Books to Recommend to My Niece/Nephew (The late teenage years)

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As an Uncle/Aunt you must recommended books parents would not want their children reading.
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The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University
by Kevin Roose
1,232 members
84 reviews
4.1
2 Members
kiwiflowa, aulsmith
2
Howl and Other Poems
by Allen Ginsberg
6,181 members
71 reviews
4
2 Members
misericordia, kiwiflowa
3
Columbine
by Dave Cullen
4,371 members
221 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
misericordia, kiwiflowa
4
The Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective
by Carl Sagan
1,145 members
10 reviews
4.1
Member
misericordia
6
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
by Pablo Neruda
4,377 members
70 reviews
4.2
Member
misericordia
7
The Reader Over Your Shoulder: A Handbook for Writers of English Prose
by Robert Graves
366 members
5 reviews
4
Member
aulsmith
8
Neuromancer
by William Gibson
25,987 members
418 reviews
3.9
Member
misericordia
9
Air: Or, Have Not Have
by Geoff Ryman
927 members
33 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
aulsmith
10
Count Zero
by William Gibson
8,023 members
75 reviews
3.8
Member
misericordia
11
Distress
by Greg Egan
932 members
24 reviews
3.8
Member
aulsmith
12
Mona Lisa Overdrive
by William Gibson
8,049 members
65 reviews
3.8
Member
misericordia
14
The Shock of the New: Art and the Century of Change
by Robert Hughes
1,341 members
7 reviews
4.1
Member
misericordia
15
Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster
by Mike Davis
793 members
7 reviews
4.1
Member
aulsmith
16
Against the Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries
by Noah Levine
230 members
2 reviews
3.9
Member
misericordia
17
Gödel’s Proof
by Ernest Nagel
1,594 members
15 reviews
3.9
Member
misericordia
18
The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot
by Naomi Wolf
850 members
24 reviews
3.9
Member
misericordia
19
Perdido Street Station
by China Miéville
10,280 members
337 reviews
4
Member
misericordia
20
The Scar
by China Miéville
5,391 members
134 reviews
4.1
Member
misericordia
21
Kraken
by China Miéville
3,969 members
187 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
misericordia
22
Urban Soul Warrior: Self-Mastery in the Midst of the Metropolis
by Lalania Simone
13 members
½ 4.5
Member
misericordia
24
The Transitive Vampire
by Karen Elizabeth Gordon
711 members
12 reviews
4
Member
misericordia
25
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
by Scott McCloud
5,762 members
107 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
misericordia
26
Chaos: Making a New Science
by James Gleick
7,679 members
73 reviews
3.9
Member
misericordia
27
101 Experiments in the Philosophy of Everyday Life
by Roger-Pol Droit
644 members
2 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
misericordia
28
Betty White's Teen-Age Dance Book
by Betty White
26 members
4.8
Member
misericordia
29
Campfire Songs, 3rd (Campfire Books)
by Irene Maddox
78 members
½ 3.7
Member
misericordia