Adult & Teen Summer Reading Challenge 2026

Week Two — Prehistoric Age

Raptor Red by Robert T. Bakker
Bones of the Earth by Michael Swanwick
Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean Auel
People of the Wolf by W. Michael Gear
Shaman by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Last Neanderthal by Claire Cameron
The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Paleontologist: A Novel by Luke Dumas
The Dinosaur Hunter by Homer H. Hickam
The Fossil Hunter by Tea Cooper
I Got Abducted by Aliens and Now I'm Trapped in a Rom-Com by Kimberly Lemming
The Dinosaur Feather by Sissel-Jo Gazan

Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds by Thomas Halliday
Dinosaurs Rediscovered: The Scientific Revolution in Paleontology by Michael J. Benton
The Lost World of the Dinosaurs: Uncovering the Secrets of the Prehistoric Age by Armin Schmitt
The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: an Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World by Riley Black
The Story of Birds: A New History from Their Dinosaur Origins to Today by Stephen Brusatte
Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America by Craig Childs

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