Two more recent favorites of mine are in the science fiction genre.  One of them is our current Insiders Book Club selection - The Hunger Games.  What an amazing book!  All of the club members talked about why it was so remarkable - some said it was full of adventure with a lot of edge-of-your-seat action; others said that the characters were interesting to follow because of decisions they were having to make.  All I know is that it was unlike any other novel I've read lately.  The description of it (a group of kids having to fight to the death to survive) sounds like it could be too graphic, but the author handled it very tastefully.  This futuristic novel reminds me of a real-life Survivor episode - but even more compelling.  Try to get your hands on a copy.

 

Another book that I just finished and would highly recommend is The Adoration of Jenna Fox.  It's somewhat of a mysterious sci-fi novel.  It's about a girl who comes out of a year-long coma with complete amnesia.  Her parents try to jog her memory by showing her a series of DVDs of home movies taken from when Jenna was a baby up to right before she was in the accident that caused her coma.  As I was reading I thought that I was figuring out what was going on, but I couldn't quite guess what actually happened.  I love that kind of book.  It's nice to be surprised, even when you can partially see what's coming.