It’s that time of the year again: summer has come, and we’re free of textbooks.
But reading doesn’t have to be painful. I have always loved to read, and though life’s increasing demands make it harder to carve out time to enjoy a good book, it’s worth it when I can. The following books are some of my absolute favorites that never get old, and I highly recommend them to anyone looking for a good book this summer.
1. The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
"'I'm just going through a phase right now. Everybody goes through phases and all, don't they?'" – Holden Caulfield
2. Looking for Alaska, John Green
“Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.” – John Green
3. The Giver, Lois Lowry
“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.” – Lois Lowry
4. Beyond Belief: Finding the Strength to Come Back, Josh Hamilton
"No one player loses the game for a team." – Josh Hamilton
5. Heart of a Champion, Carl Deuker
"Sometime in there winning the games became as important to me as it was to him. I could feel how badly he wanted to beat me, and that made me want to make sure he didn't." – Seth Farnham
6. Harry Potter Series, JK Rowling
7. The Hunger Games Trilogy, Suzanne Collins
"Happy hunger games! And may the odds be ever in your favor." – Suzanne Collins
8. My Side of the Mountain, Jean Craighead George
"Fortunately, the sun has a wonderfully glorious habit of rising every morning." – Jean Craighead George
9. Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
why.” – John Steinbeck
10. Night, Elie Wiesel
