Junior Fiction
- Among the Hidden - Margaret Peterson Haddix
- I Rode a Horse of Milk White Jade -Diane Lee Wilson
- Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Graham
- The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- Two Princesses of Bamare - Gail Carson Levine
- Goose Girl - Shannon Hale
- Enna Burning - Shannon Hale
- Princess Academy - Shannon Hale
- Book of a Thousand Days - Shannon Hale
- Chasing Redbird - Sharon Creech
- Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Series (1-3 and the movie!) - Ann Brashares
- Gathering Blue - Lois Lowry
- Zel - Donna Jo Napoli
Newbery Books
- Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata
- Bud Not Buddy - Christopher Paul Curtis
- Tale of Despereaux - Kate Dicamillo
- Crispin - Avi
- A Single Shard - Linda Sue Park
- A Year Down Yonder - Richard Peck
- Long Way From Chicago (Honor) - Richard Peck
- Holes - Louis Sachar
- The View From Saturday -
- Watsons go to Burningham - Christopher Paul Curtis
- The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm (Honor) - Nancy Farmer
- A Girl named Disaster (Honor) - Nancy Farmer
- Bronze Bow - Elizabeth George Speare
- Jacob Have I Loved - Katherine Patterson
- Walk Two Moons - Sharon Creech
- Ella Enchanted (Honor) - Gail Carson Levine
- Maniac Mcgee - Jerry Spinelli
- Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry - Mildred D. Taylor
- The Giver - Lois Lowry
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Science Fiction
- Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
- The Memory of Earth - Orson Scott Card
Adult Fiction
- 13 Reasons Why - Jay Asher
- The Help - Kathryn Stockett
- Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
- To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
- Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
- Austenland - Shannon Hale
- Secret Life of Bees -Sue Monk Kidd
- The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer
- At Home in Midford & A Light in the Window (Midford Series) - Jan Karon
- #1 Ladies Detective Agency & Tears of the Giraffe - Alexander McCall Smith
- My Anotonia - Willa Cather
- Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
- Tara Road - Maeve Binchy
- Circle of Friends - Maeve Binchy
- Breathing Lessons - Ann Tyler
- Back When we were Grownups - Ann Tyler
- Skipping Christmas - John Grisham
- Girl with a Pearl Earing - Tracy Chevalier
- Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Alexander Solzhenitzyn (translation important!)
Non Fiction
- Five Love Languages - Gary Chapman
- Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer
- Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom
- Killer Angels (Pulitzer Prize) -Michael Sharra
- Warriors Don't Cry (Convocations '06) - Melva Patillo Beals
- Complications (Convocations '07) - Atul Gawande
- A Long Way Gone (Convocations '08) - Ishmael Beah
- And the Sea Will Tell - Vincent Bugliosi, Bruce Henderson
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