General Fiction
- The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
- The Alchemist by Paolo Cuelho
- Boy Meets Boy by David Levitan (any of his novels!)
- The Realm of Possibility by David Levitan
- Are We There Yet? by David Levitan
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (trilogy)
- Soldier X by Don Wulffson
- The Hangman's Daughter by Oliver Potzsch
"Classics"
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Graphic Novels
Non-Fiction- American-Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
- Maus and Maus II by Art Spiegelman
- You Can Get Arrested for That: 2 Guys, 25 Dumb Laws, and 1 Absurd American Crime Spree by Rich Smith
- Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Sloot
- The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore
- Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
- The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth by Alexandra Robbins
- Overachievers by Alexandra Robbins
- Escape from Camp 14 by Blaine Harden
- Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas
- Little Princes by Conor Grennan
- Join Me! by Danny Wallace - learn more about the movement here
- The History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage
- A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
Film & Media
- God Grew Tired of Us (National Geographic Films) - the story of the Lost Boys of Sudan
