STUDENT RECOMMENDATIONS
These recommendations all come from students. Feel free to add more through the form below! Please note that these recommendations have not been through the book selection policy and are not endorsed by the English department or Episcopal; they are simply suggestions from your peers. Updated 5/20/16
Young Adult Non-fiction
Delirium The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Skloot
Hyperbole and a Half The Rose Society, Lu
13 Reasons Why, Jay Asher H is for Hawk, MacDonald
Al Capone Does My Shirts The Bible
Matched, Ally Condie Reading Like a Writer, Prose
Skulduggery Pleasant, Derek Landry Summer of the Gods, Larson
We Were Liars, E. Lockheart The Art of the Deal, Trump
Fans of the Impossible Life, Kate Scelsa Stocks Under Rocks, Rinchutti
Reconstructing Amelia, Kimberly McCreight I am America: And So Can You, Colbert
Looking for Alaska, John Green Godel-Escher-Bach, Hofstadter
Paper Towns, John Green
Reason to Breathe, Rebecca Donovan General Fiction
The Maze Runner, James Dashner No Country for Old Men, McCarthy
Iron King, Julie Kagawa American Pastoral, Roth
City on Fire, Garth Risk Hallberg The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald
The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins Mother Night, Vonnegut
Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keys The World According to Garp, Irving
The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton The Lonely Londoners, Selvon
Historical Fiction Biography/Autobiography
Ripper, Reeves It's Kind of a Funny Story, Vizzini
The Invention of Wings Too Close to the Falls, Gildner
Catch-22, Heller Wild, Strayed
The Help The Glass Castle, Walls
Maus I and Maus II, Spiegelman Night, Wiesel
All the Light We Cannot See, Doerr Is Everyone Handing Out Without Me and Other Concerns
A Dog's Purpose
Mystery Love Does, Goff
Fake ID, Sorrels
The Coroner's Lunch, Cotterill Adventure
And Then There Were None, Christie The Testing, Charbonneau
Murder on the Orient Express, Christie Gone, Grant
Ordinary Grace Eat, Pray, Love, Glibert
Cherub: The Recruit, Muchamore Theodore Boone, Kid Lawyer, Grisham
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
Mr. Mercedes, King
Sci-Fi and Fantasy
War of the Worlds
Cinder (and the Lunar Chronicles series), Meyer
The Hobbi, Tolkien
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Adams
Ender's Game, Card
The Illustrated Man, Bradbury
City of Bones, Clare
Galapagos, Vonnegut
Ready Player One, Cline
Game of Thrones, Martin
Alex Rider Series
Divergant, Roth
Allegiant, Roth
The Merciless, Vega
Anansi Boys, Gaiman
The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien
Harry Potter series, Rowling
Leviathan, Westerfeld
The Lightening Thief, Riordan
The Paladin Prophecy, Frost
Young Adult Non-fiction
Delirium The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Skloot
Hyperbole and a Half The Rose Society, Lu
13 Reasons Why, Jay Asher H is for Hawk, MacDonald
Al Capone Does My Shirts The Bible
Matched, Ally Condie Reading Like a Writer, Prose
Skulduggery Pleasant, Derek Landry Summer of the Gods, Larson
We Were Liars, E. Lockheart The Art of the Deal, Trump
Fans of the Impossible Life, Kate Scelsa Stocks Under Rocks, Rinchutti
Reconstructing Amelia, Kimberly McCreight I am America: And So Can You, Colbert
Looking for Alaska, John Green Godel-Escher-Bach, Hofstadter
Paper Towns, John Green
Reason to Breathe, Rebecca Donovan General Fiction
The Maze Runner, James Dashner No Country for Old Men, McCarthy
Iron King, Julie Kagawa American Pastoral, Roth
City on Fire, Garth Risk Hallberg The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald
The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins Mother Night, Vonnegut
Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keys The World According to Garp, Irving
The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton The Lonely Londoners, Selvon
Historical Fiction Biography/Autobiography
Ripper, Reeves It's Kind of a Funny Story, Vizzini
The Invention of Wings Too Close to the Falls, Gildner
Catch-22, Heller Wild, Strayed
The Help The Glass Castle, Walls
Maus I and Maus II, Spiegelman Night, Wiesel
All the Light We Cannot See, Doerr Is Everyone Handing Out Without Me and Other Concerns
A Dog's Purpose
Mystery Love Does, Goff
Fake ID, Sorrels
The Coroner's Lunch, Cotterill Adventure
And Then There Were None, Christie The Testing, Charbonneau
Murder on the Orient Express, Christie Gone, Grant
Ordinary Grace Eat, Pray, Love, Glibert
Cherub: The Recruit, Muchamore Theodore Boone, Kid Lawyer, Grisham
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
Mr. Mercedes, King
Sci-Fi and Fantasy
War of the Worlds
Cinder (and the Lunar Chronicles series), Meyer
The Hobbi, Tolkien
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Adams
Ender's Game, Card
The Illustrated Man, Bradbury
City of Bones, Clare
Galapagos, Vonnegut
Ready Player One, Cline
Game of Thrones, Martin
Alex Rider Series
Divergant, Roth
Allegiant, Roth
The Merciless, Vega
Anansi Boys, Gaiman
The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien
Harry Potter series, Rowling
Leviathan, Westerfeld
The Lightening Thief, Riordan
The Paladin Prophecy, Frost
