Book Love Book Club Recommendations

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And below, we collected the favorite books of the Book Love Book Club.

2024-2025 Book Club Titles

Behind You Is the Sea by Susan Muaddi Darraj

The Collectors by M T Anderson

The Door of No Return by Kwame Alexander

Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Pena

Carmela Full of Wishes by Matt de la Pena

Milo Imagines the World by Matt de la Peña

You Are Here: Connecting Flights by Ellen Oh

Love Is a Revolution by Renée Watson

Dear Martin by Nic Stone

Poetry

Counting Descent by Clint Smith

Above Ground by Clint Smith

Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World by Pádraig Ó Tuama

October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard by Leslea Newman

A Field Guide to the Heart: Poems of Love, Comfort & Hope by Georgia Heard

Pardon My Heart: Poems by Marcus Jackson

Welcome to the Wonder House by Rebecca Kai Dotlich

You Are No Longer in Trouble by Nicole Stellon O'Donnell

How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope by James Crews

Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay

Respect the MIC: Celebrating 20 Years of Poetry from a Chicagoland High School by

Ain't Burned All the Bright by Jason Reynolds

Picture Books

We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom

Evelyn del Rey Is Moving Away by Meg Medina

Dictionary for a Better World: Poems, Quotes, and Anecdotes from A to Z by Irene Latham

A Different Pond by Bao Phi

The Parker Inheritance by Varian Johnson

Berry Song by Michaela Goade

Dreamers by Yuyi Morales

Patchwork by Matt de la Peña

To Make by Danielle Davis

Lift by Minh Lê

Wishes by Muon Thi Van

Outside, Inside by Leuyen Pham

Middle School Book Clubs

A Good Kind of Trouble by Lisa Moore Ramée

When Stars Are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson

Efrén Divided by Ernesto Cisneros

The Red Pencil by Andrea Davis Pinkney

Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

Indian No More by Charlene Willing McManis

Land of the Cranes (Scholastic Gold) by Aida Salazar

A Seed in the Sun by Aida Salazar

King and the Dragonflies by Kacen Callender

Amal Unbound by Aisha Saeed

Alone by Megan E Freeman

The Canyon's Edge by Dusti Bowling

Swim Team by Johnnie Christmas

Wave by Diana Farid

House Arrest by K a Holt

Front Desk (Front Desk #1) by Kelly Yang

Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga

What about Will by Ellen Hopkins

A Wish in the Dark by Christina Soontornvat

Becoming Muhammad Ali by James Patterson

Rez Dogs by Joseph Bruchac

Surviving the City (Surviving the City #1) by Tasha Spillett

Redwood and Ponytail by K a Holt

Almost American Girl by Robin Ha

Red, White, and Whole by Rajani Larocca

High School Book Clubs

This Is My America by Kim Johnson

Me (Moth) by Amber McBride

The Other Talk: Reckoning with Our White Privilege by Brendan Kiely

Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay

What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen by Kate Fagan

Freewater (Newbery & Coretta Scott King Award Winner) by Amina Luqman-Dawson

Stamped (for Kids): Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds

Black Brother, Black Brother by Jewell Parker Rhodes

Still Life with Tornado by A S King

Reading with Patrick: A Teacher, a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship by Michelle Kuo

This Is My Brain in Love by I W Gregorio

None of the Above by I W Gregorio

All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir

Far from the Tree by Robin Benway

Freewater (Newbery & Coretta Scott King Award Winner) by Amina Luqman-Dawson

Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley

Internment by Samira Ahmed

Hollow Fires by Samira Ahmed

Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult

Piecing Me Together by Renee Watson

Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

We Are Not from Here by Jenny Torres Sanchez

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L Sánchez

Boy21 by Matthew Quick

The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson

I Am Alfonso Jones by Tony Medina

The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline

Stamped (for Kids): Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds

Frankly in Love by David Yoon

There There by Tommy Orange

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

Our Missing Hearts: Reese's Book Club (a Novel) by Celeste Ng

As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh

Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

The Lines We Cross by Randa Abdel-Fattah

The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

Black Brother, Black Brother by Jewell Parker Rhodes

In the Wild Light by Jeff Zentner

The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X R Pan

This Rebel Heart by Katherine Locke

How It Feels to Float by Helena Fox

The Quiet and the Loud by Helena Fox

The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai

Nonfiction

How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith

The Book of Delights: Essays by Ross Gay

Inciting Joy by Ross Gay

Make It Scream, Make It Burn by Leslie Jamison

The Reckonings: Essays on Justice for the Twenty-First Century by Lacy M Johnson

A Burst of Light: and Other Essays by Audre Lorde

These Precious Days: Essays by Ann Patchett

The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green

Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping by Matthew Salesses

Life, Literacy, and the Pursuit of Happiness: Supporting Our Immigrant and Refugee Children Through the Power of Reading by Don Vu

The Book Love Foundation is dedicated to teachers who inspire a love of reading. We provide classroom libraries comprised of hundreds of books carefully chosen by the teachers to meet students where they are and lead them to the deep rewards of reading. We put those books into the hands of teachers who demonstrate a commitment to rich reading lives of all students.