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
6,163 members
71 reviews
4
2 Members
misericordia, kiwiflowa
3
Columbine
by Dave Cullen
4,353 members
221 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
misericordia, kiwiflowa
4
The Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective
by Carl Sagan
1,143 members
10 reviews
4.1
Member
misericordia
6
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
by Pablo Neruda
4,361 members
70 reviews
4.2
Member
misericordia
7
The Reader Over Your Shoulder: A Handbook for Writers of English Prose
by Robert Graves
365 members
5 reviews
4
Member
aulsmith
8
Neuromancer
by William Gibson
25,919 members
417 reviews
3.9
Member
misericordia
9
Air: Or, Have Not Have
by Geoff Ryman
926 members
33 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
aulsmith
10
Count Zero
by William Gibson
7,996 members
74 reviews
3.8
Member
misericordia
11
Distress
by Greg Egan
929 members
23 reviews
3.8
Member
aulsmith
12
Mona Lisa Overdrive
by William Gibson
8,026 members
64 reviews
3.8
Member
misericordia
14
The Shock of the New: Art and the Century of Change
by Robert Hughes
1,337 members
7 reviews
4.1
Member
misericordia
15
Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster
by Mike Davis
795 members
7 reviews
4.1
Member
aulsmith
16
Against the Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries
by Noah Levine
229 members
2 reviews
3.9
Member
misericordia
17
Gödel’s Proof
by Ernest Nagel
1,597 members
15 reviews
3.9
Member
misericordia
18
The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot
by Naomi Wolf
849 members
24 reviews
3.9
Member
misericordia
19
Perdido Street Station
by China Miéville
10,252 members
337 reviews
4
Member
misericordia
20
The Scar
by China Miéville
5,381 members
134 reviews
4.1
Member
misericordia
21
Kraken
by China Miéville
3,957 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
708 members
12 reviews
4
Member
misericordia
25
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
by Scott McCloud
5,739 members
107 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
misericordia
26
Chaos: Making a New Science
by James Gleick
7,659 members
73 reviews
3.9
Member
misericordia
27
101 Experiments in the Philosophy of Everyday Life
by Roger-Pol Droit
639 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
77 members
½ 3.7
Member
misericordia