Wednesday, June 21 is the summer solstice, the longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere. What to do on the longest day? Try reading some long books! Check out these suggestions of books longer than 500 pages - or even longer than 1000 pages:
Classics
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackery
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Newer Fiction
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
The Stand by Stephen King
Nonfiction
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
Inferno: The World at War, 1939-45 by Max Hastings
John Adams by David McCullough
Marie Antoinette: The Journey by Antonia Fraser
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns
Remember you can read books of any length for the Summer Reading Program! Kids, teens and adults can read and earn prizes and/or entries into prize raffles - another great way to spend those long summer days! Now through August 1.