Another school year (2011 – 2012) is here!! Not to worry—here is a list of new titles to have ready when the kids burst through the doors, salivating for new reading material:
NEW YEAR!!!
January 2012 additions to 2011-2012 list:
Birthmarked, by Caragh O’Brien
Tempest, by Julie Cross
The Berlin Boxing Club, by Robert Sharenow
The Pull of Gravity, by Gae Polisner
The Space Between, by Brenna Yovanoff
What Boys Really Want, by Pete Hautman
Where Things Come Back, by Corey Whaley
Why We Broke Up, by Daniel Handler
February additions
Article 5 by Kristen Simmons
Blink & Caution by Tim Wynne-Jones
Bunheads by Sophie Flack
Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Lani Taylor
DJ Rising by Love Maia
IBoy by Kevin Brooks
Life: An Exploded Diagram by Mal Peet
Stay With Me by Paul Griffin
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
April 2012 additions
Spirit’s Princess (Princesses of Myth), by Esther Friesner
Stay, by Deb Caletti
The Girl of Fire and Thorns (trilogy), by Rae Carson
The Difference Between You and Me, by Madeleine George
There is No Dog, by Meg Rosoff
The Song of Achilles, by Madeline Miller
The Wicked and the Just, by J. Anderson Coats
The Wise Man’s Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle Day Two, by Patrick Rothfuss
Books added in September 2011:
Bad Taste in Boys by Carrie Harris
Brothers of War by J. Marshall Martin
Chew on This: Everything You Don’t Want to Know About Fast Food by Charles Wilson and Eric Schlosser
Guantanamo Boy by Anna Perera
How I Stole Johnny Depp’s Alien Girlfriend by Gary Ghislain
Lockdown: Escape from Furnace (series) by Alexander Gordon Smith
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
Now is the Time for Running by Michael Williams
Paper Covers Rock by Jenny Hubbard
Ten Things We Did (And Probably Shouldn’t Have) by Sarah Mlynowski
The Fox Inheritance by Mary E. Pearson
The Nine Lives of Chloe King (series) by Celia Thomson
The Tiger’s Curse (series) by Colleen Houck
The Wise Man’s Fear (follows Name of the Wind) by Patrick Rothfuss
White Crow by Marcus Sedgwick
October 2011 additions:
All These Things I’ve Done, by Gabrielle Zevin
Falling for Hamlet, by Michelle Ray
Glow, by Amy Kathleen Ryan
Reamde, by Neal Stephenson
The Fox Inheritance, by Mary E. Pearson
November 2011 additions
Everybody Sees the Ants, A.S. King
How to Save a Life, Sara Zarr
My Name is Not Easy, Debby Dahl Edwardson
The Replacement, Brenna Yovanoff
The Scorpio Races, Maggie Stiefvater
You Are My Only, Beth Kephart
December 2011 additions
Ashes, by Ilsa J. Bick
Deadly Little Secret, by Laurie Faria Stolarz
Forgotten, by Cat Patrick
Stalker Girl, by Rosemary Graham
Where Things Come Back, by John Corey Whaley
Wish You Were Dead, by Todd Strasser
Previous year’s lists:
JUNE 2011
Blood Red Road, by Moira Young
Divergent, by Veronica Roth
Fallen Grace, by Mary Hooper
The Invisible Bridge, by Julie Orringer (advanced readers)
The Lock Artist, by Steve Hamilton
The Queen of Water, by Laura Resau and Maria Farinango
MAY 2011 additions
Abandon, Meg Cabot
Beat the Band, Don Calame
Okay for Now, Gary Schmidt
Once, Morris Gleitzman
Out of Shadows, Jason Wallace
The Berlin Boxing Club, Robert Sharenow
What Happened to Good-bye, Sarah Dessen
Where She Went Gayle Forman
APRIL 2011 additions
Chime, Franny Billingsby
Death Cloud, Andrew Lane
Delirium, Lauren Oliver
Entwined, Heather Dixon
Half a Life, Darin Strauss
Tiger’s Curse, Colleen Houck
Trash, Andy Mulligan
MARCH 2011 additions
Angry Young Man, Chris Lynch
Blink and Caution, Tim Wynne-Jones
Elixir, Hilary Duff
Flash Burnout, L.K. Madigan
Girl in Translation, Jean Kwok
Matched, Ally Condie
Strings Attached, Judy Blundell
The Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep and Never Had to, DC Pierson
FEBRUARY 2011 additions
A Time of Miracles, Anne-Laure Baondoux
Bitter Melon, Cara Chow
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, Charles Yu
Mad Love, Suzanne Selfors
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer
The Girl Who Fell From the Sky, Heidi W. Durrow
JANUARY 2011 additions
Rise Up Singing, Ann Angel
Split, Swati Avashi
The Revolution, Jennifer Donnelly
The Sky is Everywhere, Jandy Nelson
DECEMBER 2010 additions
Black Hole Sun, David Macinnis Gill
Extraordinary, Nancy Werlin
Fat Vampire: A Never Coming of Age Story, Adam Rex
I am Number Four*, Pittacus Lore
The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin, Josh Berk
NOVEMBER 2010 additions
Breaking Night, Liz Murray
Halo,* Alexandra Adornetto
Please Ignore Vera Dietz, A. S. King
Starcrossed, Elizabeth Bunce
The Fortune of Carmen Navarro, Jen Bryant
The Wolves of Andover, Kathleen Kent
OCTOBER 2010 additions
Beautiful Darkness, Kami Garcia
Birth of a Killer, Darren Shan
Crazy, Han Nolan
Dark Song, Gail Giles
Genius Wars, The, Catherine Jinks
It Started With a Dare, Lindsay Faith Rech
Payback Time, Carl Deuker
Reckless, Cornelia Funke
Sky is Everywhere, The, Jandy Nelson
Witches’ Kitchen, The Allen Williams
Swim the Fly Don Calame
SEPTEMBER 2010 additions
A Map of the Known World Lisa Ann Sandell
Bruises Neal Shusterman
The Girl Who Fell From the Sky Heidi W. Durrow
Fallout Ellen Hopkins
Immortal Beloved Cate Tiernan
Advanced Readers
The Invisible Bridge, by Julie Orringer
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
Atlas of Unknowns by Tania James
The Dream Life of Sukhanov by Olga Grushin
Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder
Regular High School List
A Conspiracy of Kings* by Meg Whalen Turner
All the Broken Pieces by Ann Burg
Alligator Bayou by Donna Jo Napoli
Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen
Another Faust by Daniel & Dina Nayeri
As Easy as Falling off the Face of the Earth by Lynne Rae Perkins
Bamboo People by Mitali Perkins
Candor by Pam Bachorz
Cosmic by Frank Cottrell Boyce
Eli the Good by Silas House
Gringolandia by Lyn Miller-Lachmann
Heist Society by Ally Carter
In the Path of Falling Objects, by Andrew Smith
Lockdown: Escape from Furnace1, Alexander Gordon Smith
Mockinjay*, by Suzanne Collins
Monsters of Men* by Patrick Ness
Payback Time by Carl Deuker
Revolver by Marcus Sedgwick
Ship Breaker, by Paolo Bacigalupi
Solace of the Road, by Siobhan Dowd
Stuck on Earth, by David Klass
The Extraordinary Secrets of April, May, & June, by Robin Benway
The Mile Between, by Mary E. Pearson
The Orange Houses, by Paul Griffin
The Treasure Map of Boys, by E. Lockhart
Thirteen Days to Midnight, by Patrick Carman
Last school year’s lists
May 2010
Center Field by Robert Lipsyte
Lockdown by Walter Dean Myers
Perfect Chemistry, Rules of Attraction by Simone Elkeles
The Cardturner by Louis Sachar
The Carrie Diaries by Candace Bushnell
April 2010
Ballad by Maggie Stiefvater
Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
Calling Out Your Name by Ned White
Choices by Kate Buckley
Finnikin of the Rock by Melina Marchetta
Linger by Maggie Stiefvater
Lockdown: Escape from Furnace 2 by Alexander Gordon Smith
Operation Yes by Sara Holmes
Poisoned Honey: A Story of Mary Magdalene by Beatrice Gormley
Purple Heart by Patricia McCormick
The Vast Fields of Ordinary by Nick Burd
Thomas Riley by Nick Valentino
Troy High by Shana Norris
Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green, David Levithan
March, 2010
Absolutely, Maybe by Lisa Yee
The Explosionist by Jenny Davidson
The Boneshaker by Kate Milford
February 2010
Incarceron by Catherine Fisher
Riker’s High by Paul Volponi
Split by Swati Avasthi
January, 2010
Captivate and Need by Carrie Jones
Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick
If I Stay, by Gayle Forman
Tangled, by Carolyn Mackler
Thirst #1 and Thirst #2 by Christopher Pike
December, 2009
The Maze Runner, by James Dasher
The Everafter, by Amy Huntley
hold still, by Nina la Cour
Flash Burnout, by L.K. Madigan
Fallen, by Lauren Kate
November 2009
A Wish After Midnight by Zetta Elliott
Candor by Pam Bachorz
Going Bovine by Libba Bray
Purple Heart by Patricia Mccormick
Tenth Grade Bites by Heather Brewster
October 2009
Keep them reading! More books for this year’s high school readers.
A Curse As Dark As Gold by Elizabeth C. Bunce
Jumped by Rita Williams-garcia
Lips Touch: Three Times by Laini Taylor
The Brothers Torres by Coert Voorhees
Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green
September 2009
More books I highly recommend for high school readers:
Academy 7, by Anne Osterlund City of City of Thieves , by David Benioff
Gardens of Water, by Alan Drew
The Gift of Rain, by Tan Twan Eng
July 2009
THE LIST:
Along for the Ride, by Sarah Dessen
A Swift Pure Cry by Siobhan Dowd –
A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks
After Tupac and D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson
Carpe Diem, by Autumn Cornwell
Catching Fire, by Suzanne Collins, sequel to Hunger Games
Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America, by Robert Charles Wilson
King of the Screwups, by K.L. Going
L.A. Candy, by Lauren Conrad
Pretty Little Liars, by Sara Shepard
Ranger’s Apprentice: The Siege of Macindaw, Book Six, by John Flanagan
Sacred Stars, by Kathleen Duey, sequel to Skin Hunger
Shiver, by Maggie Stiefvater
The Devouring #2: Soulstice, by Simon Holt
The Education of Robert Nifkin, by Daniel Pinkwater
The Killer’s Cousin, by Nancy Werlin
The Monstrumologist, by Rick Yancey
The Waters and the Wild, by Francesca Lia Block
This is What I Did, by Ann Dee Ellis
Wings, by Aprilynne Pike
Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson,
Ten Cents a Dance, by Christine Fletcher, historical fiction 40’s Chicago
The Chosen One by Carol Lynch Williams
Most Popular 2008-2009
The most popular authors in my high school classes for the 2008-2009 school year were Garth Nix, Christopher Moore, Stephenie Meyer, Ellen Hopkins, Darren Shan, Neal Shusterman, and Neil Gaiman.
In addition the following books were very well-liked:
A Certain Slant of Light by Laura Whitcomb
Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary Pearson
Evil Genius and Genius Squad by Catherine Jinks
Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Impossible by Nancy Werlin
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
The Dark Tower series by Stephen King
The Dresden Files, by Jim Butcher
The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti
The Summoning and The Awakening by Kelley Armstrong
The White King by Gyorgy Dragoman
Wake and Fade by Lisa McMann
