Spectrum Community School's 'Off Topic' Book Club Picks

Spectrum Community School offers a weekly book club for students in grades 9 to 12. Here is a recent list of recommendations from the 'Off Topic Book Club' for Spring 2025.

Updated May 16, 2025
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The ballad of songbirds and snakes
Collins, Suzanne
Paper Book
  "The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is the best Hunger Games movie of them all"USA TODAY "Everything you would expect from Collins is here: fraught teenage love; plenty of violence... the themes of friendship, betrayal, authority and oppression will please and thrill"The...
The cruel prince
Black, Holly
Paper Book
Queen of fantasy Holly Black weaves her magic with the tale of Jude, a mortal girl who is caught up in a dangerous web of royal faerie intrigue.
Long way down
Reynolds, Jason
Paper Book
'A masterpiece from beginning to end.' Angie Thomas, author of The Hate U Give
Of mice and men
Steinbeck, John
Paper Book
Drifters in search of work, George and his childlike friend Lennie, have nothing in the world except the clothes on their back - and a dream that one day they will have some land of their own. Eventually they find work on a ranch in California's Salinas Valley, but their hopes are dashed as Lennie -...
Once upon a broken heart
Garber, Stephanie
Paper Book
Make a wish . . . 'An unputdownable fairy tale' Kerri Maniscalco, New York Times bestselling author of Kingdom of the Wicked From the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the Caraval series, the first book...
Project Hail Mary : a novel
Weir, Andy
Paper Book
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING NOVEL A BARRACK OBAMA READING PICK A lone astronaut. An impossible mission. An ally he never imagined. 'The most enjoyable hard SF I have read in years' GUARDIAN
The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo : a novel
Reid, Taylor Jenkins
Paper Book
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND TIKTOK SENSATION SOON TO BE A NETFLIX FILM 'Riveting, heart-wrenching and full of Old Hollywood glamour' BuzzFeed 'This wildly addictive journey of a reclusive Hollywood starlet and...
Shatter me
Mafi, Tahereh.
Paper Book
OVER 8 MILLION COPIES SOLD. THE GLOBAL BESTSELLER AND TIKTOK SENSATION! "Addictive, intense, and oozing with romance" Lauren Kate, Fallen "Dangerous, sexy, romantic and intense! Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures "My favourite series of all time" Goodreads review ...
Sunrise on the reaping
Collins, Suzanne
Paper Book
The unforgettable fifth book in the Hunger Games series: Haymitch's story. Feature film scheduled for November 2026. #1 USA Today Bestseller * #1 New York Times Bestseller * #1 Indie Bestseller * #1 Publishers Weekly Bestseller * A New York Times Editors'...
Under the whispering door
Klune, TJ
Paper Book
Witty, haunting, and kind, Under the Whispering Door is a gift for troubled times. TJ Klune brings us a warm hug of a story about a man who spent his life at the office - and his afterlife building a home.From the author of joyous New York Times bestseller The House in the Cerulean Sea.Welcome to...
The wild robot
Brown, Peter
Paper Book
A gloriously illustrated story of a robot's adventures in the wild

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