Adult & Teen Summer Reading Challenge 2026

Week Three — Ancient Civilizations

River God by Wilbur A. Smith
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Babylonia by Costanza Casati
There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
I, Claudius by Robert Graves
Stonehenge by Bernard Cornwell
The Wolf in the Whale by Jordanna Max Brodsky
People of the Longhouse by W. Michael Gear
Hawaii by James Michener
The Blessing Stone by Barbara Wood
Pompeii: A Novel by Robert Harris
Ruins by Lily Brooks-Dalton

Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization by Richard Miles
Hidden Cities: The Discovery and Loss of Ancient North American Civilization by Roger G. Kennedy
The Other Ancient Civilisations: Decoding Archaeology's Less Celebrated Cultures by Raven Todd DaSilva
The Mesopotamian Riddle: An Archaeologist, a Soldier, a Clergyman, and the Race to Decipher the World's Oldest Writing by Joshua Hammer
The Missing Thread: A Woman's History of the Ancient World by Daisy Dunn
Lost Cities, Ancient Tombs: 100 Discoveries that Changed the World by Ann R. Williams

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