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A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
All American Boys by Jason Reynolds
All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir
Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Clap When You Land by Acevedo, Elizabeth
Dear Martin by Nic Stone
Dig by A.S. King
Everywhere You Don't Belong by Gabriel Bump
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Fat Chance, Charlie Vega by Crystal Malonado
Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
Furia by Yamile Saled Mendez
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erica L. Sanchez
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Monday's Not Coming by Tiffany D Jackson
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Code Name Verity by Wein, Elixabeth
Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
Prisoner 3087 by Alan Gratz
The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas
The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Dantica
The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzie Lee
The Oppermans by Lion Feuchtwanger
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
The Taking of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglass
The Woman in Black by Susan Hill
1984 by George Orwell
Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor
Brave New World by by Aldous Huxley
Exhalation by Ted Chiang
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
Kindred by Octavia Butler
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Red Rising by Pierce Brown
The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin
Chronicle of a Death Fortold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Clockers by Richard Price
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara
Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
The Depths by Nicole Lesperance
The Fire Keeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley
The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire & Revolution in the Borderlands by Kelly Lytle Hernandez
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Black Boy by Richard Wright
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood byTrevor Noah
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Educated by Tara Westover
I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World by Malala Yousafzai
I Will Alway Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives by Martin Ganda
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
Manhunt: The 12-day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer by James L. Swanson
Night by Elie Wiesel
Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson
Solito: A Memoir by Javier Zamora
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X Kendi
Stormy Seas: Stories of Young Boat Refugees by
Mary Beth Leatherdale The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives by Dashka Slater
The Black Count: Glory Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss
The Breaks of the Game by David Halberstam
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
Where Good Ideas Come From by Stephen Johnson
Where You Go Is Not Who You’ll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions by Frank Bruni