Summer Reading Suggestions for Teens

My son's school just sent us this list of suggested for summer reading for 9th-12th graders.  I thought it was a great and varied list, and worth sharing!  I'm hoping my son will read the Agatha Christie book (and not find it too old-fashioned).

General Fiction

City of Thieves - David Benioff

My Antonia - Willa Cather

The Alchemist - Paulo Coehlo

Copenhagen - Michael Frayn

Bleachers - John Grisham

A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway

A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini

Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Isiguro

The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet - Reif Larsen

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West - Gregory McGuire

Slam! - Walter Dean Myers

Lullaby - Chuck Palahniuk

Sundays at Tiffany's - James Patterson

Maximum Ride - James Patterson

Sing You Home - Jodi Picoult

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig

Ishmael - Daniel Quinn

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer

Sassafras and Indigo - Ntosake Shange

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith

An Irish Country Doctor - Patrick Taylor

It's Kind of a Funny Story - Ned Vizzini

Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut

Mystery

And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie

Science Fiction

Feed - M.T. Anderson

World War Z - Max Brooks

Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton

Heir to the Empire - Timothy Zahn

Historical Fiction

Sarah's Key - Tatiana DeRosnay

The Lost City of Z - David Grann

Master and Commander - Patrick O'Brian

The King Must Die - Mary Renault

Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation - Cokie Roberts

The Jungle - Upton Sinclair

Biography

Tesla : Man Out of Time - Margareth Cheney

American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson - Joseph Ellis

I Beat the Odds: From Homelessness to the Blind Side and Beyond - Michael Oher

Non-Fiction

A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail - Bill Bryson

My Life in France - Julia Child

Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother - Amy Chua

Disconnect: The Truth About Cell Phone Radiation, What the Industry Has Done to Hide It, and How to Protect Your Family - Devra Davis

My Family and Other Animals - Gerald Durrell

Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia - Elizabeth Gilbert

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption - Lauren Hillebrand

The Tao of Pooh - Benjamin Hoff

Endurance, Shackelton's Incedible Voyage - Alfred Lansing

The Blind Side - Michael Lewis

Lies My Teacher Told Me - James Lowen

The Game of My Life - Jason McElwain & Daniel Paisner

The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine - Sue Monk Kidd

Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics: Hollywood's Best Mistakes, Goofs and Flat-Out Destructions of the Basic Laws of the Universe - Tom Rogers

America Through the Eyes of China and India: Television, Identity, and Intercultural Communication in a Changing World - Edward Sherman

The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology - Robert Wright