Recommended Books from 2025 Reading:
Lap Cat — Joren Cull
Devin’s Gift — Alana Tyson, et. al.
Crunch — Leslie Connor
Moll Flanders — Daniel Defoe
The Disappointment — Scott Broker
This Is the Year — Gloria Muñoz
The Trouble Up North — Travis Mulhauser
Now You Say Yes — Bill Harley
Service Model — Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Ones Who Don’t Say They Love You — Maurice Carlos Ruffin
The Metamorphosis — Franz Kafka
Dive — John David Anderson
Main Street — Britt Hawthorne, et. al.
Moon Sailors — Naomi Woodward, et. al.
There Is Not Usually a Hole — Daisy Hirst
Sorry, Sammy — Scott Rothman, et. al.
School of Shards — Marina Dyachenko, et. al.
I Am Jazz — Jazz Jennings, et. al.
Miss Nelson Is Missing! — Harry Allard, et. al.
Bringing Back Kay-Kay — Dev Kothari
Return to Sender — Vera Brosgol
Out of Left Field — Ellen Klages
On the Run — Tristan Bancks
Jane Eyre — Charlotte Brontë
Woodworking — Emily St. James
Buddenbrooks — Thomas Mann
The Book of Shame — Zach M. Stafford
No Shelter But the Stars — Virginia Black
The Great Gatsby — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ardent Violet and the Infinite Eye — Alex White
Dirtbag Queen — Andy Corren

Recommended Books from 2024 Reading:
The Curse of the Dead Man’s Diamond — Christyne Morrell
A Strange Thing Happened in Cherry Hall — Jasmine Warga
If I Survive You — Jonathan Escoffery
The Many Fortunes of Maya — Nicole D. Collier
August Kitko and the Mechas from Space — Alex White
How to Stay Invisible — Maggie C Rudd
Our Evenings — Alan Hollinghurst
The Most — Jessica Anthony
Our Lake — Angie Kang
The View from the Very Best House in Town — Meera Trehan
Mina’s Matchbox — Yōko Ogawa
The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels — Beth Lincoln
The Edge of the Silver Sea — Alex Mullarky
Not Another Banned Book — Dana Alison Levy
The Mystery of Locked Rooms — Lindsay Currie
Ultraviolet — Aida Salazar
My So-Called Family — Gia Gordon
Pig the Pug — Aaron Blabey
Breaking into Sunlight — John Cochran
Winnie Nash Is Not Your Sunshine — Nicole Melleby
The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman — Gennifer Choldenko
The Outsiders — SE Hinton
The Mango Tree — Annabelle Tometich
James — Percival Everett
Gravity Falls: Journal 3 — Alex Hirsch
Keep It Like a Secret — John David Anderson
Benny Ramirez and the Nearly Departed — José Pablo Iriarte
The Popol Vuh — Anonymous (trans. by Michael Bazzett)
Poor Deer — Claire Oshetsky
The Woman in Me — Britney Spears
The Adversary — Michael Crummey
The Curse of Eelgrass Bog — Mary Averling

Recommended Books from 2023 Reading:
The Restaurant Inspector — Alex Pickett
Dear Mothman — Robin Gow
These Burning Stars — Bethany Jacobs
How to Fight — Thich Nhat Hanh
Women of the Post — Joshunda Sanders
Dearborn — Ghassan Zeineddine
Lucky Red — Claudia Cravens
The Book of Delights — Ross Gay
The Infinite Miles — Hannah Fergesen
Ice Cream Man #1 — Maxwell W. Prince
The Spare Man — Mary Robinette Kowal
Beyond the Gender Binary — ALOK
The Curse on Spectacle Key — Chantel Acevedo
Assassin of Reality — Marina Dyachenko
The New Life — Tom Crewe
Deaf Utopia — Nyle DiMarco
The Greatest Kid in the World — John David Anderson

Recommended Books from 2022 Reading:
Shards of Earth — Adrian Tchaikovsky
Vita Nostra — Marina Dyachenko, et. al.
Ana on the Edge — A.J. Sass
Too Bright to See — Kyle Lukoff
I Kissed Shara Wheeler — Casey McQuiston
Fins — Randy Wayne White
Roadside Picnic — Arkady Strugatsky, et. al.
When I’m Gone, Look for Me in the East — Quan Barry
Alec — William di Canzio
Afterparties — Anthony Veasna So
Trust — Hernan Diaz
All Day Is a Long Time — David Sanchez
Long Way Round: Through the Heartland by River — John Hildebrand
The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle — Matt Cain
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow — Gabrielle Zevin
Bolla — Pajtim Statovci
The Bruising of Qilwa — Naseem Jamnia
Star Wars: A New Hope Screenplay — George Lucas

Recommended Books from 2021 Reading:
Loving Che — Ana Menéndez
The Ship We Built — Lexie Bean
Jacob’s New Dress — Sarah Hoffman
The Insiders — Mark Oshiro
Parable of the Sower — Octavia E. Butler
The Darkness Outside Us — Eliot Schrefer
Harbinger — David Mack
Stowaway — John David Anderson
Flamer — Mike Curato
The Counterclockwise Heart — Brian Farrey
The Sum of Us — Heather McGhee
At the Edge of the Universe — Shaun David Hutchinson
Yesterday Is History — Kosoko Jackson
Duma Key — Stephen King
Nate the Great — Marjorie Weinman Sharmat
My Cat Yugoslavia — Pajtim Statovci
Punch Me up to the Gods — Brian Broome
The Tales of the City complete series — Armistead Maupin
The Spectacular Suit — Kat Patrick
A Separate Peace — John Knowles
Let’s Get Back to the Party — Zak Salih
The Grace of Kings — Ken Liu
Starfish — Lisa Fipps
A Very Punchable Face — Colin Jost
I Am Not a Penguin: A Pangolin’s Lament — Liz Wong
Surrender Your Sons — Adam Sass
Mirrorland — Carole Johnstone
Dolores Claiborne — Stephen King
One Last Shot — John David Anderson
In the Dream House — Carmen Maria Machado
Last Night at the Telegraph Club — Malinda Lo
Pulp Fiction (screenplay) — Quentin Tarantino
Eyes Wide Shut (screenplay) — Stanley Kubrick
The Scapegracers — Hannah Abigial Clarke
The Da Vinci Code (screenplay) — Akiva Goldsman
Piranesi — Susanna Clarke

Recommended Books from 2020 Reading:
Being Jazz — Jazz Jennings
The Black Flamingo — Dean Atta
Shots Fired — C.J. Box
We Die Alone — David Howarth
Resistance — Tori Amos
Camp — L.C. Rosen
The Assignment — Liza M. Wiemer
Nowhere to Run — C.J. Box
Rivers of Power — Laurence C. Smith
The Wanting Life — Mark Rader
Below Zero — C.J. Box
Blood Trail — C.J. Box
Free Fire — C.J. Box
In Plain Sight — C.J. Box
Conventionally Yours — Annabeth Albert
Out of Range — C.J. Box
Trophy Hunt — C.J. Box
How to Light Your Dragon — Didier Lévy, et. al.
The Dutch House — Ann Patchett
The Sociology Book — Sean Atkinson, et. al.
Shy Ones — Simona Ciraolo
Darius the Great Is Not OK — Adib Khorram
No Pants! — Jacob Grant
The Wild One — Nick Petrie
This Town Sleeps — Dennis E. Staples
Murder at the Mena House — Erica Ruth Neubauer
New Kid — Jerry Craft
Butts Are Everywhere — Jonathan Stutzman
Finding Orion — John David Anderson
The Last Best Hope — Una McCormack
The Great Pumpkin Contest — Angela Rozelaar
Museum Trip — Barbara Lehman
The Magic Grinder — Walt Disney
Bugs Bunny’s Carrot Machine — Clark Carlisle, et. al.
Long Way Down — Jason Reynolds

Recommended Books from 2019 Reading:
The Dead Zone — Stephen King
Pine & Boof: Blast Off! — Ross Burach
Where Is My Balloon? — Ariel Bernstein
The Stand — Stephen King
Their Eyes Were Watching God — Zora Neale Hurston
GodPretty in the Tobacco Field — Kim Michele Richardson
HoodWitch — Faylita Hicks
The Second Home — Christina Clancy
A House of Ghosts — W.C. Ryan
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek — Kim Michele Richardson
The Gravity of Us — Phil Stamper
A High Five for Glenn Burke — Phil Bildner
The Caregiver — Samuel Park
Old Rock — Deb Pilutti
Nanopedia — Charles Jensen
Into That Good Night — Levis Keltner
Julian is a Mermaid — Jessica Love
How Not to Ask a Boy to Prom — SJ Goslee
Tear It Down — Nick Petrie
The Inexplicable Logic of My Life — Benjamin Alire Sáenz
With the Fire on High — Elizabeth Acevedo
The Astronaut Who Painted the Moon — Dean Robbins, Sean Rubin
Chomp — Carl Hiaasen
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter — Erika Sánchez
Soon the Light Will Be Perfect — Dave Patterson
Monster — Walter Dean Myers
Brute-Cake — Troy Cummings
I Wish You All the Best — Mason Deaver
The Parker Inheritance — Varian Johnson
The Blackhouse — Peter May
The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali — Sabina Khan
The Mystery of Black Hollow Lane — Julia Nobel
Hello, Universe — Erin Entrada Kelly
The Crossword Century — Alan Connor
The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle — Leslie Connor
Lemons — Melissa Savage
Beyond the Bright Sea — Lauren Wolk
When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities — Chen Chen
The Return — Natalia Chernysheva
Owen at the Park — Scot Ritchie
Home in the Woods — Eliza Wheeler
Once Upon a River — Diane Setterfield
One Fox — Kate Read
Kevin the Unicorn — Jessika Von Innerebner
The Space Walk — Brian Biggs
The Lamp from the Warlock’s Tomb — John Bellairs
The Curse of the Blue Figurine — John Bellairs
It Wasn’t Me — Dana Alison Levy
The Eyes of the Killer Robot — John Bellairs
Hurricane Child — Kheryn Callender
The Music of What Happens — Bill Konigsberg
The Perks of Being a Wallflower — Stephen Chbosky
All Systems Red — Martha Wells
Artificial Condition — Martha Wells
Rogue Protocol — Martha Wells
Exit Strategy — Martha Wells
The Doom of the Haunted Opera — John Bellairs, et. al.
Horse Meets Dog — Elliott Kalan

Recommended Books from 2018 Reading:
How to Be Successful without Hurting Men’s Feelings — Sarah Cooper
The Ghost in the Mirror — John Bellairs / Brad Strickland
Pulp — Robin Talley
The Stars Beneath Our Feet — David Barclay Moore
Felix Yz — Lisa Bunker
The Dangerous Art of Blending In — Angelo Surmelis
My Year of Rest and Relaxation — Ottessa Moshfegh
The Sheriff of Yrnameer — Michael Rubens
The Ghost Notebooks — Ben Dolnick
There There — Tommy Orange
Bury It — Sam Sax
Indecency — Justin Phillip Reed
The Long-Lost Home — Maryrose Wood
The Wright Brothers — David McCullough
Articles of the Federation — Keith R. A. DeCandido
When My Brother Was an Aztec — Natalie Diaz
Don’t Call Us Dead — Danez Smith
The Adventures of Don Quixote — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Writing Radar — Jack Gantos
Children of Time — Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Backstagers Vol 1 and 2 — James Tynion IV
Mark of the Plague — Kevin Sands
Love Slaves of Helen Hadley Hall — James Magruder
The Names of the Stars — Pete Fromm
Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys: The Big Lie — Anthony Del Col
Leaving Orbit — Margaret Lazarus Dean
Boy Erased — Garrard Conley
If I Was Your Girl — Meredith Russo
Bud, Not Buddy — Christopher Paul Curtis
Saga Vol. 1 — Brian K. Vaughan

Recommended Books from 2017 Reading:
Autoboyography — Christina Lauren
The Notebooks of Doom Series — Troy Cummings
Highly Illogical Behavior — John Corey Whaley
Read the Book, Lemmings! — Ame Dyckman
When I Was the Greatest — Jason Reynolds
The Bitter Side of Sweet — Tara Sullivan
Pretty — Justin Sayre
Made for Love — Alissa Nutting
Seedfolks — Paul Fleischman
Killers of the Flower Moon — David Grann
The Immortalists — Chloe Benjamin
Creativity, Inc. — Ed Catmull
Rules — Cynthia Lord
The Blinds — Adam Sternbergh
The Wonder — Emma Donoghue
Creepy Pair of Underwear! — Aaron Reynolds
Black Boy — Richard Wright
Sparks — Ian Boothby
Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag — Rob Sanders
Girl Mans Up — M-E Girard
On Directing Film — David Mamet
Hey Black Child — Useni Eugene Perkins
When Pigs Fly — James Burks
Recombinant — Ching-In Chen
How to Survive as a Firefly — Kristen Foote
Alan Cole Is Not a Coward — Eric Bell
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running — Haruki Murakami
The Store — James Patterson
Echo Burning — Lee Child
A Most Magical Girl — Karen Foxlee
Meddling Kids — Edgar Cantero
Mort(e) — Robert Repino
The Hate U Give — Angie Thomas
Sparkle Boy — Lesléa Newman
This Would Make a Good Story Someday — Dana Alison Levy
The Teacher’s Pet — Anica Mrose Rissi
Flowers for Sarajevo — John McCutcheon
Suite Française — Irène Némirovsky
Posted — John David Anderson
Rulers of the Playground — Joseph Kuefler
Tidy — Emily Gravett
Zebra on the Go — Jill Nogales
Toot — Leslie Patricelli
The Hall of Heroes (Prey #3) — John Jackson Miller
Shark Lady — Jess Keating
The Nightingale — Kristin Hannah
Angelo Badalamenti’s Soundtrak from Twin Peaks — Clare Nina Norelli
The Secret History of Twin Peaks — Mark Frost
The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer — Jennifer Lynch
The Redemption of Galen Pike — Carys Davies
The Painter — Peter Heller
Hatchet — Gary Paulsen

Recommended Books from 2016 Reading:
The Last Spell (Thickety #4) — J.A. White
The Secret of Black Rock — Joe Todd-Stanton
I’m Awake! — Maxwell Eaton III
Project Alpha (Voyagers #1) — D.J. McHale
Heart 2 Heart — Lois Ehlert
Shotgun Lovesongs — Nickolas Butler
Margaret and the Moon — Dean Robbins
The Map to Everywhere (#1) — Carrie Ryan
Trash — Andy Mulligan
The Room — Jonas Karlsson
The Jackal’s Trick (Prey #2) — John Jackson Miller
Hell’s Heart (Prey #1) — John Jackson Miller
The Shadow of the Wind — Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The Fishermen — Chigozie Obioma
Daring Greatly — Brené Brown
Rising Strong — Brené Brown
The Other Boy — M.G. Hennessey
Burning Bright (Peter Ash #2) — Nick Petrie
My Life on the Road — Gloria Steinem
Hollow Earth — Carole E. Barrowman
Pirate Hunters — Robert Kurson
The Gunslinger — Jeff Pearlman
The Blackthorn Key — Kevin Sands
Revival — Stephen King
Between the World and Me — Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Watermelon Seed — Greg Pizzoli
The Wild Robot — Peter Brown
Wonder — R.J. Palacio
Bring Me a Rock! — Daniel Miyares
Holes — Louis Sachar
When You Reach Me — Rebecca Stead
Wildwood (#1) — Colin Meloy
Magic Marks the Spot (Very Nearly Honorable League of Pirates #1) — Caroline Carlson
Midnight Sun — Jo Nesbø
Nightbird — Alica Hoffman
Bridge to Terabithia — Katherine Paterson
Slade House — David Mitchell
Ferals #1 — Jacob Grey
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy — Douglas Adams
To Rise Again at a Decent Hour — Joshua Ferris
Iron Hearted Violet — Kelly Barnhill
The Drifter (Peter Ash #1) — Nicholas Petrie
Tom Sullivan — I Used to Be a Fish
Alan’s Big, Scary Teeth — Jarvis
The Key That Swallowed Joey Pigza — Jack Gantos
George — Alex Gino
Home at Last — Vera B. Williams
The Knife — Ross Ritchell
Insert Coin to Continue — John David Anderson
Ms. Bixby’s Last Day — John David Anderson
Shady Hollow — Juneau Black
Sea Change — Frank Viva
Gabriel Finney and the Raven’s Riddle — George Hagen
The Loney — Andrew Michael Hurley
Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy — Karen Foxlee
Boy and Bot — Ame Dyckman
Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille — Jen Bryant
Waiting for the Biblioburro/Esperando el Biblioburro — Monica Brown
The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend — Katarina Bivald
A Man Called Ove — Fredrik Backman
Archie Snufflekins Oliver Valentine Cupcake Tiberius Cat — Katie Harnett
Book of the Dead (Tombquest #1) — Michael Northrop
Justin / Blacktop #1 — LJ Alonge
Blood on Show — Jo Nesbø
Half Magic (Tales of Magic #1) — Edward Eager
Masterminds #1 — Gordon Korman
Nightmares! — Jason Segel
Doctor Who: Borrowed Time — Naomi Alderman
Ogres Awake! — James Sturm
The Laughing Monsters — Denis Johnson
Stick Cat: A Tail of Two Kitties — Tom Watson
Galactic Hot Dogs 2: The Wiener Strikes Back — Max Brallier
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk — Ben Fountain
The Princess and the Pony — Kate Beaton
The Family Fletcher Takes Rock Island — Dana Alison Levy

Recommended Books from 2014 / 2015 Reading:
Gregor the Overlander — Suzanne Collins
Gregor & the Prophecy of Bane — Suzanne Collins
Gregor & the Curse of the Warmbloods — Suzanne Collins
In Another Country — David Constantine
Enormous Smallness — Matthew Burgess, Kris Di Giacomo
The Mysterious Howling — Maryrose Wood
The Hidden Gallery — Maryrose Wood
The Unseen Guest — Maryrose Wood
The Interrupted Tale — Maryrose Wood
The Unmapped Sea — Maryrose Wood
The Thickety — JA White
The Mysterious Benedict Society — Trenton Lee Stewart
The Riverman — Aaron Starmer
Heap House — Edward Carey
Observatory Mansions — Edward Carey
The Book of  Three — Lloyd Alexander
The Black Cauldron — Lloyd Alexander
The City of Ember — Jeanne DuPrau
The Misadventures of the Family Fletcher — Dana Alison Levy
Did You Ever Have a Family — Bill Clegg
Tuck Everlasting — Natalie Babbitt
Medicine Walk — Richard Wagamese
The Fifth Gospel — Ian Caldwell
Hold Me Closer — David Levithan
The Last Wild — Piers Torday
Wonderstruck — Brian Selznick
The Invention of Hugo Cabret — Brian Selznick
A Cure for Suicide — Jesse Ball
Of Things Gone Astray — Janina Matthewson
Minion — John David Anderson
All the Old Knives — Olen Steinhauer
Up in Here — Mark Dostert
Between You & Me — Mary Norris
The Iron Trial — Cassandra Clare, Holly Black
She Weeps Each Time You’re Born — Quan Barry
Sweetland — Michael Crummey
Marianne Malone — The Sixty-Eight Rooms
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda — Becky Albertalli
Sam and Dave Dig a Hole — Mac Barnett, Jon Klassen
Hug Me — Simona Ciraolo
All the Light We Cannot See — Anthony Doerr
The Dream of My Return — Horacio Castellanos Moya
Tarantula — Bob Dylan
Train Dreams — Denis Johnson
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe — Benjamin Alier Sáenz
Fan Art — Sarah Tregay
Does Not Love — James Tadd Adcox
Man V. Nature — Diane Cook
Monastery — Eduardo Halfon
Alphabet — Kathy Page
Paradise & Elsewhere — Kathy Page
Epilogue — Will Boast
My Brother’s Shadow — Tom Avery
The Turtle of Oman — Naomi Shihab Ne
Evel Knievel Days — Pauls Toutonghi
Will Grayson, Will Grayson — John Green, David Levithan
One Man Guy — Michael Barakiva
The Scatter Here Is Too Great — Bilal Tanweer
Woke Up Lonely — Fiona Maazel
The Phone Book — Ammon Shea
Of Mice and Men — John Steinbeck
A Game of Thrones — George R. R. Martin
Nimona — Noelle Stevenson
A Study in Charlotte — Brittany Cavallaro