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Mystery / Thriller
McNally's Dilemma
Palm Beach investigator Archy McNally untangles seemingly unrelated cases whose conflicting stories point toward blackmail and a larger scheme.
SILVER CREEK HIGH SCHOOL · CLASSROOM D12
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Mystery / Thriller
The Partner
After faking his death and disappearing with stolen money, a lawyer is hunted by his former firm and the people he betrayed.
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Classic / Literary Nonfiction
Travels with Charley
John Steinbeck travels across America with his dog Charley, observing the country with curiosity and unease.
T
Poetry / Anthology
The Mentor Book of Major American Poets
A broad anthology tracing major American poetry from early writers such as Edward Taylor through Whitman, Dickinson, modernists, and twentieth-century voices including Hart Crane and W. H. Auden.
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Historical / Literary Fiction
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
In nineteenth-century China, Lily and Snow Flower build a lifelong, secret friendship through nu shu, a women's writing system, until a devastating misunderstanding tests their bond.
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Mystery / Thriller
The Assassin
CIA operative Tommy Carmellini races to stop an Al Qaeda leader who has enlisted the Mafia in a plot to devastate New York City.
O
Mystery / Crime / Romance
One for the Money
Out-of-work Stephanie Plum becomes a bounty hunter and pursues a former classmate accused of murder in Trenton, New Jersey.
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Science Fiction
John Carpenter's Starman
An alien stranded on Earth takes the form of a grieving woman's dead husband, and the two cross the country while government agents pursue him.
L
Science Fiction / Anthology
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future
Edited by Algis Budrys, the inaugural Writers of the Future anthology collects contest-winning science fiction and fantasy by emerging writers—including Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Karen Joy Fowler, and David Zindell—alongside essays on writing craft.
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Historical Fiction
The Killer Angels
A multi-voiced historical novel follows Union and Confederate leaders through the Battle of Gettysburg.
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Middle Grade / Companion
Stanley Yelnats' Survival Guide to Camp Green Lake
A tongue-in-cheek companion to Holes, this illustrated handbook offers Camp Green Lake survival advice, puzzles, and extra material for readers who know Stanley's story.
T
Literary Fiction
The Chosen
Two Jewish boys from different traditions form an unlikely friendship in 1940s Brooklyn while navigating demanding fathers.
W
Literary / Fantasy
Winter's Tale
A turn-of-the-century New York burglar falls in love with a dying heiress in a sweeping, dreamlike story that blends romance, myth, and the possibility of grace.
T
Thriller
The Arctic Event
When a lost Soviet bomber carrying weaponized anthrax is discovered in the Canadian Arctic, a Covert-One team must reach it before mercenaries and a buried secret do.
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Fantasy / Middle Grade
The Horse and His Boy
A boy and a talking horse escape Calormen and race across the desert toward Narnia, uncovering a threat to the kingdom.
T
Fantasy / Middle Grade
The Silver Chair
Eustace and Jill enter Narnia on a mission to find a missing prince beneath a dangerous underground world.
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Thriller / Military Fiction
God's Children
A U.S. Army peacekeeping platoon in near-future Slovakia finds its mission collapsing into war, testing the leadership and survival skills of two young officers.
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YA Fantasy / Paranormal
Shadow Kiss
Rose Hathaway faces grief, dangerous vampires, and her growing love for her mentor Dimitri as a deadly attack targets St. Vladimir's Academy.
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Mystery / Thriller
The Woman in Cabin 10
A travel journalist hears a woman thrown from a luxury cruise ship, but everyone insists no passenger is missing.
E
Literary Fiction
East of the Mountains
After a terminal cancer diagnosis, retired surgeon Ben Givens takes his dogs on a final hunt through the Washington wilderness and confronts the life he has lived.
B
Literary Fiction
Bee Season
When nine-year-old Eliza unexpectedly excels at spelling, her rise toward the national bee exposes the ambitions, secrets, and spiritual longings inside her family.
D
Historical Fiction / Mystery
Dragon Bones
Chinese security inspector Liu Hulan and attorney David Stark investigate an archaeologist's murder amid ancient myth, political pressure, and the building of the Three Gorges Dam.
J
Literary Fiction
Jim the Boy
In 1930s North Carolina, ten-year-old Jim Glass grows up with his widowed mother and three uncles, learning about family, friendship, and loss through everyday life.
T
Poetry
The Rose That Grew from Concrete
A collection of Tupac Shakur's poems, reflections, and handwritten pages, showing a more intimate side of the artist.
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YA / Middle Grade Realistic Fiction
Wonder
Auggie Pullman enters school for the first time after years of homeschooling and discovers how one person's kindness can change a whole community.
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YA Contemporary
You Know Me Well
Over the course of San Francisco Pride week, two gay teens meet by chance and help each other take brave steps toward love, friendship, and being seen.
T
Literary Fiction
The Shipping News
After personal loss, Quoyle moves with his daughters to Newfoundland and slowly rebuilds a life among eccentric relatives and neighbors.
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YA Contemporary / LGBTQ+
Parrotfish
After coming out as transgender, Grady faces painful reactions from family and classmates while finding unexpected friends, acceptance, and a first romance.
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Literary Fiction
Rosie
Elizabeth Ferguson tries to build a quiet life with her unusually perceptive daughter Rosie, but motherhood asks her to face the risks and mysteries she cannot control.
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YA / Poetry / Art
Ain't Burned All the Bright
A Black teenager and his family face a pandemic-era day of fear, protest, and possibility in a vivid novel told through words and art.
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YA Fantasy
Children of Virtue and Vengeance
Zélie returns to a divided Orïsha where magic is back, but peace is harder to win than revolution.
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YA Fantasy
Children of Blood and Bone
In a world where magic has been brutally suppressed, Zélie finds a chance to restore it—and ignite a rebellion.
T
Historical Fiction
The Feast of All Saints
In 1840s New Orleans, free people of color confront love, family obligation, art, and the rigid racial hierarchy of a society on the edge of change.
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YA Mystery / Contemporary
Firekeeper's Daughter
Biracial Ojibwe teen Daunis Fontaine becomes entangled in an FBI investigation after witnessing a murder, forcing her to protect her community and herself.
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YA Fantasy
The Pearl of the Soul of the World
In the final Darkangel novel, Aeriel and her allies seek a small pearl containing the world's wisdom and magic in order to heal a broken world.
T
Legal Thriller
The Pelican Brief
A law student writes a theory about two assassinations and suddenly becomes a target herself.
T
Science Fiction
The Invaders Plan
In the opening of Mission Earth, a vast alien confederation sends Jettero Heller on a covert mission to keep Earth from destroying itself—and from threatening their empire.
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YA Science Fiction
The Ones We're Meant to Find
On a climate-ravaged future Earth, two sisters search for each other while questioning what survival and consciousness really mean.
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YA Gothic Fantasy
Gallant
An orphaned girl arrives at a strange family estate and discovers a walled garden, ghosts, and a shadow world that wants her.
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Drama / Classic
Romeo and Juliet
Two teenagers from feuding families fall in love, but secrecy and violence make their future impossible.
T
Writing / Rhetoric
They Say / I Say
A practical writing guide that teaches students how to enter conversations by summarizing, responding, and developing an argument.
T
Historical / Literary Fiction
The Water Dancer
Hiram Walker, an enslaved young man with a mysterious power, joins the Underground Railroad and searches for the mother taken from him.
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Essays / Literary Nonfiction
High Tide in Tucson
Barbara Kingsolver's essay collection moves through family, community, ecology, and social conscience with a biologist's attention to the natural world.
A
YA Contemporary / LGBTQ+
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Two very different boys form a life-changing friendship during one hot El Paso summer and slowly learn how to name who they are.
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Science Fiction
To the Stars
Forced aboard a near-light-speed starship, Alan Corday discovers that every journey leaves the people he loves decades ahead of him on Earth.
T
Literary Fiction
The Hotel New Hampshire
The eccentric Berry family opens a series of hotels across two continents, carrying one another through comic disasters, trauma, and the stubborn will to survive.
A
Historical / Adventure
At Swords' Points
After his brother's murder, young Quinn Anders is drawn into an espionage hunt for missing medieval statuettes that takes him from Holland toward danger across the world.
T
Historical Fiction
The Great Stink
In filthy Victorian London, a young clerk becomes entangled in murder and deception as the city's labyrinthine new sewer system takes shape.
T
Literary Fiction
The Bean Trees
Taylor Greer leaves Kentucky for Arizona, where friendship and an abandoned child reshape her idea of family.
T
Classic / Poetry
The Canterbury Tales
A group of pilgrims entertain one another with stories that range from romantic and funny to bawdy and sharp.
H
Historical Fantasy
Household Gods
An overworked Los Angeles lawyer wakes in the body of a widowed tavern keeper in second-century Roman Carnuntum and must learn how to survive an ancient life.
T
Literary / Historical Fiction
The War of the End of the World
This epic fictionalizes Brazil's real Canudos War, following outcasts, soldiers, and believers as a utopian religious settlement collides with the new republic's army.
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Historical Fiction
Someone Knows My Name
Kidnapped from West Africa as a child, Aminata Diallo survives slavery and crosses three continents while fighting to tell her own name and story.
J
Classic
Jude the Obscure
Working-class Jude Fawley dreams of education and a meaningful life, but class barriers, marriage, and Victorian morality repeatedly close in on him and Sue Bridehead.
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Classic
Moll Flanders
Moll narrates her turbulent life from poverty through marriages, crime, transportation, and eventual repentance in a sharp survival story set in England and colonial Virginia.
W
Animal Story / Adventure
Wilderness Champion: The Story of a Great Hound
An emotional animal story about the fierce loyalty between a man and the remarkable hound whose life becomes bound to his own.
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Animal Story / Fiction
Nop's Trials
After a young border collie is stolen from the farm he loves, Nop endures cruelty and danger while trying to find a way back to his owner.
P
Literary Nonfiction / Nature
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Annie Dillard's close observations of a Virginia creek become a meditation on nature, attention, and wonder.
T
Thriller
The Whole Truth
A defense contractor tries to manufacture a new Cold War for profit, while intelligence operative Shaw and journalist Katie James race to expose the scheme.
T
Thriller
The Fix
FBI detective Amos Decker investigates a shocking shooting outside headquarters and is drawn into a conspiracy with consequences far beyond Washington.
T
Historical Fiction
The Fort
During the Revolutionary War's disastrous Penobscot Expedition, British defenders and American attackers fight over an unfinished Maine fort in a novel based on real events.
T
Legal Thriller
The Suspect
When a wealthy doctor's wife is found murdered, attorney Gina Roake defends the husband while evidence and his past make his innocence harder to trust.
T
Thriller
The Guilty
Government assassin Will Robie returns to his Mississippi hometown when his estranged father is accused of murder, uncovering a violent conspiracy in the process.
T
Literary Fiction
The Painted Drum
A rare Ojibwe drum passes through several lives, connecting family history, loss, and the difficult work of honoring a sacred object.
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Science Fiction / Screenplay
I, Robot: The Illustrated Screenplay
Harlan Ellison's illustrated, never-filmed screenplay adapts Isaac Asimov's robot stories into an ambitious story about the Three Laws and human society.
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Mystery
I Is for Innocent
Private investigator Kinsey Millhone reopens the murder case of a successful artist when her ex-husband insists that the man convicted in the public eye is not guilty.
T
Middle Grade
The Tiger Rising
A grieving boy and a fierce new friend discover a caged tiger in the Florida woods, forcing both to confront the feelings they have tried to lock away.
O
Children's / Animal Story
Owls in the Family
A Saskatchewan boy's already unruly collection of pets grows even more chaotic when two cantankerous owls turn his neighborhood upside down.
T
Middle Grade / Humor
The Unauthorized Autobiography
A playful faux autobiography made of letters, documents, clues, and black-and-white photos that expands the mysteries around Lemony Snicket and V.F.D.
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YA Fantasy / Mythology
The Sea of Monsters
Percy Jackson and friends sail into the mythic Sea of Monsters to save Camp Half-Blood and recover the Golden Fleece.
M
Middle Grade / Animal Fantasy
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
A widowed field mouse seeks help for her sick son and discovers a remarkable society of escaped laboratory rats planning a new life.
B
Middle Grade Fantasy
Beyond the Deepwoods
Twig leaves the forest home where he never belonged and crosses a strange, dangerous land of monsters and allies in search of his true origins.
M
Literary Fiction
Mazel
Across three generations, a Polish rabbi's daughter turned Yiddish theater star, her professor daughter, and her mathematician granddaughter wrestle with luck, Jewish identity, and inheritance.
R
Military Thriller
Red Storm Rising
After an attack cripples Soviet oil supplies, the Cold War erupts into a conventional World War III fought across land, sea, and air.
T
Science Fiction / Fantasy
The Skies of Pern
Dragonriders, craftspeople, and their telepathic dragons face a new threat to Pern while continuing their long struggle against deadly Thread falling from the sky.
A
Drama / Classic
Antigone
Antigone defies a king's order to honor her dead brother, setting duty to family against the power of the state.
B
Middle Grade / Realistic Fiction
Bridge to Terabithia
Outsider friends Jess and Leslie create an imaginary kingdom in the woods where they can be brave, until an unexpected tragedy changes Jess's life.
T
Thriller
The Execution
NYPD detective Jeremy Fisk and a Mexican intelligence officer pursue a cartel assassin whose signature killings signal a threat headed for New York.
L
YA Contemporary
Little Do We Know
Former best friends Hannah and Emory enter senior year estranged, until a life-altering crisis forces them to face the secrets, faith, and love beneath their rupture.
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Classic / Literary Fiction
Franny and Zooey
Two linked stories follow the youngest Glass siblings as Franny's spiritual and emotional crisis draws her brother Zooey into a searching family conversation.
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