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Historical Fiction

The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier
Live By Night, Dennis Lehane
Eye of the Needle, Ken Follett
Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
The Year of the Hangman, Gary Blackwood
The Known World, Edward P. Jones
Chains, Laurie Halse Anderson
Flygirl, Sherry Smith
Tamar, Mal Peet
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Beloved, Toni Morrison
Code Name Verity, Elizabeth Wein
The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
Year of Wonders, Geraldine Brooks
Between Shades of Gray, Ruta Sepetys
Atonement, Ian McEwan
The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, M.T. Anderson

Dystopian Fiction

Divergent, Veronica Roth
The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
1984, George Orwell
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
The Maze Runner, James Dashner
Wool, Hugh Howey
Uglies, Scott Westerfeld
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Lord of the Flies, William Golding
Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
Feed, M.T. Anderson
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
The Knife of Never Letting Go, Patrick Ness

Quick Reads

Crush, Carrie Mac
Breathless, Pam Withers
Money Hungry, Sharon Flake
Breathing Fire, Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang
Saving Grace, Darlene Ryan
Infiltration, Sean Rodman
Battle of the Bands, K.L. Denman
Chill, Colin Frizzell
Death Wind, William Bell
Tricks, Ellen Hopkins
The Sandman, Neil Gaiman
American Born Chinese, Gene Yang
Shallow Grave, Alex Van Tol
Outback, Robin Stevenson
Refuge Cove, Lesley Choyce
Wave Warrior, Lesley Choyce
Maus, Art Spiegelman
One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies, Sonya Sones
Hush, Jacqueline Woodson
The Fallen, Paul Langan
Shattered, Paul Langan
The Realm of Possibility, David Levithan
Street Love, Walter Dean Myers
Monster, Walter Dean Myers

Paranormal/Supernatural

City of Bones, Cassandra Clare
Twilight, Stephenie Meyer
Beautiful Creatures, Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl
Dracula, Bram Stoker
The Raven Boys, Maggie Stiefvater
The Shattering, Karen Healey
The Shining, Stephen King
Doctor Sleep, Stephen King
Conjured, Sarah Beth Durst
Poison Princess, Kressley Cole
Bonechiller, Graham McNamee
Frankenstein, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Shadow and Bone, Leigh Bardugo
Fallen, Lauren Kate
Ash, Malinda Lo

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