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Jennifer Salvato Doktorski

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Young Adult, Contemporary, Chick Lit

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Jennifer Salvato Doktorski received a 2024 Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. She is the author of five YA novels, HOW MY SUMMER WENT UP IN FLAMES, FAMOUS LAST WORDS, a Bank Street College Best Children’s Book of the Year, THE SUMMER AFTER YOU & ME, a YALSA Teens' Top 10, AUGUST & EVERYTHING AFTER and the forthcoming FINDING NORMAL 2025.

Her first paid gig was writing obituaries for the North Jersey Herald & News, where she developed a life-long taste for coffee, news, biting sarcasm, and irreverent humor. She also worked as a speech writer, bank teller, ghostwriter, bookkeeper in a lampshade factory, pet shop clerk, and music zine editor.

She lives with her family in New Jersey and spends her summers “down the shore,” ...more

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	How My Summer Went Up in Flames 3.81 avg rating — 6,662 ratings — published 2013 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	August and Everything After 3.41 avg rating — 5,203 ratings — published 2018 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Summer After You and Me 3.64 avg rating — 3,193 ratings — published 2013 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Famous Last Words 3.71 avg rating — 935 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Somewhere Summer: 26 Kisses; How My Summer Went Up in Flames by Anna Michels (Goodreads Author), Jennifer Salvato Doktorski (Goodreads Author) 3.69 avg rating — 154 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Finding Normal by Jen Doktorski (Goodreads Author), Jennifer Salvato Doktorski (Goodreads Author) 3.86 avg rating — 104 ratings — published 2025 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Comment mon été est parti en fumée -extrait offert- 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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There's a Goodreads Giveaway for my latest YA novel FINDING NORMAL!

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Published on January 08, 2025 10:31 • Tags: contemporary-fiction, friendship, regal-house-publishing, road-trips, ya, ya-books

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The Adults

by Alison Espach

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Palisades Park

by Alan Brennert (Goodreads Author)

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The Book of Accidents

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“I know women are supposed to stand on their own and all. I get that. But every once in a while it doesn't hurt to wish for a fairy godmother, a little magic, and a happy ending.”
― Jennifer Salvato Doktorski, How My Summer Went Up in Flames

tags: wishes

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“First I lost my heart. Then I lost my mind.”
― Jennifer Salvato Doktorski, How My Summer Went Up in Flames

tags: heart, losing-mind, lost, mind

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“I don't know how long we stay that way, but we watch the sun go down together. The giant, burnt-orange sphere sinks towards the horizon, coloring the rock layers until it's gone and the canyon is covered in shadow.”
― Jennifer Salvato Doktorski, How My Summer Went Up in Flames

tags: shadow, sunset

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June BoTM Side Read Nominations- 1st Poll.

Top 5 books move on to the 2nd poll.

The Martian

by Andy Weir

15 votes, 20.8%

The Witches: Salem, 1692

by Stacy Schiff

10 votes, 13.9%

The Sound of Glass

by Karen White

9 votes, 12.5%

When the Moon is Low

by Nadia Hashimi

9 votes, 12.5%

How My Summer Went Up in Flames

by Jennifer Salvato Doktorski

7 votes, 9.7%

The Paying Guests

by Sarah Waters

7 votes, 9.7%

Fates and Furies

by Lauren Groff

5 votes, 6.9%

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

by Milan Kundera

3 votes, 4.2%

To the End of the Land

by David Grossman

2 votes, 2.8%

Very Valentine

by Adriana Trigiani

2 votes, 2.8%

The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls

by Anton DiSclafani

2 votes, 2.8%

Beauty Is a Wound

by Eka Kurniawan

1 vote, 1.4%

72 total votes

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“In the end, I go where I always go when I need information on something baffling, poisonous, or terrifying: the library.”
― Caitlin Moran, How to Build a Girl

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