It's time!! As always--books that my kids haven't read that I think they will love (some significant tailoring based on children's interests and what they've read so far). A decent amount of overlap this year with some books I think we will really have fun talking about and dissecting together!
Abigail (just finished sophomore year in college; every year I am delighted that she still wants a list!):
1) Devotions (Mary Oliver)
2) The Only Woman in the Room (Marie Benedict)
3) The Diamond Eye (Kate Quinn)
4) Tuyo (Rachel Neuimeier)
5) The Scorpio Races (Maggie Stiefvater)
6) The Lies of Locke Lamora (Scott Lynch)
7) Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution (R.F. Kuang)
8) Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths (Natalie Haynes)
9) The Nightingale (Kristin Hannah)
10) The Stepford Wives (Ira Levin)
Juliet (just finished 12th grade)
1) Island of Ghosts (Gillian Bradshaw)
2) The Rose Code (Kate Quinn)
3) The Fault in Our Stars (John Green)
4) Becoming (Michelle Obama)
5) All Systems Red: Murderbot Diaries 1 (Martha Wells)
6) Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths (Natalie Haynes)
7) Desert Solitaire (Edward Abbey)
8) The Color Purple (Alice Walker)
9) The Nightingale (Kristin Hannah)
10) The Stepford Wives (Ira Levin)
Isaac (just finishing 10th grade)
1) All Systems Red: Murderbot Diaries 1 (Martha Wells)
2) A Thousand Ships (Natalie Haynes)
3) Killers of the Flower Moon (David Grann)
4) The Fault in Our Stars (John Green)
5) Flint (Louis L'Amour)
6) Animal, Vegetable, Miracle (Barbara Kingsolver)
7) Into Thin Air (Jon Krakaeur)
8) The Hero and the Crown (Robin McKinley)
9) The Elfstones of Shannara (Terry Brooks)
10) Agatha Christie pick (I essentially bought a stack and they can flip through and find one)
Luke (just finishing 8th grade)
1) All Systems Red: Murderbot Diaries 1 (Martha Wells)
2) Flint (Louis L'Amour)
3) Green Rider (Kristen Britain)
4) The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson)
5) Beauty & Rose Daughter (Robin McKinley)
6) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (Mark Twain)
7) Hawk of May (Gillian Bradshaw)
8) The War that Saved My Life (Kimberly Brubaker Bradley)
9) The Elfstones of Shannara (Terry Brooks)
10) Agatha Christie pick
Nathan (just finishing 6th grade)
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2) The Bletchley Riddle (Ruta Sepetys, Steve Sheinkin)
3) Jurassic Park (Michael Crichton)
4) And Then There Were None (Agatha Christie)
5) The Blue Sword (Robin McKinley)
6) Over Sea, Under Stone (Susan Cooper)
7) The Dark is Rising (Susan Cooper)
8) House of Many Ways (Diana Wynne Jones)
9) Watership Down (Richard Adams)
10) The Daybreakers (Louis L'Amour)
1) Fablehaven (Brandon Mull)
4) The Lightning Thief (Rick Riordan)
6) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (J.K. Rowling)
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