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.