Reading Olympics for Teens

2021 Middle School Reading Olympics Booklist

• The 8th Continent/ London
• All Alone in the Universe/ Perkins
• Because of Mr. Terupt/ Buyea
• The Boys in the Boat (Young Readers Adaptation): The True Story of an American Team's Epic Journey to Win Gold at the 1936 Olympics/ Brown
• Cracker, The Best Dog in Vietnam/ Kadohata
• Dead End in Norvelt/ Gantos
• Death Mountain/ Shahan
• Down the Rabbit Hole/ Abrahams
• Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie/ Sonnenblick
• Elvis and the Underdogs/ Lee
• Ender's Game/ Card
• First Flight Around the World/ Grove
• Forge/ Anderson
• Graveyard Book/ Gaiman
• Guts/ Paulsen
• Half a Chance/ Lord
• Heat/ Lupica
• Hoot/ Hiaasen
• House of the Red Fish/ Salisbury
• Its the End of the World as I Know it/ Landis
• Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life/ Mass
• A Long Walk to Water/ Park
• Mangus Chase: Sword of Summer/ Riordan
• Masterminds/ Korman
• Mick Harte was Here/ Park
• The Mysterious Benedict Society/ Stewart
• New Kid/ Craft
• A Night Divided/ Nielsen
• Out of My Mind/ Draper
• Planet Middle School/ Grimes
• Point Blank: An Alex Rider Adventure/ Horowitz
• Powerless/ Cody
• This Promise of Change: One Girl's Story in the Fight for School Equality/ Levy and Boyce
• Small Persons with Wings/ Booraem
• Smile/ Telgemeier
• Stepping on the Cracks/ Hahn
• Sweep: The Story of a Girl and her Monster/ Auxier
• Ten Days a Madwoman: The Daring Life and Turbulent Times of the Original Girl Reporter, Nellie Bly/ Noyes
• Tesla's Attic/ Shusterman
• Three Black Swans/ Cooney
• Truce/ Murphy
• Truesight/ Stahler
• The War that Saved My Life/ Brubaker Bradley
• Yard War/ Kitchings

2021 High School Reading Olympics Booklist

• A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of Boy Soldier/ Beah
• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian/ Alexie
• All American Boys/ Reynolds
• Audacity/ Crowder
• AuRevoir, Crazy European Chick/ Schreiber
• Beauty Queens/ Bray
• Before I Die/ Downham
• Born Confused/ Hidier
• The Burn Journals/ Runyon
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time/ Haddon
• The Dressmaker of Khair Khana
• Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina & New Orleans/ Brown
• Dumplin'/ Murphy
• Everlost/ Shusterman
• Everything, Everything/ Yoon
• The Field Guide to the North American Teenager/ Philippe
• The First Part Last/ Johnson
• Game Change/ Monninger
• Getting Away with Murder/ Crowe
• Hold Me Like a Breathe/ Schmidt
• Illuminae/ Kaufman
• Life As We Knew It/ Pfeffer
• Lovely War/ Berry
• Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac/ Zevin
• Most Dangerous/ Sheinkin
• Nimona/ Stevenson
• Paper Covers Rock/ Hubbard
• Pumpkinheads/ Rowell
• A Raisin in the Sun/ Hansberry
• Red Queen/ Aveyard
• Repossessed/ Jenkins
• The Rest of Us Just Live Here/ Ness
• The Running Dream/ Van Draanen
• Salt to the Sea/ Sepetys
• The Scorpio Races/ Stiefvater
• Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda/ Albertalli
• Six of Crows/ Bardugo
• Split/ Avasthi
• Stupid Fast/ Herbach
• They Called Us Enemy/ Takei
• Twisted/ Anderson
• Under the Mesquite/ McLemore
• Wingshooters/ Revoyr
• X: A Novel/ Shabazz

For the elementary school reading list, go to Reading Olympics for Children.

Learn more about the Reading Olympics program.