The Best American Series ®: The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2015 (Paperback)

from JBD1

I think I'm probably done with this series now. Well Tower's "Who Wants to Shoot an Elephant?" is well written but pretty hard to read; other than that, the selections this time were pretty skippable.

from eowynfaramir

I looked forward to reading this anthology, but I was somewhat disappointed. Granted, I am older than the high school students who comprise the team of editors who made the selections, and I think that was important. There is one awesome very short piece by Claudia Rankine titled "You are in the ...

from Paul-the-well-read

The high school students at 826 National always do a wonderful job of compiling terrific readings for this annual collection. The 2015 collection is every bit as wonderful as the ones which preceded it and contain something for every reader. Not every story appealed to me, but all were excellentl...

from bezoar44

Every year, the pieces included in the Best American Nonrequired Reading are selected by a team of high school students. While the selections are almost always pretty good - and this year's is the strongest entry in this series that I've read - the Nonrequired Reading is almost always dominated b...

from Paul-the-well-read

The high school students at 826 National always do a wonderful job of compiling terrific readings for this annual collection. The 2015 collection is every bit as wonderful as the ones which preceded it and contain something for every reader. Not every story appealed to me, but all were excellentl...