Reading Olympics

Reading Olympics for Teens

2024 Middle School Reading Olympics Booklist

  • Amari and the Night Brothers (Supernatural Investigations, 1) / B.B. Alston
  • Audacity / Melanie Crowder
  • Bomb: The Race to Build-and Steal- the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon / Steve Sheinkin
  • Brown Girl Dreaming / Jacqueline Woodson
  • Courage Has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickles, America’s First Black Paratrooper / Tanya Lee Stone
  • The Crossover / Kwame Alexander
  • Emmy in the Key of Code / Aimee Lucido
  • Fish in a Tree / Lynda Mullaly Hunt
  • Girl Forgotten / April Henry
  • The Great Wide Sea / M.H. Herlong
  • Ground Zero / Alan Gratz
  • Houdini and Me / Dan Gutman
  • Invisible Emmie / Terri Libenson
  • Keeper of the Lost Cities, 1 / Shannon Messenger
  • Linked / Gordon Korman
  • Maximum Ride: The Manga, 1 / James Patterson
  • The Night Gardener / Jonathan Auxier
  • On the Blue Comet / Rosemary Wells
  • Resistance / Jennifer A. Nielsen
  • School Trip (New Kid, 3) / Jerry Craft
  • Verify / Joelle Charbonneau
  • Waiting for Normal / Leslie Connor
  • Where Have All the Bees Gone?: Pollinators in Crisis / Rebecca Hirsch
  • Woods Runner / Gary Paulsen
  • Zane and the Hurricane: A Story of Katrina / Rodman Philbrick

2024 High School Reading Olympics Booklist

  • A Curse So Dark and Lonely / Brigid Kemmerer
  • African Town / Irene Latham
  • All My Rage / Sabaa Tahir
  • All the Light We Cannot See / Anthony Doerr
  • And We Rise: The Civil Rights Movement in Poems / Erica Martin
  • At the End of Everything / Marieke Nijkamp
  • The Cousins / Karen M. McManus
  • Darius the Great is Not OK / Adib Khorran
  • Dear Martin / Nic Stone
  • Eleanor and Park / Rainbow Rowell
  • Fahrenheit 451 / Ray Bradbury
  • Gabi, a Girl in Pieces / Isabel Quintero
  • Girl in Translation / Jean Kwok
  • Going Dark / Melissa de la Cruz
  • Heartstopper Vol. 1 / Alice Oseman
  • I Have Lost My Way / Gayle Forman
  • In the Shadow of the Fallen Towers / Don Brown
  • Inheritance, a visual poem / Elizabeth Acevedo
  • Just Mercy (A Young Readers Version) / Bryan Stevenson
  • Ship Breaker / Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Sold / Patricia McCormick
  • The Night Circus / Erin Morgenstern
  • The Young Elites / Marie Lu
  • Three Little Words: A Memoir / Ashley Rhodes-Courter
  • What If It’s Us / Becky Albertall

For the elementary school reading list, go to Reading Olympics for Children.

Learn more about the Reading Olympics program.