Great books by genre       

Realistic Fiction:                Historical Fiction: 

Julie Peters - Define Normal

Wendy Mass - A Mango Shaped Space

Joan Bauer - Pealed, Hope Was Here, Stand Tall

Mike Lupica - Heat

Cynthia Lord - Rules

Betsy Byars – The Pinballs

Paula Danzinger – The Cat Ate My Gymsuit, P.S. Longer Letter Later

Kate DiCamillo – Because of Winn Dixie

Jack Gantos – Joey Pigza series

Richard Peck – Remembering the Good Times, Long Way from Chicago

Jerry Spinelli – Crash, Maniac Magee

Margaret Bechard - Hanging on to Max

Meg Cabot - Teen Idol, Princess Diaries, Avalon High

Ron Koertge - Shakespeare Bats Cleanup

 

Kirby Larson - Hattie Big Sky

Patricia Riley Giff – Nory Ryan’s Song

Bette Greene – Summer of My German Soldier

Robert Cormier - Heroes

David Chotjewitz - Daniel Half Human

Laurie Halse Anderson - Fever 1793

Michael Morpurgo - Private Peaceful

Karen Hesse – Out of the Dust, Witness

Margeret Rostkowski – After the Dancing Days

Irene Hunt – Across Five Aprils, Up a Road Slowly

Katherine Patterson – Bridge to Terabitha

Elizabeth George Speare – Witch of Blackbird Pond

Wilson Rawls – Where the Red Fern Grows

Nevile Schute - A Town Like Alice

Avi – True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, Crispin and the Cross of Lead

Speculative Fiction (Sci Fi/Fantasy)


Madeline L'Engle- A Wrinkle in Time

Collins, Suzanne  - The Hunger Games, Gregor the Overlander series

Natalie Babbitt – Tuck Everlasting

Susan Cooper – Grey King

Nancy Farmer - The Ear, the Eye and the Arm

William Goldman – Princess Bride only

Margaret Haddix – Among the Hidden

Margaret Haddix - Running Out of Time

Frank Herbert - Dune

Madeline L’Engle – A Wrinkle in Time

 

Douglas Adams - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Gail Carson Levine – Ella Enchanted

Lois Lowry – The Giver

Philip Pullman – Golden Compass series, I Was a Rat

J.K. Rowling – Harry Potter series

Nevile Schute – On the Beach

William Sleator - Into the Dream

J.R.R. Tolkien – The Hobitt

Jane Yolen – Merlin series, etc.

 

Adventure

Sharon Creech – The Wanderer

Karen Cushman – Ballad of Lucy Whipple

Will Hobbs - Wild Man Island 

Jack London – Call of the Wild, biography

Robert Ludlum – Borne Identity

Ben Mikaelsen  - Touching Spirit Bear

Scott O’Dell – Island of the Blue Dolphins

Gary Paulsen – Hatchet, Soldier’s Heart

Classics

Jane Austen - Emma, Pride and Prejudice etc. 

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

Pearl S. Buck - The Good Earth

Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe

Charles Dickens - Great Expectations

Alexander Dumas - The Three Musketeers

Henry James -Turn of the Screw

Rudyard Kiplind - The Jungle Book 

Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird

Jack London – Call of the Wild, biography

Sir Walter Scott - Ivanhoe

Mystery/Suspense

Agatha Christie - Murder on the Orient Express, etc. 

Lois Duncan - I Know What You Did Last Summer

Richard Peck - Are You in the House Alone? 

Philip Pullman - Ruby in the Smoke series

Louis Sachar - Holes

Wendelin Van Draanen – Sammy Keyes mysteries

Cynthia Voigt – The Calendar Papers

Nonfiction

Jean Fritz – Homecoming (autobiography)

Walter Dean Myers – Monster, Bad Boy (autobiography)

 
Realistic/Historical Fiction Science Fiction/Fantasy Adventure Classics Mystery/Suspense

Joan Bauer - Hope Was Here

Betsy Byars – The Pinballs

Robert Cormier - Heroes

Paula Danzinger – P.S. Longer Letter Later

Kate DiCamillo – Because of Winn Dixie

Paula Fox – One-Eyed Cat

Jean Fritz – Homecoming (autobiography)

Jack Gantos – Joey Pigza series

Patricia Riley Giff – Nory Ryan’s Song

Bette Greene – Summer of My German Soldier

Karen Hesse – Out of the Dust, Witness

Irene Hunt – Across Five Aprils, Up a Road Slowly

Madeline L'Engle- House Like a Lotus

Walter Dean Myers – Monster, Bad Boy (autobiography)

Katherine Patterson – Bridge to Terabitha

Richard Peck – Remembering the Good Times, Long Way from Chicago

Wilson Rawls – Where the Red Fern Grows

Ann Rinaldi – Amelia’s War

Margeret Rostkowski – After the Dancing Days

Nevile Schute - A Town Like Alice

Elizabeth George Speare – Witch of Blackbird Pond

Jerry Spinelli – Crash, Maniac Magee

Douglas Adams - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Collins, Suzanne  - The Hunger Games, Gregor the Overlander series

Natalie Babbitt – Tuck Everlasting

Susan Cooper – Grey King

Nancy Farmer - The Ear, the Eye and the Arm

William Goldman – Princess Bride only

Margaret Haddix – Among the Hidden

Margaret Haddix - Running Out of Time

Frank Herbert - Dune

Madeline L’Engle – A Wrinkle in Time

Gail Carson Levine – Ella Enchanted

Lois Lowry – The Giver

Philip Pullman – Golden Compass series, I Was a Rat

J.K. Rowling – Harry Potter series

Nevile Schute – On the Beach

William Sleator - Into the Dream

J.R.R. Tolkien – The Hobitt

Jane Yolen – Merlin series, etc.

Laurie Halse Anderson  - Fever 1793 

Avi – True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle

Avi - Crispin and the Cross of Lead

Sharon Creech – The Wanderer

Karen Cushman – Ballad of Lucy Whipple

Will Hobbs - Wild Man Island 

Jack London – Call of the Wild, biography

Robert Ludlum – Borne Identity

Ben Mikaelsen  - Touching Spirit Bear

Scott O’Dell – Island of the Blue Dolphins

Gary Paulsen – Hatchet, Soldier’s Heart

 

Jane Austen - Emma, Pride and Prejudice etc. 

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

Pearl S. Buck - The Good Earth

Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe

Charles Dickens - Great Expectations

Alexander Dumas - The Three Musketeers

Henry James -Turn of the Screw

Rudyard Kiplind - The Jungle Book 

Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird

Jack London – Call of the Wild, biography

Sir Walter Scott - Ivanhoe

John Steinbeck - Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men

 

Agatha Christie - Murder on the Orient Express, etc. 

Lois Duncan - I Know What You Did Last Summer

Richard Peck - Are You in the House Alone? 

Philip Pullman - Ruby in the Smoke series

Louis Sachar - Holes

Wendelin Van Draanen – Sammy Keyes mysteries

Cynthia Voigt – The Calendar Papers