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| Author Name | Book Title | Year | Age Level | Theme | Setting (Year) | AR level | |
| Chinua | Achebe | Things Fall Apart | Teen | fiction | |||
| Douglas | Adams | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | 1979 | General | science fiction | ||
| Ryunosuke | Akutagawa | Rashomon and Other Stories | 1920 | Teen | fiction (short stories) | ||
| Lloyd | Alexander | The Illyrian Adventure | 1986 | Middle | fiction | ||
| Isabel | Allende | The House of the Spirits | Teen | fiction | |||
| David | Almond | Kit's Wilderness | 2000 | Middle | fiction | ||
| David | Almond | Skellig | 1999 | Middle | fiction | ||
| Rudolfo | Anaya | Bless Me, Ultima | 1972 | General | fiction | ||
| Laura Halse | Anderson | Speak | 2001 | Teen | fiction | ||
| Laurie Halse | Anderson | Fever 1793 | 2000 | Middle | fiction (historical) | 1793 | |
| Maya | Angelou | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | 1970 | General | biography | ||
| Maya | Angelou | The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou | 1994 | General | poetry | ||
| * | Anonymous [Beatrice Sparks] | Go Ask Alice | 1976 | Teen | nonfiction | ||
| Jennifer and Irene | Armstrong Opdyke | In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer | Middle | nonfiction | 1945 | ||
| Katherine | Arnoldi | The Amazing "True" Story of a Teenage Single Mom | 1998 | Teen | nonfiction | ||
| Linda | Atkinson | In Kindling Flame: The Story of Hannah Senesh 1921-1944 | 1985 | Teen | biography | ||
| Margaret | Atwood | The Handmaid's Tale | 1986 | General | fiction | ||
| Jean M. | Auel | Clan of the Cave Bear | General | fiction | |||
| Jane | Austen | Pride and Prejudice | 1816 | General | fiction | 11.3 | |
| Brian Floca | Avi | True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle | 1990 | Teen | fiction | 7.2 | |
| Brian Floca | Avi | Nothing but the Truth: A Documentary Novel | 1991 | Middle | nonfiction | ||
| Brian Floca | Avi� | Poppy | 1995 | Middle | science fiction | ||
| Natalie | Babbitt | Tuck Everlasting | 1975 | Middle | fiction | 6.3 | |
| James A. | Baldwin | Go Tell It on the Mountain | 1953 | Teen | fiction | ||
| Joan | Bauer | Hope Was Here | 2000 | Teen | fiction | ||
| Joan | Bauer | Rules of the Road | 1998 | Teen | fiction | ||
| Melba Patillo | Beals | Warriors Don't Cry | 1994 | General | fiction | ||
| Melba Patillo | Beals | Warriors Don't Cry [abridged] | 1994 | Middle | fiction | ||
| Elizabeth | Berg | Joy School | 1997 | General | fiction | ||
| Elizabeth | Berg | Talk Before Sleep | 1994 | General | fiction | ||
| Francesca Lia | Block | [1] Weetzie Bat | 1991 | Teen | fiction | ||
| Francesca Lia | Block | [2] Witch Baby | 1992 | Teen | fiction | ||
| Francesca Lia | Block | [3] Missing Angel Juan | 1995 | Teen | fiction | ||
| Francesca Lia | Block | [4] Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys | 1993 | Teen | fiction | ||
| Francesca Lia | Block | Violet and Claire | Teen | fiction | |||
| Edward | Bloor | Tangerine | 1998 | Teen | fiction | ||
| Joan W. | Blos | A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal | Middle | fiction (historical) | 1850 | ||
| Judy | Blume | Just as Long as We're Together | 1987 | Middle | fiction | 4 | |
| Judy | Blume | Then Again, Maybe I Won't | 1971 | Middle | fiction | ||
| Judy | Blume | Tiger Eyes | 1981 | Teen | fiction | 4 | |
| Ray | Bradbury | Fahrenheit 451 | General | fiction | 9.8 | ||
| Ray | Bradbury | The Martian Chronicles | General | science fiction | |||
| Marion Zimmer | Bradley | The Mists of Avalon | 1985 | General | fiction | ||
| Carol Ryrie | Brink | Caddie Woodlawn | 1935 | Middle | fiction (historical) | 1864 | 5.6 |
| Charlotte | Bronte | Jane Eyre | 18xx | Teen | fiction | 10.3 | |
| Emily | Bronte | Wuthering Heights | 18xx | Teen | fiction | 9.9 | |
| Bruce | Brooks | The Moves Make the Man | 1984 | Teen | fiction | 5.9 | |
| Frances Hodgson | Burnett | Secret Garden | 1987 | Middle | fiction | 7.5 | |
| Octavia E. | Butler | Parable of the Sower | Teen | fiction | |||
| Betsy | Byars | The Summer of the Swans | 1971 | Teen | fiction | 5.2 | |
| Albert | Camus | The Stranger | Teen | fiction | |||
| Orson Scott | Card | Ender's Game | 1985 | General | science fiction | ||
| Veronica | Chambers | Mama's Girl | 1997 | General | fiction | ||
| Stephen | Chbosky | The Perks of Being a Wallflower | Teen | fiction | |||
| Alice | Childress | A Hero Ain't Nothing but a Sandwich | 1973 | Teen | fiction | ||
| Sandra | Cisneros | The House on Mango Street | Middle | fiction | |||
| Beverly | Cleary | Dear Mr. Henshaw | 1984 | Middle | fiction | 4 | |
| Penny | Coleman | Corpses Coffins and Crypts: A History of Burial | General | nonfiction | |||
| Christopher and James Lincoln | Collier | My Brother Sam Is Dead | 1974 | Middle | fiction (historical) | 1776 | 6.2 |
| Billy | Collins | Sailing Alone Around the Room | 1999 | General | poetry | ||
| Jane Leslie | Conly | Crazy Lady! | 1994 | Middle | fiction | ||
| Caroline | Cooney | The Voice on the Radio | 1996 | Teen | fiction | ||
| Caroline B. | Cooney | The Face on the Milk Carton | 1990 | Teen | fiction | 6 | |
| Caroline | Cooney | The Ransom of Mercy Carter | 2001 | Teen | fiction (historical) | 1704 | |
| Susan | Cooper | The Grey King [Dark is Rising, Book 4] | 1986 | Middle | fiction (fantasy) | 7.1 | |
| Robert | Cormier | Frenchtown Summer | 2000 | General | fiction | ||
| Robert | Cormier | After the First Death | 1979 | Teen | fiction | ||
| Robert | Cormier | Beyond the Chocolate War | 1986 | Teen | fiction | ||
| Robert | Cormier | The Chocolate War | 1974 | Teen | fiction | 6 | |
| Robert | Cormier | Heroes | 1998 | Teen | fiction | ||
| Robert | Cormier | I am the Cheese | 1977 | Teen | fiction | 8.5 | |
| Robert | Cormier | Tenderness: A Novel | 1998 | Teen | fiction | ||
| Robert | Cormier | Tunes for Bears to Dance to | 1992 | Teen | fiction | ||
| Robert | Cormier | We All Fall Down | 1991 | Teen | fiction | ||
| Audrey | Couloumbis | Getting Near to Baby | 2000 | Middle | fiction | ||
| Sharon | Creech | Walk Two Moons | 1994 | Middle | fiction | ||
| Chris | Crutcher | Whale Talk | 2001 | Teen | fiction (sports) | ||
| Philip | Curtis | Bud, Not Buddy | 1999 | Middle | fiction | ||
| Christopher Paul | Curtis | The Watsons Go to Birmingham, 1963 | 1995 | Teen | fiction | ||
| Karen | Cushman | Catherine, Called Birdy | 1994 | Middle | fiction (historical) | 1250 | |
| Karen | Cushman | The Midwife's Apprentice | 1995 | Middle | fiction (historical) | 1000 | |
| Roald | Dahl | Boy: Tales of Childhood | 1988 | Teen | autobiography | ||
| Antoine | de Saint-Exupery | The Little Prince | 1943 | Middle | fiction (fantasy) | 8.2 | |
| Sarah | Dessen | Dreamland | 2000 | Teen | fiction | ||
| Kate | DiCamillo | Because of Winn-Dixie | 2000 | Middle | fiction | ||
| Charles | Dickens | Great Expectations | 18xx | General | fiction | 9.5 | |
| Charles | Dickens | The Personal History of David Copperfield | 18xx | General | fiction | 9.8 | |
| Charles | Dickens | A Tale of Two Cities | 18xx | General | fiction | 9.2 | |
| Peter | Dickinson | Eva | 1989 | Middle | fiction | ||
| Emily | Dickinson | The Complete Poems of Emily Dickenson | 1960 | General | poetry | ||
| Michael | Dorris | A Yellow Raft in Blue Water | 1987 | General | fiction | ||
| Fyodor | Dostoyevsky | Crime and Punishment | 1870 | Teen | fiction | 10.5 | |
| Frederick | Douglass | Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass | Teen | autobiography | |||
| Sharon M. | Draper | Tears of a Tiger | 1984 | Teen | fiction | ||
| Lois | Duncan | Killing Mr. Griffin | 1990 | Teen | fiction | 6.4 | |
| Lois | Duncan | Stranger with my Face | 1981 | Teen | fiction | ||
| Lois | Duncan | The Third Eye | 1984 | Teen | fiction | 7.2 | |
| Allan W. | Eckert | Incident at Hawk's Hill | 1972 | Middle | fiction | 7.5 | |
| Ralph | Ellison | Invisible Man | Teen | fiction | |||
| Buchi | Emecheta | The Bride Price | General | fiction | |||
| Sylvia Louise | Engdahl | Enchantress From the Stars | 1970 | Middle | fiction | ||
| Laura | Esquivel | Like Water for Chocolate (Como agua para chocolate) | Teen | fiction | |||
| Nancy | Farmer | A Girl Named Disaster | 1997 | Middle | fiction | ||
| Zlata | Filipovic | Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo | 1994 | Teen | nonfiction | ||
| F. Scott | Fitzgerald | The Great Gatsby | 1922 | Teen | fiction | 9.1 | |
| Fannie | Flagg | Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Caf� | 1987 | General | fiction | ||
| Sharon | Flake | Skin I'm In | Middle | fiction | |||
| Paul | Fleischman | Whirligig | 1999 | Teen | fiction | ||
| Paul | Fleischman | Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices | 1988 | Middle | poetry | ||
| Ralph | Fletcher | I am Wings: Poems About Love | 1994 | Teen | poetry | ||
| Esther | Forbes | Johnny Tremain | 1944 | Middle | fiction (historical) | 1775 | 8.1 |
| Paula | Fox | The One-Eyed Cat | 1985 | Middle | fiction | 6.2 | |
| Betsy | Franco (Ed.) | You Hear Me?: Poems and Writings by Teenage Boys | 2000 | Teen | Poetry Anth. | ||
| Anne | Frank | The Diary of a Young Girl | 1967 | Teen | autobiography | 9.2 | |
| Lucy / E.R. | Frank | Life is Funny | 2000 | Teen | fiction | ||
| Russell | Freedman | Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery | 1994 | Middle | biography | ||
| Russell | Freedman | Lincoln: A Photobiography | 1988 | Middle | biography | 6.3 | |
| Russell | Freedman | Martha Graham, A Dancer's Life | 1998 | Teen | biography | ||
| Jean | Fritz | Homesick: My Own Story | 1983 | Middle | fiction | 5.9 | |
| Robert | Frost | You Come Too: Favorite Poems for Young Readers | 1975 | Middle | poetry | ||
| Monica | Furlong | Wise Child | 1987 | Middle | fiction | ||
| Monica | Furlong | Juniper | 1991 | Teen | fiction | ||
| Ernest | Gaines | A Lesson Before Dying | 1993 | Teen | fiction | 1940 | |
| Paul | Gallico | The Snow Goose | 1941 | Middle | fiction | ||
| Jack | Gantos | Joey Pigza Loses Control | 2001 | Middle | fiction | ||
| Gabriel | Garcia Marquez | One Hundred Years of Solitude | General | fiction | |||
| Jean Craighead | George | Julie of the Wolves | 1973 | Middle | fiction | 6.4 | |
| Jean Craighead | George | My Side of the Mountain | 1960 | Middle | fiction | 5.9 | |
| Fred | Gipson | Old Yeller | 1957 | Middle | fiction | 5.8 | |
| William | Golding | Lord of the Flies | 1959 | General | fiction (survival) | 8 | |
| William | Goldman | The Princess Bride | 1987 | General | Fairy Tale | ||
| Nadine | Gordimer | July's People | Teen | fiction | |||
| Elizabeth Janet | Gray | Adam of the Road | 1942 | Middle | fiction | 7.4 | |
| Jan | Greenberg | Chuck Close, Up Close | 1998 | Teen | biography | ||
| Bette | Greene | The Summer of My German Soldier | 1973 | Middle | fiction | 6.1 | |
| Nikki | Grimes | Jazmin's Notebook | 1998 | Middle | fiction | ||
| John | Gunther | Death Be Not Proud | 1949 | General | biography | 8 | |
| Margaret Peterson | Haddix | Just Ella | Middle | fiction | |||
| Alex | Haley | Roots | Teen | fictionalized | |||
| Virginia | Hamilton | In the Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World | 1989 | Middle | fiction | ||
| Edith | Hamilton | Mythology | 1940 | General | mythology | ||
| Lorraine | Hansberry | A Raisin in the Sun | 1958 | General | drama (play) | ||
| Nathaniel | Hawthorne | The Scarlet Letter | 1850 | General | fiction | 11.5 | |
| Torey L. | Hayden | Murphy's Boy | 1983 | Teen | nonfiction | ||
| Torey L. | Hayden | One Child | 1981 | Teen | nonfiction | ||
| Le Ly | Hayslip | When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace | General | autobiography | |||
| Joseph | Heller | Catch 22 | 1985 | General | fiction | ||
| Ernest | Hemingway | A Farewell to Arms | General | fiction | |||
| Marguerite | Henry | Misty of Chincoteague | 1948 | Middle | fiction | 4.1 | |
| James | Herriot | All Creatures Great and Small | 1972 | General | nonfiction (memoir) | 8.9 | |
| John | Hersey | Hiroshima | 1946 | General | nonfiction | 1945 | |
| Karen | Hesse | Letters from Rifka | 1992 | Middle | fiction (historical) | 1919 | |
| Karen | Hesse | Out of the Dust | 1998 | Middle | fiction (historical) | 1934 | |
| Terry Spencer | Hesser | Kissing Doorknobs | 1999 | Teen | fiction | ||
| S.E. | Hinton | The Outsiders | 1968 | Teen | fiction | 6.7 | |
| S.E. | Hinton | Rumble Fish | 1975 | Teen | fiction | 4.9 | |
| S.E. | Hinton | Taming the Starrunner | 1988 | Teen | fiction | 7.2 | |
| S.E. | Hinton | Tex | 1979 | Teen | fiction | 7 | |
| S.E. | Hinton | That Was Then, This is Now | 1971 | Teen | fiction | 5.7 | |
| Jennifer L. | Holm | Our Only May Amelia | 2000 | Middle | fiction | ||
| Kimberly Willis | Holt | When Zachary Beaver Came to Town | Middle | fiction | |||
| * | Homer� | The Illiad | General | fiction | |||
| * | Homer� | The Odyssey | General | fiction | |||
| Lee Bennett | Hopkins | 1995 | Middle | poetry | |||
| James�and Jeanne | Houston | Farewell to Manzanar | 1973 | General | nonfiction | 1942 | 7.4 |
| James | Howe | The Watcher | Teen | fiction | |||
| Langston | Hughes | The Dream Keeper and Other Poems | Middle | poetry | |||
| Irene | Hunt | Across Five Aprils | 1965 | Middle | fiction | 8.9 | |
| Brian | Jacques | Redwall (Book 1 in the Redwall series) | 1990 | Middle | fiction | 7.6 | |
| Franz | Kafka | The Metamorphosis | Teen | fiction | |||
| Jack | Kantos | Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key | Middle | fiction | |||
| Daniel | Keyes | Flowers for Algernon | 1966 | General | fiction | 7.8 | |
| Barbara | Kingsolver | The Bean Trees | 1988 | General | fiction | ||
| Maxine Hong | Kingston | The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts | Teen | autobiography | |||
| E. L. | Konigsburg | From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler | 1968 | Middle | fiction | 4.8 | |
| E. L. | Konigsburg | A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver | 1975 | General | fiction (historical) | 1150 | |
| Dean | Koontz | Lightning | General | fiction | |||
| Theodora | Kroeber | The Inland Whale: Nine Stories Retold from California Indian Legends | Middle | fiction (short stories) | |||
| Joseph | Krumgold | And Now Miguel | 1954 | Middle | fiction | 6.8 | |
| Anne | Lamott | Crooked Little Heart | 1997 | General | fiction | ||
| Kathryn | Lasky | Elizabeth I: Red Rose of the House of Tudor | Middle | fiction | |||
| Kathryn | Lasky | Beyond the Burning Time | 1994 | Teen | fiction (historical) | 1692 | |
| Harper | Lee | To Kill a Mockingbird | 1960 | General | fiction | 7.4 | |
| Madeleine | L'Engle | A Ring of Endless Light | 1981 | Middle | fiction (fantasy) | 7.5 | |
| Madeleine | L'Engle | A Swifty Tilting Planet | 1979 | Middle | fiction (fantasy) | ||
| Madeleine | L'Engle | A Wind at the Door | 1976 | Middle | fiction (fantasy) | 5.8 | |
| Madeleine | L'Engle | A Wrinkle in Time | 1963 | Middle | fiction (fantasy) | 5.5 | |
| Gail Carson | Levine | Ella Enchanted | 1998 | Middle | Fairy Tale | ||
| Graciela | Limon | Song of the Hummingbird | Teen | fiction | |||
| Robert | Lipsyte | The Contender | 1967 | Teen | fiction | 8 | |
| Anita | Lobel | No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War | Middle | nonfiction | |||
| Jack | London | Call of the Wild | 1964 | General | fiction | 7.3 | |
| Federico Garcia | Lorca | Three Tragedies: Blood Wedding; Yerma; Bernarda Alba | General | drama (play) | |||
| Bette Bao | Lord | In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson | 1984 | Middle | fiction | 4.7 | |
| Lois | Lowry | Anastasia Krupnik | Middle | fiction | 6.3 | ||
| Lois | Lowry | Number the Stars | 1990 | Middle | fiction | 5 | |
| Lois | Lowry | Find a Stranger, Say Good-bye | 1978 | Teen | fiction | ||
| Lois | Lowry | The Giver | 1993 | Teen | fiction | ||
| Lois | Lowry | A Summer to Die | 1977 | Teen | fiction | 4.8 | |
| Janet | Lunn | The Root Cellar | 1983 | Middle | fiction (historical) | 1864 | 7.2 |
| Chris | Lynch | Whitechurch | Teen | fiction | |||
| Mary | MacCracken | A Circle of Children | 1975 | General | fiction | ||
| Kamala | Markandaya | Nectar in a Sieve | Teen | fict. | |||
| John | Marsden | Letters From the Inside | 1994 | Teen | fiction | ||
| John | Marsden | So Much to Tell You | 1989 | Teen | fiction | ||
| John | Marsden | Tomorrow When the War Began (#1 of 7) | 1995 | Teen | fiction | ||
| Victor | Martinez | Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida | 1996 | Teen | fiction | ||
| Mark | Mathabane | Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa | Teen | autobiography | |||
| Harry | Mazer | The Island Keeper | 1981 | Teen | fiction | ||
| Harry and Norma Fox | Mazer | Heartbeat | 1989 | Teen | fiction | ||
| Norma Fox | Mazer | After the Rain | 1988 | Teen | fiction | 5.4 | |
| Anne | McCaffrey | Black Horses for the King | 1996 | General | fiction | ||
| Ann | McGovern | The Secret Soldier: The Story of Deborah Sampson | Middle | biography | |||
| Arthur | Miller | The Crucible | General | drama (play) | 9 | ||
| Margaret | Mitchell | Gone With the Wind | 1975 | General | fiction | 6.2 | |
| Toni | Morrison | The Bluest Eye | 1970 | General | fiction | ||
| Toni | Morrison | The Song of Solomon | 1977 | Teen | fiction | ||
| Toni | Morrison | Beloved | General | fiction (historical) | 1870 | ||
| Farley | Mowatt | Lost in the Barrens | 1956 | Middle | fiction | ||
| Farley | Mowatt | Never Cry Wolf | 1963 | General | nonfiction | ||
| Bharati | Mukherjee | Jasmine | 1989 | Teen | fiction | ||
| Walter Dean | Myers | Fallen Angels | 1991 | Teen | fiction | ||
| Walter Dean | Myers | Monster | 1999 | Teen | fiction | ||
| Walter Dean | Myers | The Outside Shot | 1987 | Teen | fiction | ||
| Walter Dean | Myers | Somewhere in the Darkness | 1992 | Teen | fiction | ||
| Donna Jo | Napoli | The Prince of the Pond, Otherwise Known as De Fawg Pin | Middle | Fairy Tale | |||
| Zora | Neale-Hurston | Their Eyes Were Watching God | 2000 | General | fiction | ||
| Marilyn | Nelson | Carver: A Life in Poems | 2002 | Teen | fiction (historical) | 1905 | |
| John | Neufeld | Lisa, Bright and Dark | 1970 | Teen | fiction | 6 | |
| Naomi Shihab | Nye (ed.) | This Same Sky: A Collection of Poems from Around the World | 1992 | Middle | Poetry Anth. | ||
| Tim | O'Brien | The Things They Carried | 1991 | General | fiction | ||
| Robert C. | O'Brien | Z for Zachariah | 1974 | Teen | fiction | 7.4 | |
| Scott | O'Dell | Island of the Blue Dolphins | 1961 | Middle | fiction | 6.4 | |
| George | Orwell | Animal Farm | Teen | fiction | 8.8 | ||
| Linda Sue | Park | A Single Shard | 2002 | Teen | fiction (historical) | 1150 | |
| Katherine | Paterson | Bridge to Terabithia | 1978 | Teen | fiction | 7 | |
| Katherine | Paterson | The Great Gilly Hopkins | 1978 | Teen | fiction | ||
| Katherine | Paterson | Lyddie | 1991 | Middle | fiction (historical) | 1840 | |
| Katherine | Paterson | Jacob Have I Loved | 1980 | Teen | fiction (historical) | 1945 | 6.1 |
| Alan | Paton | Cry, the Beloved Country | 1948 | Teen | fiction | ||
| Gary | Paulsen | Hatchet | 1988 | Middle | fiction | 6.1 | |
| Gary | Paulsen | Transall Saga | Middle | fiction | |||
| Gary | Paulsen | Brian's Winter | Teen | fiction | |||
| Gary | Paulsen | Dogsong | 1986 | Teen | fiction | 5.9 | |
| Gary | Paulsen | The Monument | 1991 | Teen | fiction | ||
| Gary | Paulsen | The River | 1991 | Teen | fiction | ||
| Gary | Paulsen | Nightjohn | 1993 | Teen | fiction (historical) | 1850 | |
| Gary | Paulsen | Soldier's Heart: Being the Story of the Enlistment and Due Service of the Boy Charley Goddard in the First Minnesota Volunteers | 1998 | Teen | fiction (historical) | 1863 | |
| Robert Newto | Peck | A Year Down Yonder | 2000 | Middle | fiction | ||
| Robert Newto | Peck | A Long Way From Chicago | 1998 | Middle | humor | ||
| W.Rodman | Philbrick | The Mighty (aka "Freak the Mighty") | 1993 | Teen | fiction | ||
| Sylvia | Plath | The Bell Jar | 1975 | General | nonfiction | ||
| Sylvia | Plath | Ariel | 1969 | General | poetry | ||
| Carol | Plum-Ucci | The Body of Christopher Creed | 2000 | Teen | fiction | ||
| Philip | Pullman | The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials #1) | 1996 | Middle | fiction | ||
| Philip | Pullman | The Ruby in the Smoke (Sally Lockhart #1) | 1987 | Middle | fiction (historical) | 1900 | |
| Ellen | Raskin | The Westing Game | 1978 | Middle | fiction (mystery) | 6.3 | |
| Wilson | Rawls | Summer of the Monkeys | 1976 | Middle | fiction | 6.2 | |
| Wilson | Rawls | Where the Red Fern Grows | 1961 | Middle | fiction | 5 | |
| Carolyn | Reeder | Shades of Gray | 1989 | Middle | fiction (historical) | 1866 | |
| Richard | Rodriguez | Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez | 1982 | Teen | autobiography | ||
| Luis J. | Rodriguez | Always Running: La vida loca, Gang Days in LA | Teen | nonfiction | |||
| J. K. | Rowling | Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone | Middle | fiction | |||
| Cynthia | Rylant | Waiting to Waltz: A Childhood | 1984 | Middle | poetry | ||
| Louis | Sachar | Holes | 1998 | Middle | fiction (mystery) | ||
| J.D. | Salinger | The Catcher in the Rye | 1951 | General | fiction | ||
| William | Shakespeare | Hamlet | 159x | General | drama (play) | ||
| William | Shakespeare | Macbeth | 159x | General | drama (play) | ||
| William | Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night's Dream | 159x | General | drama (play) | ||
| William | Shakespeare | Much Ado About Nothing | 159x | General | drama (play) | ||
| William | Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | 159x | General | drama (play) | ||
| William | Shakespeare | Julius Caesar | 159x | Teen | drama (play) | ||
| William | Shakespeare | The Merchant of Venice | 159x | Teen | drama (play) | ||
| William | Shakespeare | Othello | 159x | Teen | drama (play) | ||
| William | Shakespeare | The Taming of the Shrew | 159x | Teen | drama (play) | ||
| William | Shakespeare | The Tempest | 159x | Teen | drama (play) | ||
| William | Shakespeare | Twelfth Night | 159x | Teen | drama (play) | ||
| William | Shakespeare | Shakespeare's Sonnets | 159x | General | poetry | ||
| Nzoke | Shange | For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf | Teen | drama (play) | |||
| Dyan | Sheldon | Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen | Teen | fiction | |||
| Mary | Shelley | Frankenstein | General | science fiction | 9.8 | ||
| Leslie Marmon | Silko | Ceremony | General | fiction | |||
| Betty | Smith | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (abridged) | 1943 | General | fiction | 7.5 | |
| Betty | Smith | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (unabridged) | 1943 | General | fiction | 7.5 | |
| Aleksandr | Solzhenitsyn | One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich | 1963 | Teen | fiction | ||
| Sonya | Sones | Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy | Teen | poetry | |||
| * | Sophocles� | Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus Rex [the King]; Oedipus at Colonus | General | drama (play) | |||
| Gary | Soto | Baseball in April and Other Stories | 1990 | Middle | fiction | 5.3 | |
| Gary | Soto | Buried Onions | 1997 | Teen | fiction | ||
| Elizabeth George | Speare | The Witch of Blackbird Pond | 1958 | Middle | fiction (historical) | 1687 | 6.3 |
| Armstrong | Sperry | Call It Courage | 1941 | Middle | fiction | 5 | |
| Jerry | Spinelli | Maniac Magee | 1991 | Middle | fiction | 6.1 | |
| Suzanne Fisher | Staples | Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind | 1989 | Middle | fiction | ||
| William | Steig | Abel's Island | 1977 | Middle | fiction | 6.2 | |
| John | Steinbeck | The Grapes of Wrath | 1939 | General | fiction | 1939 | |
| John | Steinbeck | Of Mice and Men | 1937 | General | fiction | ||
| Todd | Strasser | The Wave | Teen | fiction | |||
| Rosemary | Sutcliffe | Black Ships Before Troy: The Story of the Iliad | 1993 | Middle | fiction | ||
| Amy | Tan | The Joy Luck Club | 1989 | General | fiction | ||
| Amy | Tan | The Kitchen God's Wife | 1991 | General | fiction | ||
| Mildred D. | Taylor | Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry | 1976 | Middle | fiction (historical) | 1935 | 7.1 |
| Rob | Thomas | Rats Saw God | 1996 | Teen | fiction | ||
| Velma Maia | Thomas | Lest We Forget: The Passage from Africa to Slavery and Exhibition: A Three-Dimensional Interactive Book with Photographs and Documents from the Black Holocaust Exhibit | General | nonfiction (historical) | 1700 | ||
| Henry David | Thoreau | Walden | 1854 | General | nonfiction , poetry | ||
| J.R.R. | Tolkien | The [0] Hobbitt | 1937 | General | fiction (fantasy) | 7.2 | |
| Terry | Trueman | Stuck in Neutral | 2000 | Teen | fiction | ||
| Dalton | Trumbo | Johnny Got His Gun | 1970 | General | nonfiction | ||
| Mark | Twain | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | 1876 | General | fiction | 8.3 | |
| Mark | Twain | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | 187x | Teen | fiction | 8 | |
| Ruud | Van Der Rol | Anne Frank: Beyond the Diary: A Photographic Remembrance | 1993 | Teen | nonfiction | 1942 | |
| Cynthia | Voigt | Dicey's Song | 1982 | Middle | fiction | 5.8 | |
| Cynthia | Voigt | Homecoming | 1981 | Teen | fiction | 5.1 | |
| Cynthia | Voigt | Izzy Willy Nilly | 1987 | Teen | fiction | 5.8 | |
| Cynthia | Voigt | Solitary Blue | 1983 | Teen | fiction | 6.5 | |
| Cynthia | Voigt | When She Hollers | 1994 | Teen | fiction | ||
| Cynthia | Voigt | Jackaroo | 1985 | Teen | fiction (fantasy) | ||
| Cynthia | Voigt | On Fortune's Wheel | 1990 | Teen | fiction (fantasy) | ||
| Cynthia | Voigt | Tell me if the Lovers are Losers | 1982 | Teen | fiction (sports) | ||
| Kurt | Vonnegut | Slaughterhouse Five or the Children's Crusade: A Duty Dance With Death | 1970 | General | fiction | ||
| Alice | Walker | The Color Purple | 1982 | General | fiction | ||
| Yoko Kawashima | Watkins | So Far from the Bamboo Grove | 1986 | Middle | autobiography | 5.9 | |
| H.G. | Wells | War of the Worlds | General | science fiction | 7.9 | ||
| Nancy | Werlin | The Killer's Cousin | Teen | fiction | |||
| Gloria | Whelan | Homeless Bird | 2000 | Middle | fiction | ||
| T.H. | White | The Once and Future King | 1939 | General | fiction | ||
| E.B. | White | Charlotte's Web | 1953 | Middle | fiction | 6 | |
| Rob | White | Deathwatch | 1973 | Teen | fiction | 6.1 | |
| Ruth | White | Belle Prater's Boy | 1997 | Middle | fiction (historical) | 1950 | |
| Walt | Whitman | Leaves of Grass | 1855 | General | poetry | ||
| Elie | Wiesel | Night | 1958 | General | fiction (historical) | 1945 | 8.7 |
| August | Wilson | Fences | General | drama (play) | |||
| August | Wilson | The Piano Lesson | Teen | drama (play) | |||
| Maia | Wojciechowska | Shadow of a Bull | 1965 | Middle | fiction | 5.5 | |
| Tom | Wolfe | The Right Stuff | 1983 | General | nonfiction | 1960 | |
| Jacqueline | Woodson | If You Come Softly | Teen | fiction | |||
| Jacqueline | Woodson | Miracle's Boys | 2000 | Teen | fiction | ||
| Richard | Wright | Black Boy | 1945 | General | autobiography | ||
| Richard | Wright | Native Son | Teen | fiction | |||
| Elizabeth | Yates | Amos Fortune, Free Man | 1951 | Middle | fiction | 6 | |
| Laurence | Yep | Dragon's Gate | 1994 | Middle | fiction | 7.1 | |
| Laurence | Yep | Dragonwings | 1975 | Middle | fiction | 6.6 | |
| Paul | Zindel | Loch | 1994 | Teen | fiction | ||
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