Booklist

1. The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins

2. Catching Fire, by Suzanne Collins

3. Mockingjay, by Suzanne Collins

4. The Janitor's Boy, by Andrew Clements

5. The Road, by Cormac McCarthy

6. The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, by Nicholas Carr

7. Strider, by Beverly Cleary

8. Touching the Void, by Joe Simpson

9. Perloo the Bold, by Avi

10. The Power and The Glory, by Graham Greene

11. The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak

12. Heat Rises, by Richard Castle

13. Gone, by Mo Hayder

14. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, by Susan Cain

15. The Sisters Brothers, by Patrick deWitt

16. How to Build a Time Machine: The Real Science of Time Travel, by Brian Clegg

17. The Sense of an Ending, by Julian Barnes

18. The Boy in the Suitcase, by Lene Kaaberbol & Agnete Friis

19. Shatner Rules: Your Guide to Understanding the Shatnerverse and the World At Large, by William Shatner with Chris Regan

20. The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals, by Jane Mayer

21. Fever 1793, by Laurie Halse Anderson

22. The Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank

23. Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson, M.D.

24. How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities, by John Cassidy

25. Echo, by Jack McDevitt

26. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson

27. There But For The, by Ali Smith

28. Bridge to Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson

29. Redshirts, by John Scalzi

30. The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, by Stephen Greenblatt

31. The Mormon People: The Making of an American Faith, by Matthew Bowman

32. Throne of the Crescent Moon, by Saladin Ahmed

33. Cowboys & Aliens, by Scott Mitchell Rosenberg

34. The Adventures of the Stainless Steel Rat, by Harry Harrison

35. The Fuzzy Papers, by H. Beam Piper

36. When the Wind Blows, by Raymond Briggs

37. Fuzzy Nation, by John Scalzi

38. My American Revolution: Crossing the Delaware and I-78, by Robert Sullivan

39. The Great Destroyer: Barack Obama's War on the Republic, by David Limbaugh

40. Son, by Lois Lowry

41. The Alchemist, by Paolo Bacigalupi

42. The Executioness, by Tobias S. Buckell

43. Frozen Heat, by Richard Castle

44. The White Queen, by Philippa Gregory

45. The Star Fox, by Poul Anderson

46. The Yellow Birds, by Kevin Powers

47. Ultimate Spider-Man, Vol. 1: Power and Responsibility, by Brian Michael Bendis

48. The Book of the Dun Cow, by Walter Wangerin Jr.

49. Tuck Everlasting, by Natalie Babbitt

50. Room, by Emma Donoghue