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[quote=Anonymous]To answer the original question... one of my kids (16) reads news articles regularly and I've seen him spending some time reading "Misbehaving" by Thaler.  He hates reading fiction and will only read what is required by the school.  The other (14) is an avid reader.  This summer, she's read Good Omens (2nd or 3rd time), Lord of the Rings, a lot of contemporary fantasy and dystopia novels (I can't remember titles), and is currently reading her assigned summer book - Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde.

I think some choice + some required is a good balance.  DD's 8th grade English teacher did a lot of choice as you describe, e.g. read a book about an immigrant or refugee experience, read a memoir, read a fantasy novel.  There was a list of suggestions as a place to start but they could generally go beyond that.  Only issue she had during the year was for one unit, there was a list of books to pick from and for that one they had to pick from the list and it seemed no two kids or no more than X number of kids could read any one title.  DD was out the day books were picked and got stuck with a book she'd already read.  I have no idea why that particular unit called for a choice-but-not-really approach.  They also had units where everyone read the same book, one of those being a Shakespeare play.

I will put in a plug for my non-fiction reader... look for opportunities to include non-fiction.  The memoir unit in DD's class was good for that.[/quote]

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