Reading Recommendations

Adult, Young Adult, and Children's/Middle-Grade recommendations are listed with the most recently read titles at the top. Picture Books and Webtoons are alphabetical.

Adult

Common Sense by Thomas Paine, 1776, political nonfiction
The Emperor's Soul by Brandon Sanderson, novella, 2012, high fantasy
Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It by Kelly Gallagher, 2009, education nonfiction
The Call of the Wild by Jack London, 1903, adventure fantasy
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin, 1996, high fantasy

Young Adult 

Mirage by Somaiya Daud, 2018, space fantasy
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, 2008, paranormal fantasy
Tess of the Road by Rachel Hartman, 2018, adventure fantasy
Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson, 2008, historical fiction
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas, 2017, contemporary
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, Ellen Forney (Illustrator), 2007, contemporary
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan, 2006, fantasy
A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer, 2019, fantasy

Children's / Middle-Grade

The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist (Illustrator), 1999, fantasy
Meet Addy: An American Girl by Connie Rose Porter, 1993, historical fiction

Picture Books

A Fox Found a Box by Ged Adamson
The Big Book of Beasts by Yuval Zommer, Barbara Taylor
Big Pumpkin by Erica Silverman, S.D. Schindler
The Book of Mistakes by Corinna Luyken
The Color Monster: A Story About Emotions by Anna Llenas
The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds
The Gruffalo by Julie Donaldson, Axel Scheffler
I Am a Cat by Galia Bernstein
Louise Loves Art by Kelly Light
Mouse and Hippo by Mike Twohy
Skippyjon Jones by Judy Schachner
Tap the Magic Tree by Christie Matheson

Webtoons

The Beehive
Brass & Sass
The Croaking
Giant Nerd Boyfriend
Let's Play
Litterbox Comics
Lore Olympus
Midnight Poppy Land
Miss Abbott and the Doctor (completed)
My Girlfriend's A Dragon?!
Sarah's Scribbles
Siren's Lament (completed)
SubZero
Suitor Armor

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