As we prepare to celebrate the Congregational Library & Archives' 171st birthday on May 25, 2024, we are excited to share a birthday present from us to you: a first look at our 2024 Adult and Young Reader Summer Reading Lists.
Find more information on all 20 books, selected by CLA staff members, below. And join us throughout the summer for opportunities to share your summer reading progress with us.
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Adult Summer Reading List
Christianity and Comics: Stories We Tell about Heaven and Hell
Find it in a library near you.
The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet's Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence
Find it in a library near you.
Missionary Diplomacy: Religion and Nineteenth-Century American Foreign Relations
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Justifying Revolution: The American Clergy's Argument for Political Resistance, 1750-1776
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A Cotton Mather Reader
Find it at 14 Beacon. // Find it in a library near you.
Doomed Romance: Broken Hearts, Lost Souls, and Sexual Tumult in Nineteenth-Century America
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Good and Mad: Mainline Protestant Churchwomen, 1920-1980
Find it at 14 Beacon. // Find it in a library near you.
Founding 56 Digital Exhibition
Free to visit online anytime.
The Wordy Shipmates
Find it in a library near you.
Puritans at Play: Leisure and Recreation in Colonial New England
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Young Reader Summer Reading List
The Story of Pumpkin Pie
Find it at 14 Beacon. // Find it from our friends at Pilgrim Press. // Find it in a library near you.
The Very Oldest Pear Tree
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Miss Crandall's School for Young Ladies & Little Misses of Color
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Do Not Bring Your Dragon to the Library
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The Life and Times of Alexander Twilight
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Why Longfellow Lied: The Truth About Paul Revere's Midnight Ride
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My Name Is Phillis Wheatley: A Story of Slavery and Freedom
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Slug and Snail Search for Home
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History Smashers: The Mayflower
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God’s Blue Earth: Teaching Kids to Celebrate the Sacred Gifts of Water
Find it from our friends at Pilgrim Press. // Find it in a library near you.