The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2015For the past year, a group of high school students met at a publishing house in San Francisco every Monday night to read literary magazines, chapbooks, graphic novels, and countless articles. This committee was assisted by a group of students that met in the basement of a robot shop in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Together, and under the guidance of guest editor Adam Johnson, these high schoolers selected the contents of The Best American Nonrequired Reading

Ella has been kidnapped

when business owners often knew their customers personally

precisión

Michaeli reveals Israel to be a land of paradoxical intersections and unlikely cohabitation—a place where all of the world’s struggles meet

with more than 200 recipes and 100 color photos

and his friends are forming a band

Escape with Jenny Oliver’s new uplifting read

and the temptation of power threatens to unleash the dark compulsions that made him the most merciless of the emperor’s servants

Judith Viorst exposes the high-stakes competition for Most Adored Nana

When Marie

and introduces to the team that gave us not only Google Maps but Google Earth

an outstandingly clever and twisty tale that’s been perfectly engineered to make heads spin