Our Favorite Books

Eighth Grade Recommendations by Genre:

2013 - 2015

I. SPORTS

  1. In the Water They Can’t See You Cry
  2. The Boy Who Saved Baseball
  3. Travel Team
  4. HEAT
  5. The Big Field
  6. Payback Time
  7. Knuckler
  8. Gym Candy
  9. Million Dollar Arm
  10. Leverage
  11. Shoeless Joe Jackson and Me
  12. Football Genius
  13. Crackback

II. ROMANCE

  1. The Last Song
  2. The Lucky One
  3. The Summer I Turned Pretty
  4. Prom
  5. Forget Me Not
  6. The Notebok
  7. Gone
  8. Born at Midnight
  9. The Thing about the Truth
  10. The Fault in Our Stars
  11. If I Stay
  12. Water for Elephants

III. HORROR

  1. Christine
  2. Dead Space
  3. Per Semetary
  4. IT
  5. Monster (Pertti)
  6. House at the End of the Street
  7. Solitary
  8. Possessed
  9. The Talking
  10. FEED
  11. Three
  12. Worldz
  13. The House of Scorpion
  14. The Stand

IV. MYSTERY

  1. Beauty Queens
  2. You Have Seven Messages
  3. The Weekend was Murder
  4. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
  5. All the Lovely Bad Ones
  6. The Lying Game
  7. The Lovely Bones
  8. Blackwater
  9. Blue is for Nightmares (the series)
  10. Perfect Match
  11. Dead to You
  12. Deep, Dark and Dangerous
  13. Tangerine
  14. Paper Towns
  15. Confessions of a Murder Suspect
  16. Crossed
  17. Death Cloud
  18. The Scorch Trials
  19. Who Killed the Home Coming Queen?

V. ACTION/ADVENTURE

1. Behind Enemy Lines

2. Hatchet

3. Brian’s Winter

4. The Maze Runner

5. December

6. A Single Shard

7. Hell’s Aquarium

8. Heroes of Olympus (series) The Lost Hero

9. Hunger Games—(series)

10. Black Hawk Down

11. Maximum Ride: School’s Out Forever

12. The Mark of Athena

13. The Last Symbol

14. Home Front: The Voice of Freedom

15. Gone

16. The Princess Bride

17. Term Limits

18. Maze of Bones

19. Trapped

20. The Heist

21. Escape from Furnace (series)

22. Undertakers

23. The Selecton

24. The Divergent Series

25. The Lord of the Flies

26. Secrets of the Realm

27. Holes

28. The Death Notes Series

29. Red Sea

30. The Infernal Devices (series)

VI. BIOGRAPHY

  1. A Child Called It
  2. America
  3. Fearless
  4. The Blind Side
  5. Lone Survivor

VII. FANTASY

  1. Harry Potter series
  2. Warriors
  3. Maximum Ride
  4. Twilight series
  5. The Hobbit
  6. A Wrinkle in Time
  7. The Mark of Athena
  8. Entwined
  9. Ella Enchanted
  10. Marked
  11. Mind Readers
  12. Dead is the New Blanket
  13. The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson series)
  14. Eragon (series)
  15. Artemis Fowl (series)
  16. Origami Yoda
  17. The Mortal Instruments

VIII.HISTORICAL FICTION

  1. Gone with the Wind
  2. Why Me?
  3. The Pilot’s Wife
  4. A Dog’s Purpose: A Novel for Humans
  5. Number the Stars
  6. Fever
  7. The Boy on the Wooden Box
  8. The Devil’s Arithmetic
  9. Big Nate (series)

10. The Fourth Stall

11. My Brother Sam is Dead

12. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

VIII. SCI-FI

  1. House of the Scorpion
  2. The Andromeda Strain
  3. Jurassic Park
  4. Swipe
  5. I am Number Four
  6. Son
  7. The Invisible Man
  8. Ender’s Game
  9. The Strain
  10. The Eleventh Plague

IX. COMEDY

  1. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
  2. Ellen Degeneres: Seriously, I’m Kidding
  3. I Funny
  4. Good Omens
  5. The Fourth Stall
  6. Twisted

X. COMING-of-AGE/DRAMA

1. The Lovely Bones

2. Nineteen Minutes

3. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie

4. The Fire Factory

5. Perks of Being a Wallflower

6. Stick Figure

7. The VladimerTod (series)

8. All These Things I’ve Done

9. Shiloh

10. Where the Red Fern Grows

11. Tears of a Tiger

12. Thirteen Reasons Why

13. To Kill a Mockingbird

14. Every Day

15. The Outsiders

16. Gossip Girls

17. Wonder

18. The Lemony Snicket series

19 .To Kill a Mockingbird