Reading Lists

  • Below is a compilation of book lists if you are looking for help brainstorming books to read over the summer. By no means do you have to make your selections from these lists, but they provide a nice starting point and a large selection of titles.


    BOOKS WRITTEN BY FORMER WRITERS WEEK GUESTS:

    Nic Stone – Dear Martin, Dear Justyce, Chaos Theory 

     

    Samira Ahmed – Love, Hate & Other Filters, Internment, Mad, Bad, & Dangerous to Know

     

    Jeff Zentner – Into the Wild Light, The Serpent King, Goodbye Days

     

    Cristina Henriquez – The Book of Unknown Americans, Come Together, Fall Apart

     

    Gloria Chao American Panda

     

    Tony Romano – When the World Was Young, If You Eat You Never Die

     

    Mark Oshiro – Anger is a Gift

     

    Eden Robins – When Franny Stands Up

     

    Jose Olivarez – Citizen Illegal, Promises of Gold

     

    Omar Holmon – Black Nerd Problems, We Were All Someone Else Yesterday 

     

    Toya Wolfe – Last Summer on State Street

     

    Joshua Nguyen – Come Clean

     

    Adib Khorram – Darius the Great is Not Okay. Darius the Great Deserves Better

     

    Rachel Lynn Solomon, Today, Tonight, Tomorrow

     

    Patricia Smith – Unshuttered: Poems, Incendiary Art

     

    Laura Ruby – Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All

     

    Jessica Hopper – Night Moves, The First Collection of Criticism By a Living Female Rock Critic

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    ADDITIONAL BOOKS BY WRITE LIFE PODCAST GUESTS:

    Sierra DeMulder – Today Means Amen, Ephemera

     

    A.S. King – Everybody Sees the Ants, Ask the Passengers, Reality Boy, Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future, I Crawl Through It

     

    Kimberly McCreight – Reconstructing Amelia, Where They Found Her, The Outliers

     

    E. Lockhart – We Were Liars, Genuine Fraud

     

    Mary Roach – Stiff, Gulp, Bonk, Spook, Packing for Mars, Grunt

     

    Sara Zarr The Story of a Girl, Gem & Dixie

     

    Andrea Peterson – On Edge

     

    Tiffany D. Jackson – Allegedly, Monday’s Not Coming, Grown, The Weight of Blood

     

    Lisa Selin Davis – Lost Stars

     

    Ann Hood – The Book That Matters Most

     

    Chris Crutcher – Period 8, Deadline, Angry Management, King of the Mild Frontier & more!

     

    READING LISTS:

    Lincoln Award:  Illinois Teen Readers’ Choice 2024 Master List 

    Horn Book 2024 Summer Reading List

    YALSA’s 2023 Teens Top Winners

    YALSA Current and Past Printz Award Winners

    YALSA Book Awards and Book Lists

    Illinois Reads List Grades 9-12

    Goodreads Young Adult Book Lists

    Goodreads Fiction Book Lists 

    Goodreads Nonfiction Book Lists

    NYT 100 Notable Books of 2023

    NPR Books We Love 2023