|
Number |
Author |
Title |
Published |
Rating |
Mini Sum |
|
1 |
Kirsten Miller |
Kiki Strike: The Empress's Tomb |
2007 |
 |
(YA Fiction)The Irregulars are back to fight more crimes and uncover each other's secrets. |
| 2 |
Jhumpa Lahiri |
The Interpreter of Maladies |
2000 |
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(Fiction) Short stories about belonging, immigrants, and love. |
| 3 |
Gail Giles |
What Happened to Cass McBride? |
2006 |
|
(YA Fiction) Girl is kidnapped and buried alive after a boy she made fun of commits suicide. |
| 4 |
Chuck Palahniuk |
Lullaby |
2002 |
|
(Fiction) When a journalist discovers that reading a certain poem causes SIDS he travels around the country destroying books. |
|
5 |
Jose Saramago |
All the Names |
1997 |
|
(Fiction) When a random file falls into the hands of a record-keeper, he begins obsessing about the woman in the file. |
|
6 |
Marge Piercy |
Sex Wars |
2005 |
|
(Fiction) Historical figures in Gilded Age NYC weave history around issues of sex. |
|
7 |
Jennifer Donnelly |
A Northern Light |
2003 |
|
(YA Fiction) After encountering characters from An American Tradegy, an aspiring writer decides to follow her dreams. |
|
8 |
Kazuo Ishiguro |
The Unconsoled |
1996 |
|
(Fiction) A pianist tries to oblige the denizens of a surreal European town. |
|
9 |
Markus Zusak |
The Book Thief |
2005 |
|
(YA Fiction) During WWII a German girl learns the power of words. |
|
10 |
James Hilton |
Goodbye, Mr. Chips |
1934 |
 |
(Fiction) Elderly teacher reminisces about his life at boarding school. |
|
11 |
Carolyn Mackler |
The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things |
2003 |
|
(YA Fiction) Teen overcomes insecurities as she recognizes home truths. |
|
12 |
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos |
Les Liaisons dangereuses |
1782 |
|
(Fiction) Idle French aristocrats use sex to destroy people they don't like. |
|
13 |
John Grogan |
Marley and Me |
2005 |
|
(Memoir) Journalist couple gets a crazy dog who lives with them as they start their family. |
|
14 |
Stephanie Meyer |
Twilight |
2005 |
|
(YA Fiction) Teen and vampire fall in love. |
|
15 |
Stephanie Meyer |
New Moon |
2006 |
|
(YA Fiction) Hoping Bella will embrace a less dangerous life, Edward leaves town while heartbroken Bella learns about werewolves. |
|
16 |
Stephanie Meyer |
Eclipse |
2007 |
|
(YA Fiction) Bella weighs human life and immortality as the Cullens and the pack battle a new vampire threat. |
|
17 |
Stephanie Meyer |
Breaking Dawn |
2008 |
|
(YA Fiction) With high school finished Bella joins her vampire family, setting off an unprecedented chain of events. |
|
18 |
Scott Westerfeld |
Uglies |
2005 |
|
(YA Fiction) In a world where plastic surgery grants everyone perfect beauty at 16, Tally discovers that not everyone wants to be perfect. |
|
19 |
Scott Westerfeld |
Pretties |
2005 |
|
(YA Fiction) Newly pretty Tally has to choose between the bubbly ease of pretty life and the dangerous freedom of her criminal past. |
|
20 |
Scott Westerfeld |
Specials |
2006 |
|
(YA Fiction) Things are messed up. But, as a Special it's Tally job to fix them. She just has to figure out what really needs to be fixed. |
|
21 |
Gaston Leroux |
The Phantom of the Opera |
1911 |
|
(Fiction) Opera singer Christine is haunted by an twisted musical genius intent on stealing her away from her fiance to his labyrinthine underground home. |
|
22 |
Judith Flanders |
Inside the Victorian Home: a portrait of domestic life in Victorian England |
2004 |
|
(History) Domestic history of middle-class Victorian England. |
|
23 |
James Patterson |
Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment |
2005 |
|
(YA Fiction) Flying orphans are asked to save the world in the first book of the series. |
| 24 |
James Patterson |
Maximum Ride: School's Out Forever |
2006 |
|
(YA Fiction) After Fang is injured in battle the flock stays with a lady and attend a regular school until they have to get back to saving the world. |
|
25 |
Philippa Gregory |
The Constant Princess |
2005 |
|
(Historical Fiction) Katherine of Aragon, is married to the English crown prince. Grief stricken when he dies 5 months after their wedding, she remains determined to marry fulfill her destiny to become queen of England, even though it means marrying Henry VIII. |
|
26 |
Anna Quindlen |
Object Lessons |
1991 |
|
(Fiction) 12-year-old Catholic girl's views of family and friends change during a summer. |
|
27 |
John Green |
Paper Towns |
2008 |
|
(YA Fiction) When his mysterious beloved neighbor girl disapears, high school senior boy searches for clues as to why she left and where she went. |
|
28 |
Simone Howell |
Everything Beautiful |
2008 |
|
(YA Fiction) Rebelious Austrialian troublemaker is sent to Christian camp where she finds love, friendship, and healing. |
|
29 |
Steven Goldman |
Two Parties, One Tux, and a Very Short Film About The Grapes of Wrath |
2008 |
|
(YA Fiction) Wry guy tries to survive classes, girls, prom, and his best friend coming out during an ordinarily strange year of high school. |
|
30 |
Cylin Busby & John Busby |
The Year We Disappeared |
2008 |
|
(True Crime/Memoir) Father & daughter co-write about how organized crime targeted the family after an unsuccessful hit on the father while he was a police officer. |
|
31 |
Brad Barkley & Heather Hepler |
Jars of Glass |
2008 |
|
(YA Fiction) Portland, ME sisters cope with their mother's schizophrenia and committal. |
|
32 |
Shaun Tan |
The Arrival |
2007 |
|
(Graphic Story) Breathtaking pictures convey the universal story of immigration through a symbolic cityscape. |
|
33 |
Catherine Jinks |
Evil Genius |
2007 |
|
(YA Fiction) Brilliant boy (being groomed to become the next great criminal mastermind) rebels against manipulative adults. |
|
34 |
ed. Russell K. Skowronek & Charles R. Ewen |
X Marks the Spot: The Archaeology of Piracy |
2007 |
|
(Nonfiction) Scholarly articles about finding proof of piracy at historical digs. |
|
35 |
Noel Streatfeild |
Thursdays Child |
1970 |
|
(Juv Fiction) Resourceful orphans escape from a cruel orphanage. |
|
36 |
Robert Kiyosaki |
Rich Dad, Poor Dad |
2000 |
|
(Finances) Rich man suggests people make their money work for them. |
|
37 |
Stephen Colbert |
I Am America (and So Can You!) |
2007 |
|
(Humor) Instructions and inspiration for the Colbert Nation. |
|
38 |
Bennett Madison |
Lulu Dark Can See Through Walls |
2005 |
 |
(YA Fiction) Reluctant teen sleuth is petty and shallow. |
|
39 |
Jasper Fforde |
First Among Sequels |
2007 |
|
(Fiction) Thursday Next continues to fight crime in the Bookworld and her homeland. |
|
40 |
Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
Love in the Time of Cholera |
1985 |
|
(Fiction) Man carries a torch for his first love through many years and many lovers. |
|
41 |
William Makepeace Thackeray |
Vanity Fair |
1848 |
|
(Fiction) Social climber must be clever to become rich, have fun, and survive scandal. |
|
42 |
E. L. Konigsburg |
The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World |
2007 |
|
(Juv Fiction) Boys help prepare an estate sale and learn about history. |
|
43 |
Michael Gates Gill |
How Starbucks Saved My Life |
2007 |
|
(Memoir) After losing his job and wealth a snobby old man gets a job at Starbucks and finds out how to be less of an asshole. |
|
44 |
Virginia Woolf |
To the Lighthouse |
1927 |
|
(Fiction) Time moves very slowly for a family by the shore in this experimental novel. |
|
45 |
Philippa Gregory |
The Boleyn Inheritance |
2006 |
|
(Historical Fiction) Henry VIII's wives 4 & 5 try to satisfy their families ambitions and survive queenhood in a perilous time. |
|
46 |
Judy Blume |
Forever |
1975 |
|
(YA Fiction) Senior girl's first love and sexual experience. |
|
47 |
Oscar Wilde |
The Picture of Dorian Gray |
1891 |
|
(Fiction) Man hides the portrait that reveals his inner evil as he retains his surface beauty throughout a lifetime of increasing depravity. |
|
48 |
David Levithan |
Wide Awake |
2006 |
|
(YA Fiction) In a future U.S., the election of the 1st gay Jewish president causes controversy, so teens travel to support their candidate & prevent conservatives from stealing the election. |
|
49 |
Rick Riordan |
The Lightning Thief |
2005 |
|
(Juv Fiction) Son of a Greek god must quest to stop an Olympic feud. |
|
50 |
An Na |
Wait for Me |
2006 |
|
(YA Fiction) Korean-American sisters spend a hot summer working at the family dry cleaning business and rebelling against parental expectations. |
|
51 |
Stephanie Meyer |
The Host |
2008 |
|
(Sci-fi) Alien lives in woman's head; together they develop a friendship, love men, and join a subversive group of humans. |
|
52 |
Patricia McCormick |
Sold |
2006 |
|
(Narrative in verse) Nepalese girl's family sells her into prostitution in an Indian brothel. |
|
53 |
Orson Scott Card |
Ender's Game |
1985 |
|
(Sci-fi) Boy attends space school where battle games train child soldiers to mastermind an attack against a dangerous alien species. |
|
54 |
Orson Scott Card |
Speaker for the Dead |
1986 |
|
(Sci-fi) Ender goes to a planet with a mysterious alien species to redeem his xenocide, negotiate a treaty, and heal a human colony. |
|
55 |
Orson Scott Card |
Xenocide |
1991 |
|
(Sci-fi) The situation on Lusitania gets more complex as the fleet sent to destroy the planet approaches - as many as 4 intelligent species face annihilation if Ender and his friends can't stop them. |
|
56 |
Michael Ende |
The Neverending Story |
1979 |
|
(Fantasy) A book brings a human boy to save an imaginary world full of fantastic creatures who in turn save the boy. |
|
57 |
Orson Scott Card |
Ender's Shadow |
1999 |
|
(Sci-fi) Parallel to Ender's Game, this book tells about the boys' time at Battle School from Bean's perspective. |
|
58 |
Scott Westerfeld |
Extras |
2007 |
|
(Teen Fiction) In Japan's fame-based economy Aya does some investigative journalism to put out a wild story to make herself famous, but what she discovers attracts the attention of some very dangerous people. |
|
59 |
Orson Scott Card |
Shadow of the Hegemon |
2001 |
|
(Sci-Fi) Bean stops Achilles from dominating the world and helps Peter position himself to take over. |
| 60 |
Donna Freitas |
The Possibilities of Sainthood |
2008 |
|
(Teen Fiction) Girl dreams about sainthood but in the meantime, she wants one boy to notice her and the other to leave her alone--or at least pay less attention to her obnoxious cousin. |
| 61 |
Neil Gaiman & Dave McKean |
Mirrormask |
2005 |
|
(Graphic Novella) Artistic girl dreams of a quest for a mask while her mother undergoes surgery. |
| 62 |
Jumpha Lahiri |
Unaccustomed Earth |
2008 |
|
(Fiction) Short stories about negotiating cultures. |
| 63 |
Libba Bray |
A Great and Terrible Beauty |
2003 |
|
(Teen Fiction) Victorian misfit girls form a club to visit fairy realms, discover what happened to girls who last used magic, and pursue their wishes. |
| 64 |
Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner |
Freakonomics |
2005 |
|
(Pop Economics) Ways economics explains strange things. |
| 65 |
Vladimir Nabokov |
Lolita |
1955 |
|
(Fiction) Pedophile marries a woman to get her young daughter. |
| 66 |
Ha Jin |
Waiting |
1999 |
|
(Fiction) Chinese couple has to wait for many years to marry while Lin seeks divorce from his estranged arranged wife. |
| 67 |
Diana Wynne Jones |
Witchweek |
1982 |
|
(Fantasy) Several magical children in a world where magic is illegal try to escape discovery. |
| 68 |
Diana Wynne Jones |
Year of the Griffin |
2000 |
|
(Fantasy) Sequel to The Dark Lord of Derkholm - Elda the griffin at university and her classmates begin to restore their world after years of destructive tours.
|
| 69 |
Carol Ryrie Brink |
Caddie Woodlawn |
1935 |
|
(Kids Fiction) Pioneer family life. |
| 70 |
Elizabeth Marie Pope |
The Perilous Gard |
1971 |
|
(YA Fiction) Lady in waiting is exiled to an old castle where she falls in love and is kidnapped by fairies. |
| 71 |
Rick Riordan |
The Sea of Monsters |
2006 |
|
(YA Fiction) Son of a Greek god quests again - this time seeking the Golden Fleece. |
| 72 |
Pamela Sargent |
Earthseed |
1983 |
|
(Sci-fi) Kids raised on a spaceship are presented with challenges to prepare them to start a colony. |