Which Book Should You Read During Shark Week?

Shark Week is here! Every year, the Discovery Channel celebrates these fascinating and feared creatures with eight days of shark-themed programming so of course, we had to make the perfect Shark Week reading list.

Whether you’re a fan of the thrills that Jaws brings or are just fascinated by the ocean and its mysterious flora and fauna, there’s a YA novel out there that makes for the perfect Shark Week supplement.

If you love the thrills and chills of Shark Week:

Otherworld

By Jason Segel, Kirsten Miller

The first book in the Otherworld series features a fantastic modern sci-fi world, in which participants leave behind their physical bodies to enter an immersive new virtual reality. Chilling and surreal, the novel follows Simon as he smuggles himself into Otherworld and scours it in search of his lost friend, Kat, who, in the real world, is lying unresponsive in a hospital bed after a terrible accident. The Company, the shadowy organization behind the virtual reality, has plugged her in as an experiment. Like a great episode of Black Mirror, Otherworld is both frightening and fascinating, with plenty of chills and thrills that make it impossible to put down! What’s super creepy is just how believable this not-too-distant future scenario is.

Neverworld Wake

By Marisha Pessl

One year after graduating from high school, the former cool kids of Darrow-Harker are grieving the loss of their friend Jim. It’s summertime, and the group is ready to meet up at a mansion in Rhode Island after a punk rock concert. But on the way, they get in an accident and find themselves in a nightmarish situation: they’re stuck in time. A mystery man informs them that they’ll be in this limbo called Neverworld Wake until they can decide who wants to return to the world of the living. It’s a chilling tale that will leave you questioning the nature of your reality, and definitely give you goose bumps along the way!

Haunting the Deep

By Adriana Mather

Samantha Mather keeps having crazy dreams that she is aboard the RMS Titanic, and in her waking life, she’s seeing strange visions of people who died in the infamous shipwreck. What’s extra eerie is that Sam’s own relatives were first-class passengers aboard the doomed ship! Sam and the other Descendants work together to find out who has been putting a spell on Sam, sending her further and further into the ship of dreams to meet her deadly fate.

The Cheerleaders

By Kara Thomas

A series of horrific events left five young cheerleaders dead in the small town of Sunnybrook, New York. Years later, sixteen-year-old Monica is still mourning her sister, Jen. But Samantha discovers that what at first seemed like a string of unrelated tragedies turns out to be part of a much larger and deadlier mystery. There is a potential killer waiting in the wings, ready to terrorize the town once again. Complicated and layered storytelling, a true-crime feel, and a terrifying villain make this the perfect beach read.

Random Minis: We Were Liars

By E. Lockhart

Cadence Sinclair Eastman belongs to a family of prestige and old money and spends her summers with them on a private island called Beechwood. She and her cousins call themselves the Liars and have a seemingly unbreakable bond. The summer she turns fifteen, Cadence suffers a head injury while in the water and loses most of her memories of that fateful summer. Two years later, she returns to Beechwood and begins to recall complicated and often twisted details, including an earth-shattering secret that she and her cousins have kept hidden. We Were Liars is haunting, intriguing, and nautical enough to make it the perfect Shark Week beach read.

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I just finished We were liars. At 3am. bad choices. Lots of emotions


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Which Book Should You Read During Shark Week?

Shark Week is here! Every year, the Discovery Channel celebrates these fascinating and feared creatures with eight days of shark-themed programming so of course, we had to make the perfect Shark Week reading list.

If you love the thrills and chills of Shark Week:

Otherworld

By Jason Segel, Kirsten Miller

If you love how creepy the ocean can be:

Neverworld Wake

By Marisha Pessl

Haunting the Deep

By Adriana Mather

If you love a good predatory villain:

The Cheerleaders

By Kara Thomas

If you love the complex mysteries of the ocean:

By

Random Minis: We Were Liars

By E. Lockhart

Which book will you sink your teeth into this Shark Week? Tell us in the comments below!

Join the conversation

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Which Book Should You Read During Shark Week?

Shark Week is here! Every year, the Discovery Channel celebrates these fascinating and feared creatures with eight days of shark-themed programming so of course, we had to make the perfect Shark Week reading list.

If you love the thrills and chills of Shark Week:

Otherworld

By Jason Segel, Kirsten Miller

If you love how creepy the ocean can be:

Neverworld Wake

By Marisha Pessl

Haunting the Deep

By Adriana Mather

If you love a good predatory villain:

The Cheerleaders

By Kara Thomas

If you love the complex mysteries of the ocean:

By

Random Minis: We Were Liars

By E. Lockhart

Which book will you sink your teeth into this Shark Week? Tell us in the comments below!

Join the conversation

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