Book Recommendations

Books for Gals:

~ Lovely War by Julie Berry
~ The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer
~ Marilla of Green Gables by Sarah McCoy
~ The Downstairs Girl by Stacey H. Lee
~ The River of Time series by Lisa Tawn Bergen
~ Sarah’s Choice by Rebecca St. James and Nancy N. Rue
~ Tristan’s Gap by Nancy N. Rue
~ Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
~ Better Than The Movies by Lynn Painter
~ All The Blues in the Sky by Renée Watson
~ Snowglobe by Soyoung Park
~ The Library of Lost Things by Laura Taylor Namey
~ You’ve Reached Sam by Dustin Thao
~ Starfish by Lisa Fipps
~ My Jesus by Anne Wilson
~ Great or Nothing by Joy McCullough
~ Gay Girl, Good God by Jackie Hill Perry

Books for Dudes:

~Hatchet by Gary Paulsen. (Also his other books in that series!)
~The Rangers’ Apprentice by John Flanagan (Again, read his other books!)
~On My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
~Sign of the Beaver by Jean Craighead George
~Peace Like A River by Leif Enger

Books for Ladies & Gents:

~ I Will Always Write Back by Caitlin Alifirenka, Martin Ganda, and Liz Welch
~ Salt to the Sea and Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys
~ The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
~ Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell
~ Everything Sad is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri
~ The Giver series by Lois Lowry
~ The Sherlock Holmes series by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
~ All Rights Reserved by Gregory Scott Katsoulis
~ Echo by Pam Múnoz Ryan
~ The Left Behind’s series by Jerry B. Jenkins
~ A Cry From Egypt and A Stand at Sinai by Hope Auer
~ The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
~ The Wingerfeather Saga by Andrew Peterson
~ Tears of a Tiger by Sharon M. Draper
~ We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
~ Louder Than Hunger by John Schu
~ A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket
~A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
~ To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
~ Dangerous Jesus by Kevin ‘KB’ Burgess
~ The Watchmaker’s Daughter by Larry Loftis
~ The O’Malleys (series) by Dee Henderson

Recommended Authors:

~ C.S. Lewis
~ Lynn Painter
~ Gordon Korman
~ Alison Gervais
~ Jennifer A. Nielsen
~ Gary D. Schmidt
~ E. Lockhart
~ Renée Watson
~ Julie Berry
~Sharon M. Draper
~ Jenna Evans Welch
~ Agatha Christie
~ J.K. Rowling
~ Jane Austen
~ Malala Yousafzai
~ Fr. Gregory Boyle