Where You Are Is Not Who You Are
by Ursula M. Burns First-Generation College Student
Up Home: One Girl's Journey
by Ruth Simmons First-Generation College Student
First-Generation Women College Students Starving to Matter
by Argyro Aloupis Armstrong
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life
by Jane Sherron De Hart about Ruth Bader Ginsburg, First-Generation College Student
My Life in Full
by Indra Nooyi First-Generation College Student
My Beloved World
by Sonia SotoMayor First-Generation College Student
Educated: A Memoir
by Tara Westover First-Generation College Student
Margaret Thatcher: A Life and Legacy
by David Cannadine about Margaret Thatcher, First-Generation College Student
Lifelines
by Leana Wen First-Generation College Student
Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination
by Neal Gabler about Walt Disney, First-Generation College Student
Know That You Are Worthy
edited by Adam J. Rodriguez
The Journey Before Us
by Laura Nichols
John Lewis: In Search of the Beloved Community
by Raymond Arsenault about John Lewis, First-Generation College Student
First-Generation Student Experiences in Higher Education: Counterstories
by Carl E. James & Leanne E. Taylor
First-Generation College Student Experiences of Intersecting Marginalities
edited by Teresa Heinz Housel
First Gen: A Memoir
by Alejandra Campverdi First-Generation College Student
Finding Me
by Viola Davis First-Generation College Student
A Fighting Chance
by Elizabeth Warren First-Generation College Student
College Belonging
by Lisa M. Nunn
Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell
by Karen DeYoung about Colin Powell, First-Generation College Student
The Chicana/o/x Dream
by Gilberto Q. Conchas and Nancy Acevedo
Becoming
by Michelle Obama First-Generation College Students
My Mother's Dream
by George Henderson First-Generation College Student
A Man of Two Faces
by Viet Thanh Nguyen First-Generation College Student
A Hope in the Unseen
by Ron Suskind about Cedric Jennings, First-Generation College Student
Giants Among Us
by Sandria Rodriguez
Gender Queer
by Maia Kobabe
All Boys Aren't Blue
by George M. Johnson
This Book Is Gay
By James Dawson
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
by Stephen Chbosky
Flamer
by Mike Curato
The Bluest Eye
by Toni Morrison
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
by Jesse Andrews
Tricks
by Ellen Hopkins
Let's Talk About It
by Erika Moen & Matthew Nolan
Sold
by Patricia McCormick
Gender Queer: A Memoir
Looking for Alaska
by John Green
Lawn Boy
by Jonathan Evison
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
by Sherman Alexie
A Court of Mist and Fury
by Sarah J. Maas
Out of Darkness
by Ashley Hope Pérez
Crank
by Juno Dawson
The Hate U Give
by Angie Thomas
Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out
by Susan Kuklin
George
by Alex Gino
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
by Ibram X. Kendi & Jason Reynolds
All American Boys
by Jason Reynolds & Brendan Kiely
Speak
by Laurie Halse Anderson
Something Happened in Our Town
by Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins & Ann Hazzard
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo
by Jill Twiss
Sex Is a Funny Word
by Cory Silverberg
Prince & Knight
by Daniel Haack
I Am Jazz
by Jessica Herthel & Jazz Jennings
The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
Drama
by Raina Telgemeier
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone*
by J. K. Rowling *Includes challenges to the series (8 books)
And Tango Makes Three
by Justin Richardson & Peter Parnell
Adults in the Room: My Battle with the European and American Deep Establishment
by Yanis Varoufakis
A Little Life
by Hanya Yanagihara
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
by Michael Chabon
The Amber Spyglass
by Philip Pullman
The Argonauts
by Maggie Nelson
Atonement
by Ian McEwan
Austerlitz
by W. G. Sebald
Autumn
by Ali Smith
Bad Blood
by Lorna Sage
Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Broken Glass
by Alain Mabanckou
Brooklyn
by Colm Tóibín
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
by Thomas Piketty
Chronicles
by Bob Dylan
Citizen: An American Lyric
by Claudia Rankine
Cloud Atlas
by David Mitchell
The Constant Gardener
by John le Carré
Coraline
by Neil Gaiman
The Corrections
by Jonathan Franzen
The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
by Deborah Levy
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon
Darkmans
by Nicola Barker
Dart
by Alice Oswald
Days without End
by Sebastian Barry
A Death in the Family/My Struggle
by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
by Olga Tokarczuk
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Experience: A Memoir
by Martin Amis
The Fifth Season
by N. K. Jemisin
Fingersmith
by Sarah Waters
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
by Alison Bechdel
Gilead
by Marilynne Robinson
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
by Stieg Larsson
The God Delusion
by Richard Dawkins
Gone Girl
by Gillian Flynn
The Green Road
by Anne Enright
Half a Yellow Sun
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Hare with the Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance
by Edmund de Waal
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
by J. K. Rowling
Harvest
by Jim Crace
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
by Alice Munro
Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
by Rebecca Solnit
Human Chain
by Seamus Heaney
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot
The Infatuations
by Javier Marías
Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
by Chris Ware
Levels of Life
by Julian Barnes
Light
by M. John Harrison
The Line of Beauty
by Alan Hollinghurst
I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
by Nora Ephron
Life after Life
by Kate Atkinson
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
by Michael Lewis
Mother’s Milk
by Edward St. Aubyn
My Brilliant Friend
by Elena Ferrante
Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by Barbara Ehrenreich
Night Watch
by Terry Pratchett
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
by Andrew Solomon
Normal People
by Sally Rooney
Notes on a Scandal
by Zoë Heller
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
by Barbara Demick
Noughts & Crosses
by Malorie Blackman
The Omnivore's Dilemma
by Michael Pollan
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
by Stephen King
Oryx and Crake
Outline
by Rachel Cusk
Persepolis
by Marjane Satrapi
The Plot against America
by Philip Roth
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
by Tony Judt
Priestdaddy
by Patricia Lockwood
Rapture
by Carol Ann Duffy
The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
Sapiens: Brief History of Humankind
by Yuval Noah Harari
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
by Svetlana Alexievich
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
by Carlo Rovelli
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
by Naomi Klein
The Siege
by Helen Dunmore
Signs Preceding the End of the World
by Yuri Herrera
The Silence of the Girls
by Pat Barker
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
by Elizabeth Kolbert
Small Island
by Andrea Levy
The Spirit Level
by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett
Stories of Your Life and Others
by Ted Chiang
Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions
by Valeria Luiselli
Tenth of December: Stories
by George Saunders
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
by Shoshana Zuboff
Thinking, Fast and Slow
by Daniel Kahneman
This House of Grief: The Story of a Murder Trial
by Helen Garner
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
by Malcolm Gladwell
True History of the Kelly Gang
by Peter Carey
The Underground Railroad
by Colson Whitehead
Underland: A Deep Time Journey
by Robert Macfarlane
Visitation
by Jenny Erpenbeck
A Visit from the Goon Squad
by Jennifer Egan
White Teeth
by Zadie Smith
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
by Jeanette Winterson
Wolf Hall
by Hilary Mantel
Women & Power: A Manifesto
by Mary Beard
The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion
Anne of Green Gables
by L. M. Montgomery
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
by Eric Carle
The Grapes of Wrath
Eat, Pray, Love
by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
Animal Farm
by George Orwell
Murder on the Orient Express
by Agatha Christie
Go Tell It on the Mountain
by James Baldwin
The Adventures of Captain Underpants
by Dav Pilkey illustrated by Jose Garibaldi & Wes Dzioba
Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets
by Dav Pilkey illustrated by Jose Garibaldi
Captain Underpants and the Invasion of the Incredibly Naughty Cafeteria Ladies from Outer Space
Captain Underpants and the Perilous Plot of Professor Poopypants
Captain Underpants and the Wrath of the Wicked Wedgie Woman
Captain Underpants and the Big, Bad Battle of the Bionic Booger Boy Part 1: The Night of the Nasty Nostril Nuggets
Captain Underpants and the Big, Bad Battle of the Bionic Booger Boy Part 2: The Revenge of the Ridiculous Robo-Boogers
by Dav Pilkey illustrated by Jose Garibaldi, Wes Dzioba & Corey Barba
Captain Underpants and the Preposterous Plight of the Purple Potty People
by Dav Pilkey illustrated by Jose Garibaldi & Corey Barba
Captain Underpants and the Terrifying Return of Tippy Tinkletrousers
Captain Underpants and the Revolting Revenge of the Radioactive Robo-Boxers
Captain Underpants and the Tyrannical Retaliation of the Turbo Toilet 2000
Captain Underpants and the Sensational Saga of Sir Stinks-a-Lot
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child