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Book Recommendations

If you would like to read any of these books, Mr. Majors has a copy of most of them in the IB Office in the Global Hall that are free to borrow! In addition, GAFL students should be aware that English books are surprisingly cheap on Coupang (my beloved). These books have all been read by Mr. Majors and verified to be age appropriate (the age in question being high schoolers & teenagers) , although the site with the description does have a section with trigger warnings that should be used if you are more sensitive to mature themes.

Science Themed Books

The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler by Thomas Hager

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The Science of Marvel: From Infinity Stones to Iron Man's Armor, the Real Science Behind the McU Revealed! by Sebastian Avarado

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The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements by Sam Kean

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The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code

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Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green

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The Big Questions in Science: The Quest to Solve the Great Unknowns by Colin Stuart, Mun Keat Looi, Hayley Birch

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Cathedrals of Science: The Personalities and Rivalries that Made Modern Chemistry by Patrick Coffey

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Shorter Books, Less than 300 Pages

The Wizard's Bakery by Gu Byeong-Mo
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Break Room by Miye Lee

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Dallergut Department Dream Store by Miye Lee

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The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer

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Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey

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The Healing Season of Pottery by Yeon Somin

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Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

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Almond by Won-pyung Sohn

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A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

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Sweat Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa

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Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa

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What You Are Looking For is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama

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Who Will Run The Frog Hospital? by Lorrie Moore

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Counterattacks at Thirty by Won-pyung Sohn

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Letters from the Ginza Shihodo Stationary Shop by Kenji Ueda

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Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

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Science Fiction

The Maze Runner by James Dashner

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An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green

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The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu

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Red Rising by Pierce Brown

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Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

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The Martian by Andy Weir

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This is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone and Amal El-Mohtar

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Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

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Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut

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Fantasy

The Shadow of What Was Lost by James Islington

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Katabasis by RF Kuang

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The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong

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Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko

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Babel by RF Kuang

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A Fellowship of Bakers & Magic by J.Penner

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The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods

(currently already borrowed)

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Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao

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Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
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Crier's War by Nina Varela

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Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett

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The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas

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The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

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Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune

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Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

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The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

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Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

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Contemporary

Talking at Night by Claire Daverley

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My Friends by Fredrick Backman

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A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

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A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

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Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid

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Landline by Rainbow Rowell

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The Bee Sting by Paul Murray

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(Currently already borrowed)

The Old Place by Bobby Finger

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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

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The Idiot by Elif Batuman

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The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth

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Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple

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Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
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Miscellaneous Nonfiction

Still Life with Bones by Alexa Hagerty

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Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams

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Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention and How to Think Deeply Again by Johann Hari

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Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World by Zahra Hankir
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