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Anne Arundel County Public Schools High School Summer Reading 2019: A Universe of Stories The titles on this list are suggestions and other books may be substituted. Ask your librarian for recommendations. Young Adult Fiction Nonﬁction Skyward by Brandon Sanderson Welcome to the Universe by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Nyxia by Scott Reintgen Michael A. Strauss, and J. Richard Gott Satellite by Nick Lake A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking Hullmetal Girls by Emily Skrutskie Packing for Mars by Mary Roach Shadow Run by AdriAnne Strickland The Particle at the End of the Universe by Sean Carroll Aurora Rising by Jay Kristoff Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon Cosmos by Carl Sagan A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness Beyond Einstein by Michio Kaku Hold Back the Stars by Katie Khan Death by Black Hole by Neil deGrasse Tyson For Darkness Shows the Stars by Diana Peterfreund The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must by Robert Zubrin Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz The Universe in a Single Atom by Dalai Lama November 9 by Colleen Hoover Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson The Outsider by Melinda Metz I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson Holding Up the Universe by Jennifer Niven The Last Girl on Earth by Alexandra Blogier Biography & Memoir Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly Fiction The Glass Universe by Dava Sobel Sally Ride by Lynn Sherr Dune by Frank Herbert The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra Failure Is Not an Option by Gene Krantz All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut’s Journeys The Map of Salt and Stars by Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar by Michael Collins In the Midnight Room by Laura McBride The Last Man on the Moon by Eugene Cernan The Stars Are Fire by Anita Shreve The Radium Girls by Kate Moore Oh My Stars by Lorna Landvik Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wit and Wisdom Illumination Night by Alice Hoffman of Maya Angelou Stardust by Neil Gaiman The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher Under the Wide and Starry Sky by Nancy Horan A Perfect Universe: Ten Stories by Scott O’Connor The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury Infected by Scott Sigler Ship of Fools by Richard Paul Russo The Humans by Matt Haig Dawn by Octavia Butler In cooperation with the Anne Arundel County Public Libraries, www.aacpl.net.

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