by Cass, Kiera

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Description: Sixteen-year-old America Singer is living in the caste-divided nation of Illea, which formed after the war that destroyed the United States. America is chosen to compete in the Selection–a contest to see which girl can win the heart of Illea’s prince–but all she really wants is a chance for a future with her secret love, Aspen, who is a caste below her.

by Clare, Cassandra

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Description: When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder — much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air. It’s hard to call the police when the murderers are invisible to everyone else and when there is nothing — not even a smear of blood — to show that a boy has died. Or was he a boy?

by Coelho, Paulo

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Description: A young Spanish shepherd seeking his destiny travels to Egypt where he learns many lessons, particularly from a wise old alchemist. The real alchemy here, however, is the transmuting of youthful idealism into mature wisdom. The blending of conventional ideas with an exotic setting makes old truths seem new again. This shepherd takes the advice Hamlet did not heed, learning to trust his heart and commune with it as a treasured friend. Enjoyable and easy to read, this timeless fantasy validates the aspirations and dreams of youth.

by Higson, Charlie

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Description: A group of young survivors is offered safety from the roaming packs of zombie-like adults in Buckingham Palace, but, even after they survive their perilous journey through London, the teens arrive only to find their fight is far from over.

by Gladwell, Malclom

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Description: In Blink we meet the psychologist who has learned to predict whether a marriage will last, based on a few minutes of observing a couple; the tennis coach who knows when a player will double-fault before the racket even makes contact with the ball; the antiquities experts who recognize a fake at a glance. Here, too, are great failures of “blink”: the election of Warren Harding; “New Coke”; and the shooting of Amadou Diallo by police. Blink reveals that great decision makers aren’t those who process the most information or spend the most time deliberating, but those who have perfected the art of “thin-slicing”–filtering the very few factors that matter from an overwhelming number of variables.

by Frank, Pat

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Description: The classic apocalyptic novel that stunned the world.

by Orwell, George

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Description: Written in 1948, 1984 was George Orwell’s chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, Orwell’s narrative is timelier than ever. 1984 presents a startling and haunting vision of the world, so powerful that it is completely convincing from start to finish. No one can deny the power of this novel, its hold on the imaginations of multiple generations of readers, or the resiliency of its admonitions—a legacy that seems only to grow with the passage of time.

by Schlosser, Eric

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Description: Journalist Schlosser argues that the fast food industry has triggered the growth of malls in America’s landscape, widened the gap between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and propelled American cultural imperialism abroad. He discusses facts about food production and preparation, the ingredients and taste-enhancers in the food, the chains’ efforts to reel in young, susceptible consumers, and other unsettling facts.

by Vonnegut, Kurt

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Description: Welcome to the Monkey House is a collection of Kurt Vonnegut’s shorter works. Originally printed in publications as diverse as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and The Atlantic Monthly, these superb stories share Vonnegut’s audacious sense of humor and extraordinary range of creative vision.

by Kesey, Ken

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Description: McMurphy, a criminal who feigns insanity, is admitted to a mental hospital where he challenges the autocratic authority of the head nurse.

by Albom, Mitch

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Description: Nearly 20 years after their first lessons, now dying college professor Morrie imparts his wisdom to student Mitch during weekly Tuesday meetings. A gentle mentor imparts the lessons of a long life.

by Sinclair, Upton

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Description: Jurgis Rudkus, a Lithuanian immigrant lured by appealing advertisements, comes to Chicago to make money in the stockyards, but the reality is different from what he expects.

by McCarthy, Cormac

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Description: In a novel set in an indefinite, futuristic, post-apocalyptic world, a father and his young son make their way through the ruins of a devastated American landscape, struggling to survive and preserve the last remnants of their own humanity.

by Capote, Truman

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Description: On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. As Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, he generates both mesmerizing suspense and astonishing empathy.In Cold Bloodis a work that transcends its moment, yielding poignant insights into the nature of American violence. From the trade paperback edition.

by Woodson, Jaqueline

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Description: In the New York City borough of Queens in 1996, three girls bond over their shared love of Tupac Shakur’s music, as together they try to make sense of the unpredictable world in which they live.

by Grisham, John

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Description: Calico Joe was living the dream as a baseball hero, breaking records, adored by fans-including the son of a rival, washed-up catcher who is cheering for both his hero and his father

by Meyer, Marissa

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Description: As plague ravages the overcrowded Earth, observed by a ruthless lunar people, Cinder, a gifted mechanic and cyborg, becomes involved with handsome Prince Kai and must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect the world in this futuristic take on the Cinderella story.

by Asher, Jay

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Description: It’s 1996, and less than half of all American high school students have ever used the Internet. Emma just got her first computer and Josh is her best friend. They power up and log on–and discover themselves on Facebook, fifteen years in the future. Everybody wonders what their Destiny will be. Josh and Emma are about to find out.

by Wiesel, Elie

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Description: An innocent victim in the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict is take hostage to be traded for the return of 3 prisoners. While he and the readers wait in suspense to learn his fate, he spines for his captors the moving, haunting stories of his past in the Holocaust.

by Ford, Jamie

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Description: Friendship and first love are torn when Henry’s Japanese-American sweetheart is forced into an internment camp after Pearl Harbor, as they try to hold onto hope, innocence, and love in the world gone crazy with fear and prejudice.

by Forman, Gayle

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Description: A gifted teenager in a coma following a tragic car wreck reflects on her deep connections to friends, her boyfriend, her family, and her music…and tries to decide whether to fight for her life.

by Brown, Dan

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Description: The same professor from Angels and Demons and The DaVinci Code is drawn into another suspensful, murderous mystery of codes hidden in classic art, secret passages, and science in a race against time.

by Lu, Marie

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Description: In a dark future, when North America has split into two warring nations, fifteen-year-olds Day, a famous criminal, and prodigy June, the brilliant soldier hired to capture him, discover that they have a common enemy.

by Smith, Alexander G

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Description: When fourteen-year-old Alex is framed for murder, he becomes an inmate in the Furnace Penitentiary, where brutal inmates and sadistic guards reign, boys who disappear in the middle of the night sometimes return weirdly altered, and escape might just be possible.

by Stork, Francisco

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Description: Marcelo Sandoval, a seventeen-year-old boy on the high-functioning end of the autistic spectrum, faces new challenges, including romance and injustice, when he goes to work for his father in the mailroom of a corporate law firm.

by Yancey, Rick

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Description: In 1888, twelve-year-old Will Henry chronicles his apprenticeship with Dr. Warthrop, a scientist who hunts and studies real-life monsters, as they discover and attempt to destroy a pod of Anthropophagi.

by McKenzie, Reina

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Description: A strong healer of her tribe who stands up to the elders who diminish her for being female must find the courage to defend her home against invaders.

by Booth, Coe

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Description: Fifteen-year-old Tyrell, who is living in a Bronx homeless shelter with his spaced-out mother and his younger brother, tries to avoid temptation so he does not end up in jail like his father.

by Dessen, Sarah

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Description: A survivor of her parents’ bitter divorce, a girl who has to move often continually re-invents herself at every new school she attends, until a new addition to her life gives her a reason to stay in one place and decide who she really is.

by Green, John

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Description: When two teens, one gay and one straight, meet accidentally and discover that they share the same name, their lives become intertwined as one begins dating the other’s best friend, who produces a play revealing his relationship with them both.

by Saldana, Rene

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Description: A Mexican-American whose deceased father taught him to box enters a boxing competition to split the prize with his best friend, who does not have his best interests at heart in the end. A tale of boxing, betrayal, cars, and family.

by Rosengren, John

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Description: The author followed a champion high school hockey team in Minnesota for a season to chronicle its accomplishments and the “beauty of goodness of the game of hockey”.

by Fies, Brian

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Description: When the author’s mother was diagnosed with lung cancer, he wrote this honest, earnes, and sometimes funny graphic novel about the effects cancer has on a family.

by Ronson, Jon

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Description: When the author is asked to help solve an elaborate hoax, he learns the clinical definition of psychopathy and spends the rest of his adventures uncovering psychopaths. Clever, humorous tone combined with compelling stories of actual encounters with psychopaths.

by Kean, Sam

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Description: The author explores the seemingly playful, tricky determinant of human life-DNA-through a series of fascinating explanations of how genes influence our likelihood of becoming crazy cat ladies or famous violinists.

by Walton, Anthony

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Description: Raised in suburban Illinois in the 60s, a gifted student and athlete, Anthony Walton went on to Notre Dame and Brown into a career in journalism — all the while convinced that racism, insofar as it still existed, was on the way out. Covering the racial flash points in New York in the early 80s, though, led him to feel that racism was the marrow in the American bone, and getting worse all the time. Anthony finally realized this was a demon he had to stare in the face — which, for him, meant going “home” to Mississippi, where his parents came from and, before his birth, escaped.