2022: Art Starts at Your Library

Summer Reading Program 2022

ART STARTS AT YOUR LIBRARY | JUNE 1 - AUGUST 15

Celebrate the power of creativity, ideas, and expression with the 2022 Summer Reading Program.

Suggested Reading

Want more book ideas?

Shelf Help

Our librarian story squad can offer some reading suggestions just for you. Try our Shelf Help service and get a customized list of recommendations tailored to your tastes.

Find More Great Reads

Use your catalog account to create and share reading lists; follow friends (or Library staff) for their bookish updates; keep track of books you want to read; rate and review titles, and more.

'Book Bingo' on gameboard

Book Bingo

Looking for more ways to make the most of your Summer Reading? Explore a variety of lists in our catalog that highlight books and stories featuring all artistic things.

Made possible by these generous supporters

Missouri Secretary of State State Library logo
Neighborhood Tourist Development Fund Kansas City logo

Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
R. A. Long Foundation
Edward F. Swinney Trust

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Share your Summer Reading experiences!

Snap photos of the books you’re reading or post social media updates, plus track the latest Library happenings on our blog. Be sure to tag the Library in all your posts and use the hashtag #kcSummerReads.

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