By Genre

Sci-Fi

• Free to Fall by Lauren Miller
• The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey
• Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
• Adaptation by Malinda Lo
• Legend by Marie Lu
• The Abyss Surrounds Us by Emily Skrutskie
• Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
• Scythe by Neal Shusterman
• Rebel Seoul by Axie Oh
• Proxy by Alex London
• On the Edge of Gone by Corinne Duyvis
• Not Your Sidekick by C.B. Lee
• Matched by Ally Condie
• Want by Cindy Pon
• Parallel by Lauren Miller
• The loop by Ben Oliver
• The apocalypse of Elena Mendoza by Shaun David Hutchinson
• Me, myself & him by Chris Tebbetts
• Queen’s shadow by E.K. Johnston
• Honor bound by Rachel Caine & Ann Aguirre
• The Kingdom by Jess Rothenberg
• Once & future by Amy Rose Capetta and Cori McCarthy
• Girls with sharp sticks by Suzanne Young

-Fantasy

• Graceling by Kristin Cashore
• The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
• Ruin of Stars by Linsey Miller
• The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
• The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling
• The Star-Touched Queen by Roshani Chokshi
• Shadowshaper by Daniel Jose Older
• Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
• Sabriel by Garth Nix
• The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
• Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
• Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
• A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
• An Enchantment of Ravens by Margaret Rogerson
• Uprooted by Naomi Novik
• Coraline by Neil Gaiman
• Seraphina by Rachel Hartman
• The Reader by Traci Chee
• Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
• Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor
• Forest of A Thousand Lanterns by Julie C. Dao
• Throne of Glass by Sarah J Maas
• Scythe by Neal Shusterman
• The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton

Romance

• To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han
• Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
• Delirium by Lauren Oliver
• Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
• The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
• Hush, hush by Becca Fitzpatrick
• My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick
• Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles
• Pushing the Limits by Katie McGarry
• The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith
• The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han
• The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen
• When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon
• Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour
• Queens of Geek by Jen Wilde
• Royals by Rachel Hawkins
• Simons Vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
• Let’s Talk About Love by Claire Kann
• To Be Honest by Maggie Ann Martin
• American Panda by Gloria Chao

Historical Fiction 

• A Great And Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
• A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly
• Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
• Burn Baby Burn by Meg Medina
• Dreamland Burning by Jennifer Latham
• Give Me Some Truth by Eric Gansworth
• Jazz Owls: a novel of the Zoot Suit Riots by Margarita Engle
• Nothing But Sky by Amy Trueblood
• Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys
• Scar Boys by Len Vlahos
• The Tightrope Walkers by David Almond
• What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell
• X: a novel by Ilyasah Shabazz with Kekla Magoon
• Blood and Ink by Stephen Davies
• The House of One Thousand Eyes by Michelle Barker
• The Last Execution by Jesper Wung-Sung

Set before 1900 

• Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
• Flame in the Mist by Renée Ahdieh
• Little Women by Louisa M. Alcott
• Forge by Laurie H Anderson
• The Kingdom on the Waves by M.T. Anderson
• My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand
• An Assassin’s Guide to Love and Treason by Virginia Boecker
• Blood Water Paint Joy McCullough
• Alex and Eliza by Melissa de la Cruz
• Blood and Sand by C.V. Wyk
• Dodger by Terry Pratchett
• Dread Nation: rise up by Justina Ireland
• My Name is not Friday by Jon Walter
• Under a Painted Sky by Stacey Lee

WWII 

• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
• The Boy In The Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
• What the Night Sings by Vesper Stamper
• My Real Name is Hanna by Tara Lynn Masih
• All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
• The Berlin Boxing Club by Robert Sharenow
• Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
• Girl in the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse
• Rose Under Fire by Elizabeth Wein
• Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys

Short Stories

• Flying Lessons and Other Stories edited by Ellen Oh
• Let It Snow by John Green, Maureen Johnson, Lauren Myracle
• Meet Cute: Some People Are Destined to Meet
• The language of thorns : midnight tales and dangerous magic by Leigh Bardugo
• Black enough: stories of being young & black in America edited by Ibi Zoboi
• Unbroken: 13 stories starring disabled teens edited by Marieke Nijkamp
• All out: the no-longer-secret stories of queer teens throughout the ages edited by Saundra Mitchell
• The radical element: 12 stories of daredevils, debutantes, and other dauntless girls edited by Jessica Spotswood
• Because you love to hate me: 13 tales of villainy edited by Ameriie
• Slasher Girls & Monster Boys by April Genevieve Tucholke

Poetry

• Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur
• The Realm of Possibility by David Levithan
• If They Come For Us by Fatimah Asghar
• One last word: wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance by Nikki Grimes
• Gmorning, gnight! : little pep talks for you and me by Lin-Manuel Miranda
• For everyone by Jason Reynolds
• Poisoned apples: poems for you, my pretty by Christine Heppermann
• To this day: for the bullied and beautiful by Shane Koyczan
• The surrender tree: poems of Cuba’s struggle for freedom by Margarita Engle
• Please excuse this poem: 100 new poets for the next generation
• I don’t want to be crazy by Samantha Schutz
• The rose that grew from concrete by Tupac Amaru Shakur
• Take me with you by Andrea Gibson

Humor

• Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
• Bossypants by Tina Fey
• I believe in a thing called love by Maurene Goo
• The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish
• One Man Guy by Michael Barakiva
• Spud by John van de Ruit
• Struck by lightning: the Carson Phillips journal by Chris Colfer
• The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
• Rebel with a Cupcake by Anna Mainwaring
• Winger by Andrew Smith
• Evil Librarian by Michelle Knudsen
• Boys Don’t Knit (in Public) by T.S. Easton
• Kill the Boy Band by Goldy Moldavsky
• Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison
• Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews

Mystery

• Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson
• Broken Things by Lauren Oliver
• The Truth Lies Here by Lindsey Klingele
• Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson
• Sadie by Courtney Summers
• Before I Let Go by Marieke Nijkamp
• One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus
• A Study in Charlotte by Brittany Cavallaro
• We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
• Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard
• I Am Princess X by Cherie Priest
• Bone Gap by Laura Ruby
• I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak

Horror

• Through the woods by Emily Carroll
• Devils Unto Dust by Emma Berquist
• The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert
• Asylum by Madeleine Roux
• Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake
• Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
• The Madman’s Daughter by Megan Shepherd
• A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
• Rot & Ruin by Jonathan Maberry
• The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black
• Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand
• And the Trees Crept In by Dawn Kurtagich
• House of Furies by Madeleine Roux
• The Call by Peadar Ó Guilín
• Coraline by Neil Gaiman
• The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff
• As I Descended by Robin Talley
• Daughters Unto Devils by Amy Lukavics 
• My Sister Rosa by Justine Larbalestier

last updated 6/6/20