August 2026

Monthly Themed Reading List for Teens

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

Wanted: New Readers for These Rarely Checked Out Books

Click on the book images below to learn more about each book and even reserve a copy with your Perry Public Library Card!

Give these lonely books from our YA shelves a chance this August!

• A Really Awesome Mess

• Hacking Harvard : a novel

• Kill me softly

• Lily and Dunkin

• Memoirs of a teenage amnesiac

• Splinters of Scarlet

• The Cresswell plot

• The porcupine of truth

• The ruinous sweep

• Your Heart, My Sky: Love in a Time of Hunger