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Students' Favorite Books Page 1 of 4 Students' Favorite Books Books in BOLD are extrememely popular Book Title Author A Child Called It Dave Pelzer Addicted Zane Annie's Baby: the diary of anonymous Beatrice Sparks Autobiography of Malcolm X Malcolm X Coldest Winter Ever Sister Souljah Color Purple Alice Walker Diary of Anne Frank Anne Frank Double Dutch Sharon Draper Down These Mean Streets Piri Thomas Fast Food Nation Eric Schlosser Fist Stick Knife Gun Geoffrey Canada Flyy Girl Omar Tyree Gangsta k' wan Go Ask Alice anonymous Harry Potter 1-5 J.K Rowling House on Mango Street Sandra Cisneros I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou Lost Boy Dave Pelzer Maus I and II Art Speigelman Milk In My Coffee Eric Jerome Dickey Monster Walter Dean Myers No Disrespect Sister Souljah October Sky Homer Hickam Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck Outsiders, The S.E. Hinton Push Sapphire Romiette & Julio Sharon Draper Tears of A Tiger Sharon M. Draper When I was Puerto Rican Esmeralda Santiago 100 Years of Solitude Garbriel Garcia Marquez 1984 and Animal Farm George Orwell A Clockwork Orange Burgess A Hope Unseen Ron Suskind A Man Named Dave Dave Pelzer A Raisin in the Sun, A Lorraine Hillsbury A Teacup Full of Roses Sharon Bell Mathis Aint I A Women Bell Hooks All About Love Bell Hooks Along Came a Spider James Patterson Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay Michael Chabon Anarchist's Cook Book William Powell Angela’s Ashes Frank McCourt Bad as I Wanna Be Dennis Rodman Bad Girls Liz Curtis Higgs Basketball Diaries jim carrollJim Carroll Bastard Out of Carolina Dorothy Allison Page 2 of 4 Be More Careful Shannon Holmes Behold The Pale Horse William Cooper Betweens Lovers Eric Jerome Dickey Bless Me, Ultima Rudolpho Anaya Book of the Dead Ashley McConnell Brian's Winter Gary Paulsen Bruce Lee, Expression of the human body John Little Buffy The Vampire Slayer (Chosen) Nancy Holder Carrie Stephen King Casting the First Stone Kimberla Lawson Roby Castle in the clouds Morris Simon Catch-22 Joseph Heller Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul I & II Jack Canfield Christmas Carol Charles Dickens Chronicles Of Narnia C.S. Lewis Contender Robert Lipsyte Cryptonomicon Neil Stephenson Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night, The Mark Haddon Darkness Before Dawn Sharon N. Draper Demons and Angels Dan Brown Dicey's Song Cynthia Voigt Divine Comedy Dante Dolores Claiborne Stephen King Don't Hurt Laurie Willo Davis Roberts Downer's Grove Stephen King Dragon Wing Margaret Weis Dune Frank Herbert Education of Little Tree, The Forrest Carter Ender's Game (and series) Orsen Scott Card Falling Angels Tracy Chevalter Farming of Bones, The Edwidge Dantical Feed M.T anderson First They Killed My Father Loung Ung Flyy Girl 2 Omar Tyree For The Love Of Money Omar Tyree Forged By Fire Sharon M. Draper Fountainhead, The Ayn Rand Friends & Lovers Eric Jerome Dickey Get Out Of My Life Anthony Wolf Gig John Bowe Giver, The Lois Lowry God Don’t Like Ugly Mary Monroe Gossip Girls 1-3 Cecily von Ziegesar Greek Mythology Emma Clark Gunshots in my cook-up Selwyn Seyfu Hinds Gunslinger, The Stephen King Hatchet Gary Paulsen Haunted Meg Cabot Heat Seekers Zane Hip Hop History Various Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams Hobbit J.R.R Tolkien Page 3 of 4 Holes Louis Sacher Hoop Dreams Ben Joravsky Hope in the Unseen Ron Suskind Hope to Die Lawrence Block Hot Zone, The Richard Preston Hour Before Dark, The Douglas Clegg Hush Jacqueline Woodson Hustler's Wife Nikki Turner I Am…The Autobiography Nas I Make My Own Rules LL Cool J If Beale Street Could Talk James Baldwin Imani All Mine Connie Porter Inside the Cocaine Cartel Richard Smitten Into Thin Air Krakaur It Stephen King It Happened to Nancy Beatrice Sparks Jazmin's Notebook Nikki Grimes John Coltrane Bill Cole Jurassic Park Michael Chrichton Katie.com Katherine Tarbox Latin Kings Reymundo Sanchez Liar's Game Erik Jerome Dickey Life And Death Russell Symmons Like Water for Chocolate Laura Esquivel Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe CS Lewis Lord Brocktree Brian Jacques Lord Of The Rings J.R.R. Tolkien Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The J.R.R. Tolkien Lost Years Of Merlin T.A. Bannon Love Medicine Louise Erdrich Lovely Bones,The Alice Sebold Makes Me Wanna Holler Nathan McCall Manchild in the Promised Land Claude Brown Maniac Magee Jerry Spinelli Master Of Murders Christopher Pike Me Talk Pretty One Day David Sedaris Midsummer Night’s Dream Shakespeare Modern Poetry (Xeroxed) Various Money For Good Franklin White Moneyball Michael Lewis Murder Of Biggie Smalls Cathy Scott Naked David Sedaris Never Satisfied: How and why Men Cheat Micheal Beasley Night I Disappeared, The Julie Reece Deaver Northern Lights, The Philip Pullman Obsidian Butterfly Lavrell K. Hamilton Odd Girl Rachel Simmons On Our Way To Beautiful Yolanda Young On The Run Dave Di Bennedelto Pact. The Davis, Jenkins, and Hunt Painting the Black Carl Deuker Perfect Storm, The Sebastian Junger Phantom Tollbooth Norton Juster Page 4 of 4 Pillars of The Earth Ken Follett Princess - Story of a Saudi Princess Jean Sasson Prozac Nation Elizabeth Wurtzel Raising Cain Michael Thompson Raising Fences Michael Datcher Reviving Ophelia Mary Pipher River, The Gary Paulsen Rock, The The Rock Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry Mildred Taylor Rose That Grew From Concrete, The Tupac Salem's Lot Stephen King Savage Inequalities Jonathan Kozol Scary Stories (Xeroxed) Various Scorpions Walter Dean Myers Second Child John Saul Senators Wife Geffery Canada Sex Chronicles Zane She’s Come Undone Wally Lamb Siddhartha Hermann Hesse Sister. Sister Eric Jerome Skin I Am In, The Christopher Spence Slam Walter Dean Myers Slaughterhouse Five Kurt Vonnegut Something Upstairs Avi Soul On Ice Eldridge Cleaver Speak Laurie Halse Anderson Spellbound Janet McDonald Steve Young Jerry Rice Stick Figure Lori Gottlieb Summer of '49 David Halberstam Survival In Auschwitz Primo Levi Sweet St. Louis Omar Tyree Sword In The Stone T.H. White Tales of the Arabian Nights Traditional Tao of Jeet Kune Do Bruce Lee Their Eyes are Watching God Zora Neal Hurston There are No Children Here Alex Kotlowitz Things they Carried, The Tim Obrien To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee True To The Game Terri Woods Trump: Art Of The Dead Donald Trump Tuesdays with Morrie Mitch Albom Waiting to Exhale Terry McMillan War of the Worlds H.G. Wells Watership Down Richard Adams We all Fall Down Robert Cormier What Kind of Love - Diary of a Pregnant Teenager Shiela Cole What My Mother Doesn't Know Sonya Sonas White Oleander Janet Fitch Women of Brewster Place, The Gloria Naylor Wrinkle In Time Madeline L'enyel You Belong to Me Mary Higgins Clark.
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