiction, 1960s)
    • Her new title is The Season of Styx Malone
  • Archetype – MD Waters (great for fans of The Handmaid’s Tale, dystopian romance)
  • The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up – Marie Kondo
  • Lab Girl – Hope Jahren (funny and poetic memoir of a female botanist, great audiobook read by the author)
  • Lassoing the Sun: A Year in America’s National Park by Mark Woods
  • The Year of Less – Cait Flanders (memoir of consuming less and downsizing)
• Which I’d mentioned:
  • Sacre Bleu – Christopher Moore (hilarious, bawdy, fantastical fiction of Impressionist-era France)
  • This is How It Always Is – Laurie Frankel (beautiful fictional story of a family’s love as the youngest member transitions)

Megan England, Crozet Library Young Adult Librarian recommends:

• Romance Recs
  • Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuinton
  • A Princess in Theory by Alyssa Cole
  • The Kiss Quotient by Kelen Hoang
• Nonfiction Recs
  • Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski
  • The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World by Jeff Goodell
• Middle grade & Young Adult Recs
  • Scythe by Neal Shusterman
  • City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab
  • The Hotel Between by Sean Easley
  • Stalking Jack the Ripper series by Kerri Maniscalco is coming to a close this October
  • Super briefly mentioned the Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy
• Highly Anticipated Reads:
  • City of Brass series (The Empire of Gold is out in January 2020, one of my most anticipated books ever)
  • The Last Place You Look by Kristen Lepionka (new book out in July)
• Wish I’d gotten to mention:
  • Ignite the Stars by Maura Milan  
    
  • The Fever King by Victoria Lee
  • The Broken Earth series by N.K. Jemisin (book 1 is The Fifth Season)