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Book Recommendations for Teens from High School Teachers

Teenagers. What books to get them to pique their interest in physics? Classics? art history? In this Five Books series, we ask high school teachers to recommend books to inspire teenagers in their various subjects. If you're just looking for general nonfiction rather than a specific subject, don't miss our recommendations of The Best Nonfiction Books for Teens.

There really are an increasing number of amazing nonfiction books pitched at the teen age group, that difficult time between childhood and adulthood when kids are growing out of kids' books, but find many grownup books boring/too hard to understand.

    The Best Psychology Books for Teens, recommended by Jessica Flitter, Laura Brandt & Nancy Fenton

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    The Best Psychology Books for Teens - Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer

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    Moonwalking with Einstein
    by Joshua Foer

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    The Best Psychology Books for Teens - Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry by Jeffrey A. Lieberman & Ogi Ogas

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    Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry
    by Jeffrey A. Lieberman & Ogi Ogas

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    The Best Psychology Books for Teens - Brain On Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan

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    Brain On Fire: My Month of Madness
    by Susannah Cahalan

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    The Best Psychology Books for Teens - The Upside of Your Dark Side by Robert Biswas-Diener & Todd Kashdan

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    The Upside of Your Dark Side
    by Robert Biswas-Diener & Todd Kashdan

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    The Best Psychology Books for Teens - You Are Not So Smart by David McRaney

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    You Are Not So Smart
    by David McRaney

The Best Psychology Books for Teens, recommended by Jessica Flitter, Laura Brandt & Nancy Fenton

Three award-winning US high school psychology teachers—authors of the website Books for Psychology Class—share their recommendations of the best psychology books for teenagers, students and their teachers—and reflect on why storytelling is a key aspect of the art of teaching.

    The Best Physics Books for Teenagers, recommended by Kate Lee (St Paul's Girls' School)

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    The Best Physics Books for Teenagers - Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words by Randall Munroe

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    Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words
    by Randall Munroe

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    The Best Physics Books for Teenagers - Human Universe by Brian Cox and Andrew Cohen

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    Human Universe
    by Brian Cox and Andrew Cohen

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    The Best Physics Books for Teenagers - The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe

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    The Right Stuff
    by Tom Wolfe

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    The Best Physics Books for Teenagers - Six Easy Pieces by Richard Feynman

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    Six Easy Pieces
    by Richard Feynman

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    The Best Physics Books for Teenagers - The Large Hadron Collider Pop-up Book: Voyage to the Heart of Matter by Anton Radevsky and Emma Sanders

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    The Large Hadron Collider Pop-up Book: Voyage to the Heart of Matter
    by Anton Radevsky and Emma Sanders

The Best Physics Books for Teenagers, recommended by Kate Lee (St Paul's Girls' School)

What are the best books for getting a teenager into physics? Kate Lee, Head of Physics at St Paul’s Girls School, recommends books about NASA, space travel, and the Big Bang—and puzzles the question of why it is so hard for young women to stay in physics as a profession.

    The Best Classics Books for Teenagers, recommended by Olly Murphy (Wycombe Abbey)

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    The Best Classics Books for Teenagers - The Silence of the Girls: A Novel by Pat Barker

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    The Silence of the Girls: A Novel
    by Pat Barker

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    The Best Classics Books for Teenagers - SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard

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    SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
    by Mary Beard

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    The Best Classics Books for Teenagers - Dynasty by Tom Holland

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    Dynasty
    by Tom Holland

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    The Best Classics Books for Teenagers - Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome by Robert Harris

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    Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome
    by Robert Harris

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    The Best Classics Books for Teenagers - The Hemlock Cup by Bettany Hughes

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    The Hemlock Cup
    by Bettany Hughes

The Best Classics Books for Teenagers, recommended by Olly Murphy (Wycombe Abbey)

Caesar, Cicero, Achilles, Socrates, Plato: millennia later, we still talk about them. Olly Murphy, classics teacher at Wycombe Abbey, one of England’s top girls’ schools, recommends books and explains why classics remains one of the most exciting subjects for teenagers to study.

    The Best Art History Books for Teenagers, recommended by John Harrison (Eton College)

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    The Best Art History Books for Teenagers - A World History of Art Hugh Honour and John Fleming

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    A World History of Art
    Hugh Honour and John Fleming

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    The Best Art History Books for Teenagers - Ways of Seeing by John Berger

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    Ways of Seeing
    by John Berger

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    The Best Art History Books for Teenagers - A History of Western Architecture by David Watkin

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    A History of Western Architecture
    by David Watkin

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    The Best Art History Books for Teenagers - Women, Art, And Power And Other Essays by Linda Nochlin

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    Women, Art, And Power And Other Essays
    by Linda Nochlin

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    The Best Art History Books for Teenagers - The Art of Describing: Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century by Svetlana Alpers

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    The Art of Describing: Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century
    by Svetlana Alpers

The Best Art History Books for Teenagers, recommended by John Harrison (Eton College)

Which are the best books to get a teenager excited about art history? We turned to veteran art history teacher John Harrison, formerly head of the art history department at Eton College, for his top five picks of the most illuminating and accessible books for getting a broad overview of the history of art.

    The best books on Philosophy for Teens, recommended by Andrew Brower Latz (Manchester Grammar School)

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    The best books on Philosophy for Teens - Metaphysical Horror Leszek Kolakowski (trans. by Agnieszka Kolakowska)

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    Metaphysical Horror
    Leszek Kolakowski (trans. by Agnieszka Kolakowska)

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    The best books on Philosophy for Teens - Mortal Questions by Thomas Nagel

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    Mortal Questions
    by Thomas Nagel

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    The best books on Philosophy for Teens - A Short History of Ethics by Alasdair MacIntyre

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    A Short History of Ethics
    by Alasdair MacIntyre

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    The best books on Philosophy for Teens - Modernism as a Philosophical Problem: On the Dissatisfactions of European High Culture by Robert B. Pippin

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    Modernism as a Philosophical Problem: On the Dissatisfactions of European High Culture
    by Robert B. Pippin

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    The best books on Philosophy for Teens - The Spiritual Dimension: Religion, Philosophy and Human Value by John Cottingham

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    The Spiritual Dimension: Religion, Philosophy and Human Value
    by John Cottingham

The best books on Philosophy for Teens, recommended by Andrew Brower Latz (Manchester Grammar School)

Dr Andrew Brower Latz, the head of philosophy at Manchester Grammar School, one of Britain’s leading secondary schools, talks about why it’s important to study philosophy and recommends five books to get an interested teen started.

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