2024-25
- Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives it Changed by Dashka Slater (YA nonfiction)
- All Your Twisted Secrets by Diana Urban (Mystery)
- Anatomy: A Love Story by Dana Schwartz (Romance)
- Baby & Solo by Lisabeth Posthuma (Humor)
- Check & Mate by Ali Hazelwood (Romance)
- Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross (Fantasy)
- Four for the Road by K.J. Reilly (Realistic)
- Furia by Yamile Saied Mendez (Sports)
- Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach (Adult nonfiction)
- Golden Arm by Carl Deuker (Sports)
- Here to Stay by Sara Farizan (Sports)
- Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert (Romance)
- Huda F Are You? by Huda Fahmy (Graphic memoir)
- The Impossible Escape by Steve Sheinkin (Nonfiction)
- In the Lives of Puppets by TJ Klune (Adult fantasy)
- Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree (Adult fantasy)
- The Loop by Ben Oliver (Sci-Fi)
- My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodie Ashotn, and Jodi Meadows (Fantasy)
- Rez Ball by Byron Graves (Sports)
- Spice Road by Maiya Ibrahim (Fantasy)
- Sunshine: How One Camp Taught Me About Life, Death and Hopes by Jarrett J. Krosoczka (Graphic memoir)
- Thieves’ Gambit by Kayvion Lewis (Mystery)
- The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu (Adult sci-fi)
- The Weight of Blood by Tiffany Jackson (Horror)
- What the River Knows by Isabel Ibanez (Historical fiction)
2023-24
- After Dark with Roxie Clark by Brooke Lauren Davis (Horror/Mystery)
- The Agathas by Kathleen Glasgow & Liz Lawson (Mystery)
- Ain’t Burned all the Bright by Jason Reynolds (Poetry)
- All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir (Realistic)
- Asylum by Madeleine Roux (Horror)
- Beartown by Fredrik Backman (Adult Sports)
- Chaos Theory by Nic Stone (Romance)
- Daughter of the Deep by Rick Riordan (Sci-Fi/Fantasy)
- The Davenports by Krystal Marquis (Historical/Romance)
- Five Total Strangers by Natlie D. Richards (Mystery)
- Hide by Kiersten White (Adult Graphic Novel)
- Hollow Fires by Samira Ahmed (Mystery)
- I Kissed Shara Wheeler (Romance/Mystery)
- Instructions for Dancing by Nicola Yoon (Romance)
- Man Made Monsters by Andrea Rogers & Jeff Edwards (Horror)
- Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American by Laura Gao (Graphic Memoir)
- Nothing More to Tell by Karen McManus (Mystery)
- Parachutes by Kelly Yang (Realistic)
- Promise Boys by Nick Brooks (Mystery)
- Roxy by Neal Shusterman (Sci-Fi/Fantasy)
- Solito by Javier Zamora (Adult Memoir)
- They’ll Never Catch Us by Jessica Goodman (Mystery)
- Three Girls from Bronzeville by Dawn Turner (Adult Memoir)
- Victory. Stand! Raising My Fist for Justice by Tommie Smith, Derrick Barnes & Dawud Anyabwile (Graphic Memoir)
- We Are All So Good at Smiling by Amber McBride (Fantasy)
2022-23
- All of Us Villains – Amanda Foody & Christine Lynn Herman
- All Systems Red – Martha Wells
- An Ember in the Ashes – Saaba Tahir
- Be Not Far From Me – Mindy McGinnis
- Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre – Brandy Colbert
- Black Girl Unlimited: The Remarkable Story of a Teenage Wizard – Echo Brown
- Call Us What We Carry – Amanda Gorman
- Charming as a Verb – Ben Philippe
- Cinderella is Dead – Kalynn Bayron
- The Cousins – Karen M. McManus
- Defy the Night – Brigid Kemmerer
- Firekeeper’s Daughter – Angeline Boulley
- From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry – Paula Yoo
- Ground Zero – Alan Gratz
- I Must Betray You – Ruta Sepetys
- If You’re Reading This – Trent Reedy
- In the Wild Light – Jeff Zentner
- Kneel – Candace Buford
- Punching the Air – Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five
- These Deadly Games – Diana Urban
- This Poison Heart – Kalynn Bayron
- Unpregnant – Jenni Hendriks and Ted Caplan
- The Voting Booth – Brandy Colbert
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- We Are Not From Here – Jenny Torres Sanchez
- White Smoke – Tiffany D. Jackson
2021-22
- An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green (New Adult bestseller)
- All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson (YA memoir with sexual assault)
- The Assignment by Liza Wiemer
- The Black Kids by Christina Hammonds Reed
- Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
- Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
- Clown in a Cornfield by Adam Cesare
- Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas
- Dear Justyce by Nic Stone
- Displacement by Kiku Hughes
- The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee
- Dragon Hoops by Gene Luen Yang
- Every Body Looking by Candice Iloh
- The Female of the Species by Mindy McGinnis
- A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 by Claire Hartfield
- Foundation by Isaac Asimov (Adult Classic)
- Game Changer by Neal Shusterman
- A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
- Grown by Tiffany Jackson
- The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune (Adult bestseller)
- Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynne Barnes
- Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio by Derf Backderf (Adult graphic novel)
- Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
- Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu
- Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston (New Adult bestseller)
2020-21
- Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
- Call of the Wild by Jack London
- Circe by Madeline Miller
- The Cruel Prince by Holly Black
- A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer
- Dig by A.S. King
- Don’t Get Caught by Kurt Dinan
- Field Guide to the North American Teenager by Ben Philippe
- The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys
- The Haunted by Danielle Vega
- Heroine by Mindy McGinnis
- Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
- I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir by Malaka Gharib
- Internment by Samira Ahmed
- Jackpot by Nic Stone
- Just Mercy: Adapted for Young Adults by Bryan Stevenson (or read adult version)
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks by Jason Reynolds
- Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson
- Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay
- Truly Devious: A Mystery by Maureen Johnson
- Two Can Keep a Secret by Karen McManus
- Wilder Girls by Rory Power
2019-20
- American Street by Ibi Zoboi
- Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation by Ari Folman
- Becoming by Michelle Obama
- Boots on the Ground by Elizabeth Partridge
- The Cheerleaders by Kara Thomas
- Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
- Darius the Great Is Not Okay by Adib Khorram
- Dear Evan Hansen by Val Emmich
- Dreamland Burning by Jennifer Latham
- Dry by Neal Shusterman
- Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
- Girl in Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow
- Hey, Kiddo by Jarrett Krosoczka
- I Have Lost My Way by Gayle Forman
- Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli
- Love, Hate & Other Filters by Samira Ahmed
- Neanderthal Opens the Door to the Universe by Preston Norton
- On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
- Piecing Me Together by Renee Watson
- The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
- Refugee by Alan Gratz
- Sadie by Courtney Summers
- Unearthed by Amie Kaufman and Megan Spooner
- We Regret to Inform You by Ariel Kaplan
- What If It’s Us by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
2018-19
- #notyourprincess: Voices of Native American Women by Lisa Charleyboy
- The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater
- All the Crooked Saints by Maggie Stiefvater
- Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
- The Bitter Side of Sweet by Tara Sullivan
- Carve the Mark by Veronica Roth
- Dear Martin by Nic Stone
- Endurance: A Year in Space, a Lifetime of Discovery by Scott Kelly
- Far from the Tree by Robin Benway
- Gone by Michael Grant
- Goodbye Days by Jeff Zentner
- The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
- Heartless by Marissa Meyer
- I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika Sanchez
- Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
- Lord of the Fliesby William Golding
- Once and for All by Sarah Dessen
- One of Us Is Lyingby Karen McManus
- Renegades by Marissa Meyer
- Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
- Tell Me Three Things by Julie Buxbaum
- They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera
- Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
- Warcross by Marie Lu
- We Are Okay by Nina Lacour
2017-18
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Afterworlds by Scott Westerfeld
- Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
- Caraval by Stephanie Garber
- Chicago Poems by Carl Sandburg
- A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
- The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater
- Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
- Ghost by Jason Reynolds
- Girl in the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse
- Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War by Mary Roach
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
- Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
- Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
- Our Chemical Hearts by Krystal Sutherland
- Projekt 1065: A Novel of World War II by Alan Gratz
- The Reader by Traci Chee
- The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness
- Scythe by Neal Shusterman
- The Shack by William Young
- The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
- This Is Where It Ends by Marieke Nijkamp
- This Land Is Our Land by Linda Barrett Osborne
2016-17
- All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
- Audacity by Melanie Crowder
- Beyond the Body Farm by Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson
- Boys Don’t Knit (In Public) by T.S. Easton
- The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold …by Daniel James Brown
- The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pederson and the Churchill Club by Phillip Hoose
- Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige
- Dumplin’ by Julie Murphy
- Elena Vanishing by Elena Dunkle
- Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
- I Will Always Write Back by Martin Ganda and Caitlin Alifirenka
- Lady Midnight by Cassandra Clare
- The Martian by Andy Weir
- Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War by Steve Sheinkin
- Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
- The Pregnancy Project: A Memoir by Gaby Rodriguez and Jenna Glatzer
- Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
- Red Rising by Pierce Brown
- Riders by Veronica Rossi
- Saint Anything by Sarah Dessen
- Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
- Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
- Symphony for the City of the Dead by M.T. Anderson
- Where’d You Go Bernadette? by Maria Semple
- Zeroboxer by Fonda Lee
2015-16
- All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
- Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor
- Dirt Bikes, Drones, and Other Ways to Fly by Conrad Wesselhoeft
- The DUFF by Kody Keplinger
- Egg & Spoon by Gregory Maguire
- Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion and the Fall of Imperial Russia by Candace Fleming
- Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
- Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock by Matthew Quick
- Foul Trouble by John Feinstein
- Half Bad by Sally Green
- I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- Just One Day by Gayle Forman
- Last Apprentice: Revenge of the Witch by Joseph Delaney
- Laughing at My Nightmare by Shane Burcaw
- Paladin Prophecy by Mark Frost
- Paper Towns by John Green
- Popular: Vintage Wisdom from a Modern Geek by Maya Van Wagenen
- Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights by Steve Sheinkin
- Rose Under Fire by Elizabeth Wein
- Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
- Still Alice by Lisa Genova
- The Story of Owen by E. K. Johnston
- The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
- The Young Elites by Marie Lu
2014-15
- The 39 Deaths of Adam Strand by Gregory Galloway
- 102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers by Jim Dwyer
- Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
- Belle Epoque by Elizabeth Ross
- Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan
- Burned by Ellen Hopkins
- Chasing Shadows by Swati Avasthi
- The Children’s Blizzard by David Laskin
- Divergent by Veronica Roth
- Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
- The Giver by Lois Lowry
- He Said, She Said by Kwame Alexander
- The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
- I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai
- The Impossible Knife of Memory by Laurie Halse Anderson
- The Maze Runner by James Dashner
- Midwinterblood by Marcus Sedgwick
- Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews
- Monument 14 by Emmy Laybourne
- Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
- On the Road by Jack Kerouac
- Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
- The True Story of Hansel and Gretel: A Novel of Survival by Louise Murphy
- World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
2013-14
- Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz
- Ashfall by Mike Mullin
- Bomb: The Race to Build and Steal the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin
- Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
- Colin Fischer by Ashley Edward Miller and Zach Stentz
- Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
- Discovering Wes Moore by Wes Moore
- The Diviners by Libba Bray
- Enders Game by Orson Scott Card
- Every Day by David Levithan
- Flesh & Blood So Cheap by Albert Marrin
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
- The List by Siobhan Vivian
- Mythology for Teens: Classic Myths for Today’s World by Zachary Hamby
- Never Fall Down by Patricia McCormick
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
- Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
- Seraphina by Rachel Hartman
- Somebody, Please Tell Me Who I Am by Harry Mazer and Peter Lerangis
- Supergirls: Fashion, Feminism, Fantasy, and the History of Comic Book Heroines by Mike Madrid
- Tiger Lily by Jodi Anderson
- Tiger’s Curse by Colleen Houck
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
- The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
2012-13
- Across the Universe by Beth Revis
- Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
- The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
- Before I Die by Jenny Downham
- Beneath a Meth Moon by Jacqueline Woodson
- Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
- Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition by Karen Blumenthal
- Butterfly Clues by Kate Ellison
- Chain Reaction by Simone Elkeles
- Chime by Franny Billingsley
- Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
- The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
- Heaven Is for Real by Todd Burpo
- Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
- The Night Circus by Erin Morganstern
- Paper Covers Rock by Jenny Hubbard
- Perfect by Ellen Hopkins
- Pick-Up Game: A Full Day of Full Court by Marc Aronson
- Playing with the Enemy by Gary W. Moore
- A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
- The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen
- Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
- Unwind by Neal Shusterman
- Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley
- Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler
2011-2012
- Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
- Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
- Because I Am Furniture by Thalia Chaltas
- The Boy Who Dared by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
- Dream Keeper by Langston Hughes
- Five Flavors of Dumb by Antony John
- From Baghdad, With Love: A Marine, The War, and a Dog Named Lava by Jay Kopelman
- The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
- Good Brother, Bad Brother by James Cross Giblin
- The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Green Glass Sea by Ellen Klages
- Half Brother by Kenneth Oppel
- Hold Me Closer, Necromancer by Lish McBride
- The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
- A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park
- Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. King
- Rules of Attraction by Simone Elkeles
- Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
- The Sky Is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson
- Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer by John Grisham
- Three Black Swans by Caroline B. Cooney
- What Happened to Goodbye by Sarah Dessen
- Willow by Julia Hoban
- The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dustbowl by Timothy Egan