2009 Recommended Reads
- Last Night I Sang to the Monster – Benjamin Alire Saenz
- What Happens Here – Tara Altebrando
- Boy Meets Boy – David Levithan
- Looking For Alaska – John Green
- Story of a Girl – Sara Zarr
- Once Was Lost – Sara Zarr
2008 Recommended Reads
- Monkey Beach – Eden Robinson
- Alligator Dance: Stories – Janet Peery
- The Complete Maus – Art Spiegelman
- The Woman in the Woods: Linked Stories – Ann Joslin Williams
2007 Recommended Reads
- Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood – Marjane Satrapi
- And Then We Came To The End – Joshua Ferris
- The Tennis Partner – Abraham Verghese
- Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic – Alison Bechdel
All-Time Favorites
- To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee
- The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love -Oscar Hijuelos
- The Sweet Hereafter – Russell Banks
- Waltzing the Cat – Pam Houston
- The Girl In the Fall-Away Dress – Michelle Richmond
- Dream of the Blue Room – Michelle Richmond
- The Feast of Love – Charles Baxter
- Living to Tell – Antonya Nelson
- Self Help – Lorrie Moore
- The Magician’s Assistant – Ann Patchett
- St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves – Karen Russell
