A PDF of This list is available HERE.

Realistic Fiction 

• This Book Won’t Burn, by Samira Ahmed (Grades 10-12)
• No Going Back, by Patrick Flores-Scott (Grades 9-12)
• Thirsty, by Jas Hammonds (Grades 10-12)
• Conditions of a Heart, by Bethany Mangle (Grades 9-12)

Fantasy 

• Fledgling, by S.K. Ali (Grades 8-12)
• Songlight, by Moira Buffini (Grades 10-12)
• A Tempest of Tea, by Hafsah Faizal (Grades 10-12)
• The Girl, The Ring, & The Baseball Bat, by Camille Gomera-Tavarez (Grades 9-12)
• The Wild Huntress, by Emily Lloyd-Jones (Grades 7-12)
• Dragonfruit, by Makiia Lucier (Grades 7-12)
• Off With Their Heads, by Zoe Hana Mikuta (Grades 9-12)
• Under the Heron’s Light, by Randi Pink (Grades 8-12)
• To a Darker Shore, by Leanne Schwartz (Grades 9-12)
• These Deadly Prophecies, by Andrea Tang (Grades 7-12)
• Celestial Monsters, by Aiden Thomas (Grades 7-12)

Romance 

• Even if it Breaks Your Heart, by Erin Hahn (Grades 10-12)
• The Breakup Lists, by Adib Khorram (Grades 10-12)
• The Worst Perfect Moment, by Shivaun Plozza (Grades 9-12)
• The No-Girlfriend Rule, by Christen Randall (Grades 9-12)
• Twenty-Four Seconds from Now, by Jason Reynold (Grades 9-12)
• I’ll Be Waiting for You, by Mariko Turk (Grades 8-12)
• This Day Changes Everything, by Edward Underhill (Grades 8-12)
• Canto Contigo, by Jonny Garza Villa (Grades 9-12)

Historical Fiction 

• Sheine Lende, by Darcie Little Badger (Grades 8-12)
• Eyes Open, by Lyn Miller-Lachmann (Grades 9-12)

Mystery/Suspense 

• Icarus, by K. Ancrum (Grades 10-12)
• Made Glorious, by Lindsay Eagar (Grades 10-12)
• Such Charming Liars, by Karen McManus (Grades 9-12)
• Darkly, by Marisha Pessl (Grades 9-12)

Horror 

• The Bad Ones, by Melissa Albert (Grades 9-12)
• Influencer, by Adam Cesare (Grades 10-12)
• The Black Girl Survives in This One, by various authors (Grades 7-9)

Novels in Verse 

• Ariel Crashes a Train, by Olivia A. Cole (Grades 9-12)
• Bright Red Fruit, by Safia Elhillo (Grades 8-12)

Science Fiction 

• Snowglobe, by Soyoung Park (Grades 9-12)
• The Dividing Sky, by Jill Tew (Grades 8-12)

Nonfiction 

• Black Girl You Are Atlas, by Renee Watson (Grades 7-12)
• Rising from the Ashes, by Paula Yoo (Grades 6-12)

Graphic Novels 

• Call Me Iggy, by Jorge Augusto Aguirre(Grades 8-12)
• Visitations, by Corey Egbert (Grades 9-12)
• Please Be My Star, by Victoria Grace Elliott (Grades 9-12)
• The Sweetness Between Us, by Sarah Winifred Searle (Grades 7-12)
• No Rules Tonight, by Kim Hyun Sook (Grades 7-9)
• Girlmode, by Magdalene Visaggio (Grades 8-12)
• Punk Rock Karaoke, by Bianca Xunise (Grades 10-12)

A PDF of this list is available HERE

Historical Fiction 

• Black Star, by Kwame Alexander (Grades 5-12)
• The Night War, by Kimberly Bradley (Grades 4-7)
• Max in the House of Spies: A Tale of World War II, by Adam Gidwitz (Grades 3-7)
• Heroes, by Alan Gratz (Grades 4-7)
• When We Flew Away, by Alice Hoffman (Grades 3-7)
• Onyx & Beyond, by Amber McBride (Grades 3-7)
• Wolves at the Door, by Steve Watkins (Grades 5-12)

Mystery/Suspense 

• Olivetti, by Allie Millington (Grades 4-12)
• Not the Worst Friend in the World, by Anne Rellihan (Grades 4-6)

Science Fiction 

• The Area 51 Files, by Julie Buxbaum (Grades 5-12)

Graphic Novels 

• Monster Locker: Volume 1, by Jorge Augusto Aguirre (Grades 4-8)
• Plain Jane and the Mermaid, by Vera Brosgol (Grades 4-8)
• Uprooted, by Ruth Chan (Grades 4-8)
• The Other Side of Tomorrow, by Tina Cho (Grades 5-12)
• Wires Crossed, by Beth Fantaskey (Grades 5-12)
• The Ribbon Skirt, by Cameron Mukwa (Grades 4-8)
• Pearl, by Sherri Smith (Grades 7-12)
• Poetry Comics, by Grant Snider (Grades 2-5)
• Nell of Gumbling: My Extremely Tiny Forest Adventure (vol. 2), by Emma Steinkellner (Grades 3-7)
• Shiny Misfits, by Maysoon Zayid (Grades 5-8)

Humor 

• Ferris, by Kate DiCamillo (Grades 3-7)
• A Little Bit Super, by various authors (Grades 3-6)

Realistic Fiction 

• Keep It Like a Secret, by John David Anderson (Grades 4-7)
• The Partition Project, by Saadia Faruqi (Grades 3-7)
• Not Nothing, by Gayle Forman (Grades 5-7)
• My So-Called Family, by Gia Gordon (Grades 5-12)
• Mallory in Full Color, by Elisa Stone Leahy (Grades 5-12)
• Winnie Nash is Not Your Sunshine, by Nicole Melleby (Grades 3-7)
• The Wrong Way Home, by Kate O’Shaughnessy (Grades 3-7)
• Louder than Hunger, by John Schu (Grades 5-12)
• Any Way You Look, by Maleeha Siddiqui (Grades 3-7)
• Chronically Dolores, by Maya Van Wagenen (Grades 6-8)

Fantasy 

• A Game of Noctis, by Deva Fagan (Grades 3-7)
• The Color of Sound, by Emily Barth Isler (Grades 3-7)
• The Secret Library, by Kekla Magoon (Grades 4-7)
• Medusa, by Katherine Marsh (Grades 3-6)
• Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Wrath of the Triple Goddess, by Rick Riordan (Grades 4-6)
• The Things We Miss, by Leah Stecher (Grades 5-12)

Novels in Verse 

• And Then, Boom! by Lisa Fipps (Grades 4-7)
• Deer Run Home, by Ann Clare LeZotte (Grades 4-9)
• Kareem Between, by Shifa Saltagi Safadi (Grades 5-12)
• Ultraviolet, by Aida Salazar (Grades 5-12)

Nonfiction 

• Witch Hunt: the Cold War, Joe McCarthy and the Red Scare, by Andrea Balis (Grades 5-12)
• The Bard and the Book, by Ann Bausum (Grades 5-10)
• Power to the Parasites! by Chelsea Wood (Grades 5-12)
• The Mistakes that Made Us: Confessions from Twenty Poets, by various authors (Grades 3-8)