Stuck in a reading slump? Not sure what to read next? Check out the curated lists below for inspiration! Want to recommend a title for a list or suggest a whole new list? Please email Teen Librarian Marion at marion.johnson@rutherford.bccls.org.
| Title | Author | Call Number |
| Junk Boy | Tony Abbott | YA FIC ABBOTT |
| With the Fire on High | Elizabeth Acevedo | YA FIC ACEVEDO |
| Love from A to Z | S.K. Ali | YA FIC ALI |
| Me & Earl & the Dying Girl | Jesse Andrews | YA FIC ANDREWS |
| A Match Made in Mehendi | Nandini Bajpai | YA FIC BAJPAI |
| Also Known As | Robin Benway | YA FIC BENWAY |
| The Darkest Part of the Forest | Holly Black | YA FIC BLACK |
| iBoy | Kevin Brooks | YA FIC BROOKS |
| Rules for Being a Girl | Candace Bushnell | YA FIC BUSHNELL |
| Not if I Save You First | Ally Carter | YA FIC CARTER |
| The Assassin’s Curse | Cassandra Rose Clarke | YA FIC CLARKE |
| Matched | Ally Condie | YA FIC CONDIE |
| The Au Pairs | Melissa de la Cruz | YA FIC DE LA CRUZ |
| In the Key of Nira Ghani | Natasha Deen | YA FIC DEEN |
| The Last Apprentice: Revenge of the Witch | Joseph Delaney | YA FIC DELANEY |
| Keeping the Moon | Sarah Dessen | YA FIC DESSEN |
| Runner | Carl Deuker | YA FIC DEUKER |
| Boys Don’t Knit | T. S. Easton | YA FIC EASTON |
| Find Layla: a novel | Meg Elison | YA FIC ELISON |
| Fake ID | L.R. Giles | YA FIC GILES |
| Only Mostly Devastated | Sophie Gonzales | YA FIC GONZALES |
| Full Ride | Margaret Peterson Haddix | YA FIC HADDIX |
| Promposal | Rhonda Helms | YA FIC HELMS |
| Skink–No Surrender | Carl Hiaasen | YA FIC HIAASEN |
| The Past and Other Things that Should Stay Buried | Shaun David Hutchins | YA FIC HUTCHINSON |
| You Should See Me in a Crown | Leah Johnson | YA FIC JOHNSON |
| Human.4 | Mike A. Lancaster | YA FIC LANCASTER |
| #MurderTrending | Gretchen McNeil | YA FIC MCNEIL |
| Shadowshaper | Daniel Jose Older | YA FIC OLDER |
| Revived | Cat Patrick | YA FIC PATRICK |
| We were here | Matt de la Peña | YA FIC PENA SR 8TH GR |
| Starters | Lissa Price | YA FIC PRICE |
| The book of living secrets | Madeleine Roux | YA FIC ROUX |
| Peak: A Novel | Roland Smith | YA FIC SMITH |
| The Geography of You and Me | Jennifer E. Smith | YA FIC SMITH |
| What My Girlfriend Doesn’t Know | Sonya Sones | YA FIC SONES |
| Dear Justyce | Nic Stone | YA FIC STONE |
| Dear Martin | Nic Stone | YA FIC STONE |
| Boot Camp | Todd Strasser | YA FIC STRASSER |
| Be More Chill | Ned Vizzini | YA FIC VIZZINI |
| Black and White | Paul Volponi | YA FIC VOLPONI |
| The Final Four | Paul Volponi | YA FIC VOLPONI |
| Skin | Adrienne Maria Vrettos | YA FIC VRETTOS |
| Mind Games | Kiersten White | YA FIC WHITE |
| The Program | Suzanne Young | YA FIC YOUNG |
| Series Name | First Title | Author | Call Number |
| Darkest Powers Trilogy | The summoning | Kelly Armstrong | YA FIC ARMSTRONG |
| Red Queen | Red Queen | Victoria Aveyard | YA FIC AVEYARD |
| Gallagher Girls | I’d tell you I love you, but then I’d have to kill you | Ally Carter | YA FIC CARTER |
| Heir Chronicles | The Warrior Heir | Cinda Williams Chima | YA FIC CHIMA |
| Something Dark and Holy Trilogy | Wicked Saints | Emily A. Duncan | YA FIC DUNCAN |
| House of Marionne Trilogy | House of Marionne | J. Elle | YA FIC ELLE |
| Eon | Eon: Dragoneye reborn | Allison Goodman | YA FIC GOODMAN |
| Burn for Burn Trilogy | Burn for Burn | Jenny Han | YA FIC HAN |
| The Summer I Turned Pretty Trilogy | The Sword of Summer | Jenny Han | YA FIC HAN |
| Insignia Trilogy | Insignia | S. J. Kincaid | YA FIC KINCAID |
| Every Day Trilogy | Every Day | David Levithan | YA FIC LEVITHAN |
| Blood of Stars Duology | Spin the Dawn | Elizabeth Lim | YA FIC LIM |
| Legend | Legend | Marie Lu | YA FIC LU |
| In the After Duology | In the After | Demitria Lunetta | YA FIC LUNETTA |
| Thousandth Floor | The Thousandth Floor | Katherine McGee | YA FIC MCGEE |
| Twilight Series | Twilight | Stephanie Meyer | YA FIC MEYER |
| Ashfall Trilogy | Ashfall | Mike Mullin | YA FIC MULLIN |
| Dairy Queen Trilogy | Dairy Queen | Catherine Gilbert Murdock | YA FIC MURDOCK |
| Internet Girls | ttyl | Lauren Myracle | YA FIC MYRACLE |
| Delirium Trilogy | Delirium | Lauren Oliver | YA FIC OLIVER |
| Airborn Adventures | Airborn | Kenneth Oppel | YA FIC OPPEL |
| Inheritance Cycle | Eragon | Christopher Paolini | YA FIC PAOLINI |
| Seafire Trilogy | Seafire | Natalie C. Parker | YA FIC PARKER |
| Life as we knew it | Life as we knew it | Susan Beth Pfeffer | YA FIC PFEFFER |
| Rules of Summer | Rules of summer | Joanna Philbin | YA FIC PHILBIN |
| Wings Series | Wings | Aprilynne Pike | YA FIC PIKE |
| Starters Duology | Starters | Lissa Price | YA FIC PRICE |
| His Dark Materials Trilogy | The golden compass | Philip Pullman | YA FIC PULLMAN |
| Kane Chronicles | The Red Pyramid | Rick Riordan | YA FIC RIORDAN |
| Heroes of Olympus | The Lost Hero | Rick Riordan | YA FIC RIORDAN |
| Trials of Apollo | The hidden oracle | Rick Riordan | YA FIC RIORDAN |
| Under the Never Sky | The sword of summer | Rick Riordan | YA FIC RIORDAN |
| Percy Jackson & the Olympians | Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard | Rick Riordan | YA FIC RIORDAN |
| Under the never sky Trilogy | Under the Never Sky Trilogy | Veronica Rossi | YA FIC ROSSI |
| Divergent Trilogy | Divergent | Veronica Roth | YA FIC ROTH |
| Simon Snow Trilogy | Carry on | Rainbow Rowell | YA FIC ROWELL |
| Fourth Stall | The fourth stall | Chris Rylander | YA FIC RYLANDER |
| He’s so/She’s so Trilogy | He’s so not worth it | Kieran Scott | YA FIC SCOTT |
| Grim Lovelies Duology | Grim lovelies | Megan Shepherd | YA FIC SHEPHERD |
| Pretty Little Liars Series | Pretty Little Liars | Sara Shepherd | YA FIC SHEPHERD |
| The Amateurs | The Amateurs | Sara Shepherd | YA FIC SHEPHERD |
| The Lying Game | The Lying Game | Sara Shepherd | YA FIC SHEPHERD |
| Violet Eden Chapters | Embrace | Jessica Shirvington | YA FIC SHIRVINGTON |
| Arc of Scythe | Scythe | Neal Shusterman | YA FIC SHUSTERMAN |
| The Skinjacker Trilogy | The Sword of summer | Neal Shusterman | YA FIC SHUSTERMAN |
| Raven Cyle | The Raven Boys | Maggie Stiefvater | YA FIC STIEFVATER |
| Daughter of Smoke and Bone | Daughter of Smoke and Bone | Laini Taylor | YA FIC TAYLOR |
| Strange the Dreamer Duology | Strange the Dreamer | Laini Taylor | YA FIC TAYLOR |
| Uglies Series | Uglies | Scott Westerfeld | YA FIC WESTERFELD |
| Paranormalcy Trilogy | Paranormalcy | Kiersten White | YA FIC WHITE |
| Slayer Duology | Slayer | Kiersten White | YA FIC WHITE |
| Cecelia and Kate Trilogy | Sorcery and Cecelia, or, The enchanted chocolate pot | Patricia C. Wrede | YA FIC WREDE |
| Title | Author | Call Number |
| Me & Earl & the Dying Girl | Jesse Andrews | YA FIC ANDREWS |
| The Last True Love Story | Brendan Kiely | YA FIC KIELY |
| Five Feet Apart | Rachael Lippincott | YA FIC LIPPINCOTT |
| The Arrival of Someday | Jen Malone | YA FIC MALONE |
| Althea and Oliver | Cristina Moracho | YA FIC MORACHO |
| Life in a Fishbowl | Len Vlahos | YA FIC VLAHOS |
| Title | Author | Call Number |
| Ashes | Ilsa J. Bick | YA FIC BICK |
| The Forgetting | Sharon Cameron | YA FIC CAMERON |
| The Selection | Kierra Cass | YA FIC CASS |
| Clown in a Cornfield | Adam Cesare | YA FIC CESARE |
| The Testing | Joelle Charbonneau | YA FIC CHARBONNEAU |
| Matched | Ally Condie | YA FIC CONDIE |
| The Stranded | Sarah Daniels | YA FIC DANIELS |
| The House of the Scorpion | Nancy Farmer | YA FIC FARMER |
| The Getaway | Lamar Giles | YA FIC GILES |
| Monarch Rising | Harper Glenn | YA FIC GLENN |
| The Ones We’re Meant to Find | Joan He | YA FIC HE |
| A Dress for the Wicked | Autumn Krause | YA FIC KRAUSE |
| The Grace Year | Kim Liggett | YA FIC LIGGETT |
| Spin the Dawn | Elizabeth Lim | YA FIC LIM |
| Legend | Marie Lu | YA FIC LU |
| #MurderTrending | Gretchen McNeil | YA FIC MCNEIL |
| We Set the Dark on Fire | Tehlor Kay Mejia | YA FIC MEJIA |
| The Knife of Never Letting Go | Patrick Ness | YA FIC NESS |
| Seafire | Natalie C. Parker | YA FIC PARKER |
| Under the Never Sky | Veronica Rossi | YA FIC ROSSI |
| Uglies | Scott Westerfeld | YA FIC WESTERFELD |
| Title | Author | Call Number |
| We Made it All Up | Margot Harrison | YA FIC HARRISON |
| A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder | Holly Jackson | YA FIC JACKSON |
| Truly, Devious | Maureen Johnson | YA FIC JOHNSON |
| People like Us | Dana Mele | YA FIC MELE |
| When the Light Went Out | Bridget Morrissey | YA FIC MORRISSEY |
| The Cheerleaders | Kara Thomas | YA FIC THOMAS |
| How We Fall Apart | Katie Zhao | YA FIC ZHAO |
| Title | Author | Call Number |
| Ten Things I Hate About Me | Randa Abdel-Fattah | YA FIC ABDEL-FATTAH |
| Down and Across | Arvin Ahmadi | YA FIC AHMADI |
| Amelia, If Only | Becky Albertalli | YA FIC ALBERTALLI |
| A Match Made in Mehendi | Nandini Bajpai | YA FIC BAJPAI |
| Chasing Lucky | Jenn Bennett | YA FIC BENNETT |
| Counting Down with You | Tashi Bhuiyan | YA FIC BHUIYAN |
| The Secret Summer Promise | Keah Brown | YA FIC BROWN |
| Serious Moonlight | Keah Brown | YA FIC BROWN |
| Avalon High | Meg Cabot | YA FIC CABOT |
| Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist | Rachel Cohn | YA FIC COHN |
| Mind the Gap, Dash & Lily | Rachel Cohn | YA FIC COHN |
| I Wish You Would | Eva Des Lauriers | YA FIC DES LAURIERS |
| Along for the ride | Sarah Dessen | YA FIC DESSEN |
| Just one day | Gayle Forman | YA FIC FORMAN |
| I Believe in a Thing Called Love | Maurene Goo | YA FIC GOO |
| The way you make me feel | Maurene Goo | YA FIC GOO |
| My summer of pink & green | Lisa Greenwald | YA FIC GREENWALD |
| The immeasurable depth of you | Maria Ingrande Mora | YA FIC INGRANDE MORA |
| Tokyo ever after | Emiko Jean | YA FIC JEAN |
| Fallen | Lauren Kate | YA FIC KATE |
| This time it’s real | Ann Liang | YA FIC LIANG |
| Analee, in real life | Janelle Milanes | YA FIC MILANES |
| The fold | An Na | YA FIC NA |
| The way to game the walk of shame | Jenn P. Nguyen | YA FIC NGUYEN |
| Nothing like the Movies | Lynn Painter | YA FIC PAINTER |
| Drizzle, dreams, and lovestruck things | Maya Prasad | YA FIC PRASAD |
| Fangirl | Rainbow Rowell | YA FIC ROWELL |
| That’s not what I heard | Stephanie Kate Strohm | YA FIC STROHM |
| What happens after midnight | K. L. Walther | YA FIC WALTHER |
| Title | Author | Call Number |
| With the Fire on High | Elizabeth Acevedo | YA FIC ACEVEDO |
| Children of Blood and Bone | Tomi Adeyemi | YA FIC ADEYEMI |
| Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda | Becky Albertalli | YA FIC ALBERTALLI |
| Thirteen Reasons Why | Jay Asher | YA FIC ASHER |
| The Perks of Being a Wallflower | Leigh Bardugo | YA FIC BARDUGO |
| The Darkest Minds | Alexandra Bracken | YA FIC BRACKEN |
| The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants | Ann Brashares | YA FIC BRASHARES |
| Avalon High | Meg Cabot | YA FIC CABOT |
| The Perks of Being a Wallflower | Stephen Chbosky | YA FIC CHBOSKY |
| The Hunger Games | Suzanne Collins | YA FIC COLLINS |
| The Miseducation of Cameron Post | Emily M. Danforth | YA FIC DANFORTH |
| The Maze Runner | James Dashner | YA FIC DASHNER |
| The Last Apprentice: Revenge of the Witch | Joseph Delaney | YA FIC DELANEY |
| Along for the Ride | Sarah Dessen | YA FIC DESSEN |
| Beautiful Creatures | Kami Garcia | YA FIC GARCIA |
| The Fault in Our Stars | John Green | YA FIC GREEN |
| Paper Towns | John Green | YA FIC GREEN |
| To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before | Jenny Han | YA FIC HAN |
| The Duff | Kody Keplinger | YA FIC KEPLINGER |
| The Secret Life of Bees | Sue Monk Kidd | YA FIC KIDD |
| Every Day | David Levithan | YA FIC LEVITHAN |
| Five Feet Apart | Rachael Lippincott | YA FIC LIPPINCOTT |
| I am Number Four | Pittacus Lore | YA FIC LORE |
| A Very Large Expanse of Sea | Tahereh Mafi | YA FIC MAFI |
| Moxie | Jennifer Mathieu | YA FIC MATHIEU |
| Vampire Academy | Richelle Mead | YA FIC MEAD |
| The Host | Stephanie Meyer | YA FIC MEYER |
| Dumplin’ | Julie Murphy | YA FIC MURPHY |
| A Monster Calls | Patrick Ness | YA FIC NESS |
| Panic | Lauren Oliver | YA FIC OLIVER |
| There’s Someone Inside Your House | Stephanie Perkins | YA FIC PERKINS |
| The Golden Compass | Philip Pullman | YA FIC PULLMAN |
| Before I Fall | Lauren Oliver | YA FIC OLIVER |
| Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children | Ransom Riggs | YA FIC RIGGS |
| Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief | Rick Riordan | YA FIC RIORDAN |
| How I Live Now | Meg Rosoff | YA FIC ROSOFF |
| Divergent | Veronica Roth | YA FIC ROTH |
| Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe | Benjamin Alire Sáenz | YA FIC SAENZ |
| The invention of Hugo Cabret: a novel in Words and Pictures | Brian Selznick | YA FIC SELZNICK |
| Between Shades of Gray | Ruta Sepetys | YA FIC SEPETYS |
| Pretty little liars | Sara Shepard | YA FIC SHEPARD |
| The Perfectionists | Sara Shepard | YA FIC SHEPARD |
| The Hate U Give | Angie Thomas | YA FIC THOMAS |
| On the Come Up | Angie Thomas | YA FIC THOMAS |
| The Sun is Also a Star | Nicola Yoon | YA FIC YOON |
| Everything, Everything | Nicola Yoon | YA FIC YOON |
| The Book Thief | Markus Zusak | YA FIC ZUSAK |
| Scott Pilgrim. Vol. 1, Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life | Bryan Lee O’Malley | YA GRAPHIC FIC O’MALLEY |
| Title | Author | Call No. |
| My Dear Henry | Kalynn Bayron | YA FIC BAYRON |
| Little & Lion | Brandy Colbert | YA FIC COLBERT |
| May the Best Man Win | ZR Ellor | YA FIC ELLOR |
| The Summer Prince | Alaya Dawn Johnson | YA FIC JOHNSON |
| Almost Perfect | Brian Katcher | YA FIC KATCHER |
| The Extraordinaries | T. J. Klune | YA FIC KLUNE |
| Everything Leads to You | Nina LaCour | YA FIC LACOUR |
| Ash | Malinda Lo | YA FIC LO |
| Ship It | Britta Lundin | YA FIC LUNDIN |
| Squad | Mariah MacCarthy | YA FIC MACCARTHY |
| Miss Meteor | Tehlor Kay Mejia | YA FIC MEJIA |
| We Were Restless Things | Cole Nagamatsu | YA FIC NAGAMATSU |
| Like a Love Story | Abdi Nazemian | YA FIC NAZEMIAN |
| Release | Patrick Ness | YA FIC NESS |
| Even if We Break | Marieke Nijkamp | YA FIC NIJKAMP |
| The Wicked Bargain | Gabe Cole Novoa | YA FIC NOVOA |
| Heartstopper | Alice Oseman | YA FIC OSEMAN |
| Carry On | Rainbow Rowell | YA FIC ROWELL |
| Grim Lovelies | Megan Shepherd | YA FIC SHEPHERD |
| Deposing Nathan | Zack Smedley | YA FIC SMEDLEY |
| Something like Gravity | Amber Smith | YA FIC SMITH |
| Both Sides Now | Peyton Thomas | YA FIC THOMAS |
| Title | Author | Call Number |
| Harley Quinn: Ravenous | Rachael Allen | YA FIC ALLEN |
| Harley Quinn: Reckoning | Rachael Allen | YA FIC ALLEN |
| Wonder Woman: Warbringer | Leigh Bardugo | YA FIC BARDUGO |
| Fairy Godmother | Jen Calonita | YA FIC CALONITA |
| Rebel Robin | A. R. Capetta | YA FIC CAPETTA |
| Superman: Dawnbreaker | Matt de la Peña | YA FIC DE LA PENA |
| Queen’s Peril | E. K. Johnston | YA FIC JOHNSTON |
| Batman: Nightwalker | Adam Silvera | YA FIC SILVERA |
| Catwoman: Soulstealer | Sarah J. Maas | YA FIC MAAS |
| Bemused | Farrah Rochon | YA FIC ROCHON |
| Nightmares and Sueños | Alex Segura | YA FIC SEGURA |
| The Rise of Kyoshi | F. C. Yee | YA FIC YEE |
| The Shadow of Kyoshi | F. C. Yee | YA FIC YEE |
| The Dawn of Yangchen | F. C. Yee | YA FIC YEE |
| Five Nights at Freddy’s. Fazbear Frights vol. 1 | Scott Cawthorn | YA GRAPHIC FIC FIVE |
| Title | Author | Call Number | Sport |
| Out of his league | Pat Flynn | YA FIC FLYNN | Baseball |
| The Brooklyn Nine: a novel in 9 innings | Alan Gratz | YA FIC GRATZ | Baseball |
| Heat | Mike Lupica | YA FIC LUPICA | Baseball |
| Bill Pennant, Babe Ruth, and me | Timothy Tocher | YA FIC TOCHER | Baseball |
| Rebound | Kwame Alexander | YA FIC ALEXANDER | Basketball |
| Payback time | Kwame Alexander | YA FIC ALEXANDER | Basketball |
| Swagger | Carl Deuker | YA FIC DEUKER | Basketball |
| Here to stay | Sara Farizan | YA FIC FARIZAN | Basketball |
| Foul trouble | John Feinstein | YA FIC FEINSTEIN | Basketball |
| Last shot : a Final Four mystery | John Feinstein | YA FIC FEINSTEIN | Basketball |
| Rez ball | Byron Graves | YA FIC GRAVES | Basketball |
| Summer ball | Mike Lupica | YA FIC LUPICA | Basketball |
| Boost | Kathyrn Mackel | YA FIC MACKEL | Basketball |
| Game | Walter Dean Myers | YA FIC MYERS | Basketball |
| Black and white | Paul Volponi | YA FIC VOLPONI | Basketball |
| The Final Four | Paul Volponi | YA FIC VOLPONI | Basketball |
| Gym candy | Carl Deuker | YA FIC DEUKER | Football |
| Payback time | Carl Deuker | YA FIC DEUKER | Football |
| Football genius | Tim Green | YA FIC GREEN | Football |
| Pop | Gordon Korman | YA FIC KORMAN | Football |
| Like other girls | Britta Lundin | YA FIC LUNDIN | Football |
| QB 1 | Mike Lupica | YA FIC LUPICA | Football |
| Hit count | Chris Lynch | YA FIC LYNCH | Football |
| Dairy Queen | Catherine Gilbert Murdock | YA FIC MURDOCK | Football |
| Front and center | Catherine Gilbert Murdock | YA FIC MURDOCK | Football |
| The Off Season | Catherine Gilbert Murdock | YA FIC MURDOCK | Football |
| Title | Author | Call Number |
| We didn’t ask for this | Adi Alsaid | YA FIC ALSAID |
| Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist | Rachel Cohn | YA FIC COHN |
| The Voting Booth | Brandy Colbert | YA FIC COLBERT |
| Somewhere Only We Know | Maurene Goo | YA FIC GOO |
| Read Between the Lines | Johanna Knowles | YA FIC KNOWLES |
| Release | Patrick Ness | YA FIC NESS |
| This is Where it Ends | Marieke Nijkamp | YA FIC NIJKAMP |
| They Both Die at the End | Adam Silvera | YA FIC SILVERA |
| We are the Wildcats | Siobhan Vivian | YA FIC VIVIAN |
| Nothing Burns as Bright as You | Ashley Woodfolk | YA FIC WOODFOLK |
