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Discussion questions, key themes and reading context for 629 essential books — grouped by category.
Art & Photography
Biography & Memoir
- A Small Place — Jamaica Kincaid
- Angela's Ashes — Frank McCourt
- Becoming — Michelle Obama
- Black Boy — Richard Wright
- Born a Crime — Trevor Noah
- Educated — Tara Westover
- Hunger — Roxane Gay
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings — Maya Angelou
- Just Mercy — Bryan Stevenson
- Know My Name — Chanel Miller
- Maus — Art Spiegelman
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass — Frederick Douglass
- Schindler's Ark — Thomas Keneally
- Steve Jobs — Walter Isaacson
- The Argonauts — Maggie Nelson
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X — Malcolm X
- The Diary of a Young Girl — Anne Frank
- The Glass Castle — Jeannette Walls
- The Volunteer — Jack Fairweather
- The World of Yesterday — Stefan Zweig
- The Year of Magical Thinking — Joan Didion
- This Boy's Life — Tobias Wolff
Business & Economics
Children's
Classics
- A Christmas Carol — Charles Dickens
- A Doll's House — Henrik Ibsen
- A Farewell to Arms — Ernest Hemingway
- A Midsummer Night's Dream — William Shakespeare
- A Passage to India — E.M. Forster
- A Raisin in the Sun — Lorraine Hansberry
- A Streetcar Named Desire — Tennessee Williams
- A Tale of Two Cities — Charles Dickens
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn — Mark Twain
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland — Lewis Carroll
- An Inspector Calls — J.B. Priestley
- Anna Karenina — Leo Tolstoy
- Antigone — Sophocles
- As I Lay Dying — William Faulkner
- Babbitt — Sinclair Lewis
- Bleak House — Charles Dickens
- Brideshead Revisited — Evelyn Waugh
- Chess Story — Stefan Zweig
- Crime and Punishment — Fyodor Dostoevsky
- David Copperfield — Charles Dickens
- Death of a Salesman — Arthur Miller
- Don Quixote — Miguel de Cervantes
- Emma — Jane Austen
- Ethan Frome — Edith Wharton
- Fanny Hill — John Cleland
- Fences — August Wilson
- Ficciones — Jorge Luis Borges
- Frankenstein — Mary Shelley
- Great Expectations — Charles Dickens
- Hamlet — William Shakespeare
- Hard Times — Charles Dickens
- Heart of Darkness — Joseph Conrad
- Howards End — E.M. Forster
- Inferno — Dante Alighieri
- Invisible Cities — Italo Calvino
- Jane Eyre — Charlotte Bronte
- Jude the Obscure — Thomas Hardy
- Julius Caesar — William Shakespeare
- King Lear — William Shakespeare
- Kokoro — Natsume Soseki
- Les Miserables — Victor Hugo
- Little Women — Louisa May Alcott
- Long Day's Journey Into Night — Eugene O'Neill
- Macbeth — William Shakespeare
- Madame Bovary — Gustave Flaubert
- Maurice — E.M. Forster
- Meditations — Marcus Aurelius
- Middlemarch — George Eliot
- Moby-Dick — Herman Melville
- Mrs Dalloway — Virginia Woolf
- My Antonia — Willa Cather
- My Ántonia — Willa Cather
- North and South — Elizabeth Gaskell
- Of Human Bondage — W. Somerset Maugham
- Of Mice and Men — John Steinbeck
- Othello — William Shakespeare
- Our Town — Thornton Wilder
- Paradise Lost — John Milton
- Passing — Nella Larsen
- Pedro Paramo — Juan Rulfo
- Persuasion — Jane Austen
- Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen
- Romeo and Juliet — William Shakespeare
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead — Tom Stoppard
- Sense and Sensibility — Jane Austen
- Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde — Robert Louis Stevenson
- Swann's Way — Marcel Proust
- Tess of the d'Urbervilles — Thomas Hardy
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn — Mark Twain
- The Awakening — Kate Chopin
- The Bookshop — Penelope Fitzgerald
- The Brothers Karamazov — Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Call of the Wild — Jack London
- The Canterbury Tales — Geoffrey Chaucer
- The Catcher in the Rye — J.D. Salinger
- The Cherry Orchard — Anton Chekhov
- The Count of Monte Cristo — Alexandre Dumas
- The Crucible — Arthur Miller
- The Death of Ivan Ilyich — Leo Tolstoy
- The Grapes of Wrath — John Steinbeck
- The Great Gatsby — F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The House of Mirth — Edith Wharton
- The Master and Margarita — Mikhail Bulgakov
- The Mayor of Casterbridge — Thomas Hardy
- The Merchant of Venice — William Shakespeare
- The Metamorphosis — Franz Kafka
- The Mill on the Floss — George Eliot
- The Odyssey — Homer
- The Old Man and the Sea — Ernest Hemingway
- The Picture of Dorian Gray — Oscar Wilde
- The Portrait of a Lady — Henry James
- The Red Badge of Courage — Stephen Crane
- The Red and the Black — Stendhal
- The Scarlet Letter — Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Sun Also Rises — Ernest Hemingway
- The Tempest — William Shakespeare
- The Yellow Wallpaper — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Their Eyes Were Watching God — Zora Neale Hurston
- This Side of Paradise — F. Scott Fitzgerald
- To Kill a Mockingbird — Harper Lee
- To the Lighthouse — Virginia Woolf
- Twelfth Night — William Shakespeare
- Uncle Tom's Cabin — Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Waiting for Godot — Samuel Beckett
- War Horse — Michael Morpurgo
- War and Peace — Leo Tolstoy
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? — Edward Albee
- Wuthering Heights — Emily Bronte
Dystopian
- 1984 — George Orwell
- A Clockwork Orange — Anthony Burgess
- Annihilation — Jeff VanderMeer
- Brave New World — Aldous Huxley
- Catching Fire — Suzanne Collins
- Fahrenheit 451 — Ray Bradbury
- Klara and the Sun — Kazuo Ishiguro
- Mockingjay — Suzanne Collins
- Never Let Me Go — Kazuo Ishiguro
- Oryx and Crake — Margaret Atwood
- Station Eleven — Emily St. John Mandel
- The Giver — Lois Lowry
- The Handmaid's Tale — Margaret Atwood
- The Road — Cormac McCarthy
- The Testaments — Margaret Atwood
- The Windup Girl — Paolo Bacigalupi
- To Paradise — Hanya Yanagihara
Essays
Fantasy
- A Darker Shade of Magic — V.E. Schwab
- A Game of Thrones — George R.R. Martin
- A Wizard of Earthsea — Ursula K. Le Guin
- Good Omens — Neil Gaiman
- Guards! Guards! — Terry Pratchett
- Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell — Susanna Clarke
- Mort — Terry Pratchett
- Northern Lights — Philip Pullman
- Outlander — Diana Gabaldon
- Piranesi — Susanna Clarke
- Stardust — Neil Gaiman
- The Hobbit — J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe — C.S. Lewis
- The Name of the Wind — Patrick Rothfuss
- The Return of the King — J.R.R. Tolkien
- Uprooted — Naomi Novik
Food & Drink
Graphic Novels
Historical Fiction
- All the Light We Cannot See — Anthony Doerr
- Bring Up the Bodies — Hilary Mantel
- Death Comes for the Archbishop — Willa Cather
- Regeneration — Pat Barker
- Tender is the Night — F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Age of Innocence — Edith Wharton
- The Book Thief — Markus Zusak
- The Pillars of the Earth — Ken Follett
- The Warden — Anthony Trollope
- White Fang — Jack London
- Wolf Hall — Hilary Mantel
History
Horror
Literary Fiction
- 1Q84 — Haruki Murakami
- A Brief History of Seven Killings — Marlon James
- A Court of Thorns and Roses — Sarah J. Maas
- A Gentleman in Moscow — Amor Towles
- A Grain of Wheat — Ngugi wa Thiong'o
- A House for Mr Biswas — V.S. Naipaul
- A Little Life — Hanya Yanagihara
- A Man Called Ove — Fredrik Backman
- A Prayer for Owen Meany — John Irving
- A Thousand Splendid Suns — Khaled Hosseini
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn — Betty Smith
- A Visit from the Goon Squad — Jennifer Egan
- About a Boy — Nick Hornby
- Alias Grace — Margaret Atwood
- American Gods — Neil Gaiman
- American Pastoral — Philip Roth
- Americanah — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- An American Marriage — Tayari Jones
- An Officer and a Spy — Robert Harris
- And the Mountains Echoed — Khaled Hosseini
- Angel Down — Daniel Kraus
- Animal Farm — George Orwell
- Annie John — Jamaica Kincaid
- Atonement — Ian McEwan
- Austerlitz — W.G. Sebald
- Autumn — Ali Smith
- Babel — R. F. Kuang
- Beautiful World Where Are You — Sally Rooney
- Bel Canto — Ann Patchett
- Beloved — Toni Morrison
- Big Little Lies — Liane Moriarty
- Birdsong — Sebastian Faulks
- Blackouts — Justin Torres
- Blindness — Jose Saramago
- Blood Meridian — Cormac McCarthy
- Breath Eyes Memory — Edwidge Danticat
- Breathing Lessons — Anne Tyler
- Brick Lane — Monica Ali
- Bridget Jones Diary — Helen Fielding
- Brighton Rock — Graham Greene
- Brokeback Mountain — Annie Proulx
- Brooklyn — Colm Tóibín
- Brooklyn — Colm Toibin
- Brotherless Night — V. V. Ganeshananthan
- Celestial Bodies — Jokha Alharthi
- Ceremony — Leslie Marmon Silko
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory — Roald Dahl
- Chronicle of a Death Foretold — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Circe — Madeline Miller
- Cloud Atlas — David Mitchell
- Commonwealth — Ann Patchett
- Convenience Store Woman — Sayaka Murata
- Daisy Jones and The Six — Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Days Without End — Sebastian Barry
- Demon Copperhead — Barbara Kingsolver
- Dept of Speculation — Jenny Offill
- Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line — Deepa Anappara
- Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead — Olga Tokarczuk
- Dubliners — James Joyce
- East of Eden — John Steinbeck
- Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine — Gail Honeyman
- Enduring Love — Ian McEwan
- Everything I Never Told You — Celeste Ng
- Everything Is Illuminated — Jonathan Safran Foer
- Exit West — Mohsin Hamid
- Fates and Furies — Lauren Groff
- Fingersmith — Sarah Waters
- Flesh — David Szalay
- Flights — Olga Tokarczuk
- Foster — Claire Keegan
- Fourth Wing — Rebecca Yarros
- Freewater — Amina Luqman-Dawson
- Gilead — Marilynne Robinson
- Giovanni's Room — James Baldwin
- Girl, Woman, Other — Bernardine Evaristo
- HHhH — Laurent Binet
- Half of a Yellow Sun — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Hamnet — Maggie O'Farrell
- Her Body and Other Parties — Carmen Maria Machado
- High Fidelity — Nick Hornby
- Home Fire — Kamila Shamsie
- Homegoing — Yaa Gyasi
- Housekeeping — Marilynne Robinson
- How to Be Both — Ali Smith
- Human Acts — Han Kang
- Hungry Ghosts — Kevin Jared Hosein
- In the Distance — Hernan Diaz
- In the Dream House — Carmen Maria Machado
- In the Time of the Butterflies — Julia Alvarez
- Interior Chinatown — Charles Yu
- Invisible Man — Ralph Ellison
- Jade Legacy — Fonda Lee
- James — Percival Everett
- Jesus' Son — Denis Johnson
- Kafka on the Shore — Haruki Murakami
- Kairos — Jenny Erpenbeck
- Kim Jiyoung Born 1982 — Cho Nam-Joo
- Kudos — Rachel Cusk
- Lark — Anthony McGowan
- Less — Andrew Sean Greer
- Lessons in Chemistry — Bonnie Garmus
- Let the Great World Spin — Colum McCann
- Life After Life — Kate Atkinson
- Life of Pi — Yann Martel
- Lincoln in the Bardo — George Saunders
- Little Fires Everywhere — Celeste Ng
- Lolita — Vladimir Nabokov
- Look Both Ways — Jason Reynolds
- Lord Jim — Joseph Conrad
- Love in the Time of Cholera — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- MaddAddam — Margaret Atwood
- Malibu Rising — Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Matilda — Roald Dahl
- Me Before You — Jojo Moyes
- Merci Suarez Changes Gears — Meg Medina
- Middlesex — Jeffrey Eugenides
- Midnight's Children — Salman Rushdie
- Milkman — Anna Burns
- Moth Smoke — Mohsin Hamid
- My Brilliant Friend — Elena Ferrante
- My Name Is Lucy Barton — Elizabeth Strout
- My Name Is Red — Orhan Pamuk
- My Struggle Book 1 — Karl Ove Knausgard
- Nettle and Bone — T. Kingfisher
- Never Mind — Edward St Aubyn
- New Kid — Jerry Craft
- Night Watch — Jayne Anne Phillips
- Nights at the Circus — Angela Carter
- Nine Perfect Strangers — Liane Moriarty
- No Country for Old Men — Cormac McCarthy
- Normal People — Sally Rooney
- Norwegian Wood — Haruki Murakami
- November 9 — Colleen Hoover
- Now We Shall Be Entirely Free — Andrew Miller
- October October — Katya Balen
- On Beauty — Zadie Smith
- On Chesil Beach — Ian McEwan
- On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous — Ocean Vuong
- On the Road — Jack Kerouac
- Orbital — Samantha Harvey
- Outline — Rachel Cusk
- Pachinko — Min Jin Lee
- Paradise — Abdulrazak Gurnah
- Perfume — Patrick Suskind
- Portnoy's Complaint — Philip Roth
- Possession — A.S. Byatt
- Prophet Song — Paul Lynch
- Purple Hibiscus — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Redeployment — Phil Klay
- Room — Emma Donoghue
- Salvage the Bones — Jesmyn Ward
- Shuggie Bain — Douglas Stuart
- Sing Unburied Sing — Jesmyn Ward
- Small Island — Andrea Levy
- Small Rain — Garth Greenwell
- Small Things Like These — Claire Keegan
- Someone You Can Build a Nest In — John Wiswell
- Song of Solomon — Toni Morrison
- Sons and Lovers — D.H. Lawrence
- Sophie's Choice — William Styron
- Spinning Silver — Naomi Novik
- Stoner — John Williams
- Suite Francaise — Irene Nemirovsky
- Sula — Toni Morrison
- Swing Time — Zadie Smith
- Tenth of December — George Saunders
- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian — Sherman Alexie
- The Alchemist — Paulo Coelho
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay — Michael Chabon
- The Amber Spyglass — Philip Pullman
- The Bastard of Istanbul — Elif Shafak
- The Bee Sting — Paul Murray
- The Bloody Chamber — Angela Carter
- The Blue Book of Nebo — Manon Steffan Ros
- The Bluest Eye — Toni Morrison
- The Book of Form and Emptiness — Ruth Ozeki
- The Book of Goose — Yiyun Li
- The Boy Lost in the Maze — Joseph Coelho
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao — Junot Diaz
- The Buddha of Suburbia — Hanif Kureishi
- The Buried Giant — Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Color Purple — Alice Walker
- The Corrections — Jonathan Franzen
- The Covenant of Water — Abraham Verghese
- The Devil Takes You Home — Gabino Iglesias
- The End of the Affair — Graham Greene
- The English Patient — Michael Ondaatje
- The Eyes and the Impossible — Dave Eggers
- The Family Upstairs — Lisa Jewell
- The Famished Road — Ben Okri
- The First State of Being — Erin Entrada Kelly
- The Four Winds — Kristin Hannah
- The Gathering — Anne Enright
- The God of Small Things — Arundhati Roy
- The Golden Notebook — Doris Lessing
- The Goldfinch — Donna Tartt
- The Good Soldier — Ford Madox Ford
- The Great Alone — Kristin Hannah
- The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter — Carson McCullers
- The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store — James McBride
- The Help — Kathryn Stockett
- The House of the Spirits — Isabel Allende
- The House on Mango Street — Sandra Cisneros
- The Human Stain — Philip Roth
- The Joy Luck Club — Amy Tan
- The Kite Runner — Khaled Hosseini
- The Lightning Thief — Rick Riordan
- The Line of Beauty — Alan Hollinghurst
- The Long Take — Robin Robertson
- The Lost Child — Elena Ferrante
- The Luminaries — Eleanor Catton
- The Marriage Portrait — Maggie O'Farrell
- The Mermaid of Black Conch — Monique Roffey
- The Midnight Library — Matt Haig
- The Ministry for the Future — Kim Stanley Robinson
- The Mirror & the Light — Hilary Mantel
- The Namesake — Jhumpa Lahiri
- The Narrow Road to the Deep North — Richard Flanagan
- The Netanyahus — Joshua Cohen
- The New York Trilogy — Paul Auster
- The Nickel Boys — Colson Whitehead
- The Night Watchman — Louise Erdrich
- The Nightingale — Kristin Hannah
- The Only Good Indians — Stephen Graham Jones
- The Overstory — Richard Powers
- The Plague — Albert Camus
- The Poet X — Elizabeth Acevedo
- The Poisonwood Bible — Barbara Kingsolver
- The Power and the Glory — Graham Greene
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie — Muriel Spark
- The Promise — Damon Galgut
- The Quiet American — Graham Greene
- The Rabbit Hutch — Tess Gunty
- The Reader — Bernhard Schlink
- The Reformatory — Tananarive Due
- The Reluctant Fundamentalist — Mohsin Hamid
- The Remains of the Day — Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Safekeep — Yael van der Wouden
- The Satanic Verses — Salman Rushdie
- The Sea — John Banville
- The Sea the Sea — Iris Murdoch
- The Secret History — Donna Tartt
- The Secret Lives of Church Ladies — Deesha Philyaw
- The Secret Scripture — Sebastian Barry
- The Sellout — Paul Beatty
- The Sense of an Ending — Julian Barnes
- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo — Taylor Jenkins Reid
- The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida — Shehan Karunatilaka
- The Shadow of the Wind — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- The Shipping News — Annie Proulx
- The Song of Achilles — Madeline Miller
- The Stone Diaries — Carol Shields
- The Story of a New Name — Elena Ferrante
- The Stranger — Albert Camus
- The Subtle Knife — Philip Pullman
- The Sympathizer — Viet Thanh Nguyen
- The Testament of Mary — Colm Toibin
- The Things They Carried — Tim O'Brien
- The Tin Drum — Gunter Grass
- The Trial — Franz Kafka
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being — Milan Kundera
- The Underground Railroad — Colson Whitehead
- The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry — Rachel Joyce
- The Vanishing Half — Brit Bennett
- The Vegetarian — Han Kang
- The Wasp Factory — Iain Banks
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle — Haruki Murakami
- The World According to Garp — John Irving
- There There — Tommy Orange
- These Days — Lucy Caldwell
- Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay — Elena Ferrante
- Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow — Gabrielle Zevin
- Trainspotting — Irvine Welsh
- Transit — Rachel Cusk
- Trust — Hernan Diaz
- Trust Exercise — Susan Choi
- Verity — Colleen Hoover
- Waiting — Ha Jin
- Waterland — Graham Swift
- We Need New Names — NoViolet Bulawayo
- We Need to Talk About Kevin — Lionel Shriver
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Love — Raymond Carver
- When You Trap a Tiger — Tae Keller
- Where the Crawdads Sing — Delia Owens
- White Noise — Don DeLillo
- White Teeth — Zadie Smith
- Wide Sargasso Sea — Jean Rhys
- Wise Blood — Flannery O'Connor
- Witch King — Martha Wells
- Women in Love — D.H. Lawrence
- Wonder — R.J. Palacio
- Young Mungo — Douglas Stuart
Magical Realism
Mystery & Thriller
- And Then There Were None — Agatha Christie
- Down the River unto the Sea — Walter Mosley
- Five Decembers — James Kestrel
- Gone Girl — Gillian Flynn
- Good Girl, Bad Girl — Michael Robotham
- In the Woods — Tana French
- Magpie Murders — Anthony Horowitz
- Murder on the Orient Express — Agatha Christie
- Notes on an Execution — Danya Kukafka
- Rebecca — Daphne du Maurier
- Still Life — Louise Penny
- The Big Sleep — Raymond Chandler
- The Da Vinci Code — Dan Brown
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo — Stieg Larsson
- The Hound of the Baskervilles — Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Housemaid — Freida McFadden
- The Name of the Rose — Umberto Eco
- The Sign of Four — Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Silent Patient — Alex Michaelides
- The Spy Who Came in from the Cold — John le Carre
- The Tainted Cup — Robert Jackson Bennett
- The Talented Mr. Ripley — Patricia Highsmith
- The Thirty-Nine Steps — John Buchan
- The Woman in White — Wilkie Collins
- We Begin at the End — Chris Whitaker
Nature & Environment
Philosophy
Poetry
Politics & Society
Popular Science
Psychology
- Catch-22 — Joseph Heller
- Flow — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- Lord of the Flies — William Golding
- Man's Search for Meaning — Viktor Frankl
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest — Ken Kesey
- Outliers — Malcolm Gladwell
- Quiet — Susan Cain
- The Body Keeps the Score — Bessel van der Kolk
- The Bostonians — Henry James
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat — Oliver Sacks
- The Sound and the Fury — William Faulkner
- The Waves — Virginia Woolf
- Thinking, Fast and Slow — Daniel Kahneman
Religion & Spirituality
Romance
Science Fiction
- 2001: A Space Odyssey — Arthur C. Clarke
- A Master of Djinn — P. Djeli Clark
- A Memory Called Empire — Arkady Martine
- A Song for a New Day — Sarah Pinsker
- Cat's Cradle — Kurt Vonnegut
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? — Philip K. Dick
- Dune — Frank Herbert
- Foundation — Isaac Asimov
- Kindred — Octavia Butler
- Network Effect — Martha Wells
- Neuromancer — William Gibson
- Parable of the Sower — Octavia Butler
- Project Hail Mary — Andy Weir
- Slaughterhouse-Five — Kurt Vonnegut
- System Collapse — Martha Wells
- The Children of Men — P.D. James
- The City We Became — N.K. Jemisin
- The City in the Middle of the Night — Charlie Jane Anders
- The Dispossessed — Ursula K. Le Guin
- The Fifth Season — N.K. Jemisin
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — Douglas Adams
- The Kaiju Preservation Society — John Scalzi
- The Last Cuentista — Donna Barba Higuera
- The Left Hand of Darkness — Ursula K. Le Guin
- The Man in the High Castle — Philip K. Dick
- The Martian — Andy Weir
- The Mercy of Gods — James S.A. Corey
- The Saint of Bright Doors — Vajra Chandrasekera
- The Stone Sky — N. K. Jemisin
- The Time Machine — H.G. Wells
- The War of the Worlds — H.G. Wells
- We — Yevgeny Zamyatin
Self-Improvement
Short Stories
Sport
Travel
True Crime
Young Adult
- A Good Girl's Guide to Murder — Holly Jackson
- Divergent — Veronica Roth
- Flowers for Algernon — Daniel Keyes
- Hatchet — Gary Paulsen
- Holes — Louis Sachar
- Looking for Alaska — John Green
- Six of Crows — Leigh Bardugo
- The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents — Terry Pratchett
- The Bell Jar — Sylvia Plath
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time — Mark Haddon
- The Fault in Our Stars — John Green
- The Graveyard Book — Neil Gaiman
- The Hate U Give — Angie Thomas
- The Hunger Games — Suzanne Collins
- The Outsiders — S.E. Hinton
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower — Stephen Chbosky
- Things Fall Apart — Chinua Achebe
- Where the Red Fern Grows — Wilson Rawls