Tech High Library’s Top Tens

Graphic Novels

The Wonderful Wizard of OzEric Shanower, Young Skottie, Jean Francois Beaulieu, and Jeff Eckleberry

American Born ChineseGene Yuen LangJin just wants to fit in; desperately wants to fit in with his white classmates. Meanwhile in another plane of existence the Monkey King wants to fit in with all the other gods. As powerful as he becomes he’s still rejected. If Jin, if the Monkey King just change who they are they may be able to get everything they desire….or lose everything they already have, even themselves.

Wolverine: Worst Day EverBarry Lyga and Todd Nauck

Pride & PrejudiceAusten, Jane; Butler, Nancy, adapter; Petrus, Hugo, il

I Kill GiantsJoe Kelly, JM Ken Niimura

Pinocchio, Vampire SlayerVan Jenson and Dusty Higgins

A.D.: New Orleans After the DelugeJosh Neufeld

Gunnerkrigg Court, vol 1: OrientationTom Siddell

Skim (IL)Mariko Tamaki

Romance

Keturah and Lord DeathMartine Leavitt

Twilight SagaStephanie Meyer

Shiver (IL)Maggie Stiefvater

Grace has got an obsession. An obsession that tugs at her heart and prickles at her senses. It’s not natural. It’s supernatural and the only person who understands really isn’t a person at all, he’s an animal. Can love overcome magic?

Romeo and Juliet (IL)William Shakespeare

Wuthering HeightsEmily Bronte

Lips Touch: Three TimesLaini Taylor

Their Eyes Were Watching GodZora Neal Hurston

Biography (IL)

The Other Wes MooreWes Moore

The Great and Only Barnum: The Tremendous, Stupendous Life of Showman P.T. BarnumCandace Fleming

Cooked: From the Streets to the Stove, From Cocaine to Foie GrasJeff Henderson

Ernest Hemingway: A Writer’s LifeCatherine Reef

I Am Scout: The Biography of Harper LeeCharles J. Shields

The Autobiography of Malcolm XMalcolm X as told to Alex Haley

Up From SlaveryBooker T Was

American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron CrotchMatthew PollyPolly’s an Ivy League 98-lb weakling with a fierce determination and a serious to-do list. In this strikingly personal memoir Matthew travels to the Shaolin Temple in China to learn the art of kung-fu, transform himself into a man and grow a backbone.

UncommonTony Dungy

I Know Why the Caged Bird SingsMaya Angelou

Fantasy

The Hobbit (IL)J.R.R. Tolkien

The Lord of the RingsJ.R.R. Tolkien

MagykAngie SageBoy 412 and Jenny have been living two very different and unremarkable lives, but when dark forces and fate combine to bring them together they learn that they are more special than they thought and life is nothing short of Magykal.

EverlostNeil Shusterman

PeepsScott Westerfield

The Dragons of BabelMichael SwanwickWill le Fey has a secret, a power within him that he doesn’t understand. As he travels from his home in the countryside to the magical but industrially decadent Babel he encounters politically minded dwarves, elitist elves, time traveling witch women and host of others. Once there he’ll have to grapple with who he was, who he has become and the dragon within. (Steampunk)

Chronicles of Narnia (IL)C.S. Lewis

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief (IL)Rick Riordan

Guardian of the DeadKaren Healey

Science Fiction

The Hunger Games (IL)Suzanne CollinsIn a deadly reality show in post-apocalyptic America called the Hunger Games, 16-year-old Katniss, a clever girl from the coal mining District 12 must fight for her life. Will she survive? And how can she

navigate the harsh reality of the arena with an angel on one shoulder telling her to help a friend she’s indebted to and the devil on the other telling her to kill him before he kills her.

The Goodness GeneSonia Levitin

UgliesScott Westerfield

Liar (IL)Justine Larbalastier

The Maze RunnerJames Dashner

LeviathanScott Westerfield

BoneshakerCherie Priest

UnwindNeil Shusterman

The Adoration of Jenna FoxMary Pearson

The CompoundS.A. Bodeen

Non-Fiction

Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland (IL)Sally M. Walker

What Color is Your Parachute? 2010 (IL)Richard Bolles

Wheelchair Warriors: Gangs, Disability and Basketball (IL)Melvin Juette

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (IL)Emily Dickinson

From Clueless to Class Act: Manners for the Modern Man (Woman) (IL)Jodi Smith

7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens (IL)Sean Covey

The Souls of Black Folk (IL)W.E.B. DuBois

Overthrow: America’s History of Regime Change from Hawaii to IraqStephen Kinzer

Sneakiest Uses for Everyday Things (IL)Cy TymonyStep by Step Instructions on making everything from paper airplanes to mini-boomerangs.

Outliers (IL)Malcolm Gladwell

Adventure and Mystery

The TrapJohn SmelcerAt the height of winter’s bitterness Albert Least-Weasel goes out for a hunt and doesn’t return, his grandson, Johnny, struggles with his own worry and insecurity and then goes to look for him.

Tom Sawyer (IL)Mark Twain

A Journey to the Center of the Earth (IL)Jules Verne

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing: Traitor to the NationM.T. Anderson

Life of Pi (IL)Yann Martel

The Case of the Peculiar Pink Fan : An Enola Holmes Mystery (IL)Nancy Springer

The Complete Sherlock HolmesSir Arthur Conan Doyle

Theodosia and the Serpents of ChaosR.L. LaFevers

The Mysterious Benedict SocietyTrenton Lee Stewart

Chasing VermeerBlue Balliet