With Back to School advertisements slowly creeping in on TV, uniforms popping up in Walmart and stores stocking new backpacks, summer is almost behind us and fall is around the corner. Okay, the fall season is more like on the highway in bumper to bumbler traffic since it is only July, but most students will start moving back into their dorms in August. To keep you from being bored in your dorm and get you in the fall mood, here is my updated reading list for the Fall Season.

1. "Milk and Honey" by Rupi Kaur

Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur is a collection of poetry split into four parts: Each chapter serves a different purpose, "A different pain" the author notes. Independently published November 2014, the book was reissued under Andrews Mcmeel publishing in October 2015. It has become a New York Times Bestseller and popular on social media. With themes of love, heartbreak and survival, Amazon.com writes that Milk and Honey should be on every woman's nightstand.

2. "The Tunnels Series" by Roderick Gordon

I originally picked up the first book out of this six book series seven years ago but never finished it. The Tunnels series is about the main character William Burrows and friend Chester looking for his archeologist father Dr. Burrows that has gone missing Underground. Turns out that there is a civilization underground called "The Colony" wanting to take over "Topsoil", the name The Colony has for land above ground. William is adopted and his real family lives underground. William and Chester flee the colony to look for Dr. Burrows in "The Deeps", a part of earth even further underground than the colony itself. The final book Terminal that is not included in the picture above.

3. "Awake" by Natasha Peterson

Published in January 2015, Awake is about a girl named Scarlet who has "a gap in her memory". She can remember anything before the age of four and develops a headache whenever she attempts to recover those memories. Scarlet then meets a boy named Noah who becomes her emotional support and helper when recovering these memories. Until she finds out Noah's intentions aren't as harmless as she thought.

4. "Armageddon Summer" by Jane Yolen and Bruce Coville

Armageddon Summer is a Young Adult Fiction Novel about main characters Marina and Jed whose parents have joined a movement (read cult) called "The Believers". The leader of the "Movement" proclaims that the end of the world will occur on July 27, 2000. He also proclaims some bad news: only 144 members of the group are able to be saved. Throughout the story you learn about how Marina and Jed's family survived the days leading up to Armageddon and the day of.

What books do you plan to read this year?