<p>Does anyone know any good books that an incoming junior can read? Not too difficult, but not too easy. Thanks.</p>
<p>For AP English? Or just for fun?</p>
<p>If for AP Eng, I’d suggest:
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
The Scarlett Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Road by Cormac McCarthy</p>
<p>For fun, I would suggest:
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (and the entire trilogy)
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote</p>
<p>If you want some interesting and reasonably light non-fiction, I suggest Bonk by Mary Roach. It’s very funny and intriguing, although a bit awkward on occasion.</p>
<p>Genre of interest? My favorites are The Stranger by Albert Camus and East of Eden by John Steinbeck. If you have a strong stomach and a dark sense of humor, you could try Fight Club.</p>
<p>I don’t know if you’re a boy or a girl but, any books by Jodi Picoult are good!
Most of the ones I’ve read so far (My Sister’s Keeper, Handle With Care, Nineteen Minutes, House Rules, Tenth Circle) all have to do with an issue taken to court.</p>
<p>For instance:</p>
<p>My Sister’s Keeper - Daughter sues parents for rights of her own body. Her sister has cancer and the daughter was born in order to donate her kidney for her sister to survive.</p>
<p>Handle With Care - Girl was born with Osteogenesis imperfecta AKA brittle bone disease. Parents sue their OB/GYN for a wrongful birth lawsuit which also happens to be the mother’s best friend. Husband turns against wife. Dun dun dun.</p>
<p>Nineteen Minutes - School shooting story taken to court.</p>
<p>House Rules - Boy has Aspergers who was accused of murder.</p>
<p>Tenth Circle - Girl accuses ex boyfriend of rape. Ex boyfriend gets killed. Issue taken to court. Book centered around Dante’s Inferno.</p>
<p>I also love Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns–both by the same author.</p>
<p>@houstonr,
Depends on what you’re interested in. </p>
<p>For fiction I’d recommend anything by Anne Tyler. Easy, but really deep. IMO the best Anne Tyler books are “St. Maybe” and the “Accidental Tourist.”</p>
<p>For non-fiction I’d recommend “A Concise Guide to Macroeconomics” by David A. Moss. It’s like 130 pages, and not a hard read at all. And you learn a lot.</p>
<p>For a biography I’d recommend Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography. It’s really interesting.</p>
<p>haha fiction, sci fi, pretty much anything except biography.</p>