Adult & Teen Summer Reading Challenge 2026

Week Seven — The Nuclear Age

The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
Meet the Newmans by Jennifer Niven
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Briar Club by Kate Quinn
The Berlin Exchange by Joseph Kanon
When the Emperor was Divine by Julie Otsuka
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carre
11/22/63 by Stephen King
The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy
Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird
Countdown 1945 : The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days That Changed the World by Christopher Wallace
The Cold War: A New History by John Lewis Gaddis
Moonshot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon by Alan Shepard
Hidden Figures: The Untold True Story of Four African-American Women Who Helped Launch Our Nation Into Space by Margot Lee Shetterly
The End of the Cold War: 1985-1991 by Robert W. Service

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