This document provides book recommendations for the NHS summer reading program divided into categories including memoirs, realistic fiction, and science fiction/fantasy/dystopian. Some of the recommended memoir titles are Whatever You Do, Don’t Run by Peter Allison about his time as a safari guide in Botswana, The Pact by Drs. Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, & Rameck Hunt about their promise and journey to become doctors, and Life After Death by Damien Echols about his experience being wrongly imprisoned. Recommended realistic fiction books include Side Effects May Vary by Julie Murphy, Dare Me by Eric Devine, and Looking for Alaska by John Green. The science fiction/fantasy/

1. NHS Summer Reading
Book Recommendations

2. MEMOIRS
Whatever You Do, Don’t Run:
True Tales of a Botswana
Safari Guide
by Peter Allison
Amazon Link

3. MEMOIRS
The Pact: Three Young Men
Make A Promise And Fulfill A
Dream
by Drs. Sampson Davis,
George Jenkins, & Rameck
Hunt
Amazon Link

4. MEMOIRS
The Pact: Three Young Men Make A Promise And Fulfill A Dream
by Drs. Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, & Rameck Hunt
Trailer Link

5. MEMOIRS
Dear Nobody: The True
Diary of Mary Rose
Edited by Gilliam McCain
and Legs McNeil
Amazon Link

6. MEMOIRS
Life After Death
by Damien Echols
Amazon Link

7. MEMOIRS
Life After Death by Damien Echols
Trailer Link

8. MEMOIRS
One Shot At Forever: A
Small Town, An Unlikely
Coach, And A Magical
Baseball Season
by Chris Ballard
Amazon Link

9. MEMOIRS
Never Fall Down
by Patricia McCormick
Amazon Link
* National Book Award Finalist
* Nutmeg Award Nominee

10. MEMOIRS
Never Fall Down by Patricia McCormick
Trailer Link

11. MEMOIRS
Discovering Wes Moore:
My Story
by Wes More
Amazon Link

12. MEMOIRS
Without a Net
by Michelle Kennedy
Amazon Link

13. 
Realistic Fiction
Side Effects May Vary
by Julie Murphy
Amazon Link

14. 
Realistic Fiction
Dare Me
by Eric Devine
Amazon Link

15. 
Realistic Fiction
My Book of Life by Angel
by Martine Leavitt
Amazon Link
* Nutmeg Award Nominee

16. 
Realistic Fiction
The Final Four
by Paul Volponi
Amazon Link
* Nutmeg Award Nominee

17. 
Realistic Fiction
Looking for Alaska
by John Green
Amazon Link

18. 
Realistic Fiction
Looking for Alaska by John Green
Trailer Link

19. 
Realistic Fiction
If I Stay
by Gayle Forman
Amazon Link

20. 
Realistic Fiction
If I Stay by Gayle Forman
Trailer Link

21. 
Realistic Fiction
The Language of Flowers
by
Vanessa Diffenbaugh
Amazon Link

22. 
Realistic Fiction
The Fault In Our Stars
by John Green
Amazon Link

23. 
Realistic Fiction
The Fault In Our Stars by John Green
Trailer Link

24. The Impossible Knife Of
Memory
by Laurie Halse Anderson
Amazon Link

25. Timebound
(The Chronos Files, Book #1)
by Rysa Walker
Amazon Link

26. Timebound by Rysa Walker
Trailer Link

27. The Dark Between
by Sonia Gensler
Amazon Link

28. Etiquette and
Espionage
by Gail Carriger
Amazon Link

29. Code Name Verity
by Elizabeth Wein
Amazon Link
• Nutmeg Award Nominee
• Printz Honor Book

30. Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
Trailer Link

31. The Round House
by Louise Erdrich
Amazon Link
• Nutmeg Award Nominee
• National Book Award Winner

32. Invasion
by Walter Dean Myers
Amazon Link

33. The Agency: A Spy in
the House
by Y.S. Lee
Amazon Link

34. SCIENCE FICTION -- FANTASY -- DYSTOPIAN
Life As We Knew It
by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Amazon Link

35. SCIENCE FICTION -- FANTASY -- DYSTOPIAN
The Maze Runner
by James Dashner
Amazon Link

36. SCIENCE FICTION -- FANTASY -- DYSTOPIAN
The Maze Runner by James Dashner
Trailer Link

37. SCIENCE FICTION -- FANTASY -- DYSTOPIAN
Hollow City:
The Second Novel of Miss
Peregrine’s Peculiar Children
by Ransom Riggs
Amazon Link

38. SCIENCE FICTION -- FANTASY -- DYSTOPIAN
Hollow City: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
Trailer Link

39. SCIENCE FICTION -- FANTASY -- DYSTOPIAN
UnWholly
by Neal Shusterman
Amazon Link

40. SCIENCE FICTION -- FANTASY -- DYSTOPIAN
UnWholly by Neal Shusterman
Trailer Link

41. SCIENCE FICTION -- FANTASY -- DYSTOPIAN
Uninvited
by Sophie Jordan
Amazon Link

42. SCIENCE FICTION -- FANTASY -- DYSTOPIAN
Uninvited by Sophie Jordan
Trailer Link

43. SCIENCE FICTION -- FANTASY -- DYSTOPIAN
Phoenix Island
by John Dixon
Amazon Link

44. SCIENCE FICTION -- FANTASY -- DYSTOPIAN
The Reapers are the
Angels
by Alden Bell
Amazon Link
* Nutmeg Award Nominee

45. SCIENCE FICTION -- FANTASY -- DYSTOPIAN
The Reapers are the Angels by Alden Bell
Trailer Link

46. SCIENCE FICTION -- FANTASY -- DYSTOPIAN
Divergent Series by Veronica Roth
(1. Divergent 2. Insurgent 3. Allegiant)
Amazon Link

47. Over the Summer…
Lucy Robbins Welles
Library Summer Reading
Program
Summer Reading news &
additional suggested titles
Summer Assignments &
links to suggested titles.
@NHSCybrarian

48. SPECIAL THANKS TO
RYAN WALLACE
NHS SUMMER READING
RECOMMENDATIONS
Lists compiled by:
Ms. Ortiz Mrs. Plourd
Ms. Lacross Mr. Hartley