Adult & Teen Summer Reading Challenge 2026

Week Five — The Renaissance

The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish
The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
Vatican Princess by C.W. Gortner
The King's Messenger by Susanna Kearsley
The Girl With the Pearl Earring by Tracey Chevalier
The Serpent and the Pearl by Kate Quinn
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Every Rising Sun by Jamila Ahmed
The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
Golden Hill: A Novel of Old New York by Francis Spufford

The History of the Renaissance World: From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Conquest of Constantinople by Susan Wise Bauer
The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts that Illuminated the Renaissance by Ross King
The Tigress of Forlì: Renaissance Italy's Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de Medici by Elizabeth Lev
The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance by Jim Al-Khalili
Making Haste From Babylon: The Mayflower Pilgrims and Their World : A New History by Nick Bunker
How to Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life by Ruth Goodman

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