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My book reviews


Listed: Reviewed books on this blog from July 2009 to present. Sorted by author. 
Reviews are hyperlinked. 
Last update was February 15, 2025.

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Abdurraqib, Hanif, Peter Kahn, and Dan "Sully" Sullivan. Respect the Mic: Celebrating 20 Years of Poetry from a Chicagoland High School
Acevedo, Elizabeth. 
    --- Clap When You Land
    --- Inheritance: A Visual Poem + 2
    ---The Poet X
    ---With the Fire on High
Ackmann, Martha. These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments In the Making of Emily Dickinson
Adams, Douglas. 
      ---The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
      --- The Restaurant At the End of Universe
Adams, Sara Nisha. The Reading List.
Adeyemi, Tomi. The Daughter of Blood and Bone
Agee, James. A Death in the Family
Ahdieh, Renee. The Wrath and the Dawn.
Aidan, Pamela.
---An Assembly Such as This.
---These Three Remain.
Albert, Melissa. The Hazel Wood.
Albertalli, Becky. Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda.
Albom, Mitch. 
      ---The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto
      ---The Time Keeper
Alcott, Louisa May. Little Women
Alexander, Kwame. 
    ---The Crossover.
    ---The Door of No Return
    ---Light for the World to See
Alexie, Sherman.
---Flight.
---War Dances.
---You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
Allare, Christian. The Power of Style: How Fashion and Beauty Are Being Used to Reclaim Culture
Allende, Isabel.
    ---The Japanese Lover
    ---A Long Petal of the Sea
Almellehan, Muzoon with Wendy Pearlman. Muzoon: A Syrian Refugee Speaks Out
Almond. David. The Tightrope Walkers.
Anaya, Rudolfo. Bless Me, Ultima.
Anderson, Carol with Tonya Bolden. One Person No Vote: How Not All Voters are Treated Equally
Anderson, Jodi Lynne. Midnight at the Electric
Anderson, Laurie Halse. 
      ----The Impossible Knife of Memory.
      ---- Shout: a Memoir
      ---- Speak: A Graphic Novel
Anderson, M.T.
 ----Burger Wuss.
       ----Symphony for the City of the Dead: Shostakovich and the Siege on Leningrad.
       ----Yvain: The Knight of the Lion
Anderson, Natalie. City of Saints and Thieves
Anderson, Sherman. Winesburg, Ohio
Andrews, Jesse. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl.
Angel, Ann. Janis Joplin: Rise Up Singing.
Angelou, Maya. His Day Is Done: A Nelson Mandela Tribute
Applegate, Katherine. Odder
Arden, Katherine. The Bear and the Nightingale
Arnold, David. Mosquitoland.
Arnold. Elena K. Damsel
Aronson, Mark and Susan Campbell Bartoletti. 1968
Aslan, Reza. Zealot.
Atkins, Jeannine. Hidden Powers: Lise Meisner's Call to Science
Atkinson, Kate. 
     ---Life After Life
     ---Shrines of Gaiety
     --- Transcription
Attenborough, David. A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
Atwood, Margaret. 
      --- The Blind Assassin
      --- Dearly: New Poems
      --- The Testaments
      ---The Year of the Flood.
Austen, Jane.
        ---Emma.
----Mansfield Park.
--- Pride and Prejudice
----Sense and Sensibility ; Sense and Sensibility a comparison review)
Austen, Jane and Nancy Butler. Northanger Abbey: a Graphic Novel
Austen, Jane and Seth Graham-Smith, Tony Lee, illustrated by Cliff Richards. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: a Graphic Novel.
Avasthi, Swati. Split.
Avery, Lara. The Memory Book.
Aylmer, Janet. Darcy’s Story.
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Bachorz, Pam. Candor.
Bacigalupi, Paolo. Ship Breaker.
Backman, Fredrik.
    --- Anxious People
    --- Beartown
    --- A Man Called Ove
Baer, Kate. I Hope This Finds You Well: Poems
Bagieu, Penelope. Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World
Baker, Jo. Longbourn
Baldwin, James.
    ---Giovanni's Room
    ---If Beale Street Could Talk
Barber, William, J., Rev. Dr. We Are Called to Be a Movement
Barbery, Muriel. 
     ---The Elegance of the Hedgehog.
     ---Gourmet Rhapsody
Barnes, Johns. Tales of the Madman Underground.
Barnhill, Kelly. 
    ---The Girl Who Drank the Moon.
    --- When Women Were Dragons
Barry, Lynda. One! Hundred! Demons!
Bartoletti, Susan Campbell. They Called Themselves the K.K.K.
Bascomb, Neal. The Grand Escape: The Greatest Prison Breakout of the 20th Century 
Bauermeister, Erica. House Lessons: Renovating a Life
Bausum, Ann. The March Against Fear
Bedford, Martyn. Never Ending.
Benicia, Carlyn. They Lost Their Heads!
Benjamin, Chloe. The Immortalists
Bennett, Alan. An Uncommon Reader
Bennett, Brit. The Vanishing Half
Benwell, Sarah. The Last Leaves Falling.
Berry, Julie.
     --- The Lovely War 
     ---The Passion of Dolssa.
Bertozzi, Nick. Shackleton: Antarctic Odyssey.
Billingsley, Franny. Chime.
Black, Holly. The Coldest Girl in Coldtown.
Blake, Audrey. The Girl In His Shadow
Blumenthal, Karen. Jane Against the World: Roe v. Wade and the Fight for Reproductive Rights
Blundell, Judy. What I Saw and How I Lied.
Bolden, Tonya. 
     ---Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln and the Dawn of Freedom.   
     ---Facing Frederick: The Life of Frederick Douglass
Boling, Dave. The Lost History of Stars
Bond, Jenny and Chris Sheedy. Who the Hell is Pansy O'Hara?
Bondoux, Anne-Laure. A Time of Miracles.
Borges, Jorge Luis. The Aleph and Other Stories
Boulley, Angeline. The Firekeeper's Daughter
Bow, Erin. The Scorpion Rules.
Bowen, James. A Street Cat Named Bob
Bowler, Kate and Jessica Richie. Good Enough: 40ish Devotionals for a Life of Imperfection
Bowles, David. They Called Her Fregona
Boyd, Pattie. Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me
Boyne, John. The Heart's Invisible Furies
Branch, Taylor. The King Years
Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451.
Bradley, Alan. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie.
Bradley, Kalianne. The Ministry of Time
Bray, Libba.
---Beauty Queens.
---The Diviners.
---Going Bovine. Going Bovine (reread)
---Rebel Angels.
Brenna, Beverly. The White Bicycle.
Brennert, Alan. Moloka'i
Bridges, Ruby. This Is Your Time
Brock, Rose. Hope Nation: YA Authors Share Their Personal Moments of Inspiration
Brockenbrough, Martha. 
     --- Alexander Hamilton: Revolutionary
     ---The Game of Love and Death.
Brodesser-Akner, Taffy. Fleischman Is In Trouble
Brooks, Geraldine.
      --- Caleb's Crossing.
      --- Horse
      --- People of the Book
Brooks, Kevin. The Bunker Diary.
Brown, Daniel James. The Boys in the Boat.
Brown, Gareth. The Book of Doors
Brown, Theresa. The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, and Four Patient’s Lives.
Browne, Mahogany L., Elisabeth Acevedo, and Olivia Gatwood. Woke: A Young Poet's Call to Justice
Burkhart, Jessica. Life Inside My Mind: 31 Authors Share Their Personal Struggles
Burnett, Frances Hodgson. The Secret Garden
Butler, Octavia. Kindred
Byock MD, Ira. The Four Things That Matter Most
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Cadow, Kenneth. Gather
Cain, James M. The Postman Always Rings Twice
Calame, Don. Swim the Fly.
Caletti, Deb. 
        ---Essential Maps for the Lost
       ----A Heart in a Body in the World
Calhoun, Ada. Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me
Calvino, Italo. If On a Winter's Night a Traveler
Cameron, Peter. Someday this Pain Will Be Useful to You.
Cameron, W. Bruce. A Dog’s Purpose.
Capote, Truman. A Christmas Memory; One Christmas; A Thanksgiving Memory
Carpenter, Kim and Krickitt. The Vow.
Carr, J.L. A Month in the Country.
Carriger, Gail. Etiquette and Espionage.
Carroll, Emily. Through the Woods.
Carter, Jimmy. Christmas in Plains.
Cashore, Kristin.
 ---Fire.
---Graceling.
Castaldo, Nancy J. Back from the Brink
Castellucci, Cecil and Nate Powell. The Year of the Beasts.
Cather, Willa. One of Ours
Chabon, Michael. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Chambers, Aidan. Dying to Know You.
Chambers, Becky. A Psalm for the Wild Built
Chambers, Veronica. Resist: 35 Profiles of People Who Rose Up Against Tyranny and Injustice
Chang, Victoria. Obit: Poems
Chapman, Fern Schumer. Three Stars in the Night Sky
Chee, Traci. 
      ---The Reader
      ---A Thousand Steps Into Night
      ---We Are Not Free
Cherriz, Amy. In the Shadow of the Moon: America, Russia, and the Hidden History of the Space Race
Chevalier, Tracy. Reader I Married Him: Stories Inspired by Jane Eyre
Choi, Don Mee. DMZ Colony: Poems
Christopher, Lucy. Stolen.
Christy, Agatha
    ---And Then There Were None
    --- Murder on the Orient Express
Clare, Cassandra. City of Bones.
Clark, Roy Peter. The Art of X-Ray Reading.
Clark, Tiana. I Can't Talk About the Trees Without the Blood: Poems
Clarke, Susanna. Piranesi
Cliff, Tony. Delilah Dirk and the King’s Shilling.
Cline, Christina Baker. The Exiles
Cline, Ernest. 
     ---Ready Player One. 
     ---Ready Player One (2018)
     ---Ready Player Two
Clinton, Hillary Rodham. What Happened
Coates, Ta-Nehisi. 
       ---Between the World and Me
       ---The Water Dancer
Coelho, Paulo, adapted by Derek Ruiz, illustrated by Daniel Samphere. The Alchemist: a graphic novel.
Cohen, Joshua. The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Account In the History of a Very Famous Family
Cohn, Rachel and David Levithan.
---Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares.
---Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist.
Colbert, Brandi. Black Bird in the Sky: the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
Collins, Billy.
---Ballistics.
--- The Rain in Portugal
---Sailing Around the Room.
---The Trouble With Poetry
---Whale Day and Other Poems
Collins, Suzanne.
     ---- Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
---Catching Fire.
---Hunger Games.
---Mockingjay.
Collins, Wilkie. The Woman in White.
Conkling, Winnifred. Votes for Women
Connolly, John. 
       ---The Book of Lost Things.
       ---The Land of Lost Things
Coyle, Katie. Vivian Apple at the End of the World.
Craft, Jerry. New Kid
Crockett, S.D. After the Snow.
Croft, Jennifer. Buzzworthy: Cocktails Inspired by Female Literary Greats
Cronin, Marianne. The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
Crosley, Sloane. Grief Is for People
Crowder, Melanie.
     ---Audacity.
    ---The Uninterrupted View of the Sky
Crutcher, Chris.
---Athletic Shorts.
---Deadline.
---Ironman
---Period 8.
---Sledding Hill.
---Stotan!
Cunningham, Michael. The Hours.
Curlee, Lynn. The Other Pandemic: An AIDS Memoir
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Daré, Abi. The Girl With the Louding Voice
Darnielle, John. Wolf in White Van.
Dashner, James.
---The Death Cure.
---The Maze Runner.
---The Scorch Trials.
Dave, Laura. The Last Thing He Told Me
Davis, Joshua and Reyna Grande. Spare Parts: The True Story of Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and an Impossible Dream
Day, Nicholas. The Mona Lisa Vanishes: a Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity
Denby, David. LitUp.
Del Rey, Lana. Violet Bent Over Backwards In the Grass
Delisle, Guy. Pyongyang: A Journey to North Korea.
Dench, Judi with Brendan O'Hea. Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
Dessen, Sarah. Along for the Ride.
Dev, Sonali. Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors
Diaz, Hernan. Trust
Diaz, Junot. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.
Diaz, Natalie. Postcolonial Love Poem
Dickens, Charles. 
      ---A Christmas Carol
      ---Great Expectations
Doctorow, Cory. Little Brother.
Doctorow, Cory and Jen Wang. In Real Life.
Doerr, Anthony. 
       ---All the Light We Cannot See. ( 1)
      ---All the Light We Cannot See (2)
      --- Cloud Cuckoo Land
      --- Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World
Doig, Ivan.
    ---The Morrie Morgan Trilogy (Whistling Season, Work Songs, Sweet Thunder)
    ---Whistling Season
    ---Work Song
Donnelly, Jennifer. Revolution.
Donoghue, Emily. Room.
Downham, Jenny.
---Before I Die.
---Unbecoming
Doyle, Brian. Martin Marten
Doyle, Roddy. A Greyhound of a Girl.
Drimmer, Stephanie Warren. How It Happened: Sneakers!: The Cool Stories and Facts Behind Every Pair
Drori, Jonathan. Around the World in 80 Trees
Dumas, Alexandre. The Count of Monte Cristo
Duncan, Violet. Buffalo Dreamer
Duyvis, Corrine. 
     ---The Edge of Gone
     ---Otherbound.
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Ecco, Umberto. The Name of the Rose
Eckstein, Bob. Footnotes from the World's Greatest Bookstores
Ediger, Monica and Lesley Younge. Nearer My Freedom: The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano by Himself
Edugyan, Esi. Washington Black
Edwards, Janet. Earth Girl.
Egan, Jennifer. A Visit From the Goon Squad
Egan, Timothy. Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher.
Eggers, Dave. Zeitoun.
Ellison, Kate. The Butterfly Clues.
Eliot, George. Middlemarch
Eliot, T.S. Four Quartets.
Elliott, David. 
     --- Bull
     ---Voices: The Final Hours of Joan of Arc
Elliot, Elisabeth. 
      ---Made for the Journey: One Missionary's First Year in Jungles of Ecuador
      ---Suffering Is Never for Nothing
Elliott, Ruby. It's All Absolutely Fine
Emerson, Hannah. The Kissing of Kissing: Poems
Emond, Stephen. Happyface.
Ende, Michael. The Neverending Story.
Enger, Leif. 
    ---I Cheerfully Refuse
    ---Virgil Wander
Engle, Margarita. 
      ---Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings.
      --- Rima's Rebellion
      --- Singing with Elephants
Engle, Patricia. Infinite Country
Enright, Anne. The Wren, the Wren
Ephron, Hallie. Bibliophile’s Devotional.
Erdrich, Louise.
    ---The Justice Trilogy (Plague of Doves; The Round House; LaRose)
    ---LaRose
    ---The Mighty Red
    --- The Night Watchman
    --- The Sentence
Etler, Cyndy. The Dead Inside: a True Story
Eugenides, Jeffrey. The Virgin Suicides
Evans, Richard Paul. The Walk
Everett, Percival. James
F
Fadiman, Anne ed. Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love 
Fama, Elizabeth. Monstrous Beauty.
Farid, Diana. Wave
Farish, Terry. The Good Braider.
Farmer, Nancy. The Lord of Opium.
Faruqi, Reem. Golden Girl
Faulkner, William. As I Lay Dying
Feder, Tyler. Dancing at the Pity Party: A Dead Mom Graphic Memoir
Federle, Tim. The Great American Whatever
Ferber, Edna. So Big
Fergus, Jim. One Thousand White Women.
Ferrante, Elana. My Brilliant Friend
Fipps, Lisa. Starfish
Fisher, Catherine. Incarceron.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby.
Fitzharris, Lindsey and Adrian Teal. Plague-Busters: Medicine's Battles with History's Deadliest Diseases
Flanagan, Richard. The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Fleischman, Paul. Eyes Wide Open: Going Behind Environmental Headlines.
Fleming, Candace. The Family Romanov.
Flinn, Alex. Cloaked.
Flynn, Gillian. Gone Girl.
Foley, Jessie Ann. The Carnival at Bray.
Fombelle, Timothee de. The Book of Pearl.
Ford, Jamie. Love and Other Consolation Prizes
Forman, Gayle. Where She Went.
Fowler, Karen Joy. Sarah Canary
Frank, E.R. Dime.
Frankel, Laurie. This Is How It Always Is
Franklin, Miles. My Brilliant Career
Franqui, Leah. America For Beginners
Freedman, Russell. 
       ---The Voice That Challenged America: Marion Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights.
       ---We Will Not Be Silent: the White Rose Resistance Movement That Defied Hitler
Frydenborg, Kay. A Dog in the Cave: The Wolves That Made Us Human
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Gaiman, Neil.
 ---Mirrormask.
 --- Neverwhere
 ---The Ocean at the End of the Lane.
---The Sleeper and the Spindle
Galbraith, Robert. The Cuckoo's Calling
Galloway, Scott. Adrift: America in 100 Graphs
Ganeshananthan, V.V. Brotherless Night
Gansworth, Eric. Apple (Skin to the Core)
Garcia, Kami and Margaret Stohl. Beautiful Creatures.
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel. One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Garcia McCall, Guadalupe. Under the Mesquite.
Gardner, Sally.
---Maggot Moon.
---The Red Necklace: A Story of the French Revolution.
Gardner, Scot. The Dead I Know.
Garmus, Bonnie. Lessons in Chemistry
Gary, Amy. In the Great Green Room: The Brilliant and Bold Life of Margaret Wise Brown
Gates, Melinda. The Moment of Lift
Gawande, Atul. 
     --- Being Mortal
     ---Complications: A Surgeon's Notes On an Imperfect Science
George, Jessica. Maame
George, Madeleine. The Difference Between You and Me.
George, Nina. The Little Paris Bookshop.
Gibney, Shannon. The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be
Gilbert, Kelly Loy. Picture Us In the Light
Giles, Gail. Girls Like Us.
Goddu, Krystyna Poray. A Girl Named Vincent: The Life of Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay
Golding, William. Lord of the Flies.
Goldman, William. The Princess Bride
Gonzales, Andrea and Sophie Houser. Girl Code: Gaming, Going Viral, and Getting It Done
Gorman, Amanda.
    --- Call Us What We Carry: Poems
    --- Change Sings: A Children's Anthem
    ---The Hill We Climb: And Inaugural Poem for the Whole Country
Gow, Robin. A Million Quiet Revolutions
Grange, Amanda.
---Mr. Darcy’s Diary.
---Mr. Knightley’s Diary.
Grann, David
     --- Killers of the Flower Moon
     --- Lost City of Z
     ---The Wager (plus the other two books again!)
Greene, Bette. The Summer of My German Soldier.
Green, Hank.
    ---An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
    --- A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor
Green, John.
      --- The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
---The Fault in Our Stars (audio).
---The Fault in our Stars (print)
---Looking for Alaska.
Green, John and David Levithan. Will Grayson, Will Grayson.
Green, John, Maureen Johnson, and Lauren Myracle. Let It Snow.
Greer, Andrew Sean. Less
Greyson, Bruce. After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal About Life and Beyond
Griffin, Adele. The Unfinished Life of Addison Stone.
Griffith, Nicola. So Lucky
Grimes, Nikki. Ordinary Hazards: a Memoir
Groff, Lauren. 
     ---Matrix
     ---The Vaster Wilds
Gunty, Tess. The Rabbit Hutch
Gyasi, Yaa. 
     ---Homegoing
     ---Transcendent Kingdom
H
Haddon, Mark.
---Boom!
 ---The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time.
Hafner, Kate. Mother Daughter Me: a Memoir
Haig, Matthew. The Midnight Library
Haigh, Jennifer. Mercy Street
Hale, Shannon. Enna Burning.
Halfman, Janet. The Story of a Civil War Hero: Robert Smalls
Hamilton, Alwyn. Rebels of the Sand
Hamilton, Saskia. All Souls: Poems
Hamilton, Sheila. All the Things We Never Knew: Chasing the Chaos of Mental Illness.
Handler, Daniel. Why We Broke Up.
Handy, Bruce. Wild Things: The Joy of Reading Children's Literature as an Adult
Hanff, Helene. 84, Charing Cross Road
Hannah, Kristin. 
       --- The Great Alone
       --- Firefly Lane
       --- The Four Winds
       --- The Nightingale
       --- The Women
Hardinge, Frances.
       ---Cuckoo Song.
      ---The Lie Tree
Harding, Paul. 
       ---The Other Eden
       ---Tinkers
Harper, Jane. Force of Nature
Harrow, Alix. A Spindle Splintered
Hartland, Jennie. Steve Jobs: Insanely Great.
Hartley, A.J. Steeplejack
Hartman, Rachel. Seraphina.
Hartnett, Sonya. Golden Boys.
Hartzler, Aaron. Rapture Practice.
Haruf, Kent. 
     ---Our Souls at Night
     ---Plainsong
Harvey, Samantha. Orbital: a Novel
Hattemer, Kate. The Vigilante Poets of Selwyn Academy.
Hautman, Pete. Rash.
Hawkins, Paula. The Girl on the Train.
Hayes, Terrance. Lighthead: Poems
Heiligman, Deborah. 
      ---Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith.
      --- Torpedoed: The True Story of the World War Two Sinking of the Children's Ship
      --- Vincent and Theo
Hemingway, Ernest. 
      ---A Farewell to Arms.
      ---The Old Man and the Sea
Hendrix, John. The Faithful Spy: A True Story: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler
Henriquez, Cristina. The Great Divide
Henry, Emily. Beach Read
Heppermann, Christine. Poisoned Apples: Poems for You, My Pretty.
Herback, Geoff. Stupid Fast.
Herbert, Frank. Dune
Hersey, John. A Bell for Adano
Hesse, Monica. Girl in the Blue Coat
Hicks, Faith. Friends with Boys.
Higashida, Naoki. The Reason I Jump
Higgins, Mike. Wild Maps for Curious Minds: 100 Ways to See the Natural World
Hill, Amanda Rawson. The Hope of Elephants
Hillenbrand, Laura. Unbroken.
Hinwood, Christine. The Returning.
Hirsch, Edward. 
      ---100 Poems to Break Your Heart
      ---The Heart of American Poetry
Hirshfield, Jane. Ledger: Poems
Hollihan, Kerrie Logan. Mummies Exposed.
Honeyman, Gail. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Hood, Susan with Greg Dawson. Alias Anna: A True Story of Outwitting the Nazis
Hoose, Phillip. 
       ---The Boys Who Challenged Hitler.
       ---Claudette Colvin
Hornby, Nick, ed. Speaking with the Angels.
Horowitz, Anthony.
    ---Magpie Murders
Hosseini, Khaled. The Kite Runner.
Housden, Roger.
     --- Ten Poems for Difficult Times
---Ten Poems to Change Your Life.
---Ten Poems to Open You Heart.
---Ten Poems to Set You Free.
Howe, Katherine. The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane.
Hubbard, Jenny.
---And We Stay.
---Paper Covers Rock.
Hudson, Clyde and Connie Willis Hudson. We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices
Hudson, Wade and Cheryl. The Talk: Race, Love, and Truth
Huong, Helen. The Bride Test
Hutchinson, Shawn David.
     --- The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza 
     --- Brave Face: How I Survived Growing Up, Coming Out, and Depression
      ---We Are the Ants.
I
Ignotofsky, Rachel. The Wondrous Workings of Plant Earth
Intrator, Sam and Megan Scribner. Teaching with Heart: Poetry that Speaks to the Courage to Teach.
Ishiguro, Kazuo. 
     --- Klara and the Sun
     ---Never let Me Go.
Iturbe, Antonio. The Librarian of Auschwitz
J
Jackson, Tiffany. Allegedly
Jahren, Hope. 
      ----Lab Girl
      --- The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go From Here
James, Henry. The Turn of the Screw
Jamieson, Victoria. Roller Girl.
Jarrow, Gail. 
       --- Bubonic Plague: When Plague Invaded America
       --- The Poison Eaters: Fighting Danger and Fraud in Our Food and Drugs
       ---Red Madness: How a Medical Mystery Changed What We Eat.
       --- Spooked: How a Radio Broadcast and the War of the Worlds Sparked the 1938 Invasion of America
Jenkins, A.M. Repossessed.
Jenkins, Tiffany. High Achiever
Jensen, Kelly.   
      ---Don't Call Me Crazy
      ---Here We Are: 44 Voices Write, Draw, and Speak about Feminism in the Real World
Jerome, Jerome K. Three Men and a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog).
Jewell, Tiffany. This Book is Anti-Racist
Jiles, Paulette. News of the World; News of the World (reread)
John, Anthony. The Five Flavors of Dumb.
Johnson, Adam. The Orphan Master's Son
Johnson, Alaya Dawn. The Summer Prince.
Johnson, Denis. Train Dreams
Johnson, George M. All Boys Aren't Blue: a Memoir
Johnson, Marilyn. This Book is Overdue!
Johnston, E.K.
---Exit,Pursued by a Bear.
 ---The Story of Owen: Dragon Slayer of Trondheim.
Jones, David. The Ancient Mariner
Jones, Edward. The Known World
Jones, Tayari. An American Marriage
Joy, Angela. Choosing Brave: How Angela Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement
Joyce, Rachel. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Juby, Susan. 
---Nice Recovery.
---The Truth Commission.
K
Kadohata, Cynthia. The Thing About Luck
Kaepernick, Colin. Change the Game: A Graphic Memoir
Kafka, Franz. Metamorphosis and Other Stories
Kagawa, Julie. The Iron King.
Kanefield, Teri. Alexander Hamilton: The Hero Who Helped Shape America
Karp, Ruby. Earth Hates Me
Kakutani, Michiko. Ex Libris
Kaur, Rupi.
     --- Home Body 
      ---Milk and Honey
Kean, Mary Beth. Ask Again, Yes
Kean, Sam. The Disappearing Spoon
Keegan, Claire. Foster
Keegan, Marina. The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
Kehoe, Stasia Ward. The Sound of Letting Go.
Keneally, Thomas. Schindler's List
Kendi, Ibram and Nic Stone. How to Be a (Young) Antiracist
Kenneally, Miranda and E. Kristin Anderson. Dear Teen Me
Kent, Hannah. Burial Rites
Kephart, Beth. Going Over.
Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Kessler, David. Your Food is Fooling You.
Khan, Lin Shi and Tony Perez. Scottsboro Alabama: A Story in Linoleum Cuts
Kidd, Chip. Go: A Kidd’s Guide to Graphic Design.
Kiely, Brendan. 
       ---The Gospel of Winter.
       --- The Other Talk: Reckoning With White Privilege
Kim, Suki. Without You There Is No Us
Kimmerer, Robin Wall. Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants 
Kindl, Patrice. Keeping the Castle.
King, A.S.
 ---Ask the Passengers.
---The Collectors
---Dig
---Everyone Sees the Ants
---Glory O'Brien's History of the Future
---I Crawl Through It
---Please Ignore Vera Dietz.
---Still Life with Tornadoes
King, Lily. Writers and Lovers
King, Stephen.
    --- End of Watch
    ---Finders Keepers
    ---Mr. Mercedes
    ---Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption
Kingsolver, Barbara.
---Another America/Otra America
---Demon Copperhead
---Flight Behavior.
---Unsheltered
Kinn, Gail and Jim Piazza. Four Stars: the 101 Best Movies of All Time.
Kinnell, Galway. Strong is Your Hand: Poems.
Kirkwood, Kathryn. Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around
Klay, Phil. Redeployment
Kluger, Jeffrey. Disaster Strikes!: The Most Dangerous Space Missions of All Time
Klune, T.J. The House in the Cerulean Sea
Knighton, Conor. Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park
Ko, Lisa. The Leavers
Kolbert, Elizabeth. 
     ---The Sixth Extinction: an Unnatural History
     ---Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
Konigsberg, Bill. The Porcupine of Truth.
Korelitz, Jean Hanff. The Plot
Kraus, Daniel. Rotters.
Krauss, Nicole. Great House
Kristof, Nicholas and Sheryl WuDunn. Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope
Krosoczka, Jarrett J.
---Hey, Kiddo
---Sunshine
Krueger, William Kent.
---Ordinary Grace
---The River We Remember
---This Tender Land
Kuehn, Stephanie.
---Charm and Strange.
---Complicit.
Kuang, R.F.
      ---Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution
      ---Yellowface
Kaur, Jasmine. When You Ask Me Where I'm Going
Kuklin, Susan.
---Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out.
---No Choirboy.
Kuo, Jane. In the Beautiful Country
Kwok, Jean. Searching to Sylvie Lee
Kyi, Tanya Loyd. This is Your Brain on Stereotypes: How Science is Tackling Unconscious Bias 
L
LaBan, Elizabeth. The Tragedy Paper.
LaCour, Nina. We Are Okay
LaFevers, Robin. Grave Mercy.
Lahiri, Jhumpa. 
      ---The Interpreter or Maladies
      ---Whereabouts
Lai, Thanhha. Inside Out and Back Again.
Lake, Nick. In Darkness.
Lamb, Sasha. When Angels Left the Old Country
Lamott, Anne.
      ---Somehow: Thoughts on Love 
      ---Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope, and Repair
LaMott, Lily. Measuring Up
Lanagan, Margo.
---Tender Morsels.
 ---Yellowcake.
Land, Stephanie. Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
Landay, William. Defending Jacob.
Larbalestier, Justine.
---Liar.
---Razorhurst.
Latham, Irene and Charles Waters. African Town
Laymon, Kiese. Long Division
Leavitt, Martine. My Book of Life by Angel.
Lebo, Kate. Difficult Fruit
Lee, Harper. Go Set a Watchman.
Lee, MacKenzi. The Gentleman's Guide to Virtue and Vice.
Lee, Min Jin. Pachinko
Lefteri, Christy. The Beekeeper from Aleppo 
Lemmie, Asha. Fifty Words for Rain
Lendler, Ian. The First Dinosaur: When Science Solved the Greatest Mystery
L'Engle, Madeliene. The Ordering of Love: Poems
Letham, Jonathan. Motherless Brooklyn
Leveen, Lois. The Secrets of Mary Bowser
Levithan, David.
---Every Day.
---The Lover’s Dictionary.
Lewis, C.S.
---A Horse and His Boy. / A Horse and His Boy - Narniathon
---The Last Battle. / The Last Battle - Narniathon
--- The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
---The Magician’s Nephew. / The Magician's Nephew -Narniathon
---Prince Caspian
---The Silver Chair.  / The Silver Chair -Narniathon
---The Voyage of the Dawn Treader _Narniathon
Lewis, John and Nate Powell. March I-III; March, Book Two.
Lindner, April. Jane.
Linn, Laurent. Draw the Line
Lloyd, Christopher. The Shakespeare Timeline Workbook
Lockhart, E. We Were Liars.
Losure, Mary. Isaac the Alchemist
Lubar, David. Character, Driven
Ludwig, Ken. How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare.
Lundberg, Sofia. The Red Address Book
Lynch, Jim. Truth Like the Sun
Lyons, Annie. The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett
M
MacColl, Michaela. Always Emily.
MacDonald, Betty. The Egg and I
MacDonald, Helen. H is for Hawk
Mackell, Dandi Daley. The Silence of Murder.
Mackesy, Charlie. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse
Maddow, Rachel. 
     ---Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth
     ---Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
Magnuson, Roine with Mats and Asa Ottosson. Close to Birds
Maguire, Gregory. Egg and Spoon.
Makkai, Rebecca.
      ---The Great Believers
      ---I Have Some Questions for You
Malerman, Josh. Bird Box
Mandell, Emily St. John. 
       --- Sea of Tranquility
       --- Station Eleven
Mandino, Og. The Greatest Miracle in the World
Mantel, Hilary. Wolf Hall
Marais, Bianca. Hum If You Don't Know the Words
Marchetta, Melina. Finnikin of the Rock.
Marcus, Kimberly. Exposed.
Markham, Beryl.
   --- Splendid Outcast: Beryl Markham's African Stories 
    ---West With the Night
Marquardt, Meg. STEM in the Final Four
Marrin, Albert.
     --- Uprooted: The Japanese-American Experience During World War II 
      ---Very, Very, Very Dreadful: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918
Martin, Erica. And We Rise: The Civil Rights Movement in Poems
Mason, Daniel. North Woods
Matson, Morgan. Amy and Roger’s Epic Detour.
Matti, Truus. Mister Orange.
Mbue, Imbolo. Behold the Dreamers
McBride, James.
    --- Deacon King Kong
    ---The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store
McCall Smith, Alexander. 
     --- Emma: A Modern Retelling
     ---La's Orchestra Saves the World
McCann, Colum. Let the Great World Spin.
McCann, Lisa.
 ---Cryer’s Cross.
 ---Dead to You.
McCarthy, Cormac. 
     ---No Country for Old Men.
     ---The Road
McCaughrean, Geraldine. Where the World Ends
McClafferty, Carla Killough. Fourth Down and Inches: Concussions and Football’s Make-or-Break Moment.
McCormick, Patricia. We All Fall Down.
McCracken, Elizabeth.
     ---The Hero of This Book 
     ---The Souvenir Museum: Stories
McCullough, David. The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
McCullough, Joy. Blood Water Paint
McEwan, Ian. On Chesil Beach
McGovern, Cammie. Say What You Will.
McInnerney, Mike, Bill DeMain, and Gillian Gaar. Sgt. Pepper at Fifty: the Mood, the Look, the Sound, the Legacy of the Beatles' Great Masterpiece
McLain, Paula.
    --- Circling the Sun 
     ---The Paris Wife.
McLemore, Anna-Marie. When the Moon Was Ours
McMurtrey, Larry. Lonesome Dove
McNeal, Tom. Far Far Away.
Meacham, Jon. The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
Mead, Rebecca. My Life in Middlemarch
Medina, John. Brain Rules.
Medina, Meg.
---Burn Baby Burn.
---Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass.
Mejia, Tehlor Kay. We Set the Dark on Fire
Melton, Glennon Doyle. Love Warrior
Meyer, Marissa.
---Cinder
---Cress
---Scarlet
Michaelides, Alex. The Silent Patient
Michener, James. Tales of the South Pacific
Miller, Madeline
    ---Circe
    ---The Song of Achilles
Mills, Claudia. The Lost Language
Mingle, Pamela. Kissing Shakespeare.
Mitchard, Jacqueline. What We Saw At Night.
Moggach, Deborah. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.
Momaday, N. Scott. A House Made of Dawn
Montgomery, Sy. The Soul of an Octopus
Montimore, Margarite. Oona Out of Order
Moore, Kate. 
       ---The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
       ---The Radium Girls (Young Readers' Edition): The Scary But True Story of the Poison that Made People GLOW in the Dark
       --- The Woman They Could Not Silence
Moore, Lisa. Flannery
Moore, Liz. The God of the Woods
Morgenstern, Erin. The Night Circus.
Mori, Kaoru. Bride’s Story, 1.
Moriarty, Jaclyn. A Corner of White.
Morris, Heather. The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Morrison, LaTasha. Be the Bridge: Pursuing God's Heart for Racial Reconciliation
Morrison, Toni. 
     ---Beloved.
     --- Recitatif
Mott, Jason. Hell of a Book
Muhammad, Ibtihaj. Proud: Living My American Dream
Mullen, John. What Matters in Jane Austen?
Munro, Alice. 
     ---Too Much Happiness: Stories
     ---Vintage Munro.
Murakami, Haruki. The Strange Library
Murphy, Jim. Truce: The Day the Soldiers Stopped Fighting.
Myers, Walter Dean. Darius and Twig.
N
Na, An. The Space Between Spaces
Napolitano, Ann. Hello Beautiful
Nayeri, Daniel. Everything Sad Is Untrue (A True Story)
Nelson, Jandy.
---I’ll Give You the Sun.
---The Sky is Everywhere.
Nelson, Marilyn. 
     --- Augusta Savage: The Shape of a Sculptor's Life
     ---How I Discovered Poetry.
Némirovsky, Irène. Suite Française
Neri, G. Yummy: the Last Days of Southside Shorty.
Ness, Patrick.
---The Ask and the Answer.
---The Knife of Never Letting Go
---A Monster Calls.
---Monsters of Men.
---The Rest of Us Just Live Here
Neufeld, Patrick. A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge.
Nevin, Jennifer. All the Bright Places.
Newman, Catherine. Sandwich
Newman, Leslea. October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard
Newman, Magdalena and Nathaniel. Normal: One Kid's Extraordinary Journey
Ng, Celeste. 
     --- Little Fires Everywhere
     --- Our Missing Hearts
Nguyễn, Phan Quế Mai. The Mountains Sing
Nguyen, Trung Le. The Magic Fish
Nguyen, Viet Thanh. The Sympathizer
Nix, Garth.
---Abhorsen
 ---Clariel.
--- Goldenhand
---Lirael
---Sabriel.
---Terciel and Elinor
Noah, Trevor. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
Noel, Allyson. Evermore.
Nunez. Sigrid. The Friend
Nye, Naomi Shihab. Cast Away: Poems for Our Times
O
Obama, Michelle. Becoming
Obrecht, Téa. Inland
O’Brien, Stacey. Wesley the Owl.
O’Brien, Tim. The Things They Carried.
O'Connor, Flannery. A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
O'Farrell, Maggie.
    ---Hamnet
    ---I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes With Death: a Memoir
    ---The Marriage Portrait
Offill, Jenny.
    ---Dept. of Speculation 
    ---Weather
Ogle, Rex. 
    ---Abuela, Don't Forget Me
    ---Punching Bag
Okoroafor, Nnedi. Akata Witch
Older, Daniel Jose. Shadowshaper
Oliver, Mary.
---Dog Songs.
--- Devotions
--- Evidence
---Felicity.
--- Red Bird Poems
---Upstream
---What Do We Know: Poems and Prose Poems
---Why I Wake Early
---Winter Hours
Oluo, Ijeoma. So You Want to Talk About Race
Oppel, Kenneth.
---Airborn.
---Half Brother.
Orlean, Susan. The Library Book
Orange, Tommy. 
      ---There There
      ---Wandering Stars
Orgil, Roxane. Jazz Day: The Making of a Famous Photograph
Osman, Richard. The Thursday Muster Club
Ostlere, Cathy. Karma.
Otsuka, Julie. 
     ---The Buddha in the Attic
     ---The Swimmers
Ottaviani, Jim and Maris Wicks. Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Birute Galdikas.
Owens, Delia. Where the Crawdads Sing
Ozeki, Ruth.
    --- The Book of Form and Emptiness
     --- A Tale for the Time Being
P
Padgett, Ron. How to Be Perfect: Poems
Paolini, Christopher. Inheritance.
Parkland Student Journalists. We Say #Never Again
Partridge, Elizabeth. 
      ---Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam
      ---John Lennon: All I Want Is the Truth
Partridge, Elizabeth and Lauren Tamaki. Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration
Parzybok, Benjamin. Couch.
Patchett, Ann. 
     ---Commonwealth
     ---The Dutch House  
     --- These Precious Days: Essays
     --- State of Wonder
     ---These Precious Days: Essays
     --- Tom Lake
Patel, Sonia. Rani Patel in Full Effect
Paver, Michelle. Wolf Brother.
Peet, Mal. Tamar.
Pêgo, Ana. Plasticus Martimus
Perez, Ashley. Out of Darkness.
Perkins, Stephanie. Anna and the French Kiss.
Perkins-Valdez, Dolen. Take My Hand
Perry, Michael. Truck: a Love Story.
Peters, Amanda. The Berry Pickers
Phillips, Jayne Anne. Night Watch
Phillips, Julia. Disappearing Earth
Picoult, Jodi. Leaving Time
Pierce, Tamora. The First Test.
Pierson, D.C. The Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep and Never Had To.
Pinkney, Andrea Davis. Martin Rising
Pinkney, Jerry. Just Jerry: How Drawing Shaped My Life
Pitman, Gail. Stonewall Riots: Coming Out In the Streets
Plath, Sylvia. The Bell Jar.
Pockell, Leslie, ed. The 100 Best Poems of All Time
Podos, Rebecca. The Mystery of Hollow Places.
Poole, Clare. The Authenticity Project
Popova, Maria. A Velocity of Being: Letters to a Young Reader
Porter, Sarah. Vassa in the Night
Portis, Charles. True Grit
Portman, Frank. Andromeda Klein.
Powell, Patricia Hruby. Loving Vs. Virginia: A Documentary Novel of the Landmark Civil Rights Case
Powers, Richard.
     ---Bewilderment: A Novel
     ---The Overstory
     ---The Playground: a Novel
Pratchett, Terry.
      --- The Color of Magic
---Dodger.
---A Hat Full of Sky.
---A Shepherd’s Crown.
Priest, Cherie. I Am Princess X.
Proulx, Annie. Close Range.
Prout, Chessy. I Have a Right To
Pullman, Philip. 
    --- La Belle Sauvage (Book of Dust #1)
    ---The Secret Commonwealth (Book of Dust #2)
Pung, Alice. Lucy and Linh
Pyle, Nathan W. 
      ---Strange Planet
      ---Stranger Planet
Q
Quick, Matthew.
---Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock.
---Silver Linings Playbook.
---Sorta Like a Rock Star.
Quindlen, Anna. 
       ---Imagined London.
       --- Nanaville
Quinn, Daniel. Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit.
Quinn, Jason. Gandhi: My Life is My Message.
Quinn, Kate.
    ---The Huntress
    --- The Rose Code
Quinones, Sam. Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
Quintero, Isabel. Gabi, A Girl in Pieces.
R
Rabb, Margo. Kissing in America.
Rankine, Claudia. 
     ---Citizen: An American Lyric
     ---Just Us: An American Conversation
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan. The Yearling.
Raybourn, Deanna. Killers of a Certain Age
Read, Shelley. Go As a River
Reeve, Philip. Railhead
Reid, Kiley. Such a Fun Age
Reid, Taylor Jenkins. 
     ---Daisy Jones and the Six
     ---Malibu Rising
Resau, Laura. The Queen of Water.
Reynolds, Jason. A Long Way Down: A Graphic Novel
Reynolds, Jason and Ibram X. Kendi. Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
Reynolds, Jason and Jason Griffin.
      ---Ain't Burned All the Bright
      ---My Name is Jason. Mine Too. Our Story Our Way
Rhodes, James. Playlist: The Rebels and Revolutionaries of Sound
Rhys, Jean. Wide Sargasso Sea
Ribay, Randy. The Patron Saint of Nothing
Richardson, Jan. The Cure for Sorrow: A Book of Blessings for Times of Grief
Ridge, Judith. The Books That Made Me: A Collection of 32 Personal Stories
Ridley, Kimberly: Extreme Survivors: Animals That Time Forgot
Riley, Tim. Tell Me Why: The Beatles: Album by Album, Song by Song, The Sixties and After
Rilke, Rainer Maria.
---The Book of Hours.
---Letters to a Young Poet.
Ritter, William. Jackaby
Roach, Mary. 
     ---Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
     ---Gulp: Adventures of the Alimentary Canal
Robinson, Marilynne. Gilead
Rocco, John. How We Got to the Moon
Rogers, Fred. The Last Interview and Other Conversations
Roiphe, Katie. The Violet Hour: Great Writers at the End
Romero, R.M. The Ghosts of Rose Hill
Rooney, Sally. Normal People
Rosenfield, Kat. Amelia Anne is Dead and Gone.
Rosenthal, Amy Krouse. 
     ---Children's books by the author
     ---An Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life
     ---Textbook
Rosenthal, Norman. Poetry RX: How 50 Inspiring Poems Can Heal and Bring Joy to Your Life
Rosoff, Meg. Picture Me Gone.
Roth, Phillip. The Plot Against America.
Roth, Veronica. Divergent.
Rowell, Rainbow.
---Eleanor and Park.
---Fangirl.
Rowley, Steven. Lily and the Octopus
Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Roy, Arundhati. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
Rubin, Susan Goldman. Diego Rivera: An Artist for the People.
Ruby, Laura. Bone Gap.
Ruiz Zafon, Carlos.
      --- The City of Mists: Stories
 ---Marina.
---The Prince of Mist.
---The Shadow of the Wind.
Rulfo, Jaun. Pedro Paramo
Rusch, Elizabeth. The Twenty-One: The True Story of the Youth Who Sued the U.S. Government Over Climate Change
Rushdie, Salman. 
     ---Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
     ---Victory City
Rutledge, Lynda. West With Giraffes
Ryan, Carrie. The Forest of Hands and Teeth.
Ryle, Robin. Throw Like a Girl, Cheer Like a Boy: The Evolution of Gender, Identity, and Race in Sports
S
Saad, Layla. Me and White Supremacy
Sabic-El-Rayess, Amra. The Cat I Never Named: A True Story of Love, War, and Survival
Sachar, Louis. The Card Turner.
Saenz, Benjamin Alire. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe.
Saint-Exupery, Antoine de. The Little Prince.
Sanders, Bernie. Guide to Political Revolution
Sandler, Martin. 
     --- 1919: The Year that Changed America
     ---Apollo 8: The Mission That Changed Everything 
     ---Imprisoned: The Betrayal of Japanese Americans During WWII
     ---Whydah: A Pirate Ship Feared, Wrecked, and Found
Santat, Dan. A First Time for Everything
Santos-Perez, Craig. from unincorporated territory [åmot]
Saunders, George. 
     ---Lincoln in the Bardo
     ---A Swim in the Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
     ---Tenth of December: Stories
Savit, Gavriel. Anna and the Swallow Man.
Schlitz, Laura Amy. The Hired Girl.
Schrefer, Eliot. Queer Ducks (And Other Animals): The Natural World of Animal Sexuality
Schwalbe, Will. The End of Your Life Book Club
Schweblin, Samantha. Seven Empty Houses
Sedgwick, Marcus.
---The Ghosts of Heaven.
---Midwinterblood.
---Revolver.
---She is Not Invisible.
See, Lisa
    --- The Island of Sea Women
    --- Lady Tan's Circle of Women
Sepetys, Ruta.
---Between Shades of Gray.  
---Out of the Easy.
---Salt to the Sea
Sewell, Marilyn. Cries of the Spirit: Over 300 Poems In Celebration of Women's Spirituality
Shabazz, Ilyasah and Kekla Magoon. X: a novel.
Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet
Share, Amber. Subpar Parks: America's Most Extraordinary National Parks and Their Least Impressed Visitors
Sharenow, Robert. The Berlin Boxing Club.
Sharra, Michael. The Killer Angels
Shattuck, Jessica. The Women in the Castle
Sheff, Nic. Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines.
Sheffield, Rob. Dreaming the Beatles
Sheinkin, Steve.
---Bomb.
---Impossible Escape: The True Story of Survival and Heroism in Nazi Germany
---Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War
---The Notorious Benedict Arnold.
 ---Port Chicago 50.
--- Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team
Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein: Or a Modern Prometheus
Shepherd, Jean. A Christmas Story.
Shepherd, Megan. The Madman’s Daughter.
Shepherd, Peng. The Cartographers
Shockley, Evie. Suddenly We
Shusterman, Neal.
       --- Challenger Deep.
       --- Scythe
       --- Thunderhead
Sidman, Joyce. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies
Sieghart, William. The Poetry Remedy: Prescriptions for the Heart, Mind, and Soul
Simic, Charles. Scribbled in the Dark: Poems
Simon, Annette Dauphin. Spine Poems: An Eclectic Collection of Found Verse for Book Lovers
Simsion, Graeme. The Rosie Project.
Silvey, Carig. Jasper Jones.
Sittenfeld, Curtis. Eligible
Skeers, Linda. Dinosaur Lady: The Daring Discoveries of Mary Anning, the First Paleontologist
Slater, Dashka. 
      ---The 57 Bus
      ---Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed
Slater, Maya. The Private Diary of Mr. Darcy.
Sloan, Robin. 
       ---Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore.
       --- Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Audiobook)
Slocumb, Brendan. 
       ---Symphony of Secrets
       ---The Violin Conspiracy
Small, David. Stiches.
Smith, Alexander Gordon. Lockdown-Escape from Furnace.
Smith, Ali. How to Be Both
Smith, Andrew.
---100 Sideways Miles.
 ---The Alex Crow.
---Grasshopper Jungle.
---Winger.
Smith, Crystal Simone. Dark Testament: Blackout Poems
Smith, Danna. The Complete Book of Aspen
Smith, Jennifer. The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight.
Smith, Patti.
    ---The Year of the Monkey
Smith, Patricia. Unshuttered: Poems
Smith, Tommie and Derrick Barnes. Victory. Stand! Raising My Fist for Justice
Smith, Tracey K. 
     ---Life on Mars: Poems
     ---Wade in the Water: Poems
Smith, Zadie. The Fraud
Snyder, Timothy, illustrated by Nora King. On Tyranny: Graphic Edition
Soontornvat, Christina. All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team
Spence, Annie. Dear Fahrenheit 451
Spiegel and Grau. How Lovely the Ruins: Inspiration Poems and Words for Difficult Times
Spiegelman, Art. Complete Maus
Spitz, Bob. The Beatles: Biography
Standage, Tom. The History of the World in Six Glasses.
Standiford, Natalie. How to Say Goodbye in Robot.
Stanton, Brandon. Humans
Stapley, Marissa. The Last Resort
Stead. Rebecca. When You Reach Me.
Stegner, Wallace. 
       ---The Big Rock Candy Mountain
       --- Crossing to Safety
Stein, Garth. The Art of Racing in the Rain.
Steinbeck, John. 
    --- East of Eden
    --- The Grapes of Wrath
Stelson, Caren. Stars of the Night: The Courageous Children of the Czech Kindertransport
Stevens-Holsey, Rosita and Terry C. Jennings. Pauli Murray: The Life of a Pioneering Feminist and Civil Rights Activist
Stevenson, Noelle. Nimona.
Stevenson, Robert Louis.
     ---A Child's Garden of Verses
    --- Treasure Island
Stewart, Amy. 
       --- Girl Waits with Gun.   
       --- Lady Cop Makes Trouble
Stiefvater, Maggie.
---All the Crooked Saints
---The Dream Thieves
---The Dreamer Trilogy
---The Raven King
---Raven Boys.
---Scorpio Races.
---Shiver.
Stone, Tanya Lee. 
     --- Girl Rising
     ---The Good, the Bad, the Barbie.
Stork, Francisco.
---The Last Summer of the Death Warriors.
---Marcelo in the Real World.
---TheMemory of Light.
Strayed, Cheryl. Tiny Beautiful Things (10th Anniversary Edition): Advice from Dear Sugar
Strout, Elizabeth.
     ---Lucy By the Sea
     ---Olive, Again
     ---Tell Me Everything
Sullivan, Tara.
---The Bitter Side of Sweet.
 ---Golden Boy.
Suma, Nova Ren.
 ---Imaginary Girls.
 ---The Walls Around Us.
Summers, Courtney. Sadie
Sutton, Patricia. Capsized: The Forgotten Story of the SS Eastland Disaster
Swanson, James. Chasing King's Killer: The Hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr,'s Killer
Sweet, Melissa. Some Writer! The Story of E.B. White
Szybist, Mary. Incarnadine: Poems
T
Tahir, Sahaa. All My Rage
Takei, George. They Called Us Enemy
Tamaki, Jillian. Supermutant Magic Academy.
Tamaki, Mariko and Jillian Tamaki. This One Summer.
Tan, Amy. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Tarrant, Graham. For the Love of Books: Stories of Literary Lives, Author Feuds, Extraordinary Characters, and More
Tartt, Donna.
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Taylor, James. Break Shot: My First 21 Years
Taylor, Jill Bolte. My Stroke of Insight.
Taylor, Laini
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---Days of Blood and Starlight
---Dreams of Gods and Monsters.
---Muse of Nightmares
---Strange the Dreamer
Telgemeier, Raina. Drama
Teller, Janne. Nothing.
Teuer, Anton. Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask (Young Reader's Edition) 
Theoharis, Jeanne and Brandy Colbert. The Rebellious Life of Rosa Parks (Young Reader's Edition)
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     ---On the Come Up
Thomas, Joyce Carol. Linda Brown You are Not Alone: Brown vs The Board of Education Decision.
Thurber, James. 13 Clocks
Tregay, Sarah. Love and Leftovers.
Tolkien, J.R.R. Letter from Father Christmas.
Tolstoy, Leo. The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Tomlinson, Heather. Toads and Diamonds.
Toole, John Kennedy. A Confederacy of Dunces.
Toten, Teresa. The Unlikely Hero of Room 13-B
Towles, Amor. The Lincoln Highway
Turner, Ann. Learning to Swim: a Memoir.
Turner, Megan Whelan. Thick As Thieves
Turner, Pamela. Samurai Rising: The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune.
Tyler, Anne.
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Tyler, Natalie. The Friendly Jane Austen: A Well-Mannered Introduction to a Lady of Sense and Sensibility.
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Urrea, Luis Alberto. The House of Broken Angels
Usher, Shaun, ed. Letters of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience
Uwiringiyimana, Sandra. How Dare the Sun Rise: A Memoir of a War Child
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Valero-O'Connell, Rose Mary.Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me
Vance, Jack. Moth Moon.
Vance, J.D. Hillbilly Elegy. 
Van Booy. Simon. Sipsworth
Van Draanen, Wendelin. The Running Dream.
Van Pelt, Shelby. Remarkably Bright Creatures
Van Wagenen, Maya. Popular: Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek.
Vecchione, Patrice, The Body Eclectic
Venkatraman, Padma. A Time to Dance.
Verghese, Abraham. 
      ---The Covenant of Water
      ---Cutting for Stone
Vivian, Siobhan. The Last Boy and Girl in the World
Vlahos, Hadley. The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Final Moments
Volponi, Paul. The Final Four.
Vowell, Sarah. Assassination Vacation.
Vreeland, Susan.
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Vuong, Ocean. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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Wallach, Tommy. We All Looked Up.
Walls, Jeannette. Half Broke Horses.
Walker, Mildred. Winter Wheat
Walsh, Liam Francis. Red Scare
Walter, Jess. 
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     --- Citizen Vince
Walter, Jon. My Name is Not Friday
Walton, Leslye. The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender.
Wang, Jen. The Prince and the Dressmaker
Wang, Qian Julie. Beautiful Country
Ward, Jesmyn. Sing, Unburied Sing
Ward, Rachel. Numbers (Num8ers)
Warga, Jasmine. Other Words For Home
Waters, Sara, ed. Dancing with Mr. Darcy: Stories Inspired by Jane Austen and Chawton House.
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Wecker, Helene. The Golem and the Jinni.
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---Code Name Verity.
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---The Pearl Thief
---Rose Under Fire.
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Welch, Bob. 
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Wells, Martha. All Systems Red
Welty, Eudora. The Optimist's Daughter
Wenner, Jann S. Lennon Remembers
Westerfeld, Scott. Spill Zone
Westover. Tara. Educated
Wetmore. Elizabeth. Valentine
Whaley, John Corey.
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---Where Things Come Back.
Wharton, Edith. The Age of Innocence.
Whitaker, Chris. We Begin At the End
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White, T.H. The Sword In the Stone
Whitehead, Colson.
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     --- The Nickel Boys
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Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass
Wiking, Meik. The Little Book of Hygge
Wilde, Oscar. 
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Wilder, Thornton.
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    --- Our Town
Wiles, Deborah. Kent State
Wilkinson, Lauren. American Spy
Wilkerson, Charmaine. Black Cake
Williams, Kale. The Loneliest Polar Bear in the World: A True Story of Survival and Peril On the Edge of Warming World
Williams, Pip. The Dictionary of Lost Words
Wilsey, Clarise with Bob Welsh. Letters from Dachau
Wilson, Kevin. Nothing to See Here
Wilson, Kip. The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin
Winder, Tanaya. Why Storms Are Named After People and Bullets Remain Nameless
Wingate, Lisa. When We Were Yours
Winters, Cat. A Steep and Thorny Way.
Winton, Tom. Island Home
Wolff, Michael. Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
Wolitzer, Meg. Belzhar.
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Woodfolk, Ashley. Nothing Burns as Bright As You
Woods, Brenda. When Winter Robeson Came 
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---Beneath a Meth Moon.
---Brown Girl Dreaming.
--- Red at the Bone
Woolf, Virginia. 
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     ---A Room of One's Own
Woolston, Blythe.
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---The MARTians
Worth, Jenny. Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Death and Hard Times
Wright, Bil. Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy.
Wright, Jennifer. It Ended Badly: 13 of the Worst Break-ups in History
Wynne-Jones, Tim.
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---The Emperor of Any Place
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---Dragon Hoops
---Level Up.
Yang, Gene Luen and Gurihiru. Superman Smashed the Klan
Yapa, Sunil. The Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist
Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse-Five
Yoon, Nicola. Everything, Everything.
Youn, Monica. From From: Poems
Young, Alora. Walking Gentry Home: A Memoir of My Foremothers in Verse
Young. Kevin. The Book of Hours
Yousaf, F.S. Serenity: Poems
Yovanoff, Brenna. Places No One Knows
Yu, Charles. Interior Chinatown
Yumi, Kiira. Library Wars, #1.
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Zamora, Javier. Solito
Zappia, Francesca. Eliza and Her Monsters
Zarr, Sara. The Lucy Variations.
Zauner, Michelle. Crying in the H Mart: a Memoir
Zentner, Jeff. The Serpent King.
Zevin, Gabrielle. 
      --- The Storied Life of AJ Fikry
      --- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Zoboi, Ibi. Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler

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