Adult & Teen Summer Reading Challenge 2026

Week Eight — The Information Age

Robopocalypse by Daniel Wilson
All Systems Red: Murderbot Diaries #1 by Martha Wells
The Hospital at the End of the World by Justin C. Key
Cold Zero by Brad Thor
Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep by Paul Tremblay
We Lived on the Horizon by Erika Swyler
Who Knows You By Heart by Christopher John Farley
Sparks Fly by Zakiya N. Jamal
Cascade Failure by L.M. Sagas
August Kitko and the Mechas From Space by Alex White
Machines Like Me: And People Like You by Ian McEwan
Message Not Found by Dante Medema

Mastering AI: A Survival Guide to Our Superpowered Future by Jeremy Kahn
I Am Not a Robot : My Year Using AI To Do (Almost) Everything by Joanna Stern
AI For Good: How Real People Are Using Artificial Intelligence to Fix Things That Matter by Josh Tyrangiel
Girl Decoded: A Scientist's Quest to Reclaim Our Humanity by Bringing Emotional Intelligence to Technology by Rana El Kaliouby
The Intelligence Explosion: When AI Beats Humans at Everything by James Barrat
Future Tense: How We Made Artificial Intelligence- and How It Will Change Everything by Martha Brockenbrough

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