2015

Inventory of Library by Categories

Penny Kittle

The World: Asia, India, Africa, The Middle East,
South America & The Caribbean, Europe, Canada

Asia & India

Escape from Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in
the West by Blaine Harden
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by
Katherine Boo
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Boxers & Saints by Geneluen Yang
American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
Jakarta Missing by Jane Kurtz
The Buddah in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung
A Step From Heaven by Anna
Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai
Slumdog Millionaire by Vikas Swarup
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang
Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
The Reason I Jump by Naoki Higashida
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick
Q & A by Vikas Swarup
Never Fall Down by Patricia McCormick
A Moment Comes by Jennifer Bradbury
Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala
White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

Africa

What is the What by Dave Eggers
They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky by Deng, Deng & Ajak
Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
Radiance of Tomorrow by Ishmael Beah
Running the Rift by Naomi Benaron
Say You’re One of Them by Uwem Akpan
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
Desert Flower: The Extraordinary Journey of a Desert Nomad by Waris Dirie
The Milk of Birds by Sylvia Whitman
The Pirates of Somalia: Inside Their Hidden World by Jay Bahadur
The Translator by Daoud Hari
God Grew Tired of Us by John Bul Dau
Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families by Phihlip
Gourevitch
Whatever You Do, Don’t Run by Peter Allison
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Facing the Lion by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Now is the Time for Running by Michael Williams
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba
The Education of a British-Protected Child by Chinua Achebe

The Middle East

I Am Nujuood, Age 10 and Divorced by Nujood Ali
Sold by Patricia McCormick
Burned Alive: A Survivor of an “Honor Killing” Speaks Out by Souad
Shooting Kabul by N.H. Senzai
I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
Things I’ve Been Silent About by Azar Nafisi
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
The Attack by yasmina Khadra
Outcasts United by Warren St. John
The Alchemist by Paul Coelho
In the Land of Invisible Women by Qanta A. Ahmed
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin
American Dervish by Ayad Akhtar
Under the Persimmon Tree by Suzanne Fisher Staples
Beneath My Mother’s Feet by Amjed Qamar
Prisoner of Tehran by Marina Nemat
The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad
The Secret Sky by Atia Abawi
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
Skunk Girl by Sheba Karim
War Child by Emmanuel Jal
Lawrence in Arabia by Scott Anderson
If You Could be Mine by Sara Farizan
In My Father’s Country by Saima Wahab

South America & The Caribbean

Trash by Andy Mulligan
The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago
Learning to Die in Miami by Carlos Eire
Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
Return to Sender by Julia Alvarez
In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
In Darkness by Nick Lane
No Safety in Numbers by Dayna Lorentz
The Jumping Tree by Rene Saldana, Jr.

Canada

Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese
The Space Between by Don Aker
Delusion Road by Don Aker
The First Stone by Don Aker
The Fifth Rule by Don Aker
Of Things Not Seen by Don Aker
Running on Empty by Don Aker
Medicine Walk by Richard Wagamese
When Everything Feels Like the Movies by Raziel Reid
All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews
Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Fifth Business by Robertso Davies
Looks Like Daylight by Deborah Ellis
Ru by Kim Thuy



Europe

Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
‘Tis by Frank McCourt
Zlata’s Diary by Zlata Filipovitic
Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
The Places In Between by Rory Stewart
The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Emily’s Ghost by Denise Giardina
Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan
The Paris Wife by Paula McClain
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

U.S. Memoir/Biography: Musicians, Athletes, Leaders/Presidents, Prisoners,
Comedians, Other Life Stories

Comedians

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling
Yes Please by Amy Poehler
There’s Nothing in This Book That I Meant to Say by Paula Poundstone
Toast by Nigel Slater
So, Anyway by John Cleese
Bossypants by Tina Fey
Baking Bad: Criminally Delicious Recipes by Walter Wheat
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris
Thank You Notes by Jimmy Fallon

Musicians

Just Kids by Patti Smith
The Music Lesson by Victor Wooten
Jay Z Decoded by Jay Z
Chronicles Volume One by Bob Dylan
The Man Called Cash by Steve Turner
Can’t Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain, and America by Jonathan Gould
Rihanna Rebel Flower by Chloe Govan
Who I Am by Pete Townshend
Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan by Howard Sounes
Beyond the Dance by Chan Hon Goh
Guitar Zero by Gary Marcus
Nothing to Lose: The Making of KISS 1972-1975 by Ken Sharp
The Beatles: A Hard Day’s Write by Steve Turner
Jimi Hendrix: A Brother’s Story by Leon Hendrix
Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon & the Journey of a Generation by
Sheila Weller

Athletes

Moneyball by Michael Lewis
Friday Night Lights by H. G. Bissinger
Grantland: collected short sports stories by Grantland staff
It’s Not About the Bike by Lance Armstrong
Eleven Seconds by Travis Roy
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
The Boys of Winter by Wayne Coffey
Open by Andre Agassi
Just One More Shot by Jim Keifer
Those Guys Have All the Fun: ESPN
Yzerman by Douglas Hunter
The Life of Reilly by Rick Reilly
Praying for Gil Hodges by Thomas Oliphant
50/50 by Dean Karnazes
Playing with Fire by Theo Fleury
Live Albom by Mitch Albom
Unstoppable by Tim Green
Last Shot by John Feinstein
To the Edge and Back by Chris Klug
Foul Trouble by John Feinstein
Soul Surfer by Bethany Hamilton
Once a Runner by John L. Parker, Jr.
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
Muckers by Sandra Neil Wallace
Paper Tiger: An Obsessed Golfer’s Quest to Play with the Pros by Tom Coyne
A Good Walk Spoiled: Days and Nights on the PGA Tour by John Feinstein
Football: Great Writing About the National Sport by John Schulian

Leaders/Presidents

Jack Kennedy by Chris Matthews
Obama’s Wars by Bob Woodward
Plan of Attack by Bob Woodward
Killing Kennedy by Bill O’Reilly
The Kennedy Detail by Gerald Blaine
State of Denial by Bob Woodward

Prisoners

Hole in my Life by Jack Gantos
A Place to Stand by Jimmy Santiago Bacca
Rat Bastards by John “Red” Shea
True Notebooks: A Writer’s Year at Juvenile Hall by Mark Salzman
Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America by Nathan McCall
Always Running by Luis J. Rodriguez
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
Gang Leader for a Day by Sudhir Venkatesh
Couldn’t Keep It To Myself by Wally Lamb
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines
No Matter How Loud I Shout: A Year in the Life of Juvenile Hall by Edward Humes
Life in Prison by Stanley “Tookie” Williams
Prisoner of Tehran by Marina Nemat

Life Stories

A Stolen Life by Jaycee Dugard
City Year’s Founding Stories by Michael Brown, CEO & Co-Founder of City Year
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by We Moore
Townie by Andre Dubus III
And Still We Rise: The Trials and Triumphs of Twelve Gifted Inner-City Students by Miles
Corwin
The Burn Journals by Brent Runyan
South of Heaven by Thomas French
Blasphemy by Sherman Alexie
Crazy for the Storm: a Memoir of Survival by Norman Ollestad
True Spirit: The True Story of a 16-Year-Old Australian Who Sailed Solo, Nonstop, and
Unassisted Around the World by Jessica Watson
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
King of the Mild Frontier by Chris Crutcher
An Invisible Thread by Laura Schroff & Alex Tresniowski
A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage by Marly Youmans
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
I Thought My Father Was God edited by Paul Auster
The Foremost Good Fortune by Susan Conley
Old School by Tobias Wolff
To Selena, with Love by Chris Perez
Leaving Home edited by Hazel Rochman & Darlene Z. McCampbell
A Glass of Water by Jimmy Santiago Baca
Here if You Need Me by Kate Braestrup
The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
All Souls by Michael Patrick MacDonald
Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
Breaking Night by Liz Murray
A Million Miles in a Thousand Years by Donald Miller
Making Mavericks by Frosty Hesson
The Mole People: Life in the Tunnels Beneath NYC by Jennifer Toth
Without You: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and the Musical Rent by Anthony Rapp
Born to Rise by Deborah Kenny
Balsamic Dreams by Joe Queenan
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
On the Fringe by Donald R. Gallo
Marshfield Dreams by Ralph Fletcher
My First Year as a Teacher edited by Pearl Rock Kane
Shop Class as Soulcraft by Matthew B. Crawford
Reporting Live by On the Record
Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different by Karen Blumenthal
The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe
Shakespeare Saved My Life: Ten Years of Solitary with the Bard by Laura Bates
Beautiful Boy: a father’s journey through his son’s addiction by David Sheff
127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Aron Ralston
Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore
The Meaning of Matthew: My Son’s Murder in Laramie by Judy Shephard
Every Day by the Sun by Dean Faulkner Wells
Claudette Colvin: Twice Towards Justice by Phillip Hoose
Unbreakable: My Story, My Way by Jenni Rivera
Black Mass: Whitey Bulger, The FBI, and A Devil’s Deal by Dick Lehr & Gerard O’Neill
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris
Unbearable Lightness by Portia de Rossi
Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
The Road to Wellville by T. Coraghessan Boyle
Nickel & Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
The Girl’s Guide to Homelessness by Brianna Karp
Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago by LeAlan Jones & Lloyd
Newman
My Lobotomy: a memoir by Howard Dully & Charles Fleming
Sweet Relief: The Marla Ruzicka Story by Jennifer Abrahamson
In the Long Run: A Father, a Son, and Unintentional Lessons in Happiness by Jim Axelrod
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Dwarf by Tiffanie DiDonato
I Was Amelia Earhart by Jane Mendelsohn
Tabloid City by Pete Hamill
I Thought I Was God: and other true tales from NPR’s National Story Project by Paul
Auster
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to
Harvard by Liz Murray
Border Songs by Jim Lynch
Detroit by Charles LeDuff
Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago by LeAlan Jones & Lloyd
Newman
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
Nothing to be Frightened Of by Julian Barnes
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer
Mockingbird by Charles J. Shields
Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail by Suzanne Roberts
Not Taco Bell Material by Adam Carolla
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake by Anna Quindlen
Montefiore’s Goddaughter by Elizabeth Brooks
Educating Esme by Esme Raji Codell

Non-fiction: 50% of comprehension is linked to background knowledge, so read with your
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NF: Science

Endangered by Eliot Schrefer
Threatened by Eliot Schrefer
An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth by Col. Chris Hadfield
Bomb by Steve Sheinkin
Unnatural Selection by Mara Hvistendahl
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser
Food Rules by Michael Pollan
In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
Head Cases: Stories of Brain Injury and Its Aftermath by Michael Paul Mason
Stiff by Mary Roach
The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Albert Einstein: The Love Letters by Mileva Maric
How They Croaked: The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous by Georgia Bragg
Code by Charles Petzold
Eyes Wide Open: Going Behind the Environmental Headlines by Paul Fleischman
The Town that Food Saved by Ben Hewitt
Charles & Emma: Darwin’s Leap of Faith by Deborah Heiligman
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to our Brains by Nicholas Carr
The Unschooled Mind by Howard Gardner
Einstein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman
Telsa by Margaret Cheney
Ape House by Sara Gruen

NF: Business

Start Something That Matters by Blake Mycoskie
An Invisible Thread: The True Story of an 11-year-old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive,
and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny by Laura Schroff and Alex Tresniowski
Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires
Innovation by Tim Brown
Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard by Chip & Dan Heath
The Maker Movement Manifesto by Mark Hatch
Factory Man by Beth Macy
Digital Crime & Digital Terrorism by Taylor & Caelti & Loper & Fritsch
The Big Short by Michael Lewis
Nickel & Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich
The Talent Code by Daniel Coyle
The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story by Michael Lewis
Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class & How They Got There by David Brooks
To Sell is Human by Daniel Pink
The Tycoons by Charles R. Morris
Sloan Rules by David Farber
Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
Flashboys by Michael Lewis
How to Deliver a TED talk by Jeremy Donovan
The Number Devil by Hans Magnus Enzensberger



NF: Philosophy/Psychology

Silent Voices: People With Mental Disorders on the Street by Robert L. Okin, M.D.
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck
Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls by Mary Pipher, Ph.D
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink
Wait: The Art and Science of Delay by Frank Partnoy
A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose by Eckhart Tolle
The Book of Guys by Garrison Keillor
All I Did Was Ask by Terry Gross
The Rise and Fall of the American Teenager by Thomas Hine
Raising America: Experts, Parents, and A Century of Advice About Children by Ann
Hulbert
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler
Marx for Beginners by Rius
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain
The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
The Art of Happiness by the Dalai Lama
The Minds of Boys by Michael Guiran
The Purpose of Boys by Michael Guiran
The Language Police by Diane Ravitch
Reign of Error by Diane Ravitch
I Got Schooled by M. Night Shyamalan
The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement by David
Brooks
The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories by Marina Keegan

History & War: WWII, WWI, Iraq/Afghanistan, Vietnam, Early American
History, Recent History

General History

War Is: Soldiers, Survivors, and Storytellers Talk About War edited by Marc Aronson
Cultures of War by John W. Dower
Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen
The World is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman
A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
Washington by Meg Greenfield
Homicide by David Simon
A Drink Before the War by David Simon
The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition by Caroline Alexander
Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest by Wade Davis

Early American History

Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
Forge by Laurie Halse Anderson
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
Regeneration by Pat Barker
Sophia’s War by Avi
The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
Witness by Karen Hesse
A Story of Motherhood and War by Jeff Foltz
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
Isaac’s Storm by Erik Larson
Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
To End All Wars by Adam Hochschild
John Quincy Adams: American Visionary by Fred Kaplan
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Flight of the Sparrow by Amy Belding Brown
The Cause & Comrades by James M. McPherson
Copper Sun by Sharon M. Draper
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher by Timothy Egan
The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
47 by Walter Mosley
Battle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPherson
Native Son by Richard Wright
Stealing South by Katherine Ayres
Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
The Darkness Under the Water by Beth Kanell
The Last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen
The Well and the Mine by Gin Phillips
Boys on the Boat by Daniel James Brown

World War II

Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Stark Decency: German Prisoners of War in a New England Village by Allen V. Koop
Postcards from No Man’s Land by Aidan Chambers
Stories from the River by Ursula Hegi
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
Day After Night by Anita Diamant
Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz
Alicia: My Story by Alicia Appleman-Jurman
I Have Lived a Thousand Years by Livia Bitton-Jackson
The Thin Red Line: Every Man Fights His Own War by James Jones

Iraq/Afghanistan

Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain
The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers
War by Sebastian Junger
Redeployment by Phil Kaye
Good Soldiers by David Finkel
Thank You For Your Service by David Finkel
No Easy Day by Mark Owen
Purple Heart by Patricia McCormick
Out of the Ruins: A New York Record by Jean Holabird
Sunrise Over Fallujah by Walter Dean Meyers
Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell
The Forever War by Dexter Filkins
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
Warrior Princess by Kristin Beck & Anne Speckhard
The Last True Story I’ll Ever Tell by John Crawford
The Things a Brother Knows by Dana Reinhardt

Recent History

Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
Missoula by Jon Krakauer
The World is Flat: a Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Friedman
Columbine by Dave Cullen
Argo by Antonio Mendez
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt

History of Civil Rights, the 60’s and the 70’s

The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race by David E. Hoffman
Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Meyers
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
Going After Cacciato by Tim O’Brien
Mississippi Trial, 1955 by Chris Crowe
Revolution by Deborah Wiley
Countdown by Deborah Wiley
Lunch-Box Dream by Tony Abbott
Lay the Trumpet in Our Hands by Susan Carol McCarthy
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Freedom Summer by Bruce Watson
Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
Hellhound on His Trail: The Elecrtifying Account of the Largest Manhunt in American
History by Hampton Sides

Life in High School

Friendship

I’ll Meet You There by Heather Demetrios
We All Looked Up by Tommy Wallach
A Really Awesome Mess by Trish Cook & Brendan Halin
Bluefish by Pat Schmatz
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
Trans-sister Radio by Chris Bohjalian
The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
The Disenchantments by Nina LaCour
Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton
Prom by Laurie Halse Anderson
The Anatomy of Wings by Karen Foxlee
Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney
Hip-Hop High School by Alan Sitomer
Lost and Found: Award-winning authors share real life experiences edited by M. Jerry
Weiss
Red: The Next Generation of American Writers (Teenage Girls) And What Fires Them Up
Today edited by Amy Goldwasser
The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner
Revenge Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger
Tell the Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
DUFF by Kody Keplinger
Alabama Moon by Watt Key
Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
Red Kayak by Priscilla Cummings
When I Was the Greatest by Jason Reynolds
I’ll Be There by Holly Goldberg Sloan
The Rules of Survival by Nancy Werlin
Smashed by Lisa Leudeke
Looking for Alaska by John Green
Conversion by Katherine Howe
We All Looked Up by Tommy Wallach
Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. King
A Really Awesome Mess by Trish Cook & Brendan Halpin
Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
How to Save a Life by Sara Zarr
Wild Girls by Mary Stewart Atwell
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
The Second Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares
Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares
Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares
The Perfect Life by Dyan Sheldon
We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
Hush by Jacqueline Woodson
The Secret Story of Sonia Rodriguez by Alan Sitomer
Sisterhood Everlansting by Ann Brashares
We Are Called to Rise by Laura McBride
I’ll Be There by Holly Goldberg Sloan
How to Save a Life by Sara Zarr
Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life by James Patterson
Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
Big Mouth and Ugly Girl by Joyce Carol Oates
Tales of the Madman Underground by John Barnes
Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes by Chris Crutcher
We All Looked Up by Tommy Wallach
The First Stone by Don Aker
Tyrell by Coe Booth
Okay for Now by Gary Schmidt
Guitar Girl by Sara Manning
Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive cliques, Gossip, boyfriends,
and Other Realities of Adolescents by Rosalind Wiseman
Snitch by Alison Van Diepen
Bluefish by Pat Schmatz
Jellico Road by Melina Marchetta
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Squashed by Joan Bauer
The Fifth Rule by Don Aker
The Crimes and Punishments of Miss Payne by Barry Jonsberg
Rumblefish by S. E. Hinton
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 ¾ by Sue Townsend
I Am the Cheese by Robert Cormier
Hip Hop High School by Alan Sitomer
Friend Me by Cathy Hopkins
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
Every You, Every Me by David Levithan
The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
The Lions of Little Rock by Kristin Levine
Also Known as Rowan Pohi by Ralph Fletcher
The Wave by Todd Strasser
Black and White by Paul Volponi
I am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I want to Be Your Class President by Josh Lieb
TTYL by Lauren Myracle
Jumped In by Patrick Flores-Scott
Define “Normal” by Julie Anne Peters
Double Fault by Lionel Shriver
Breadcrumbs by Anne Ursu
Dear Bully: 70 Authors Tell Their Stories edited by Megan Hall & Carrie Jones
Jake, Reinvented by Gordon Korman
Election by Tom Perrotta
Cut by Patricia McCormick
We the Animals by Justin Torres
Breaking Rank by Krsten D. Randle
Back in Black by Zoey Dean
This Full House by Virginia Euwer Wolff
The Mighty Miss Malone by Christopher Paul Curtis
Firecracker by David Iserson
Gabi: Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero
That Was Then, This is Now by S.E. Hinton
All-American Girl by Meg Cabot
Remember Dippy by Shirley Reva Vernick
I Kill the Mockingbird by Paul Acampora
Love is the Higher Law by David Levithan
Small Steps by Louis Sachar
The Big Splash by Jack D. Ferraiolo
Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli
Zen and the Art of Faking It by Jordan Sonnenblick
3 Willows by Ann Brashares
Planet Janet in Orbit by A. Sheldon
The Girl with Borrowed Wings by Rinsai Rossetti
Sahara Special by Esme Raji Codell
The Patron Saint of Butterflies by Cecilia Galante
Because of Mr. Terupt by Rob Buyea
A Summer to Die by Lois Lowry
I Am the Cheese by Robert Cormier
Jumped by Rita Williams-Garcia
Hard Love by Ellen Wittlinger
Ship Sooner by Mary Sullivan
From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant by Alex Gilvarry
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
Alias Recruited by Lynn Mason
Crooked by Laura and Tom McNeal
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
Blueprints for Building Better Girls by Elissa Schappell
The Starboard Sea by Amber Dermont
Gossip Girl by Cecily von Ziegesar
My Name is Not Easy by Ebby Dahl Edwardson
Pointe by Brandy Colbert
Rockoholic by C. J. Skuse
Locked Inside by Nancy Werlin
Angry Management by Chris Crutcher
Boys and Girls Like You and Me by Aryn Kyle
Clay by David Almond
Be More Chill by Ned Vizzini
Not My Fault by Meryin
The Symptoms of My Insanity by Mindy Raf
Miss Smithers by Susan Juby
Black Girl/White Girl by Joyce Carol Oates
Okay for Now by Gary D. Schmidt
Private by Kate Brian
All Our Pretty Songs by Sarah McCarry
It’s Not Easy Being Bad by Cynthia Voigt
Palo Alto by James Franco
Emako Blue by Brenda Woods
The Midnight Dress by Karen Foxlee

Body Image/Eating Issues

Fat Angie by E. Charlton-Trujillo
The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things by Carolyn Mackler
Food, Girls, and Other Things I Can’t Have by Allen Zadoff
Skinny by Donna Cooner
Butter by Erin Jade Lange
Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
The Fat Boy Chronicles by Diane Lang
45 Pounds (More or Less) by K. A. Barson
Zero by Diane Tullson
North of Beautiful by Justina Chen
Shark Girl by Kelly Bingham

Love

To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han
Absolutely Maybe by Lisa Yee
Rage: A Love Story by Julie Ann Peters
Where She Went by Gayle Forman
Love, Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler
The Infinite Moment of Us by Lauren Myracle
The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano
Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson
The First Part Last by Angela Johnson
Heaven by Angela Johnston
Teen Idol by Meg Cabot
Lover’s Dictionary by David Levithan
Just One Day by Gayle Forman
Attachments by Rainbow Rowell
Bruised by Sarah Skilton
Unthinkable by Nancy Werlin
Falling for Hamlet by Michelle Ray
Love and Lies by ellen wittlinger
Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn & David Levithan
Absolutely Maybe by Lisa Yee
Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac by Gabrielle Zevin
Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
Let’s Get Lost by Adi Alsaid
Love Disguised by Lisa Klein
Bitter End by Jennifer Brown
I Love you, Beth Cooper by Larry Doyle
Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas by Louise Rennison
Dancing in my Nuddy-Pants by Louise Rennison
Away Laughing on a Fast Camel by Louise Rennison
Love is a Many Trousered Thing by Louise Rennison
Startled by His Furry Shorts by Louise Rennison
A Midsummer Tights Dream by Louise Rennison
Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn & David Levithan
The Heart of the Matter by Emily Griffin
Nothing by Janne Teller
The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith
Romiette & Julio by Sharon Draper
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by marisha Pessl
My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick
Breathing Underwater by Alex Flinn
13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson
The Pull of Gravity by Gae Polisner
Summerland by Elin Hilderbrand
An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
The Double Bind by Chris Bojalian
Story of a Girl by Sara Zarr
Ask My Moon Ring How I Feel by Diana Lopez
Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen
Jumping Off Swings by Jo Knowles
Love and Other Perishable Items by Laura Buzo
One Whole and Perfect Day by Judith Clarke
Slam by Nick Hornby
How to Talk to a Widower by Jonathan Tropper
Happens Every Day by Isabel Gillies
Love Walked In by Marisa De Los Santos
A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks
Keeping the Moon by Sarah Dessen
Sex and Violence by Carrie Mesrobian
One Summer by Elin Hilderbrand
Who Am I Without Him by Sharon G. Flake
The Guardian by Nicholas Sparks
Be More Chill by Ned Vizzini
Testimony by Anita Shreve
The Nature of Jade by Deb Caletti
Honey Baby Sweetheart by Deb Caletti
Soul Enchilada by David Macinnis Gill
All the Truth That’s In Me by Julie Berry
Between the Lines by Jodi Picoult
The Spectacular Now by Tim Tharp
True Believer by Virginia Euwer Wolff
Much Ado by Louanne Johnson
The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle
There is No Dog by Meg Rosoff
Spanking Shakespeare by Jane Wizner
The Blue Castle by L. M. Montgomery
The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
The Realm of Possibility by David Levithan
The Proposal by Lori Wick
The Afterlife by Gary Soto
How They Met & Other Stories by David Levithan
The Queen of Everything by Deb Caletti
Stay with Me by Paul Griffin
The Silent Wife by A.S.A. Harrison
Thwonk by Joan Bauer
The Pursuit by Lori Wick
The First Part Last by Angela Johnson
The Garden by Elsie V. Aidinoff
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn & David Levithan
The Rescue by Lori Wick
Pride and Prejudice and Curling Rocks by Andrea Brokaw
The True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean tlet by hisself by David Almond
Perfection by Julie Metz
Miles from Nowhere by Nami Mun
Bigger than a Breadbox by Laurel Snyder
Fly Away Home by Jennifer Weiner
The Hole We’re In by Gabrielle Zevin
Compound by S.A. Bodeen
Wild Roses by Deb Caletti
The Visitor by Lori Wick
Princess in Waiting by Meg Cabot
My Life Undecided by Jessica Brody
The Last Time They Met by Anita Shreve
The Tragedy Paper by Elizabeth Laban
Boys, Bears, and a Serious Pair of Hiking Boots by Abby McDonald
Prom & Prejudice by Elizabeth Eulberg
Love Disguised by Lisa Klein
The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd
Keeping the Moon by Sarah Dessen
Avalon High by Meg Cabot
The Twilight Mediator by Meg Cabot
The Moon and More by Sarah Dessen
The Magician’s Assistant by Ann Patchett
Princess in Pink by Meg Cabot
Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife by Linda Berdoll
Belong to Me by Marisa de los Santos
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquirel
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman
The Third Angel by Alice Hoffman
Fortune’s Rocks by Anita Shreve
A Rough Guide to the Heart by Pam Houston
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
A Widow for One Year by John Irving

LGBTQ

When Everything Feels Like the Movies by Raziel Reid
Winger by Andrew Smith
Annie on my Mind by Nancy Garden
Stick by Andrew Smith
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz
Ask the Passengers by A. S. King
Openly Straight by Bill Konigsberg
The Miseducation of Cameron Post by emily m. Danforth
Keeping You a Secret by Julie Anne Peters
Luna by Julie Anne Peters
October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard by Leslea Newman
Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Shine by Lauren Myracle
The Letter Q: Queer Writers’ Notes to Their Younger Selves edited by Sarah Moon
Spring Awakening translated by Edward Bond
Hold Me Closer by David Levithan
Fairyland: a memoir of my father by Alysia Abbott
In One Person by John Irving
The Meaning of Matthew: My Son’s Murder in Laramie, and a World Transformed by
Judy Shepard
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith

Family Relationships

Mosquitoland by David Arnold
Starfish by Michele Degni Kingery
The Rules of Survival by Nancy Werlin
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
Stick by Andrew Smith
Out of the Easy by Ruth Sepetys
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress by Rhoda Janzen
Girlchild by Tupelo Hassman
Harris and Me by Gary Paulsen
I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
Everybody Sees the Ants by A. S. King
Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future by A. S. King
Because I Am Furniture by Thalia Chaltas
The Impossible Knife of Memory by Laurie Halse Anderson
Dead to You by Lisa McMann
We Are Called to Rise by Laura McBride
Midwives by Chris Bohjalian
Rules by Cynthia Lord
Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick
Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
King of the Mild Frontier by Chris Crutcher
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson
Winter’s Bone by Daniel Woodrell
The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult
Golden Boy by tara Sullivan
Picture Me Gone by meg rosoff
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie by David Lubar
The Whole Stupid Way We Are by H Griffin
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
All the Truth That’s in Me by Julie Barry
Lies You Wanted to Hear by James Whitfield Thomson
Of Things Not Seen by Don Aker
It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
The Interrogation of Gabriel James by Charlie Price
The Things a Brother Knows by Dana Reinhardt
Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
See You At Harry’s by Jo Knowles
Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns
Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
The Kid by Sapphire
Strays by Ron Koertge
So B. It by Sarah Weeks
Losing Charlotte by Heather Clay
Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie
Midwives by Chris Bohjalian
The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus
One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
Almost Home by Joan Bauer
Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos
Under the Mesquite by Guadalupe Garcia McCall
All You Never Wanted by Adele Griffin
Solace of the Road by Siobhan Dowd
Paint the Wind by Pam Munoz Ryan
Hurricane Song by Paul Volponi
First Shot by Walter Sorrells
Forged by Fire by Sharon Draper
Wonder Struck by Brian Selznick
Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson
Ship Out of Luck by Neal Shusterman
Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
Girlchild by Tupelo Hassman
Rules of the Road by Joan Bauer
Stand Tall by Joan Bauer
One Whole and Perfect Day by Judith Clarke
All That’s Missing by Sarah Sullivan
Bloomability by Sharon Creech
Mistik Lake by Martha Brooks
Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Sister Went Crazy by Sonya Sones
Choke Creek by Lauren Small
See You at Harry’s by Jo Knowles
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
The God of Animals by Aryn Kyle
Everybody Sees the Ants by A. S. King
Miss American Pie by Margaret Sartor
Eli the Good by Silas House
Ethan, Suspended by Pamela Ehrenberg
The World Below by Sue Miller
The Most Excellent Year by Steve Kluger
We Are Water by Wally Lamb
A Year of Fog by Michelle Richmond
Somebody Else’s Daughter by Elizabeth Brundage
The Family Man by Elinor Lipman
Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Grove
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
The Card Turner by Louis Sachar
Skipping Christmas by John Grisham
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie
Return Trips by Alice Adams
Trailerpark by Russell Banks
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
A Stranger in the Kingdom by Howard Frank Moser
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver
The Garden of Last Days by Andre Dubus III
Until I Find You by John Irving
Bone Gap by Laura Ruby

Differences

Owning It: Stories About Teens with Disabilities edited by Don Gallo
Anything But Typical by Nora Raleigh Baskin
Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine
The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
OCD, the Dude, and Me by Lauren Roedy Vaughn
Rain Reign by Ann M. Martin
Jerk California by Jonathan Friesen
Devil in the Details by Jennifer Traig
The White Bicycle by Beverley Brenna
Girls Like Us by Gail Giles
Stuck in Neutral by Terry TrueMan
Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend by Matthew Dicks
Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco X. Stork

Drugs, Gangs & Violence

Dope Sick by Walter Dean Meyers
Monster by Walter Dean Meyers
Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
Jay’s Journal by Anonymous
On the Fringe edited by Don Gallo
Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines by Nic Sheff
Runner by Carl Deuker
Something Wicked by Alan Gratz
Bruised by Sarah Skilton
Chasing Shadows by Craig Phillips
The World Made Straight by Ton Rash
Street Pharm by Allison van Diepen
Third and Indiana by Steve Lopez
Homeboyz by Alan Lawrence Sitomer
Rumble by Ellen Hopkins
Impulse by Ellen Hopkins
Crank by Ellen Hopkins
Glass by Ellen Hopkins
Can’t Get There From Here by Todd Strasser
Takedown by Allison van Diepen
Understand This by Jervey Tervalon
Bruiser by Neal Shusterman
The Sledding Hill by Chris Crutcher
American Youth by Phil La Marche
After Tupac and D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson
Outside Beauty by Cynthia Kadohata
Abandon by Meg Cabot
Abide with Me by Elizabeth Strout
Ghost Medicine by Andrew Smith
Buried Onions by Gary Soto
The Butcher: Anatomy of a Mafia Psychopath by Philip Carlo
Flight by Sherman Alexie

Death & Dying

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews
Deadline by Chris Crutcher
Loud Awake and Lost by Adele Griffin
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
Before I Die by Jenny Downham
The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen
If I Stay by Gayle Forman
The Sky is Everywhere by Gayle Forman
Zac and Mia by A. J. Betts
Love Letters to the Dead by Ava Dellaira
We Were Liars by e. lockhart
Somebody Up There Hates You by Hollis Seamon
Vernon God Little by DBC Pierce
The Summer of Letting Go by Gae Polisner
Somebody Up There Hates You by Hollis Seamon
Ways to Live Forever by Sally Nicholls
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
After by Amy Efaw
Forgive me, Leonard Peacock by Matthew Quick
All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
I Was Here by Gayle Forman
My Heart and Other Black Holes by Jasmine Warga
Belzhar by Meg Wolitzer
Paper Daughter by Jeanette Ingold
The Girl in the Mirror by Meg Kearney
Season of Ice by Diane Les Becquets
Bag of Bones by Stephen King
Side Effects by Amy Goldman Koss
The Sin Eater’s Confession by Ilsa J. Bick
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
For One More Day by Mitch Albom
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

The Outdoors

The River by Gary Paulsen
Liar, Liar by Gary Paulsen
Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen
Flat Broke by Gary Paulsen
Woodsong by Gary Paulsen
Woodsrunner by Gary Paulsen
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
Winterdance by Gary Paulsen
The Winter Room by Gary Paulsen
Nightjohn by Gary Paulsen
Harris and Me by Gary Paulsen
Tracker by Gary Paulsen
The Rifle by Gary Paulsen
Guts by Gary Paulsen
Notes from the Dog by Gary Paulsen
Brian’s Winter by Gary Paulsen
Brian’s Hunt by Gary Paulsen
Brian’s Return by Gary Paulsen
Shelf Life: Stories by the Book by Gary Paulsen
Not Without Peril by Nicholas Howe
Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Aron Ralston
Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen
Finding Everett Ruess by David Roberts
Ranger Confidential: Living, Working, and Dying in the National Parks by Andrea
Lankford
The Grizzly Maze by Nick Jans
The Land of White and Death: An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic by Valerian
Albanov
Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains by Jon Krakauer
New England’s Mountain Flowers by Jeff Wallner & Mario DkGregorio
Catch & Release: Trout Fishing and the Meaning of Life by Mark Kingwell
Dogsled Dreams by Terry Lynn Johnson
The Hard Way Home: Alaska Stories of Adventure, Friendship, and the Hunt by Steve
Kahn
The Wild Marsh: Four Seasons at Home in Montana by Rick Bass
Here if You Need Me by Kate Braestrup
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
A Southern Sportsman edited by Ben McC. Moise
Touching the Void by Joe Simpson
Murder in the High Himalaya by Jonathan Green
This Happened to Me! Graphic Tales of True-Life Survival by Andrew McKean
Life on the Edge by Jim Whittaker

Sports

Pop by Gordon Korman
Crackback by John Coy
Ball Don’t Lie by Matt de la Pena
Gym Candy by Carl Deuker
Crash by Jerry Spinelli
Boys of Blur by N.D. Wilson
Mexican White Boy by Matt De Le Pena
Ball Don’t Lie by Matt De Le Pena
Stupid Fast by Geoff Herbach
Stotan! By Chris Crutcher
Athletic Shorts by Chris Crutcher
Deadline by Chris Crutcher
The Hoopster by Alan Sitomer
Miracle on 49th Street by Mike Lupica
Travel Team: Forced Out by Gene Fehler
Travel Team: Power Hitter by M.G. Higgins
Hoops by Walter Dean Meyer
Travel Team by Mike Lupica
Second Impact by David Klass & Perri Klass
Guys Read: The Sports Pages by Jon Scieszka
The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach



Graphic Novels

Boxers & Saints by Geneluen Yang
Zits by Jerry Scott & Jim Borman
Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Birute Galdikas by Jim
Ottaviani & Maris Wicks
The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
This Happened to Me! Graphic Tales of True-Life Survival by Andrew McKean
Refresh & Refresh by Danica Novgroodoff
Dogs of War by Sheila Keenan & Nathan Fox
Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong by Prudence Shen
Anya’s Ghost by Vera Brosgol
Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant by Tony Cliff
Maus I and Maus II by Art Spiegelman
Pluto by Naoki Urasawa
Stitches: a Memoir by David Small
Burn by Camilla d’Errico
Blankets by Craig Thompson
Explorer: The Mystery Boxes by Kazu Kibuishi
Into the Volcano by Don Wood
Resistance by Carla Jablonski
Maruto I by Masashi Kishimoto
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, adapted by Peter Kuper
Mom’s Cancer by Brian Fies
The Eternal Smile by Gene Luen Yang
Zahra’s Paradise by Amir & Khalil
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, adapted by Celoni & Andolfo
A Game for Swallows: To Die, To Leave, To Return by Zeina Abirached
Kill Giants by Joe Kelly and Jm Ken Niimura
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare, adapted by Garth Hines
Beowulf adapted by Garth Hines
Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb by Jonathan Fetter-Vorm
Skim by Mariko and Jillian Tamaki
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, adapted by Nancy Butler & Hugo Petrus
Little Fish by Ramsey Beyer

Fantasy

S by J.J. Abrams & Doug Dorst
Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith
The Maze Runner by James Dashner
The Scorch Trials by James Dashner
The Death Cure by James Dashner
Divergent by Veronica Roth
Insurgent by Veronica Roth
Four by Veronica Roth
Delirium by Lauren Oliver
Requiem by Lauren Oliver
Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver
Delirium Stories by Lauren Oliver
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
The Ask and The Answer by Patrick Ness
Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
The Marbury Lens by Andrew Smith
Passenger by Andrew Smith
The Mark of Athena by Rick Riordan
The House of Hades by Rick Riordan
The Lightening Thief by Rick Riordan
The Blood of Olympus by Rick Riordan
The Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan
The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan
Alex Rider Scorpia Rising by Anthony Horowitz
Alex Rider Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz
Alex Rider Ark Angel by Anthony Horowitz
Alex Rider Skeleton Key by Anthony Horowitz
Alex Rider Eagle Strike by Anthony Horowitz
Alex Rider Crocodile Tears by Anthony Horowitz
Alex Rider Snakehead by Anthony Horowitz
Alex Rider Point Blank by Anthony Horowitz
Ranger’s Apprentice: The Battle for Skandia by John Flanagan
Ranger’s Apprentice: The Ruins of Gorlan by John Flanagan
Ranger’s Apprentice: The Sorcerer of the North by John Flanagan
Ranger’s Apprentice: The Siege of Macindaw by John Flanagan
Ranger’s Apprentice: Erak’s Ransom by John Flanagan
Ranger’s Apprentice: The Kings of Clommel by John Flanagan
Ranger’s Apprentice: Halt’s Peril by John Flanagan
Ranger’s Apprentice: The Emperor of Nihon-Ja by John Flanagan
Ranger’s Apprentice: The Lost Stories by John Flanagan
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing by M. T. Anderson
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Unnatural Creatures by Neil Gaiman
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
The Runaway King by Jennifer Nielsen
Magyk by Angie Sage
Pure by Julianna Baggott
The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley
Silver by Chris Wooding
The Case of Secrets by Alfred M. Struthers
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
The Corps of the Bare-Boned Plane by Polly Horvath
Murder Afloat by Jane Leslie Conly
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Slayer by Seth Grahame-Smith
Boy Nobody by Allen Zadoff
The Prisoner of Cell 25 by Richard Paul Evans
Chasing Shadows by Craig Phillips
172 Hours on the Moon by Johan Harstad
The Young Elites by Marie Lu
Shadow & Bone by Leigh Bardvgo
Plus One by Elizabeth Fama
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire
Mirror Mirror by Gregory Maguire
A Lion Among Men by Gregory Maquire
What the Dickens by Gregory Maguire
Zombies and Unicorns by Black & Larbalestier
Un Lun Dun by China Mieville
Chime by Franny Billingsley
Reality Check by Peter Abrahams
Zom B by Darren Shan
Article 5 by Kristen Simmons
Revolution 19 by Gregg Rosenblum
Afterworlds by Scott Westerfeld
Pretties by Scott Westerfeld
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
Extras by Scott Westerfeld
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
His Fair Assassin Book 1: Grave Mercy by Robin LaFevers
His Fair Assassin Book 2: Dark Triumph by Robin LaFevers
BZRK by Michael Grant
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
The Calder Game by Blue Balliett
The Spook’s Apprentice by Joseph Delaney
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
Inkspell by Cornielia Funke
The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke
The 5th Wave book 2: The Infinite Sea by Rick Yancey
Mister Death’s Blue-Eyed Girls by Mary Downing Hahn
Ashes by Ilsa J. Bick
Faery Tales & Nightmares by Melissa Marr
Sick by Tom Leveen
Wicked Girls: A Novel of the Salem Witch Trials by Stephanie Hemphill
Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Steifvater
Forever by Maggie Steifvater
City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
Shipbreaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Hyde and Shrief by David Lubar
The Savage Blue by Zoraida Cordova
Finnikin of the Rock by Melina Marchetta
Swamplandia by Karen Russel
Bloody Jack by L. A. Meyer
Starters by Lissa Price
Silverlance by Peter Thomas Crowell
Crash by Lisa McMann
Going Bovine by Libba Bray
The Girl Who Could Fly by Victoria Forester
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Enemy Territory by Sharon E. McKay
The Last Book in the Universe by Rodman Philbrick
The Fox Inheritance by Mary E. Pearson
Switched by Amanda Hocking
Unhinged by A. G. Howard
Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia
Cinder by Marissa Meyer
Midwinterblood by Marcus Sedgwick
Long Lankin by Lindsey Barraclough
Perfect Ruin by Laruen Destefano
Thirsty by M.T. Anderson
Scarlett by Marissa Meyer
Matched by Ally Condie
Reached by Ally Condie
Raven’s Ladder by Jeffrey Overstreet
The Ale Boy’s Feast by Jeffrey Overstreet
Starfish by James Crowley
Gone by Michael Grant
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Messenger by Lois Lowry
The Silent Boy by Lois Lowry
The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
Captain Quad by Sean Costello
Artemis Fowl by Boin Colfer
Plague in the Mirror by Deborah Noyes
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner by Stephenie Meyer
Witness by Karen Hesse
I am Number Four by Pittacus Lore
Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
Tehanu by Ursula K. Le Guin
Feed by M. T. Anderson
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black
Cyndere’s Midnight by Jeffrey Overstreet
How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
Mortal Heart by Robin LaFevers
The Story of Owen by e.k. Johnston
The Lost Army of Cambyses by Paul Sussman
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Num8ers by Rachel Ward
Wicked and Lovely by Melissa Marr
Enclave by Ann Aguirre
The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau
Tandem by Anna Jarzab
Shadow of the Sun by David Macinnis Gill
Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix
No Place to Hide by Robert O’Harrow, Jr.
The Winner’s Curse by Marie Rutkoski
The Inventor’s Secret by Andrea Cremer
The Once and Future King by T.H. White
The Power of Six by Pittacus Lore
Unwind by Neal Shusterman
Molly Moon Stops the World by Georgia Byng
Molly Moon Hypnotic Time Travel by Georgia Byng
Molly Moon’s Incredible Book of Hypnotism by Georgia Byng
Kipper’s Game by Barbara Ehrenreich
Pirate Cinema by Cory Doctorow
Auralia’s Colors by Jeffrey Overstreet
Rash by Pete Hautman
Geeky by E. Archer
Midnightners by Scott Westerfeld
The Silent Boy by Lois Lowry
Gossamer by Lois Lowry
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

Poetry

Poetry Speaks; Poets Read Their Own Work edited by Elise Paschen
Poem Central collected by Shirley McPhillips
The Language of Life: A festival of poets by Bill Moyers
King of the Trees & Other Poems and Stories & Thoughts from the Middle, a collection of
writing from students at the International School Bangkok
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
The Haiku Year by many authors
Open Mic: Riffs on Life Between Cultures in Ten Voices edited by Mitali Perkins
Aimless Love by Billy Collins
Ballistics by Billy Collins
Sailing Around the Room by Billy Collins
Poetry 180 selected & edited by Billy Collins
180 More Extraordinary Poems for Every Day selected & edited by Billy Collins
The Trouble with Poetry by Billy Collins
Poetry in Person edited by Alexander Neubauer
Teaching with Fire edited by Sam Intrator
One Stick Song by Sherman Alexie
First Indian on the Moon by Sherman Alexie
The Business of Fancydancing by Sherman Alexie
The Summer of Black Widows by Sherman Alexie
Thirst by Mary Oliver
A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver
Red Bird by Mary Oliver
Dream Work by Mary Oliver
You Hear Me?: Poems and Writing by Teenage Boys edited by Betsy Franco
Things I Have to Tell You: Poems and Writing by Teenage Girls edited by Betsy Franco
Call Me Maria by Judith Ortiz Cofer
Where I’m From by George Ella Lyon
Walking on the Boundaries of Change by Sara Holbrook
I Never Said I Wasn’t Difficult by Sara Holbrook
Ode to Common Things by Pablo Neruda
Poetry of the Universe: a mathematical exploration of the cosmos by Robert Osserman
Throw the Damn Ball: Classic Poetry of Dogs by R. D. Rosen
Unleashed: Poems by Writers’ Dogs edited by Amy Hempel
What to Tip the Boatman? By Cleopatra Mathis
The Radiant by Cynthia Huntington
Top of My Lungs: Poems and Paintings by Natalie Goldberg
Blue Lipstick concrete poems by John Granditis
Technically It’s Not My Fault concrete poems by John Granditis
The Door by Margaret Atwood
Reviewing the Skull by Judy Michaels
A Fire in My Hands by Gary Soto
Have You Seen Me? by Sandra Cisneros
Am I Blue? Coming Out From the Silence edited by Marion Dane Bauer
The Esai Poems by Jimmy Santiago Baca
How I Discovered Poetry by Marilyn Nelson
Heartbeat by Sharon Creech
Canaan by Geoffrey Hill
Poem Crazy: Freeing Your Life with Words by Susan G. Wooldridge
Poem, Revised edited by Robert Fiske
Lives, Knives, and Girls in Red Dresses by Ron Koertge
A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
Poetry March 2005 magazine
Poetry April 2005 magazine
Poetry May 2005 magazine
Poetry June 2005 magazine
Poetry July/August 2005 magazine
Compass Rose 2004 poetry from Chester College
The Poet Slave of Cuba: A biography of Juan Francisco Manzano by Margaret Engle
Time You Let Me In selected poems by Naomi Shihab Nye
What Have You Lost? Selected poems by Naomi Shihab Nye
The Space Between Our Footsteps by Naomi Shihab Nye
Words Under the Words by Naomi Shihab Nye
Transfer by Naomi Shihab Nye
You and Yours by Naomi Shihab Nye
Red Suitcase by Naomi Shihab Nye
I Feel a Little Jumpy Around You by Naomi Shihab Nye
This Same Sky by Naomi Shihab Nye
Above the Dreamless Dead: WWI Poetry and Comics edited by Chris Duffy
The Rose that Grew from Concrete by Tupac Shakur
Black Misery by Langston Hughes
The Lightening Dreamer by Margarita Engle
What Learning Leaves by Taylor Mali
Jimmy & Rita by Kim Addonizio
The Great Box Escape by Jovan Mays
Messages to Ground Zero: Children Respond to September 11, 2001 collected by Shelley
Harwayne with the New York City Board of Education

Mysteries/Thrillers

Cover of Snow by Jenny Milchman
Ruin Falls by Jenny Milchman
Caring is Creepy by David Zimmerman
Schooled by Anisha Lakhani
Bangkok 8 by John Burdett
I Am the Messenger by Marcus Zusak
1-800-Where-R-You by Meg Cabot
Gemini by Carol Cassella
Talking About Detective Fiction by P.D. James
The Genius Dilemma by Dustin Grinnell (former KHS student)
The Talk-Funny Girl by Roland Merullo
The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta
Fearless by Rafael Yglesias
Variant by Robinson Wells
Deadly Cool by Gemma Halliday
Second Glance by Jodi Picoult
Croak by Gina Damico
Flight by Sherman Alexie
Panic by Sharon M. Draper
The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
Green Angel by Alice Hoffman
Girl, Stolen by April Henry
I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga
What Happened to Lani Garver by Carol Plum-Ucci
Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey
After by Francine Prose
The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin by Josh Berk
Confessions of a Murder Suspect by James Patterson
Ketchup Clouds by Annabel Pitcher
Safe House by Meg Cabot
The Interrogation of Gabriel James by Charlie Price
Freefall by Ariela Anhalt
Vanishing Girls by Lauren Oliver
September Girls by Bennett Madison
The Girl Who Fell From the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow
The Field by Tracy Richardson
Misery by Stephen King
Lisey’s Story by Stephen King
The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King
Carrie by Stephen King
The Dark Tower by Stephen King
The Stand by Stephen King
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Next by Stieg Larsson
The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie
Body of Lies by David Ignatius
Transfer of Power by Vince Flynn
Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Season of the Witch by Mariah Fredericks
In the Path of Falling Objects by Andrew Smith
The Living by Matt De La Pena
Boot Camp by Todd Strasser
Rooms by Lauren Oliver
Betwixt by Tara Bray Smith

Dog Books

Soldier Dogs: The Untold Story of America’s Canine Heroes by Maria Goodavage
A Dog’s Journey by W. Bruce Cameron
A Dog’s Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron
The Dogs of War: The Courage, Love, and Loyalty of military Working Dogs by Lisa Rogak
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
Following Atticus by Tom Ryan
Road Trip by Gary & Jim Paulsen
Dog Stories by James Herriott
Baghdad, with Love: a marine, the war, and a dog named Lava by Jay Kopelman

Classics & Award Winners

A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Big Sur by Jack Kerouac
100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
A tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Beat Book: Writings from the Beat Generation by Anne Waldman
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Plague by Albert Camus
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Blindness by Jose Saramago
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Will in the World by Stephen Greenblatt
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
Light in August by William Faulkner
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
West With The Night by Beryl Markham
Ulysses by James Joyce
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Black Boy by Richard Wright
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
The Education of Little Tree by Forrest Carter
Beowulf by Seamus Heaney
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Swimming Home by Deborah Levy
Once Again to Zelda: The Stories Behind Literature’s Most Intriguing Dedications
collected by Marlene Wagman-Geller
Finn by Jon Clinch
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Nature and Other Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Walking by Henry David Thoreau
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau
Thoreau and the Art of Life by Henry David Thoreau
Justine by Lawrence Durrell
Mountolive by Larence Durrell
Clea by Lawrence Durrell
Balthazar by Lawrence Durrell
Me We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout


Drama

Desire Under the Elms by Eugene O’Neill
27 Wagons Full of Cotton & Other Plays by Tennessee Williams
Plays by Oscar Wilde
Fool for Love and Other Plays by Sam Shepard
Four Plays by Tennessee Williams
Three by Tennessee by Tennessee Williams
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

Writers on Writing: Books to Help You Improve as a Writer

True Stories: Guides for Writing From Your Life by Rebecca Rule & Susan Wheeler
The Sense of Style: the Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century by Steven
Pinker
Micro Fiction edited by Jerome Stern
The Craft of Research by Wayne C. Booth
Writers on Writing collected essays from the New York Times
A Writer’s Workbook by Caroline Sharp
Creating a Story: Guides for Writers by Rebecca Rule & Susan Wheeler

Literary Magazines from other teenagers, schools, etc.

Pulse vol. 1-6, publications from Miles Macdonell Collegiate
The Telling Room (collections of writing from high school students):
I Remember Warm Rain: 15 Teenagers 15 Coming to America Stories
 Tearing Down the Playground: Neighborhood Stories, Poems, Photographs
I Carry It Everywhere: 50 Teenagers on What Really Matters
Can I Call You Cheesecake? 35 Stories & Poems about Food
How to Climb Trees: 40 Stories and Poems about Play

Stay-in-the-Classroom Books on All Kinds of Things

It’s Complicated: The American Teenager by Robin Bowman
The Hungry Planet: What the World Eats by Peter Menzell
Franz Kafka & Prague by Karol Kallay
The Best American Infographics 2013 edited by Gareth Cook
The Best American Infographics 2014 edited by Nate Silver
They Say/I Say: The Moves that Matter in Academic Writing by Gerald Graff & Cathy
Birkenstein
Pen & Ink: Tattoos & the Stories Behind Them by Isaac Fitzgerald & Wendy
MacNaughton
40 Model Essays by Jane E. Aaron
The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, & Obsession by Davin Grann
Material World: a Global Family Portrait by Peter Menzel
The Art of Walt Disney by Christopher Finch
Lost Souls and Lucky Stiffs and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries by Marilyn Johnson
Humans of New York by Brandon Stanton