August 2026

Monthly Themed Reading Lists for Adults

Themed lists curated by your local librarians. Discover and rediscover books in the local collection based on monthly reading themes!

Epic Book Series

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Check out these first books in Epic Series!

  • Dungeon Crawler Carl

  • Guilty pleasures

  • Leviathan wakes

  • Pillars of the Earth

  • Sandstorm

  • The Bear and the Nightingale

  • The girl of fire and thorns

  • The gunslinger

  • The kill artist : a novel

  • The white queen

  • Wolf Hall : a novel

  • Wool : a novel    

Books by Iowa Writer's Workshop Graduates

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Check out these books, written by graduates of the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop. 

  • Barefoot

  • A Dangerous Business

  • The dog stars

  • The great believers

  • Great Circle

  • Little Faith

  • The late Americans

  • The tortilla curtain : a novel

  • The Boy in the Field

  • Gone so long

  • Olga Dies Dreaming

  • The Tortilla Curtain