The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2017

For the past year, in the basement of an independent publishing house in San Francisco, a committee of high school students read through scores of journals, magazines, and books. Together, with a brilliant guest editor who had lots of interesting stories about Montana, they debated the merits of this work, and ultimately, selected the contents of this anthology. The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2017 features advice on how to survive an autocracy, a story about a Japanese mermaid, and an exploration of carp theft. There is sheet music and comics and the text of a Supreme Court ruling that is not at all boring. In fact, nothing in this book is boring, we promise.