YA and Middle Grade books that remind me why I fell in love with reading to begin with.
created by tendaiisnarrative
last updated May, 2026
The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1)
Angie Thomas
Given
Nandi Taylor
Immortal City (Immortal City, #1)
Scott Speer
Holes (Holes, #1)
Louis Sachar
Girls of Paper and Fire (Girls of Paper and Fire, #1)
Natasha Ngan
I Am Number Four (Lorien Legacies, #1)
Pittacus Lore
Alienated (Alienated, #1)
Melissa Landers
Teardrop (Teardrop, #1)
Lauren Kate
Reign of Shadows
Sophie Jordan
Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1)
Diana Wynne Jones
Stain
A.G. Howard
Cruel Beauty
Rosamund Hodge
Have a Nice Day (Anna Bloom, #2)
Julie Halpern
Inkheart (Inkworld, #1)
Cornelia Funke
The Outsiders
S.E. Hinton
The City of Ember (Book of Ember, #1)
Jeanne DuPrau
Blended
Sharon M. Draper
I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You (Gallagher Girls, #1)
Ally Carter
Of Poseidon (The Syrena Legacy, #1)
Anna Banks
The Summoning (Darkest Powers, #1)
Kelley Armstrong
The Gathering (Darkness Rising, #1)
The Neverending Story
Michael Ende
Stargirl (Stargirl, #1)
Jerry Spinelli
The Sweetest Dark (The Sweetest Dark, #1)
Shana Abe
Gone (Gone, #1)
Michael Grant
The Maze Runner (The Maze Runner, #1)
James Dashner
The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles, #1)
Rick Riordan
Graceling (Graceling Realm, #1)
Kristin Cashore
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
C.S. Lewis
Rebel of the Sands (Rebel of the Sands, #1)
Alwyn Hamilton
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