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Classics...

Jane Austen  Emma

Emma Woodhouse imagines that she dominates those around her in the small town of Highbury, but her inept matchmaking creates problems for herself and others.

 

Edith Wharton  The Age of Innocence

As Newland Archer prepares to marry docile May Welland, the return of the mysterious Countess Olenska turns his life upside down.

 

 
Louisa May Alcott The Inheritance
Jane Austen Mansfield Park
  Pride and Prejudice
  Sense and Sensibility
Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre
Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights
Kate Chopin The Awakening
F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby
Nathaniel Hawthorne The House of the Seven Gables
Edith Wharton Summer

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Contemporary...

Robin Benway  Audrey, Wait!

While trying to score a date with her cute co-worker at the Scooper Dooper, sixteen-year-old Audrey gains unwanted fame and celebrity status when her ex-boyfriend, a rock musician, records a breakup song about her that soars to the top of the Billboard charts.

 

Rachel Cohn  Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

High school student Nick O'Leary, member of a rock band, meets college-bound Norah Silverberg and asks her to be his girlfriend for five minutes in order to avoid his ex-sweetheart.

 

Brad Barkley Scrambled Eggs at Midnight
Robin Benway Audrey, Wait!
Niki Burnham 1. Royally Jacked
  2. Spin Control
  3. Do Over
  Scary Beautiful
Deb Caletti Honey, Baby, Sweetheart
Rachel Cohn Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
Sarah Dessen This Lullaby
  The Truth About Forever
Laura Dower Rewind
Aimee Friedman A Novel Idea
Rachel Hawthorne The Boyfriend League
  Caribbean Cruising
  Island Girls (And Boys)
  Love on the Lifts
  Snowed In
  Thrill Ride
Gordon Korman Son of the Mob
Carolyn Mackler The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things
  Vegan Virgin Valentine
Mary E. Pearson Scribbler of Dreams
Sonya Sones What My Mother Doesn't Know
Jerry Spinelli Stargirl
Wendelin Van Draanen Flipped
Elizabeth Young Making Mischief

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Fairy Tales, Fables & Myths...

Martine Leavitt  Keturah and Lord Death

When Lord Death comes to claim sixteen-year-old Keturah while she is lost in the King's Forest, she charms him with her story and is granted a twenty-four hour reprieve in which to seek her one true love.

 

Julius Lester  Cupid: A Tale of Love and Desire

Cupid, the spoiled and mischievous god of love, is attracted to and marries the beautiful mortal, Psyche, and both learn many lessons about the nature of love.

 

Joan Bauer Thwonk
Francesca Lia Block I Was a Teenage Fairy
  Psyche in a Dress
  The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold
Neil Gaiman Stardust
Adele Geras Ithaka
William Goldman The Princess Bride
Margaret Peterson Haddix Just Ella
Shannon Hale Goose Girl
Gail Carson Levine Ella Enchanted
  Ever
Dennis L. McKiernan Once Upon a Winter's Night
Robin McKinley Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast
  Rose Daughter
  Spindle's End
Donna Jo Napoli Beast

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Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning...

Paula Boock  Dare, Truth or Promise

Louie Angelo, a Woodhaugh High prefect who plans to be a lawyer, falls in love with a girl who lives in a pub and just wants to get through her exams so she can become a chef.

 

David Levithan  Boy Meets Boy

When Paul falls hard for Noah, he thinks he has found his one true love, but when Noah walks out of his life, Paul has to find a way to get him back and make everything right once more.

 

Jean Ferris Eight Seconds
Garret Freymann-Weyr My Heartbeat
Nancy Garden Annie on My Mind
Laura Myracle Kissing Kate
Lisa Papademetriou M or F?
Julie Ann Peters Keeping You a Secret
Sara Ryan Empress of the World
Alex Sanchez Rainbow Boys
  Rainbow High
  So Hard to Say
Kate Walker Peter

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Historical...

Carolyn Meyer  Loving Will Shakespeare

In Stratford-upon-Avon in the sixteenth century, Anne Hathaway suffers her stepmother's cruelty and yearns for love and escape, finally finding it in the arms of a boy she has grown up with, William Shakespeare.

Dodie Smith  I Capture the Castle

A novel of an eccentric and impoverished English family whose home is a ruined 14th century castle. The story is presented in the form of a diary by the family's teen daughter.

R.C. Binstock Tree of Heaven
Caroline B. Cooney Both Sides of Time
  Out of Time
  Prisoner of Time
  For All Time
Sherryl Jordan The Hunting of the Last Dragon
  The Raging Quiet
Madeleine L'Engle The Joys of Love
Carolyn Meyer Loving Will Shakespeare

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Humorous...
 
M.T. Anderson  Burger Wuss

Hoping to lose his loser image, Anthony plans revenge on a bully which results in a war between two competing fast food restaurants, Burger Queen and O'Dermott's.

 

Polly Shulman  Enthusiasm

Julie and Ashleigh, high school sophomores and Jane Austen fans, seem to fall for the same Mr. Darcy-like boy and struggle to hide their true feelings from one another while rehearsing for a school musical.

 

Meg Cabot All-American Girl series
       1. All-American Girl
       2. Ready or Not
  Princess Diaries series
       1. The Princess Diaries
       2. Princess in the Spotlight
       3. Princess in Love
       4. Princess in Waiting
       4½. Project Princess
       5. Princess in Pink
       6. Princess in Training
       6½. The Princess Present
       7. Party Princess
       7¾. Valentine Princess
       8. Princess on the Brink
       9. Princess Mia
     10. Forever Princess
Alden R. Carter Love, Football and Other Contact Sports
Gordon Korman Son of the Mob
  Son of the Mob: Hollywood Hustle
Sue Limb Girl, Barely 15, Flirting for England
  Girl 15, Charming But Insane
  Girl, Nearly 16, Absolute Torture
  Girl, Going on 17, Pants on Fire
Gary Paulsen The Schernoff Discoveries
Louise Rennison Confessions of Georgia Nicolson
       1. Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging
       2. On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God
       3. Knocked Out by my Nunga-Nungas
       4. Dancing in My Nuddy Pants
       5. Away Laughing on a Fast Camel
       6. Then He Ate My Boy Entrancers
       7. Startled by His Furry Shorts
       8. Love is a Many Trousered Thing
       9. Stop in the Name of Pants!
       10. Are These My Basoomas I See Before Me?
Polly Shulman Enthusiasm
Gary Soto Nerdlandia: A Play

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Modern Classics...

Maureen Daly  Seventeenth Summer

Seventeen-year-old Angie, living with her family in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, finds herself in love for the first time the summer after high school graduation.

 

 

Bette Greene  Summer of My German Soldier

Patty Bergen, an unhappy Jewish girl living in Arkansas, shelters a pacifist German POW who escaped from a local prison compound, and she must face the wrath and hatred of her family and her town for her actions

Judy Blume Forever
Maureen Daly Seventeenth Summer
Bette Greene Summer of My German Soldier
  Morning is a Long Time Coming

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Multicultural...

Tanuja Desai Hidier  Born Confused

Seventeen-year-old Dimple, whose family is from India, discovers that she is not Indian enough for the Indians and not American enough for the Americans, as she sees her hypnotically beautiful, manipulative best friend taking possession of both her heritage and the boy she likes.

Walter Dean Myers  What They Found: Love on 145th Street

Fifteen interrelated stories explore different aspects of love, such as a dying father's determination to help start a family business--a beauty salon--and the relationship of two teens who plan to remain celibate until they marry.

R.C. Binstock Tree of Heaven
Linda Crew Children of the River
Sharon M. Draper Romiette and Julio
Laura Esquivel Like Water for Chocolate
Gabriel Garcia Marquez Love in the Time of Cholera
Tanuja Desai Hidier Born Confused
Suzanne Kingsbury The Summer Fletcher Greel Loved Me
Walter Dean Myers Street Love
Joyce Sweeney The Spirit Window

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Paranormal/Supernatural

Elizabeth Chandler  Kissed by an Angel 

When her boyfriend, Tristan, died, Ivy thought she'd lost everything, even her faith in angels. But now she's discovered that he's her guardian angel. Ivy needs Tristan now more than ever because he knows she's in terrible danger. But if Tristan rescues Ivy, his mission on earth will be finished, and he must leave her behind forever. Will saving Ivy mean losing her just when he's finally reached her again?

Kami Garcia  Beautiful Creatures

In a small South Carolina town, where it seems little has changed since the Civil War, sixteen-year-old Ethan is powerfully drawn to Lena, a new classmate with whom he shares a psychic connection and whose family hides a dark secret that may be revealed on her sixteenth birthday.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes Demon in My View
  Shattered Mirror
Elizabeth Chandler Kissed by an Angel
Cassandra Clare 1. City of Bones
  2. City of Ashes
  3. City of Glass
David Clement-Davies The Sight
Kami Garcia Beautiful Creatures
Patrick Jones The Tear Collector
Lauren Kate Fallen
Annette Curtis Klause Blood and Chocolate
  The Silver Kiss
Robin McKinley Sunshine
Stephenie Meyer 1. Twilight
  2. New Moon
  3. Eclipse
  4. Breaking Dawn
  The Host
Ellen Schreiber 1. Vampire Kisses
  2. Kissing Coffins
  3. Vampireville
  4. Dance With a Vampire
  5. The Coffin Club
  6. Royal Blood
  7. Love Bites
Celia Thompson Nine Lives of Chloe King
Vivian Vande Velde Companions of the Night
Laura Whitcomb A Certain Slant of Light

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Romantic Fantasy...

Kristin Cashore  Graceling

In a world where some people are born with extreme and often-feared skills called Graces, Katsa struggles for redemption from her own horrifying Grace, the Grace of killing, and teams up with another young fighter to save their land from a corrupt king.

Jaclyn Dolamore  Magic Under Glass

A wealthy sorcerer's invitation to sing with his automaton leads seventeen-year-old Nimira, whose family's disgrace brought her from a palace to poverty, into political intrigue, enchantments, and a friendship with a fairy prince who needs her help.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes Hawksong
Francesca Lia Block Necklace of Kisses
Kristin Cashore Graceling
Caroline B. Cooney Both Sides of Time
  Out of Time
  Prisoner of Time
Jaclyn Dolamore Magic Under Glass
Sherryl Jordan The Hunting of the Last Dragon
Jennifer Laurens Heavenly
Martine Leavitt Keturah and Lord Death
Judith O'Brien Mary Jane
Neal Shusterman Downsiders
Nancy Werlin Impossible
Suzanne Weyn Reincarnation

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