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Hendersonville Library Y Space
Reading Lists This year's YALSA Teens' Top Ten
This year's Printz Award winner and honor books
You Gotta Read These! aka Sharon's Absolute Favorite Books, In No Particular Order The Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer (Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn) The Host by Stephenie Meyer Pictures books by David Wiesner -- he's one of my new favorite illustrators! Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien Little Women by Louisa May Alcott Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling (Okay, I'm a Potter-freak, so I love them all. But this has been the best, I think.) The Once and Future King by T.H. White Big Fish by Daniel Wallace To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula LeGuin Watership Down by Richard Adams Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare (not technically a book, but oh, well.) Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (The short story version is actually better than the novel.) Dune by Frank Herbert Dracula by Bram Stoker More as I think of them!
Classic Books for High Schoolers (in addition to some of my favorites) Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier anything by Ray Bradbury Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier anything by Ernest Hemingway anything by William Faulkner anything by Virginia Woolf 1984 or Animal Farm by George Orwell A Separate Peace by John Knowles Brave New World by Aldous Huxley The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest Gaines The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck Les Miserables by Victor Hugo The Three Musketeers, The Man in the Iron Mask, or The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas anything by H. G. Wells anything by Jules Verne any of the Sherlock Holmes books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan anything by Agatha Christie anything by Ursula LeGuin The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte anything by Charles Dickens Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Doestoyevsky The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (aka Bladerunner) by Philip K. Dick Silas Marner by George Eliot anything by Jane Austen anything by Leo Tolstoy anything by Mark Twain Frankenstein by Mary Shelley anything by Robert Louis Stevenson The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy My Antonia by Willa Cather others as I come upon them
All-Star Authors for Middle School and Up Laurie Halse Anderson M.T. Anderson Avi Lynne Reid Banks T. A. Barron Joan Bauer Joseph Bruchac Betsy Byars Meg Cabot Gennifer Choldenko Andrew Clements Audrey Couloumbis Bruce Coville Sharon Creech Chris Crutcher Kate DiCamillo Lois Duncan Jack Gantos Jean Craighead George Dan Gutman Virginia Hamilton Kevin Henkes S.E. Hinton Will Hobbs Erin Hunter Brian Jacques Diana Wynne Jones Peg Kehret Gordon Korman Kathryn Lasky Iain Lawrence Gail Carson Levine Lois Lowry Anne McCaffrey Robin McKinley Carolyn Meyer Stephenie Meyer Donna Jo Napoli Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Garth Nix Linda Sue Park Christopher Paolini Katherine Paterson Gary Paulsen Tamora Pierce Wilson Rawls J. K. Rowling Louis Sachar Neal Shusterman Lemony Snicket Zilpha Keatley Snyder Gary Soto Jerry Spinelli Suzanne Fisher Staples Mildred D. Taylor Megan Whalen Turner Vivian Vande Velde Nancy Werlin Ellen Wittlinger Jane Yolen Let me know if I missed one of your favorites!
Books Chosen by our Summer Readers Romantic The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers Winner Takes All by Nora Roberts An Echo in the Darkness by Francine Rivers books by Karen Kingsbury: Fame, Forgiveness, Found, Family, and Divine Historical The Black Pearl by Scott O'Dell Beware, Princess Elizabeth by Carolyn Meyer The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexander Dumas The Black Stallion series by Walter Farley The Miracle Worker by William Gibson Montmorency series by Eleanor Updale Prince Across the Water by Jane Yolen The Minister's Daughter by Julie Hearn Mystery books by Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express, Murder on the Nile, And Then There Were None, and Curtain Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan So Yesterday by Scott Westerfeld Science Fiction Horror, and Fantasy The Tears of the Salamander by Peter Dickinson Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix Thr3e by Ted Dekker The Magician's Nephew by C. S. Lewis Monster by Frank Peretti The Mediator series by Meg Cabot Unfinished Tales by J.R.R. Tolkien Ranger's Apprentice: The Ruins of Gorlan by John Flanagan The Book of Lost Tales by J.R.R. Tolkien House by Frank Peretti The Supernaturalists by Eoin Colfer The Voyage of Slaves by Brian Jacques Blessed Child by Bill Bright and Ted Dekker The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien i, Robot by Isaac Asimov The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan Double Helix by Nancy Werlin Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix Princess Academy by Shannon Hale The Pendragon series by D.J. MacHale The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling Peeps by Scott Westerfeld The Tale of Desperaux by Kate DiCamillo Inkheart and Inkspell by Cornelia Funke Contemporary Realistic Fiction Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night by Mark Haddon So B. It by Sarah Weeks Don't You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey by Margaret Peterson Haddix Diary of a Would-be Princess by Jessica Green Letters From Rapunzel by Sara Holmes Dream Factory by Brad Barkley Dairy Queen by Catherine Gilbert Murdock The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares The Secrets of Peaches by Jodi Lynn Anderson
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