Summer Reading Picks
One of the things I love about summer is that I’m able to read a lot. I lean toward mysteries and modern fiction. This summer, I branched out a little and read a few young adult books, which were really good. Below are several lists of recommended books. Some are for parents, others are for kids, and some are for everyone. The children/teen/tween list my two kids helped me compile. It’s a list of their favorite books, from grade school to high school. We had a fun time creating it. I hope you find some books you enjoy. Happy reading!
Books on parenting:
How to Raise an Adult by Julie Lythcott-Haims
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck
Parenting Teens with Love and Logic: Preparing Adolescents for Responsible Adulthood by Foster Cline & Jim Fay
The Self-Driven Child: The Science and Sense of Giving Your Kids More Control Over Their Lives by William Stixrud
Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood by Lisa Damour
Suggested Summer Reading – these have been my favorite reads so far this summer:
The Dry by Jane Harper
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (13+)
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
The Short Drop (Gibson Vaughn series) by Matthew FitzSimmons
The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater (13+)
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Favorite reads from previous summers:
Awakening, Sacrifice (two books) by Sarah Bolton
Let’s Pretend this Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir by Jenny Lawson
Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
Orphan Train by Christina Baker Cline
Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight
Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
Children, Teen, & Tween Book Suggestions (from my two teens):
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein (15+)
Eleanor & Park (14+), Fangirl (14+) by Rainbow Rowell
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card (12+)
First Light by Rebecca Stead (8+)
Grass Angel by Julie Schumacher (10+)
Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata (10+)
Milkweed (11+), Stargirl (10+) by Jerri Spinelli
Okay for Now by Gary Schmidt (12+)
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (12+)
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson (14+)
Stardust (13+), The Graveyard Book (9+) by Neil Gaiman
Tangerine by Edward Bloor (11+)
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (13+)
The Cardturner: A Novel about a King, a Queen, and a Joker by Louis Sachar (12+)
The Schwa Was Here by Neal Schusterman (10+)
The Sea of Tranquility by Katja Millay
The Sky is Everywhere (15+) & I’ll Give You The Sun (14+) by Jandy Nelson
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin (10+)
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech (10+)
We Were Liars by E. Lockhart (13+)
