YA (Young Adult)
1. The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas
2. Ball Don't Lie - Matt de la Pena
3. Crank - Ellen Hopkins
4. Speak, Fever 1793 - Laurie Halse Anderson
5. eleanor and park, Fangirl - Rainbow Rowell
6. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
7. Between the World and Me - Ta-nehisi Coates
8. Animal Farm - George Orwell
9. California Blue - David Klass
10. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian - Sherman Alexie
11. The Maze Runner Series - James Dashner
12. Out of the Dust - Karen Hesse
13. Night - Elie Wiesel
14. The Book of Unknown Americans - Cristina Henriquez
15. The Fault in Our Stars, looking for Alaska, Turtles All The Way Down – John Green
16. Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
17. Vincent and Theo, Charles and Emma—The Darwins' Leap of Faith - Deborah Heiligman
18. Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi
19. Bomb: The Race to Build and Steal the World's Most Dangerous Weapon - Steve Sheinkin
20. brown girl dreaming - Jacqueline Woodson
MG (Middle Grade)
1. Greetings From Planet Earth - Barbara Kerley
2. The Giver Quartet, Number the Stars - Lois Lowry
3. Heart Of A Shepherd - Rosanne Parry
4. The Harry Potter Series - J.K. Rowling
5. A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle
6. Where the Red Fern Grows - Wilson Rawls
7. Marley and Me - John Grogan
8. Penny from Heaven - Jennifer L. Holm
9. The Mrs. Piggle Wiggle Treasury - Betty MacDonald / Hilary Knight
10. Charlotte's Web - E.B. White / Garth Williams
11. Holes - Louis Sacher
12. Calvin and Hobbs - Bill Watterson
13. The 39 Clues - Various Authors
14. Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series - Rick Riordan
15. Hatchet - Gary Paulson
16. Tuck Everlasting - Natalie Babbitt
17. The Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins
18. Divergent and Insurgent - Veronica Roth
19. Hook's Revenge - Heidi Schulz
Picture Book Biographies
1. My Uncle Martin's big heart - Angela Farris Watkins / Eric Velasquez
2. The Planet Hunter, the story behind what happened to Pluto - Elizabeth Rusch / Guy Francis
3. J.R.R. Tolkien - Alexandra Wallner / John Wallner
4. What To Do About Alice? - Barbara Kerley / Edwin Fotheringham
5. Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing - James Rumford
6. The Fabulous Flying Machines of Alberto Santo-Dumont - Victoria Griffith / Eva Montanari
7. I Could Do That - Linda Arms White / Nancy Carpenter
8. Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves - Vaunda Micheaus Nelson / R. Gregory Christie
9. You Forgot Your Skirt Amelia Bloomer - Shana Corey / Chesley McLaren
10. The Bravest Woman In America - Marissa Moss / Andrea U'ren
11. Barack - Jonah Winter / A.G. Ford
12. Elizabeth Leads the Way - Tanya Lee Stone / Rebecca Gibbon
13. Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom - Carole Boston Weatherford / Kadir Nelson
14. Martin de Porres: The Rose in the Desert - Gary D. Schmidt / David Diaz
15. Pablo Neruda: Poet of the People - Monica Brown / Julie Paschkis
16. A Picture Book of Harry Houdini - David A Adler and Michael S Adler / Matt Collins
17. American Boy: The Adventures of Mark Twain - Don Brown
18. Cesar Chavez: Champion and Voice of Farmworkers - Suzanne Slade / Jeffrey Thompson
19. The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos - Deborah Heiligman / LeUyen Pham
20. The Boy on Fairfield Street: How Ted Geisel Grew Up to Become Dr. Seuss - Kathleen Krull / Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher
Early Readers and Chapter Books
1. The Berenstain Bears and the Big Road Race - Stan & Jan Berenstain
2. Danny and The Dinosaur - Syd Hoff
3. Curious George - Margret and H.A. Rey
4. Little Bear - Else Holmelund Minarik / Maurice Sendak
5. The Magic Tree House series - Mary Pope Osborne
6. The Magic School Bus series - Joanna Cole
7. Arthur Chapter Books - Marc Brown
8. Cam Jansen series - David A. Adler
9. Junie B. Jones series - Barbara Parks / Denise Brunkus
10. Horrible Harry series - Suzy Kline / Frank Remkiewicz
11. The Digging-est Dog - Al Perkins / Eric Gurney
12. Froggy Gets Dressed - Jonathan London / Frank Remkiewicz
13. Pippi Longstocking - Astrid Lindgren / Lauran Child
14. Anything Dr. Suess, especially The Lorax, You're Only Old Once! and My Many Colored Days
15. Anything Beverly Cleary especially Henry and Ribsy, Ellen Tebbits and Beezus and Ramona
Picture and Board Books
1. Good Night Moon - Margaret Wise Brown / Clement Hurd
2. Patricia Malicia, Book Loving Pioneer - Carrie Clickard / Mark Meyers
3. Are You My Mother? - P.D. Eastman
4. Mr. Frumble's ABC - Richard Scary
5. Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? - Bill Martin Jr / Eric Carle
6. That Cat Can't Stay and I Always, Always Get My Way - Thad Krasnesky / David Parkins
7. Blue Hat, Green Hat - Sandra Boynton
8. The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Eric Carle
9. Where's Spot - Eric Hill
10.Tomie's Little Mother Goose - Tomie dePaola
11. Corduroy - Don Freeman
12. Harold and the Purple Crayon - Crockett Johnson
13. The Polar Express - Chris Van Allsburg
14. Love You Forever - Robert Munsch / Sheila McGraw
15. Guess How Much I Love You - Sam McBratney / Anita Jeram
16. Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born - Jamie Lee Curtis / Laura Cornell
17. The Rainbow Fish - Marcus Pfister
Classics
1. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
2. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
3. Little House on the Prarie - Laura Ingalls Wilder
4. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
5. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne
6. Swiss Family Robinson - Johann Wyss
7. Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
8. The Call of the Wild - Jack London
9. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
10. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
11. Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
12. The Adventures of Robin Hood - Howard Pyle
13. Nancy Drew Series - Carolyn Keene
14. Hardy Boys Series - Franklin W. Dixon
There are so many more, but I tried to keep it down to about 15-20 per category. Please drop me a line if you have a recommendation!
1. The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas
2. Ball Don't Lie - Matt de la Pena
3. Crank - Ellen Hopkins
4. Speak, Fever 1793 - Laurie Halse Anderson
5. eleanor and park, Fangirl - Rainbow Rowell
6. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
7. Between the World and Me - Ta-nehisi Coates
8. Animal Farm - George Orwell
9. California Blue - David Klass
10. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian - Sherman Alexie
11. The Maze Runner Series - James Dashner
12. Out of the Dust - Karen Hesse
13. Night - Elie Wiesel
14. The Book of Unknown Americans - Cristina Henriquez
15. The Fault in Our Stars, looking for Alaska, Turtles All The Way Down – John Green
16. Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
17. Vincent and Theo, Charles and Emma—The Darwins' Leap of Faith - Deborah Heiligman
18. Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi
19. Bomb: The Race to Build and Steal the World's Most Dangerous Weapon - Steve Sheinkin
20. brown girl dreaming - Jacqueline Woodson
MG (Middle Grade)
1. Greetings From Planet Earth - Barbara Kerley
2. The Giver Quartet, Number the Stars - Lois Lowry
3. Heart Of A Shepherd - Rosanne Parry
4. The Harry Potter Series - J.K. Rowling
5. A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle
6. Where the Red Fern Grows - Wilson Rawls
7. Marley and Me - John Grogan
8. Penny from Heaven - Jennifer L. Holm
9. The Mrs. Piggle Wiggle Treasury - Betty MacDonald / Hilary Knight
10. Charlotte's Web - E.B. White / Garth Williams
11. Holes - Louis Sacher
12. Calvin and Hobbs - Bill Watterson
13. The 39 Clues - Various Authors
14. Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series - Rick Riordan
15. Hatchet - Gary Paulson
16. Tuck Everlasting - Natalie Babbitt
17. The Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins
18. Divergent and Insurgent - Veronica Roth
19. Hook's Revenge - Heidi Schulz
Picture Book Biographies
1. My Uncle Martin's big heart - Angela Farris Watkins / Eric Velasquez
2. The Planet Hunter, the story behind what happened to Pluto - Elizabeth Rusch / Guy Francis
3. J.R.R. Tolkien - Alexandra Wallner / John Wallner
4. What To Do About Alice? - Barbara Kerley / Edwin Fotheringham
5. Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing - James Rumford
6. The Fabulous Flying Machines of Alberto Santo-Dumont - Victoria Griffith / Eva Montanari
7. I Could Do That - Linda Arms White / Nancy Carpenter
8. Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves - Vaunda Micheaus Nelson / R. Gregory Christie
9. You Forgot Your Skirt Amelia Bloomer - Shana Corey / Chesley McLaren
10. The Bravest Woman In America - Marissa Moss / Andrea U'ren
11. Barack - Jonah Winter / A.G. Ford
12. Elizabeth Leads the Way - Tanya Lee Stone / Rebecca Gibbon
13. Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom - Carole Boston Weatherford / Kadir Nelson
14. Martin de Porres: The Rose in the Desert - Gary D. Schmidt / David Diaz
15. Pablo Neruda: Poet of the People - Monica Brown / Julie Paschkis
16. A Picture Book of Harry Houdini - David A Adler and Michael S Adler / Matt Collins
17. American Boy: The Adventures of Mark Twain - Don Brown
18. Cesar Chavez: Champion and Voice of Farmworkers - Suzanne Slade / Jeffrey Thompson
19. The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos - Deborah Heiligman / LeUyen Pham
20. The Boy on Fairfield Street: How Ted Geisel Grew Up to Become Dr. Seuss - Kathleen Krull / Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher
Early Readers and Chapter Books
1. The Berenstain Bears and the Big Road Race - Stan & Jan Berenstain
2. Danny and The Dinosaur - Syd Hoff
3. Curious George - Margret and H.A. Rey
4. Little Bear - Else Holmelund Minarik / Maurice Sendak
5. The Magic Tree House series - Mary Pope Osborne
6. The Magic School Bus series - Joanna Cole
7. Arthur Chapter Books - Marc Brown
8. Cam Jansen series - David A. Adler
9. Junie B. Jones series - Barbara Parks / Denise Brunkus
10. Horrible Harry series - Suzy Kline / Frank Remkiewicz
11. The Digging-est Dog - Al Perkins / Eric Gurney
12. Froggy Gets Dressed - Jonathan London / Frank Remkiewicz
13. Pippi Longstocking - Astrid Lindgren / Lauran Child
14. Anything Dr. Suess, especially The Lorax, You're Only Old Once! and My Many Colored Days
15. Anything Beverly Cleary especially Henry and Ribsy, Ellen Tebbits and Beezus and Ramona
Picture and Board Books
1. Good Night Moon - Margaret Wise Brown / Clement Hurd
2. Patricia Malicia, Book Loving Pioneer - Carrie Clickard / Mark Meyers
3. Are You My Mother? - P.D. Eastman
4. Mr. Frumble's ABC - Richard Scary
5. Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? - Bill Martin Jr / Eric Carle
6. That Cat Can't Stay and I Always, Always Get My Way - Thad Krasnesky / David Parkins
7. Blue Hat, Green Hat - Sandra Boynton
8. The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Eric Carle
9. Where's Spot - Eric Hill
10.Tomie's Little Mother Goose - Tomie dePaola
11. Corduroy - Don Freeman
12. Harold and the Purple Crayon - Crockett Johnson
13. The Polar Express - Chris Van Allsburg
14. Love You Forever - Robert Munsch / Sheila McGraw
15. Guess How Much I Love You - Sam McBratney / Anita Jeram
16. Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born - Jamie Lee Curtis / Laura Cornell
17. The Rainbow Fish - Marcus Pfister
Classics
1. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
2. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
3. Little House on the Prarie - Laura Ingalls Wilder
4. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
5. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne
6. Swiss Family Robinson - Johann Wyss
7. Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
8. The Call of the Wild - Jack London
9. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
10. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
11. Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
12. The Adventures of Robin Hood - Howard Pyle
13. Nancy Drew Series - Carolyn Keene
14. Hardy Boys Series - Franklin W. Dixon
There are so many more, but I tried to keep it down to about 15-20 per category. Please drop me a line if you have a recommendation!