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25 Essential High School Reads From the Last Decade
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Realistic Fiction

Dear Martin by Nic Stone
Call Number: FIC Stone (YA)
ISBN: 9781101939499
Publication Date: 2017-10-17

Historical Fiction

Refugee by Alan Gratz
Call Number: FIC Gratz (SEC)
ISBN: 9781407184326
Publication Date: 2017

Adult Fiction

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Call Number: FIC Doerr (AD)
ISBN: 9781476746586
Publication Date: 2014-05-06

Biography

Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Call Number: B Stevens
ISBN: 9780812984965
Publication Date: 2015-08-18

Adult Fiction

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Call Number: FIC Haig (AD)
ISBN: 9780525559474
Publication Date: 2020-09-29

Adult Fiction

The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
Call Number: FIC Morris TAT_#01 (AD)
ISBN: 9780062797155
Publication Date: 2018-09-04

Dystopian Fiction

The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline
Call Number: FIC Dimalin MT_#01 (YA)
ISBN: 9781770864863
Publication Date: 2017-09-01

Nonfiction

The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater
Call Number: 364.15 Slater
ISBN: 9780374303235
Publication Date: 2017-10-17

Realistic Fiction

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas; Amandla Stenberg (Foreword by)
Call Number: FIC Thomas (YA)
ISBN: 9780062498533
Publication Date: 2017-02-28

Realistic Fiction

The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
Call Number: FIC Acevedo (YA)
ISBN: 9780062662804
Publication Date: 2018-03-06

Adult Fiction

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Call Number: FIC Gyasi (AD)
ISBN: 9781101947135
Publication Date: 2016-06-07

Adult Fiction

Beartown by Fredrik Backman
Call Number: FIC Backman BT_#01 (AD)
ISBN: 9781501160776
Publication Date: 2018-02-06

Realistic Fiction

Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay
Call Number: FIC Ribay (YA)
ISBN: 9780525554912
Publication Date: 2019-06-18

Adult Fiction

The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
Call Number: FIC Whitehe (AD)
ISBN: 9780385537070
Publication Date: 2019-07-16

Biography

Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
Call Number: B Noah
ISBN: 9780399588174
Publication Date: 2016-11-15

Romance Fiction

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz; Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Call Number: FIC Saenz AR_#01 (YA)
ISBN: 1442408928
Publication Date: 2012-02-21

Nonfiction

The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
Call Number: 306 Green
ISBN: 9780525555230
Publication Date: 2021

Biography

Educated by Tara Westover
Call Number: B Westove
ISBN: 9780399590504
Publication Date: 2018-02-20

Fantasy Fiction

Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
Call Number: FIC Reynold (YA)
ISBN: 9781481438254
Publication Date: 2017-10-24

Thrillers Fiction

Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley
Call Number: FIC Boulley (YA)
ISBN: 9781250766564
Publication Date: 2021-03-16

Realistic Fiction

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez
Call Number: FIC Sanchez (YA)
ISBN: 9781524700485
Publication Date: 2017-10-17

Adult Fiction

The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
Call Number: FIC Keyes (AD)
ISBN: 9780143121701
Publication Date: 2015-05-05

Nonfiction

The Sun Does Shine by Anthony Ray Hinton; Lara Love Hardin; Bryan Stevenson (Introduction by)
Call Number: 364.66 Hinton
ISBN: 9781250309471
Publication Date: 2019

Biography

I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai; Christina Lamb (As told to)
Call Number: B Yousafz
ISBN: 9780316322409
Publication Date: 2013-10-08

Adult Fiction

Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
Call Number: FIC VanderM (AD)
ISBN: 9781501126062
Publication Date: 2017-09-05