(a running list)
- Catcher in the Rye- J.D. Salinger
- The Color Purple- Alice Walker
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X- As Told to Alex Haley
- Go Tell it On a Mountain- James Baldwin
- Night- Elie Wiesel
- Zami- Audre Lorde
- The Shock Doctrine Naomi Klein
- When You Reach Me- Rebecca Stead
- Liar and Spy- Rebecca Stead
- I Am The Messenger- Markus Zusak
- The Dreamer- Pam Munoz Ryan
- A Wrinkle In Time- Madeleine L’Engle
- Maniac Magee- Jerry Spinelli
- Running the Rift- Naomi Benaron
- Jane Eyre- Charlotte Bronte
- The Giver- Lois Lowry
- The Mysterious Benedict Society (series)- Trenton Lee Stewart
- Alone Together: Sailing Solo to Hawaii and Beyond- Christian Williams
- All Creatures Great and Small- James Herriot
- The Hermaphrodite- Julia Ward Howe
- The Bluest Eye- Toni Morrison
- The Things They Carried- Tim O’Brien
- The Divide: Global Inequality from Conquest to Free Markets- Jason Hickel
- The Wind’s Twelve Quarters- Ursula K. Le Guin