The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood

The Color Purple, by Alice Walker

Copper Sun, by Sharon M. Draper

1984, by George Orwell

The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck

The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair

The Guns of the South, by Harry Turtledove

Andromeda Strain, by Michael Crichton

Mapping the Bones, by Jane Yolen

Kim, by Rudyard Kipling

High School Society of One, by Antranig Dereyan

Mister Death’s Blue-Eyed Girls, by Mary Downing Hahn

The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins

Proud: Living My American Dream, by Ibtihaj Muhammad (biography)

The Right Stuff, by Tom Wolfe (NF)

Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo

Pet by Akwaeke Emezi

Love from A to Z by S.K. Ali

Not So Pure and Simple by Lamar Giles

Let Me Hear a Rhyme by Tiffany Jackson

All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson

Stamped by Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds

Slay by Brittney Morris

Like a Love Story by Abdi Namezian

Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribray

We Are Not From Here by Jenny Torres Sanchez

Sadie by Courtney Summers

Dragon Hoops by Gene Luen Yang

A Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

A Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon

1984 by George Orwell

Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah

The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

The Book Thief by Markus Zuzak

Looking for Alaska by John Green

The Kite Runner by Khaled Housseini

I Am Malala by Christina Lamb and Malala Yousafzai

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Does My Head Look Big in This? by Randa Abdel-Fattah

Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

Bossypants by Tina Fey

Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell

She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb

The Right Stuff, by Tom Wolfe (NF)

Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo

Pet by Akwaeke Emezi

Love from A to Z by S.K. Ali

Not So Pure and Simple by Lamar Giles

Let Me Hear a Rhyme by Tiffany Jackson

All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson

Stamped by Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds

Slay by Brittney Morris

Like a Love Story by Abdi Namezian

Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribray

We Are Not From Here by Jenny Torres Sanchez

Sadie by Courtney Summers

Dragon Hoops by Gene Luen Yang