Adult Summer Reading Program Book and Poetry List 2020: Maine Bicentennial Edition

Note: All of these titles can be found on the Cloud Library app unless otherwise specified. Names in Bold are Maine authors.

NONFICTION

MAINE HISTORY

• Hidden History of Maine, Gratwick, Harry & Tyler, David
• Stories from the Maine Coast, Gratwick, Harry
• The Edge of Maine, Wolff, Geoffrey
• The Twentieth Maine, Pullen, John 
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in Portland, Babin, John William, Levinsky, Alan M., Adams, Heb
• Canoe Indians of Down East Maine, Haviland, William A.
• The Forts of Maine, Gratwick, Harry
• The Barns of Maine: Our History, Our Stories, Perkins, Don
• Lost Maine Coastal Schooners, Grenon, Ingrid
• Harvest Maine, Ken, Crystal Ward
• The Maine Lobster Industry, Billings, Cathy, Bayer, Bob
• Remembering Camden, Dyer, Barbara F
• Rockland, Maine: rise and renewal, Bird, John (Not Available on Cloud Library)

MAINE NATURE/WOODS

• The Sense of Wonder, Carson, Rachel
• Settled in the Wild, Shetterly, Susan Hand
• Lost on a Mountain in Maine, Fendler, Don
• The Maine Woods, Thoreau, Henry David (Not Available on Cloud Library)
• We Took to the Woods, Rich, Louise Dickinson (Not Available on Cloud Library)
• A Year in the Maine Woods, Heinrich, Bernd (not in our collection) (Not Available on Cloud Library)

OTHER NONFICTION

• Maine Street, McLean, Patrisha (ME Author)
• Here If You Need Me, Braestrup, Kate (ME Author)
• Home Now, Anderson, Cynthia
• Call Me American, Iftin, Abdi Nor
• Maine & Me, Peavey, Elizabeth
• How to Catch a Lobster in Down East Maine, Oragano, Christine Lemieux
• Maine Beer, Christie, Josh
• Portland Food, McCarty, Kate

MAINE ISLANDS AND COAST  (Nonfiction & Fiction)

• Stories from the Maine Coast, Gratwick, Harry
• The Edge of Maine, Wolff, Geoffrey
• Lost Maine Coastal Schooners, Grenon, Ingrid
• The Maine Lobster Industry, Billings, Cathy, Bayer, Bob
• Canoe Indians of Down East Maine, Haviland, William A.
• Remembering Camden, Dyer, Barbara F.
• Haunted Maine Lighthouses, Plumb, Taryn
• The Guest Book, Blake, Sarah
• The Miracle on Monhegan Island, Kelly, Elizabeth
• Maine, Sullivan, Courtney
• Somebody to Love, Higgins, Kristin
• Shiver Hitch, Greenlaw, Linda (ME Author)
• Bimini Twist, Greenlaw, Linda
• Stay Hidden, Doiron, Paul (ME Author)

• The Lobster Chronicles: Life on a Very Small Island, Greenlaw, LInda (ME Author) (Not Available on Cloud Library)
• The Lobster Coast, Woodard, Colin (Not Available on Cloud Library)
• The Shape of Night, Gerritsen, Tess (ME Author) (Not Available on Cloud Library)

FICTION

MYSTERIES/THRILLERS

• The Missing Ones, Hill, Edwin
• Death at Breakfast, Gutcheon, Beth Richardson
• Death by Chocolate Cherry Cheesecake, Graves, Sarah
• Gwendy’s Button Box, King, Stephen (ME Author)
• It, King, Stephen
• Salem’s Lot, King, Stephen
• Bag of Bones, King, Stephen
• Bloodstream, Gerritsen, Tess (ME Author)
• Stay Hidden, Doiron, Paul (ME Author)
• The Poacher’s Son, Doiron, Paul
• Bad Little Falls, Doiron, Paul
• A House to Die For, Doudera, Vicki (ME Author)
• Shiver Hitch, Greenlaw, Linda (ME Author)
• Bimini Twist, Greenlaw, Linda 
• The Shape of Night, Gerritsen, Tess (ME Author) (Not Available on Cloud Library)

OTHER FICTION

• The Guest Book, Blake, Sarah
• Maine, Sullivan, Courtney
• Today’s Best Maine Fiction, McNair, Wesley
• A Piece of the World, Kline, Christina Baker
• Orphan Train, Kline, Christina Baker
• The Way Life Should Be, Kline, Christina Baker
• Olive Kitteridge, Strout, Elizabeth
• Olive Again, Strout, Elizabeth
• The Stars are Fire, Shreve, Anita
• The Miracle on Monhegan Island, Kelly, Elizabeth
• Somebody to Love, Higgins, Kristin
• The Cider House Rules, Irving John
• The State We’re in: Maine Stories, Beattie, Ann

POETRY

MAINE 

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 

• The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls  
• The Harvest Moon
• Song of the Owl

Wesley McNair 

• The Faith Healer

Edna St. Vincent Millay 

• Renascense
• Afternoon on a Hill
• Ebb  
• Departure

Richard Blanco 

• The Island Within

Betsy Sholl 

• Back with the Quakers

NEW ENGLAND 

Robert Frost 

• The Aim was Song
• After Apple Picking

Henry David Thoreau 

• The Moon Now Rises to Her Absolute Rule

Jack Kerouac

•  The Bottoms of My Shoes