The AP English teacher at the high school gave me a reading list she had compiled (it's several pages long). It includes fiction & non-fiction, classic and modern. I ordered several books from the list. The talent search booklets (Johns Hopkins, for instance) have good reading lists, too. DS 13 plows through books--I can't keep up. I can ask him for his favorites.
DS9 was excited to see 3rd book in Lightening Thief series and another Artemis Fowl are out. The highest recommendations from them go to the series The Takers, Delon City, and a third book I forget. House of the Scorpion.
Some of my favorite books are about different cultures (China, India, etc.) in contemporary fiction. I have no problem reading about narcissism in US, but sometimes find it depressing.
