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Below is a compilation of book lists if you are looking for help brainstorming books to read over the summer. By no means do you have to make your selections from these lists, but they provide a nice starting point and a large selection of titles.
BOOKS WRITTEN BY FORMER WRITERS WEEK GUESTS:
Nic Stone – Dear Martin, Dear Justyce, Chaos Theory
Samira Ahmed – Love, Hate & Other Filters, Internment, Mad, Bad, & Dangerous to Know
Jeff Zentner – Into the Wild Light, The Serpent King, Goodbye Days
Cristina Henriquez – The Book of Unknown Americans, Come Together, Fall Apart
Gloria Chao – American Panda
Tony Romano – When the World Was Young, If You Eat You Never Die
Mark Oshiro – Anger is a Gift
Eden Robins – When Franny Stands Up
Jose Olivarez – Citizen Illegal, Promises of Gold
Omar Holmon – Black Nerd Problems, We Were All Someone Else Yesterday
Toya Wolfe – Last Summer on State Street
Joshua Nguyen – Come Clean
Adib Khorram – Darius the Great is Not Okay. Darius the Great Deserves Better
Rachel Lynn Solomon, Today, Tonight, Tomorrow
Patricia Smith – Unshuttered: Poems, Incendiary Art
Laura Ruby – Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All
Jessica Hopper – Night Moves, The First Collection of Criticism By a Living Female Rock Critic
For more information on Writers Week, please visit www.writersweekfhs.com
ADDITIONAL BOOKS BY WRITE LIFE PODCAST GUESTS:
Sierra DeMulder – Today Means Amen, Ephemera
A.S. King – Everybody Sees the Ants, Ask the Passengers, Reality Boy, Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future, I Crawl Through It
Kimberly McCreight – Reconstructing Amelia, Where They Found Her, The Outliers
E. Lockhart – We Were Liars, Genuine Fraud
Mary Roach – Stiff, Gulp, Bonk, Spook, Packing for Mars, Grunt
Sara Zarr – The Story of a Girl, Gem & Dixie
Andrea Peterson – On Edge
Tiffany D. Jackson – Allegedly, Monday’s Not Coming, Grown, The Weight of Blood
Lisa Selin Davis – Lost Stars
Ann Hood – The Book That Matters Most
Chris Crutcher – Period 8, Deadline, Angry Management, King of the Mild Frontier & more!
READING LISTS:
Lincoln Award: Illinois Teen Readers’ Choice 2024 Master List
Horn Book 2024 Summer Reading List
YALSA’s 2023 Teens Top Winners
YALSA Current and Past Printz Award Winners
YALSA Book Awards and Book Lists
Illinois Reads List Grades 9-12
Goodreads Young Adult Book Lists