- The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
- The Call of the Wild by Jack London
- The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
- Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
- Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
- Friday Night Lights by H. G. Bissinger
- Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Alborn
- Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
- Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
- Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- Unwind by Neal Shusterman
- The Dead and the Gone by Susan Pfeffer
- Life As We Knew It by Susan Pfeffer
- Jude by Kate Morgenroth
- Silent to the Bone by E.L. Konisburge
- Band of Brothers by Stephen Ambrose
- Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
- The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
- Marley and Me by John Grogan
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
- Copper Sun by Sharon Draper
- Rocket Boys by Homer Hickman
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
- A Separate Peace by John Knowles