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Young adult science fiction is some of the most action packed fiction that exists. Almost every single on this list is a wild ride through a new and interesting world, whether that be the dystopian future of our world, as in the ever-popular Hunger Games, it's distant past seen in Westerfeld's alternate history epic Leviathan, or distant planets like the landscape of Frank Herbert's Dune. That's not to say that these books are simply glossy, popcorn action books. Many of these novels tackle some surprisingly deep issues.

Suzanne Young's The Program is an emotionally gripping tale about the power of memory and the ethics of manipulating those memories.

The Giver deals with the price that a utopian society costs; House of the Scorpion talks about the ethics of cloning.

In addition to the normal trials of just being a teen, YA sci-fi protagonists also face incredible odds, whether it's surviving an alien invasion like Cassie in The 5th Wave or fighting against a corrupt government, as seen in Unwind, or even just trying to remember who they are like Jenna in The Adoration of Jenna Fox.

There's something for everyone in this list whether you're new to the genre or a seasoned veteran.

If you're a fan of romance, check out All Our Yesterdays, a dystopian time-travel romance.

If you like robots, make sure that you read Cinder, a retelling of the classic fairytale Cinderella with cyborgs and aliens.

If space travel is your thing, try Heinlein's time-honored, Have Space Suit, Will Travel.

If you love video games: Video game fanatics will flock to titles like Ready Player One and Little Brother.

If you're a fan of epic, space opera sci-fi, Dune is right up your alley, and if you're new to the genre, Ready Player One and Zoe's Tale offer a great jumping off point.

In any case, get ready for a great ride because these books are worlds of fun!

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Young adult science fiction is some of the most action packed fiction that exists. Almost every single on this list is a wild ride through a new and interesting world, whether that be the dystopian future of our world, as in the ever-popular Hunger Games, it's distant past seen in Westerfeld's alternate history epic Leviathan, or distant planets like the landscape of Frank Herbert's Dune.

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PW's editors have selected a wide variety of summer books for all tastes. In our staff picks, you'll find Lincoln Child's thriller featuring werewolves in the Adirondacks, Lydia Davis's translation of Marcel Proust's letters to his neighbor, Chiara Barzini's coming-of-age novel set against the 1994 Northridge earthquake, and many more. For deeper dives into fiction, mystery/thriller, romance, sci-fi, nonfiction, and children's, check out our category picks for even more great summer books. Happy reading!

Full Wolf Moon

Lincoln Child (Doubleday)

I've enjoyed Relic and other books in Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child's bestselling thriller series featuring FBI agent Aloysius Pendergast. I got a real kick out of Preston's Blasphemy, about a particle physicist's attempts to prove the existence of God. Now I'm curious to try one of Child's solo efforts, the fifth entry in his series starring paranormal investigator Jeremy Logan, which PW starred. Werewolves in the Adirondacks-sounds like fun to me. -Peter Cannon, senior editor

Kintu

Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi (Transit)

I recommend Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi's Kintu, a sprawling, striking epic that traces a curse on one Ugandan family's bloodline through the centuries. It reminded me of some of my favorite long novels from the past few years, including Marlon James's A Brief History of Seven Killings, Eka Kurniawan's Beauty Is a Wound, and Annie Proulx's Barkskins. -Gabe Habash, deputy reviews editor

City of Miracles

Robert Jackson Bennett (Broadway)

Bennett concludes his Divine Cities trilogy ( City of Stairs, City of Blades) with a stunning and heartbreaking tale of sacrifice amid magic and spy craft. The bittersweet ending, which elegantly and definitively caps off the novel and the trilogy, will have readers reaching for the tissues.

Beach House Cookbook: Easy Breezy Recipes with a Southern Accent

Mary Kay Andrews (St. Martin's)

Atlanta-based bestselling novelist Andrews ( The Weekenders, Deep Dish) collects recipes inspired by casual Southern coastal cuisine and beach-house living.

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I may have mentioned recently that my book, "The Ideas Industry," came out this week. You should buy it - many people are saying it's a very good book! But the hard-working staff here at Spoiler Alerts acknowledges that other books are probably worth reading as well - you know, in those short breaks when you can tear yourself away from my book, which, as I may have mentioned previously, is called "The Ideas Industry." So here are the books I am looking forward to reading in a quiet nook somewhere this spring:

Ryan Avent, "The Wealth of Humans: Work, Power, and Status in the Twenty-first Century." It is really, really difficult to write about economics in an accessible and lucid manner. Avent does so in this book. He examines how technological change is simultaneously disrupting how humans work in the modern economy and generating more inequality than economic growth. Avent's book came out last year, but has just been released in paperback. Both experts and novices about the state of the economy will profit from reading it.

David Callahan, "The Givers: Wealth, Power, and Philanthropy in a new Gilded Age." Part of my argument in " The Ideas Industry" is centered around changes in the nature of philanthropy. A new class of benefactors is exercising considerable influence over a wider array of public policy issues. A whole crop of intellectuals are eager to advise these folks, and they ain't going to speak truth to money. Callahan's book looks at these new philanthropists, what guides their thinking, and what this means for public policy. For a shorter look at Callahan's arguments, check out Alana Samuels's article in the Atlantic last week.

Tyler Cowen, "The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream." For years, Cowen has focused in small books on the growth slowdown in the United States. This one proffers an interesting and uncomfortable explanation for why this has happened: Americans have developed a "matching culture" in which we care about avoiding change. We rely on algorithms to help pick our music preferences, our television watching, our college choices and even whom we should marry. This leads to personal comfort but a decreased incentive to innovate. This sounds like an uncomfortable argument that is nonetheless worth reading.

Seva Gunitsky, "Aftershocks: Great Powers and Domestic Reforms in the Twentieth Century." What is the link between great power transitions and domestic regime changes? According to Gunitsky, the relationship is tighter than we realize. This book argues that the rise of new great powers creates myriad opportunities for them to shape the domestic political institutions of other states. The result is waves - and then counter-waves - of regime types that mimic the rising hegemon. This helps to explain the waves of democratization and de-democratization in the 20th century. I'll leave the implications of Gunitsky's argument for this century to your imagination.

Phoebe Maltz Bovy, "The Perils of 'Privilege': Why Injustice Can't Be Solved by Accusing Others of Advantage." There are topics of public discourse so smothered in toxicity that even broaching them seems foolhardy. Discussions of "privilege" fall squarely within this intellectual minefield. This does not deter Maltz-Bovy from fearlessly deconstructing the emergence of this concept and what it means for the way Americans talk about politics and culture. For a taste of her argument, check out this excerpt from the New Republic that appeared last month.

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Nothing about 2017 looks familiar, not even its lineup of hot summer books. Who could have predicted that the season's most gossipy read would be about a presidential candidate, not a movie star? That the standard ideas of espionage that fuel most spy thrillers suddenly seem out of date? That one of the most dependable hitmakers back this summer has been dead since 2008?

It's a weird new world for readers, and below is a list for navigating it: 16 books to look out for this summer, in no particular order.

ELEANOR OLIPHANT IS COMPLETELY FINE By Gail Honeyman. 327 pages. Pamela Dorman/Viking. $26. This satisfyingly quirky novel by a Scottish author has something that's become surprisingly valuable for popular fiction: the endorsement of Reese Witherspoon, who has managed to out-Oprah Oprah. Witherspoon is on a winning streak with the books she has optioned for film and television, which include "Wild," "Gone Girl," "Big Little Lies," "The Dry" (a terrific small-town Australian thriller she's developing) and now this charmer about the misadventures of its socially awkward title character. Eleanor is a loner for obvious reasons. "If I'm ever unsure as to the correct course of action, I'll think, 'What would a ferret do?' or 'How would a salamander respond to this situation?'" Eleanor explains to the reader. "Invariably, I find the right answer."

DRAGON TEETH By Michael Crichton. 295 pages. Harper/HarperCollins Publishers. $28.99. A totally unexpected flashback to the days when Crichton was central to the entertainment world. He still is, what with his "Westworld" on television and a sequel to the 2015 spinoff "Jurassic World" due next year. "Dragon Teeth" combines those two Crichton ideas, dinosaurs and the Wild West, in a single book - and it's a real one discovered by his widow in his archives, rather than a book written by someone using the Crichton name. He had first referred to it in a 1974 letter. When he died in 2008, he wasn't ready to publish it, but had been returning to it over the course of 15 years. If you like a good Crichton paleo-action story incorporating real historical figures, you'll like this one. And look closely at the cover: Atop the dino's giant head, a 19th-century horse and rider trot along.

SHATTERED: INSIDE HILLARY CLINTON'S DOOMED CAMPAIGN By Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes. 464 pages. Crown. $28. This is the summer book most likely to be read inside the cover of something else. There's something guilt-inducing about even wanting to know exactly how the Clinton campaign imploded. Its readers are less likely to be vengeful Hillary-haters than baffled voters wondering how things could go so wrong. "Shattered" promises chapter and verse on that, and it ruefully delivers.

RICH PEOPLE PROBLEMS By Kevin Kwan. 398 pages. Doubleday. $27.95. The Singapore-born Kwan was relatively unknown when he came along with the uproarious satire "Crazy Rich Asians" four years ago. Who would read his outrageous stories of characters who reeled off the brand names of everything they wore or owned, and constantly tried to one-up one another? The answer turned out to be everybody. Kwan followed it up with "China Rich Girlfriend" in 2015, and now "Rich People Problems" ends the trilogy. Even if the problems of the wealthy draw fewer fun-seekers than they used to, Kwan deserves to attract another large audience.

THE FORCE By Don Winslow. 482 pages. William Morrow/HarperCollins Publishers. $27.99. (June 20) Winslow, the West Coast star who writes so atmospherically and authoritatively about surfers, drug dealers and horrific drug-related crime, shifts his focus to the South Bronx in his latest book. "The Force" is a stunner of a cop novel, with dialogue, gritty New York setting and moral pincers all in the service of a devastating plot. Clearly invigorated by the success of his previous novel, "The Cartel" (2015), Winslow weaves a complex story around a detective who wants to stay clean even though he's already dirty.

THE CHICKENSHIT CLUB: WHY THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT FAILS TO PROSECUTE EXECUTIVES By Jesse Eisinger. 400 pages. Simon & Schuster. $28. (July 11) The title of this nonfiction account of the government's failure to prosecute white-collar criminals was inspired by the former F.B.I. director and current newsmaker James Comey. He was the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York and a former federal prosecutor when he gave a speech to prosecutors working under him, asking how many of them had ever had an acquittal or a hung jury. If they hadn't, Comey said, they were members of the above-mentioned club: too chicken-hearted to take on the really tough stuff. This book provides a history of how, in the opinion of its Pulitzer Prize-winning author, the Justice Department has gotten soft.

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THE DINNER PARTY: AND OTHER STORIES By Joshua Ferris. 246 pages. Little, Brown. $26. Everything comes mordantly alive in the priceless imagination of Ferris, who can describe an onion being diced and think of the other vegetables near it as "bright and doomed." Here's a welcome chance to read stories that have appeared in publications from The New Yorker to Prairie Schooner, and his perverse short narratives do not disappoint. If you're looking for happy endings, go somewhere else. Ferris's view of the human condition falls somewhere between Woody Allen's and Franz Kafka's. A Ferris story can merrily pave the way from bad to worse.

WE ARE NEVER MEETING IN REAL LIFE: ESSAYS By Samantha Irby. 275 pages. Vintage. $15.95. The second book of essays from this frank and madly funny blogger includes pieces titled "You Don't Have to Be Grateful for Sex," "I'm in Love and It's Boring," "A Case for Remaining Indoors" and "The Real Housewives of Kalamazoo." Her opening essay alone is enough to make this collection a winner. It starts with a fake application to become a "Bachelorette" contestant, and then details how the show would be different if she were on it, including the wardrobes. ("I don't wear evening gowns and booty shorts every day. I wear daytime pajamas and orthopedic shoes, and lately I have become a big fan of the 'grandpa cardigan.'") A sidesplitting polemicist for the most awful situations.

MAGPIE MURDERS By Anthony Horowitz. 496 pages. Harper/HarperCollins Publishers. $27.99. (June 6) Take a perfect faux version of an Agatha Christie Hercule Poirot book. Call the detective in it Atticus Pünd. Make Pünd's creator a writer named Alan Conway. Write a full mid-20th-century book starring Pünd called "Magpie Murders." Then wrap this fake novel in a "real" present-day one in which Conway dies, and you have the mystery lovers' buffet that is Horowitz's latest novel. "Magpie Murders" is a double puzzle for puzzle fans, who don't often get the classicism they want from contemporary thrillers.

NO ONE IS COMING TO SAVE US By Stephanie Powell Watts. 371 pages. Ecco/HarperCollins Publishers. $26.99. Set in North Carolina, Watts's book envisions a backwoods African-American version of "The Great Gatsby." The circumstances of her characters are vastly unlike Fitzgerald's, and those differences are what make this novel so moving. No frivolity or superficiality here. JJ Ferguson, the dreamer who returns home to woo his now-married sweetheart by building a big house, is positively pragmatic by Gatsby standards.

THINGS THAT HAPPENED BEFORE THE EARTHQUAKE By Chiara Barzini. 320 pages. Doubleday. $26.95. (Aug. 15) An Italian teenage girl shows up in 1990s Southern California in this culturally astute, strong-voiced novel. Barzini, truly a writer to watch, positions herself astride both American and Sicilian cultures, and packs this visceral book with strong sensations from both. The novel and its heroine, Eugenia, are deeply seductive.

EVERY NIGHT I DREAM OF HELL By Malcolm Mackay. 291 pages. Mulholland Books/Little, Brown. $26. Mackay's hard-boiled books set in Scotland aren't well known in the United States, but there's a reason those who know them love them. His Glasgow Trilogy is classic, and this new book brings forth Nate Colgan, an earlier Mackay character, to narrate. The subject is organized crime, but it's the author's blunt eloquence that matters. Don't pick up a Mackay book unless you've got spare time. They're habit-forming.

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THE CHANGELING By Victor LaValle. 431 pages. Spiegel & Grau. $28. (June 13) This novel is afflicted with an unfortunate Anthony Doerr blurb calling LaValle a mix of Haruki Murakami and Ralph Ellison. That just proves how fiercely it defies categorization. Written as a self-proclaimed "fairy tale" in a punchy, inviting style, Mr. LaValle's haunting tale weaves a mesmerizing web around fatherhood, racism, horrific anxieties and even "To Kill a Mockingbird." And the backdrop for this rich phantasmagoria? The boroughs of New York.

THE JERSEY BROTHERS: A MISSING NAVAL OFFICER IN THE PACIFIC AND HIS FAMILY'S QUEST TO BRING HIM HOME By Sally Mott Freeman. 588 pages. Simon & Schuster. $28. The subtitle of Mott's first foray into highly dramatic history says it all. Her book is liable to break the hearts of "Unbroken" fans, and it's all true. Happy Father's Day. You're welcome.

THE DESTROYERS By Christopher Bollen. 480 pages. Harper/HarperCollins Publishers. $27.99. (June 27) Beautiful people visiting glamorous places, being wicked enough to bring Patricia Highsmith to mind. It just isn't summer without this kind of globe-trotting glamour to read about, especially when most of it is set in the Aegean. Bollen is stylish enough to know what sells, and happy to write sentences like: "Marisela single-handedly rendered my cherished porn sites irrelevant." Escapism, as calculating as it gets.

THE LEAVERS By Lisa Ko. 338 pages. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. $25.95. This wrenching and all-too-topical debut novel picks up the life of an 11-year-old American-born boy on the day his mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant, disappears. As with the recent film "Lion," he has adoptive white parents in his life and a missing mother on his mind. Ko uses the voices of both the boy and his birth mother to tell a story that unfolds in graceful, realistic fashion and defies expectations. Though it won last year's PEN/Bellwether Award for Socially Engaged Fiction, Ko's book is more far-reaching than that.

And lastly, notes on a couple of additional titles: John A. Farrell's biography "Richard Nixon: The Life" is a great read that will come up in conversation frequently and possibly win prizes. And for Lee Child fans, his previously published Jack Reacher stories and a new novella have been collected in "No Middle Name." Its cover depicts a cup of coffee, and if you've read about Reacher you know why. If not, get started.

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Introducing a piece on some of the best young adult books coming out in 2017 is a delightful challenge: There's no overarching trend, no genre eclipsing all other genres, no theme so prevalent as to even call it a theme - and that's a good thing. There is truly something for everyone this year, whether that reader enjoys things quirky and magical, extra-real real, wild, or world-building. The books, they keep on coming, and these 17 are just the beginning of what promises to make 2017 an exciting year for YA lovers.

by Ann Brashares

Summertime. A beach house. A guy and a girl whose lives touch one another's in countless ways even though they've never met. Sasha and Ray (her dad was once married to Ray's mom, and they had three daughters together) are both part of blended families, neither of which wants to give up a memory-filled beach house on Long Island. Brashares, with her trademark heart, tells the tale of lives intersecting, and the ripple effect that follows. Beach reads might not get better than this.
(On Sale: 4/25/17)

by Cale Dietrich

Set within a secret organization that cultivates teen spies - each called a "Love Interest" because forging intimate bonds is the way to get the information a spy needs - Dietrich's book is smooth and stylish on its face, but begs deeper questions. The story focuses on Caden and Dylan, two boys living outside their spy school for the first time ever, and both with sights set on the same girl, someone crucial to the mission. Whoever doesn't get the girl will perish but the more interesting question comes when both young men experience feelings they weren't trained to have. Dietrich's debut is a powerful entry into the LGBTQ YA canon.
(On Sale: 5/16/17)

by Sarah Dessen

YA superstar supreme Dessen's 13th novel looks to be a lucky one. The frothy, funny tale (still brimming with Dessen's tendency to evoke "all the feels") centers on Louna, daughter of famous wedding planner Natalie Barrett. Louna lives in ballrooms, on beaches, and in fancy mansions, witnessing every vow and toast under the sun. But she's also distrustful of the whole "happily-ever-after" ending, and has her own sad love story in her past. So when she meets Ambrose, a serial dater, of course she keeps a safe distance, and of course he decides that he must have her. This is definitely one romance lovers will say "I do" to.
(On Sale: 6/6/17)

by Marissa Meyer

This new trilogy from Meyer (The Lunar Chronicles) promises to be the best of all possible doozies. It centers on a town with two schools: The slightly uppity Morris Academy, where superheroes are bred, and the less impressive Gatlon School for the Gifted, which seems to turn out minions and sidekicks. The early excitement for this one on Goodreads includes lots of all caps: "SUPERHEROES. VIGILANTES. VILLAINS. CRIME!" (The accompanying GIF reactions are harder to explain, but many include ecstatic screaming.)
(On Sale: 11/7/17)

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For this year's Summer Book Study, we are going to do something a little different.
Instead of reading a book about education like we did in 2014, 2015, and 2016, we are going to delve into young adult books.

Three reasons for this: One, I feel so far behind on young adult books. I have three kids all heading into that age group, and I want to know what books they're reading and what to recommend to them.

Two, I think all teachers of middle and high school-not just language arts teachers-can benefit from reading YA books. These books give us a fantastic way to connect and build relationships with our students. If you teach much younger students, I hope you will also find reason to join us, whether it be to connect with a young adult in your life outside of school or just get familiar with what your current students will be reading in just a few more years.

And three? It's summer! I love being able to read over the summer without having to take notes or highlight passages. If you've spent any time at all on this site, you know I can geek out on theory and methodology like nobody's business, but I just wanted to try something different this summer.

About the Selections

To choose the books, I got a ton of help this past week from readers over on my Facebook page: You suggested titles ( see the full list here) and voted for your favorites. Then I took that list and whittled it down to five.

It was SO HARD to pick just five.

But I think I have a good list here: diverse in more ways than one, representative of lots of different genres and perspectives, and pretty meaty in general. I'm excited to dig in.
Some disclaimers:

You may not like all of these choices; pick and choose as you like. I hope something on the list appeals to you and you can join us.

I have not personally read all of these books yet; therefore, there may be some land mines I'm not aware of. At this point, I am not ready to recommend these as books to use in your classroom. We are going to read and talk about them together, as adults, and we'll talk about how, when, and to which students we might offer the books.

With the above in mind, some of these books may not be appropriate for your students. Some contain language and situations that might even bother you. It's always a good idea to pre-screen books when possible (or share this duty with other teachers) before making titles available to students. Amazon reviews and Common Sense Media are two good places to learn more about the books from people who have read them.

How the Book Club Will Work

First of all, you don't need to do anything to "join." This is open to anyone; no sign-up, nothing.

Each of the five books is getting its own separate page. Click the "join the discussion" buttons to see these.

To keep things simple, I am going to set five discussion dates; one for each book (the dates are on the buttons below each book). On those dates, I will post my own reflection video on that book's page. In the comments section, you will be invited share your own thoughts as well. The book pages will stay open for as long as this site exists, so if you don't finish the book by the "deadline," no problem; the discussion will be waiting for you whenever you're ready.
What you should do now:
(1) Get copies of whatever books you're interested in reading. Click on each book below and you'll go straight to its Amazon page.

(2) Mark your calendar for the discussion dates and try to have the books read by those dates.

(3) Visit each book's individual page on the discussion date. I'll announce it on my Facebook page and in my weekly Sunday email. If you're not on my email list, get on it here!

The Hate U Give
Angie Thomas

Join the Conversation on June 14

From the moment I started talking about doing a YA book study, this title was mentioned over and over again. So it came as no surprise when it got the second-highest number of votes. In addition to the high demand for this book, I also chose it because it looks like it will be a challenging, honest look at the racially-charged events of the past few years and how those impact our communities and our students. My hope is that everyone will read this one, especially those who have found themselves feeling conflicted about the "Black Lives Matter" movement.

It should be a good conversation.

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Sherman Alexie

Join the Conversation on June 28

This is the only book in the collection that I have actually read before, and even though I loved it, I wanted to pick five books I'd never read. But you changed my mind: This title got more votes than anything else on the list. And since it focuses on a population that doesn't get a lot of attention in literature, and because the protagonist is male, and because it contains one of my all-time favorite quotes from a book ever, I have decided to include it. I'm excited to read it again and to hear what you think.

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
Marjane Satrapi

Join the Conversation on July 12

This book adds brings variety to our list on two levels: First, it is a graphic novel. Anytime I have conversations about graphic novels in the classroom, this book comes up, so I have wanted to read it for a while now. Second, the protagonist is a young Iranian girl who describes her childhood during "years that saw the overthrow of the Shah's regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, and the devastating effects of war with Iraq." I'm expecting to learn a whole lot from this book.

Counting by 7s
Holly Goldberg Sloan

Join the Conversation on July 26

With so many of our students struggling to cope with personal challenges and losses, I thought a book that shares how one girl finds joy after grief would be a worthwhile read. As far as I can tell, this one is the least likely to contain objectionable or mature content, and I wanted to make sure I included at least one title that was suitable for upper elementary and middle school students.

Counting by 7s is the story of a highly gifted girl whose adoptive parents are killed in a car accident. These lines from the book's description definitely grabbed me: "The triumph of this book is that it is not a tragedy. This extraordinarily odd, but extraordinarily endearing, girl manages to push through her grief. Her journey to find a fascinatingly diverse and fully believable surrogate family is a joy and a revelation to read."

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Mary Roach

Join the Conversation on August 9

This one came as a complete surprise to me. When I saw it pop up on the list of suggestions, I kind of shrugged and thought it might make an interesting option, but I doubted it would get many votes. Well, it did. It got a lot of them. And although this is not labeled as a young adult book, I got to thinking about how it could be the kind of book that a kid would read and think, Whoa, I never knew books existed about stuff like this! It could seriously turn a non-reader into a reader. Plus, we have no nonfiction here, so this adds another level of variety to our summer offerings.

I can't wait to get started. I am going to order my books right now. If you have any questions, ask them below. If not, I'll see you on June 14 for our first discussion. Happy reading!!

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From tech to self-help via poetry, fiction and graphic novels, here are the books you need to read.

What's the one book you're always thrilled to discover that someone else has read? We posed that question to TED speakers - and, well, they geeked out, offering us a list of hidden gems that wouldn't typically crop up on a holiday shopping list. Read on ...

Literature

by Isaac Asimov
"Asimov was a masterful fringe thinker, and this first book in the Foundation series shows just how attuned he was to possible and plausible future scenarios. Although it's 50 years old, Foundation is especially provocative reading given our current state of world affairs - in order to save humankind and the vast knowledge we have accumulated, the main character gathers the smartest thinkers and forms a secret society. But that doesn't go exactly as planned, either."
- Recommended by Amy Webb

by Charlotte Brontë
"I read this when I was eight. And I've read it a few times since, and watched it onscreen too. Nothing dulls it or stops me loving small, plain Jane, a Yorkshire lass like me, who had more spirit and fire in her 150 years ago than I probably do today, with all my modern freedoms and privilege. I love the story because it is a tale of a woman becoming free, while still being a classic love story. I mean, there's even a madwoman in the attic. But I love Jane because I love Charlotte too: a woman who triumphed in a deeply patriarchal world, getting published and getting famous, while living in a cold, glum vicarage on the edge of the moors. Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights is seen as a trickier, better book by many, because they are fooled by the romance of Jane Eyre. Look behind that, and you find a character as complex and wonderful as any Cathy or Heathcliff, in little, plain Jane, who would always 'rather be happy than dignified.'"
- Recommended by Rose George

Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot by Mark Vanhoenacker
"I've run the gamut on my personal flying experiences. Used to love flying, then really didn't like it, then was afraid of it, and now I enjoy it again. Skyfaring is a poetic and beautiful tome on the wonders of flying and the experiences of sailing through the air from one place to another. The author, a current 747 pilot, has such an effortless way with words. I've highlighted more great lines in this book than any other in the past few years. If you love how words can connect ideas, feelings and your imagination, you'll love this book."
- Recommended by Jason Fried

Jimmy Bluefeather by Kim Heacox
"This brilliant first novel contains hundreds of sentences that read like sheer poetry. The writing is incredibly beautiful. Almost every paragraph gifts us some stunning turn of phrase that made me stop and savor not only the words but also the wisdom. The characters seem like people we've known; they ring true, and feel vivid. The biggest illusion of the book is its seeming effortlessness, like something that had merely waited to be born whole. It's a tremendous achievement."
- Recommended by Carl Safina

Tech

Where Wizards Stay Up Late by Katie Hafner
"It's the remarkable and rarely told story of the people who created the internet. For all its ubiquity and importance in the modern world, we tend to forget that the internet was the result of imagination, hard work and remarkable feats of engineering from a relatively small group of brilliant people. One day the people behind the first networked computing in the late 1960s and early 1970s might be held in the same regard as Fleming, Faraday or Edison. Where Wizards Stay Up Late tells their story in meticulous (and occasionally quite funny - such as the very first word ever transmitted online, which was 'lo' before the system crashed) detail. Anyone who is interested in where the internet came from, and why it was designed like it was - which really should be all of us - must read this book."
Recommended by Jamie Bartlett

by Steve Lohr
"There's so much hype out there about 'big data,' and in my work atWired and now at Iodine I've been responsible for some share of it. Lohr's book thankfully discerns the real power - and limitations - of data-driven decisions. He finds the humanity in the subject, and makes a strong case that data is only going to be an ever-more powerful force in business and society, for good and ill."
- Recommended by Thomas Goetz

Science

Business and Politics

Graphic Novels and Picture Books

Justice

My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass
"'No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.' To me, this quote perfectly illustrates the effect that slavery had on those who were raised to uphold its tenets. That a system can be a detriment even to those that may benefit from it I find incredibly poignant even in today's society. It's so important that we recognize the implications of our beliefs both in how they affect ourselves as well as others. My Bondage and My Freedom not only taught me about the cruel reality of slavery but also showed that in the most depraved systems humanity will seek to reach its potential no matter what obstacles are placed in its path."
- Recommended by Zak Ebrahim

Arts and Architecture

Biographies and Memoirs

Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan
"Sometimes I just want to read a book that makes me want to quit my job and travel the world to look for adventures. This is that kind of book. Framed in his lifelong addiction to surfing, Finnegan writes raw and beautifully about growing up as a haole in Hawaii, coming of age and exploring the world in search of waves and purpose, and later the complex question of balancing family, work and hours spent doing what you love the most. He is also one of the very few writers around who is able to explain the often absurd dedication and driving addiction surfers have for breaking waves, without getting tangled up in clichés and at the same time making it understandable for a wider audience."
- Recommended by Anders Fjellberg

Self-Help

Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert
"Forget what you think about Eat, Pray, Love. Gilbert has a phenomenal lens on how creativity really works. Throughout the book, she reminds you that if you take creativity off a precious pedestal and just keep working on something, magic does happen."
- Recommended by Rachel Botsman

After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory by Alasdair MacIntyre
Spheres of Justice: A Defense of Pluralism and Equality by Michael Walzer
"I'd offer two books. They are masterful works of moral philosophy that have changed the way I think about justice, work and virtue. MacIntyre is not an easy read, but these two books changed my life."
- Recommended by Barry Schwartz

Poetry

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I am having a hard time processing the fact that I now need to make a reading list for 7th grade! When I started making book list, my child was a wee thing! But I digress. This 7th grade summer reading list is chock full of interesting books that will keep your kid's eyeballs off his phone and his nose in a book!

As always, I've created an eclectic book list, with a hefty dose of titles featuring diverse protagonists and experiences. I've also included a must read non-fiction book for 7th graders. (Note: book covers and titles are affiliate links.)

More summer reading for 7th graders:

Scar Island by Dan Gemeinhart will remind readers of Lord of the Flies, only with a less disturbing outcome. A freak ( and I mean freak!) accident leaves all the adults of Slabhenge Reformatory School for Troubled Boys dead, the boys look forward to finally getting away from the wretched place of misery. But a few of the boys decide they would prefer a few days alone on the island before coming under the thumb of adults again. As you can imagine, things go awry in the power vacuum, and secrets previously kept hidden are revealed. It is a very compelling read and your child may have a hard time putting it down.

MORE: 14 Novels in Verse for Kids

Lowriders in Space by Cathy Camper, illustrated by Raul the Third. You might not think that a space adventure would easily combine with Mexican car culture. Well, you'd be wrong! Lowriders is great fun and has a good message about working together and friendship. Lupe Impala, El Chavo Flapjack, and Elirio Malaria are a great team when it comes to fixing cars. Together they enter a contest to turn a hunk of junk into the best car in the solar system. This was a great one for my son who is starting to learn Spanish. A glossary in the back helps kids with the Spanish words sprinkled throughout the text.
MORE: Even more 7th grade summer reading book lists: Graphic novels for 4-8th grade

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Reading is a true passion of mine, and I make it an integral part of my high school English classroom. Ask any of my students, and they will tell you I know a lot about books. I have to, for if I didn't, I don't think my passion would be as contagious. Now that we are toward the end of the school year, many of my students "know their books" as well. Below are just some of my students' current favorites:

Imagine a world where death has been conquered. Now anyone can be revived and saved, no matter what they do to themselves. The world, however, still has death, and scythes are the only ones who can deliver it. Citra and Rowan and two teens will are chosen to become apprentices to Scythe Faraday. Some may look at this as a way out from being "gleaned" by a scythe, but the more they learn, the more they see that being a scythe is a lot harder than it looks.

This book was pure genius, and Neal Shusterman at his best. I can't keep this title on my shelves.

Cassie O'Malley is anxious to turn 18, which happens soon. Only then will she finally be able to escape the mental institution her mother shoved her in over two years before. Cassie was pathetic in her mother's eyes, yet all Cassie continued to desire was her mother's attention and love. As Cassie grew, she learned that she was utterly alone. Her father didn't have the guts to stand up to his wife, and Cassie's brother Matthew got all the attention. By the time Cassie leaves the mental institution, she knows she needs to take college as a fresh start. Will that be possible though, with her mother lurking around every corner?

This was a difficult read, but an amazing and unforgettable one. Kerry Kletter's writing is beautiful and raw, dripping with emotion at every turn. I couldn't put it down, and neither can my students!

Fabiola Toussaint and her mother want a better life. As the novel opens, they are flying from Haiti to Detroit, Michigan to live with her mother's sister. Unfortunately, things don't go as planned, and Fabiola's mother is detained. Fabiola has to navigate the new world she lives in by watching her three cousins and aunt, who live on the corner of American Street and Joy Road. She sees the have a lot of money. How? Fabiola's Aunt Jo doesn't go to work, but instead stays in her room all day. Her one cousin, Donna, a true beauty, dates Dray, who gives her all the jewelry and clothes she wants. Donna's twin Pri, the brawn, who is the exactly opposite of Donna. Then there is Chantal, who is the oldest and the brains of the sisters. Together they are the Three Bees. They make sure no one messes with their cousin. At first, Fabiola just wants good grades and her mother back in her life, but soon she finds that she is getting into trouble on her own.

American Street is a shocking, yet amazing, novel. I loved it, and shared it immediately with my students. Now I can't keep my two copies on my shelves.

Nicola Yoon's first novel, Everything, Everything , was about Madeline, who had a beautiful spirit and sense of humor. Yoon obviously has a knack for creating memorable characters. The Sun Is Also a Star made me fall in love with main characters Daniel and Natasha. Both are teens struggling with very different family issues when they meet one day in New York City. At first, I liked them for different reasons. Daniel was full of optimism and had a strong belief in fate, despite what it made Natasha think of him. He believed the universe brought them together. Natasha, who loved her grunge music and science, had a tough time believing in fate, but she saw something in Daniel that made her trust him. They were so different, but as their love began to grow, I began rooting for them too. Though Natasha and her family were being deported that very day, I began having that same hope that Daniel always believed in: I wanted them to find a way. My fans of Everything, Everything are now falling in love with The Sun Is Also a Star , and you will too.

In 2044, the real world has gone to hell, for the people in it spend the majority of their time in the OASIS. This virtual world enables people to have the life they desire, but it comes at a price: people become obsessed and spend all of their time there. When the creator of the OASIS, the genius James Halliday, passes away, a new game awaits all avatars. Whoever finds the three keys will win the Easter Egg: Halliday's fortune. Wade Watts is one that of many people that wants to win. When he uses his avatar Parzival to find the first key, he instantly becomes part of an intense hunt that everyone is either watching or participating in. As Parzival attempts to win, he meets Art3mis, Aech, Daito, and Shoto, his biggest competitors. Throughout this intense treasure hunt, Ernest Cline weaves in tons of 1980s pop culture references that add a ton of humor.

I wish I would have read this book when it first came out. I know I would have hooked many more of my reluctant male readers. So many have already fallen in love with it this year.

Two boys, Rashad and Quinn, are both there that night. Rashad was almost beaten to death, and Quinn watched it happen. This book tells their stories and how their community of Springfield reacted. I incorporated All American Boys into a reading unit this year, and many students chose to read it then. Many students who didn't read it then are choosing to read it now. This book is powerful. This book will make people think. This book can make people change.

Forever. That's what all teenagers hope for that first time they fall in love. In Judy Blume's , main characters Katherine and Michael believe exactly that after meeting at a party. They begin an intense romantic relationship that ends up having to go through some tough times. Will their love last forever like the planned?

Judy Blume is still making my students' favorite lists after all these years, and why not? Her stories are timeless, and most definitely needed. My students see themselves, or their siblings, or their friends in her books.

Eden is a sweet, innocent girl who is looking forward to starting high school. Her older brother, who is her best friend, is now in college, so she misses him and his best friend, Kevin. Kevin has always been a member of the family, but not anymore for Eden. The book opens with Eden waking up the morning after Kevin sneaks into her room and rapes her. He threatens her, saying he will kill her if she says anything. So she doesn't. The rest of the book is about Eden's four years of high school, and how she struggles to hold her life together. She becomes a shell of her former self, and begins leading a destructive life. Who will save her, if she is unable to save herself?

I picked up this novel because so many of my students flew through it. Now I understand why. The book is shows the reality of what sexual assault can do to a person.

Meet Ryan Dean West. He is a 14-year-old junior who is stuck in Opportunity Hall, which is where all the troublemakers are. Ryan Dean is not a troublemaker, but somehow trouble always seems to find him. He is the winger on the school rugby team, and in love with a girl who sees him as a great friend. will make you laugh out loud one moment, cringe the next, and then leave you heartbroken in the end. All of your emotions will come out while reading this one, and you'll be glad you did.

Since came out in 2013, I have had to replace a few copies of it. This book has gotten students to read who truly believed that hated it. This book will be forever loved in my classroom.

16-year-old Starr Carter may live in a poor neighborhood called Garden Heights, but that doesn't mean her classmates at Williamson Prep need to know that side of her. Starr is one of the few black students at Williamson and does all she can to be "Williamson Starr" there. Then one night she sees one of her best friends, Khalil, at a party. The two end up leaving together after shots are fired, and Khalil offers to drive her home. Not more than a few minutes later a cop pulls them over, and before Starr knows what happened, Khalil is dead and he was unarmed. What follows is the aftermath, and Starr is right in the thick of it. She always said she would speak up in a situation like this, but can she now? Will it even make a difference?

What a powerful story. Angie Thomas's debut is a must-read that is needed in every classroom. Teachers need to read it with their students. Students need to bring it home and share it with their parents. I have four copies in my classroom library, and that's still not enough.

Sarah Krajewski is a 9 grade English teacher at Cleveland Hill High School near Buffalo, New York. She is currently in her 15th year of teaching, and is always looking for new, creative ways to help her students enjoy learning, reading, and writing. At school, she is known for dedicating her time to helping students become lifelong readers, and for being a devoted reader herself who "knows her books." At home, she is a proud wife and mother to three avid readers. You can follow Sarah on Twitter @shkrajewski and her blog can be viewed at http://skrajewski.wordpress.com/ .

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