Reading Olympics

• Ali Cross / James Patterson
• Alias Anna: A True Story of Outwitting the Nazis / Susan Hood
• As Brave as You / Jason Reynolds
• The Bletchley Riddle / Ruta Sepytas & Steve Sheinkin
• The Boys Who Challenged Hitler / Philip Hoose
• Fever 1793 / Laurie Halse Anderson
• Free Lunch / Rex Ogle
• Ghost Town / Eric Colossal
• The Girl Who Drank the Moon / Kelly Barnhill
• I Will Always Write Back / Caitlin Aifirenka and Martin Ganda
• Iceberg / Jennifer Nielson
• Impossible Creatures / Katherine Rundell
• The Labors of Hercules Beal / Gary D. Schmidt
• The Mona Lisa Vanishes / Nick Day
• Notes from the Midnight Driver / Jordan Sonnenblick
• Reaching for the Moon: The Autobiography of NASA / Katherine Johnson
• Red, White, and Whole / Rajani LaRocca
• Soar / Joan Bauer
• The Stars Beneath Our Feet / David Barclay Moore
• Starfish / Lisa Bauer
• Stella by Starlight / Sharon M. Draper
• Uprooted: A Memoir of What Happens When Your Family Moves Back / Ruth Chan
• What We Saw / Mary Downing Hahn
• When We Flew Away / Alice Hoffman
• White Bird: A Wonder Story (Graphic Novel) / R.J. Palacio

2026 High School Reading Olympics Booklist

• Aisle Nine: A Dark Coming-of-Age Adventure of Hell Portals, Impending Apocalypse, and Unlikely Heroes in a Discount Mart / Ian X. Cho
• An Ember in the Ashes / Sabaa Tahir
• Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood / Trevor Noah
• Boy 21 / Matthew Quick
• Brownstone: A Heartwarming Coming-of-Age Tale of Self-Discovery and Found Family / Samuel Teer
• Clap When You Land / Elizabeth Acevedo
• Dawn / Elie Wiesel
• Dry / Neal Shusterman & Jarrod Shusterman
• Everything is Tuberculosis / John Green
• Everything We Never Had / Randy Ribay
• Give Me a Sign / Anna Sortino
• The Hate You Give / Angie Thomas
• Level Up / Gene Luen Yang
• March: Book One / John Lewis
• Not Like Other Girls / Meredith Adamo
• The Plague / Albert Camus
• Punching the Air / Ibi Zoboi & Yusef Salaam
• Scythe / Neal Shusterman
• The Serpent King / Jeff Zentner
• Shackled / Candy Cooper
• Shut Up, This is Serious / Carolina Ixta
• The Sun is Also a Star / Nicola Yoon
• Sunrise on the Reaping / Suzanne Collins
• The Time Machine / H.G. Wells
• We are Not Free / Traci Chee