if you want to impress your teachers: what am i going to
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What am I going to read this summer?
Summer 2014 YA Reading Guide
If you want to impress your teachers: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
1984 by George Orwell One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
If you’ve caught up on all of the superhero movies, read: The Diviners by Libba Bray
Powerless by Matthew Cody Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman*
Captain America: The Death of Captain America by Larry Hama Hero by Mike Lupica
Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment by James Patterson Virals by Kathy Reichs
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson
Legacy by Thomas E. Sniegoski Rogue Touch by Christine Woodward
*Adult Fiction: Read at your own risk.
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Sherman Alexie Jay Asher
Stephen Chbosky Rachel Cohn
Emily M. Danforth Sarah Dessen Gayle Forman
Julie Halpern A. S. King
David Levithan E. Lockhart
Stephanie Perkins Andrew Smith
Ned Vizzini
If you liked The Hunger Games or Divergent: Enclave by Ann Aguirre
Graceling by Kristin Cashore The Maze Runner by James Dashner
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow Incarceron by Catherine Fisher
Gone by Michael Grant Girl in the Arena by Lise Haines
The Giver by Lois Lowry Legend by Marie Lu
Cinder by Marissa Meyer Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Across the Universe by Beth Revis Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey
After you catch up on Pretty Little Liars, read: Private by Kate Brian
I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have To Kill You by Ally Carter Getting Revenge on Lauren Wood by Eileen Cook
The Luxe by Anna Godbersen The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
The Real Real by Emma McLaughlin The Lying Game by Sara Shepard
Deadly Little Secrets by Laurie Stolarz
While you wait for the next season of The Walking Dead: Zombie Queen of Newbury High by Amanda Ashby
Zombies vs. Unicorns, ed. Holly Black and Justine Larbalestier World War Z by Max Brooks*
Soulless by Christopher Golden Feed by Mira Grant
Zombie Blondes by Brian James The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor by Robert Kirkman*
Rot & Ruin by Jonathan Maberry Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion
The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan Zom-B by Darren Shan
Alice in Zombieland by Gena Showalter Generation Dead by Daniel Waters
*Adult Fiction: Read at your own risk.
John Green fans, try these authors:
If you dream of owning your own TARDIS, check out: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams*
Nobody by Jennifer Barnes You Killed Wesley Payne by Sean Beaudoin
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card BZRK by Michael Grant
The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls by Clare Legrand Hourglass by Myra McEntire
The Catastrophic History of You & Me by Jess Rothenberg When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
Sherlock fans, try these mysteries next: The Naturals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley* The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie King
A Spy in the House by Y. S. Lee The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson
The Butterfly Clues by Kate Ellison Daylight Saving by Edward Hogan
Hemlock by Kathleen Peacock