One book I read this winter was How To by Randall Munroe, author of What If and Thing Explainer. How To is a book that takes a mundane thing, solves it in an absurd way, and then uses science to figure out how that would work.

I read Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline. I like this book because it has lots of unexpected twists like having an AI attack and break the main character’s worst enemy out of prison, breaking up with the new girlfriend, or the newest tech turning out to be bad.

I read the book Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson. The book contained a central metaphor around the relation of water and consciousness, and it was very interesting to track this theme throughout the story.

I read Bad Blood by John Carreyrou. This was a very interesting book about the rise and fall/scandal of Theranos, the blood testing startup from Silicon Valley. It was one of my favorite nonfiction books as it read like a fiction.

A book I read this winter is I Killed Zoe Spanos by Kit Frick. This book is about Anna Cicconi getting a job as a nanny in a town that’s the Hamptons of Herron Mils. But this town is where people are trying to forget the past of a dreadful event on New Years Eve.

I read “Paper Towns” by John Green this winter. It was recommended to me by my reading teacher and follows the story of a high school student and his friend named Margo. The genre of this book is mystery, which is one of the reasons I enjoyed it so much.

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy is not a book you would typically expect to find in the hands of a teenager, but it is as beautiful as it is simplistic, and it is entirely universal.

I read Epic Athletes: Patrick Mahomes by Dan Wetzel. It is a biography about Patrick Mahomes. It tells his life story from when he was a baby to now. The book has many interesting facts and quotes from his career like his experiences at college.

I have been reading the series by Karen McManus. One of Us Is Next is the one that I just finished and it is a really cool mystery and I like the way it unfolded.

This winter I read the book Winter Holiday by Arthur Ransome. It is in the series Swallows and Amazons. It is about two families that go to live at a lake house with an island during the breaks. The kids are very imaginative and go on lots of adventures.

I read Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand. It’s a true story about an Olympic runner (Louis Zamperini) who gets sent off to war and was captured by Japan and then became a prisoner of war.

I read Our Violent Ends by Chloe Gong. It’s the second in a duology called These Violent Delights. I would give the book a 4/5 because although most of the time it was very good and exciting, there were moments that were really boring and slow.

This winter I read Frankenstein--outside of school, just for fun. I thought that it was really good. It was interesting to me to see how Shelley made such a depressing story so interesting.

Empire of Storms is the fifth book in the Throne of Glass series by Sarah J Maas. This series is very long and can be slow at times. This book was slow to begin with but was more exciting toward the end. I almost gave up on this book but was glad that I stuck with it.

“The Unwanteds” by Lisa McMann is set in a dystopian world called Qwill where people are split into three categories at the age of 13, wanted, necessary, and Unwanted. If you were one of the lucky wanteds you went to university.