Reading Suggestions for Teens

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Contains information on over 260,000 fiction and readable nonfiction titles. Features lists of award-winning books, book discussion guides, Read-a-Like recommendations, and complete series information. Also includes reader ratings and reviews, and you can create your own reading wish list.

Alex’s Recommendations

Scholomance Series by Naomi Novik
The Scholomance series by Naomi Novik
Wayward Children Series by Seanan McGuire
Wayward Children series by Seanan McGuire
Mars One by Jonathan Maberry
Books by Jonathan Maberry

2025 William C. Morris Award Winner & Nominee Books

Not Like Other Girls by Meredith Adamo
Aisle Nine by Ian X. Cho
Dead Things are Closer Than They Appear by Robin Wasley
Shut Up, This Is Serious by Carolina Ixta
The Wilderness of Girls by Madeline Claire Franklin

2025 Excellence in Non-fiction Award Winner & Nominee Books

Rising from the Ashes: Los Angeles, 1992. Edward Jae Song Lee, Latasha Harlins, Rodney King, and a City on Fire by Paula Yoo
A Greater Goal: The Epic Battle for Equal Pay in Women's Soccer—and Beyond by Elizabeth Rusch
Homebody written and illustrated by Theo Parish
Shackled: A Tale of Wronged Kids, Rogue Judges, and a Town that Looked Away by Candy J. Cooper
The Unboxing of a Black Girl by Angela Shanté

2025 Printz Award Winner & Honor Books

Brownstone written by Samuel Teer and illustrated by Mar Julia
Bright Red Fruit by Safia Elhillo
Compound Fracture by Andrew Joseph White
The Deep Dark written and illustrated by Molly Knox Ostertag
Road Home by Rex Ogle

2025 Coretta Scott King Award & Honor Books

Twenty-Four ­Seconds from Now…: A LOVE Story by Jason Reynolds
Black Girl You Are Atlas by Renée Watson

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