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Title written in cursive - Extreme Reader 2026

Reading suggestions for anyone to enjoy that also work for the Extreme Reader 2026 challenge!

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  • Affirmations for Self-love

    100 Lessons for Learning to Love Yourself Through the Beautiful Days, the Hard Days, and Everything in Between

    Keithley, Zanna,
    There is so much to love about you--and it's important to remind yourself how amazing you are. Let one hundred empowering affirmations help you speak self-love into your life, appreciate the person you are, and grow toward the person you want to…
    Book, 2025Stoughton, Mass. : Adams Media, 2025. — 158.1 KEITHLEY 2025
  • Almost American Girl

    An Illustrated Memoir

    Ha, Robin,
    A powerful and moving teen graphic novel memoir about immigration, belonging, and how arts can save a life--perfect for fans of American Born Chinese and Hey, Kiddo. For as long as she can remember, it's been Robin and her mom against the world.…
    Book, 2020New York, N.Y. : Balzer + Bray/Harper Alley, imprints of HarperCollins Publishers, [2020] — YG 305.906912 H11A 2020
  • The Barbizon

    the Hotel That Set Women Free

    Bren, Paulina,
    The Barbizon tells the story of New York's most glamorous women-only hotel, and the women-both famous and ordinary-who passed through its doors. World War I had liberated women from home and hearth, setting them on the path to political…
    Book, 2021New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2021. — 305.4 BREN 2021
  • Meet Nina Hill: A young woman supremely confident in her own ... shell. The only child of a single mother, Nina has her life just as she wants it: a job in a bookstore, a kick-butt trivia team, a world-class planner and a cat named Phil. If she…
    Book, 2019New York : Berkley, 2019. — F WAXMA-A
  • Candy Darling

    Dreamer, Icon, Superstar

    Carr, Cynthia, 1950-
    The Warhol superstar and transgender icon Candy Darling was glamour personified, but she was without a real place in the world. Growing up on Long Island, lonely and quiet and queer, she was enchanted by Hollywood starlets like Kim Novak. She found…
    Book, 2025New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2025] — B DARLI-C 2024
  • Writing letters to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., seventeen-year-old college-bound Justyce McAllister struggles to face the reality of race relations today and how they are shaping him.
    Book, 2017New York : Crown, [2017] — YF STONE-N
  • One of the most acclaimed travel writers of our time turns his unflinching eye on an American South too often overlooked. Paul Theroux has spent fifty years crossing the globe, adventuring in the exotic, seeking the rich history and folklore of the…
    eBook, 2015Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015
  • Imagine an America very similar to our own. It's got homework, best friends, and pistachio ice cream. There are some differences. This America has been shaped dramatically by the magic, monsters, knowledge, and legends of its peoples, those…
    Book, 2020Montclair : Levine Querido, 2020. — YF LITTL-D
  • A mesmerizing debut set against the backdrop of the devastating violence of 1990's Colombia about a sheltered young girl and a teenage maid who strike an unlikely friendship that threatens to undo them both. Seven-year-old Chula and her older sister…
    Book, 2018New York : Doubleday, [2018] — F ROJAS-I
  • Nishat's parents say she can be anyone she wants-- as long as she isn't a lesbian. She doesn't want to lose her family, but she also doesn't want to hide who she is. When childhood friend Flávia walks back into her life, Nishat falls for her…
    Book, 2020Salem, MA : Page Street Publishing Co., 2020. — YF JAIGI-A
  • Castellamare is an island far enough away from the mainland to be forgotten, but not far enough to escape from the world's troubles. At the center of the island's life is a café draped with bougainvillea called the House at the Edge of Night, where…
    Book, 2016New York : Random House, [2016] — F BANNE-C
  • Entreated to tell his side of the story to a detective who put him in prison a decade earlier for a murder he may not have committed, Oliver Marks describes his past as a Shakespearean actor in college whose rivalry with a castmate escalated in…
    Book, 2017New York : Flatiron Books, 2017. — F RIO-M
  • Imogen Scott may be hopelessly heterosexual, but shes got the Worlds Greatest Ally title locked down. She's never missed a Pride Alliance meeting. She knows more about queer media discourse than her very queer little sister. She even has two queer…
    Book, 2023New York : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2023. — YF ALBER-B
  • Margot Lee's mother isn't returning her calls. It's a mystery to twenty-six-year-old Margot, until she visits her childhood apartment in Koreatown and finds her mother dead under suspicious circumstances. The discovery sends Margot digging through…
    Book, 2020Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Park Row Books, [2020] — F KIM-N
  • When her husband of a year disappears, Hannah quickly learns he is not who he said he was and is left to sort out the truth with just one ally- her husband's teenage daughter, who hates her.
    Book, 2021New York City : Simon & Schuster, 2021. — F DAVE-L
  • When her late father's diaries are discovered after a tragic accident, Elizabeth, whose eyesight has failed, explores the diaries and the mysteries of her past with the help of Morgan, a delinquent teenager performing community service at…
    Book, 2017New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017] — F PENDZ-J
  • When four teens discover the dead body of influencer Summer Cartwright, they must piece together the truth behind her online persona to find out who killed her.
    Book, 2023Los Angeles ; New York : Melissa de la Cruz Studio/Hyperion, 2023. — YF WEAVE-J
  • For a decade Rachel Rubenstein-Goldblatt has hidden her career as a Christmas romance novelist from her family. Her talent has made her a bestseller even as her chronic illness has always kept the kind of love she writes about out of reach. When her…
    Book, 2021Toronto, Ontario, Canada : MIRA, [2021] — F MELTZ-J
  • Seventeen-year-old Lenni Pettersson has been told she's dying, but still has plenty of living to do. She lives on the Terminal Ward at the Glasgow Princess Royal Hospital. In their arts and crafts class she meets Margot, an 83-year-old,…
    Book, 2021New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021] — F CRONI-M
  • Remembrance...It's a rumor, a whisper passed in the fields and veiled behind sheets of laundry. A hidden stop on the underground road to freedom, a safe haven protected by more than secrecy...if you can make it there. Ohio, present day. A refugee…
    Book, 2020New York : Forge, a Tom Doherty Associates book, 2020. — F WOODS-R