June 2025

June 2025

June This or That Reading Challenge

An Audiobook

Check out these selections!

The Women by Kristin Hannah

Genre: Fiction

Description: In 1965, nursing student Frankie McGrath, after hearing the words “Women can be heroes, too,” impulsively joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows her brother to Vietnam where she is overwhelmed by the destruction of war, as well as the unexpected trauma of coming home to a changed and politically divided America.

None of This is True by Lisa Jewell

Genre: Crime/Thriller

Description: Lisa Jewell returns with a scintillating new psychological thriller about a woman who finds herself the subject of her own popular true-crime podcast.

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

Genre: Fantasy

Description: Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general—also known as her tough-as-talons mother—has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders. But when you’re smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away…because dragons don’t bond to “fragile” humans. They incinerate them.

The Teacher by Frieda McFadden

Genre: Thriller

Description: Something isn’t right at Caseham High School. Last year, the school was rocked by scandal: a teacher was accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a student. Now, Addie is a pariah and will do anything to get through the year. More than that, she’s desperate to keep the truth from coming to light. Evie, a colleague of the disgraced teacher, is horrified to find Addie in her class. She knows the girl can’t be trusted and soon realizes she’s being watched — which is dangerous, considering she’s hiding something from her husband. But each has secrets about what happened last year. And someone in this school will do anything to keep them silent.


A Book With an LGBTQIA+ Protagonist

Check out these selections!

The Fellowship of the Puzzlemakers by Samuel Burr

Genre: Fiction

Description: Raised by a group of eccentric enigmatologists, 20-something Clayton Summer, when the esteemed crossword compiler and main maternal presence in his life passes away, bestowing her final puzzle on him, embarks on a quest to uncover the secrets surrounding his birth, which will change him, and the Fellowship of Puzzlemakers, forever.

The Honey Witch by Sydney J. Shields

Genre: Fantasy

Description: The Honey Witch of Innisfree can never find true love. That is her curse to bear. But when a young woman who doesn’t believe in magic arrives on her island, sparks fly in this deliciously sweet debut novel of magic, hope, and love overcoming all.

I’ll Have What He’s Having by Adib Khorram

Genre: Romance

Description: Farzan Alavi may be looking for love, but after another disastrous break-up, he decides it’s time to (temporarily) throw in the towel. He plans to drown his sorrows at Kansas City’s newest winery. Only instead of spending a lonely night at the bar, he’s escorted to a table for one. There, the hot sommelier more than treats him like a VIP: the way he flirts with Farzan ignites a lust he didn’t think was possible. Only David Curtis isn’t flirting because he finds Farzan attractive (though, he definitely does think that). David thinks that Farzan Alavi is really Frank Allen, Kansas City’s most influential food critic.

Renovated to Death by Frank Anthony Polito

Genre: Crime

Description: Real-life domestic partners and stars and producers of the new hit reality home renovation show Domestic Partners, bestselling mystery author Peter “PJ” Penwell and actor JP Broadway are enjoying work and life in their sleepy Detroit suburb of Pleasant Woods—until a suspicious death makes an unscripted appearance… After a successful first season of Domestic Partners chronicling the renovation of their historic Craftsman Colonial, Peter and JP are taking on a renovation of a local Tudor Revival inherited by identical twin brothers Terry and Tom Cash. But linoleum floors and a pink-tiled bathroom aren’t the only unwelcome surprises awaiting inside the house!