I am a Youth Services librarian. Pretty much everything I read now is for ages 0-18. It gets hard to separate things out into age-appropriate lists (and I certainly don't have the time), so I'm keeping two lists, one for picture books and one for non-picture books. This is the non-picture book list, it includes all books I've read in that format, for any age (children, teens, and adults).
(Books I think are worth recommending are indicated with an *. Fantastic books are indicated with **)
Books I Read in...
2015
'89 Walls by Katie Pierson
Astro Boy 1 & 2 by Osamu Tezaku
*Circus Mirandus by Cassie Beasley
*Black Dove, White Raven by Elizabeth Wein
*Education of Ivy Blake by Ellen Airgood
Serafina and the Black Cloak by Robert Beatty
*This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki
*Bad Magic by Pseudonymous Bosch
*Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson
**I'll Give you the Sun by Jandy Nelso (LOVED IT!!)
*Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
**Revolution by Deborah Wiles
*Yes, Please by Amy Poehler
*How I Became a Ghost by Tim Tingle
*If I Ever Get Outta Here by Eric Gansworth
**The War that Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
*Zita the Spacegirl by Ben Hatke (trilogy)
*A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah Maas
*A Dragon's Guide to the Care and Feeding of Humans by Laurence Yep
*Uprooted by Naomi Novik
*Ms. Marvel, No Normal by G. Willow Wilson
*Rain Reign by Ann M. Martin
*Seeker by Arwen Elys Dayton
*Rebels of the Kasbah by Joe O'Neill
*Ms. Rapscott's Girls by Elise Primavera
**The Witch's Boy by Kelly Barnhill (I LOVED this book!)
*Countdown by Deborah Wiles
*The Riverman by Aaron Starmer
*The Madman of Piney Woods by Christopher Paul Curtis
2014
*Torn Away by Jennifer Brown
*Midwinter Blood by Marcus Sedgwick
*Misadventures of the Family Fletcher by Dana Alison Levy
**El Deafo by CeCe Bell
Tear You Apart by Sarah Cross
*Nuts to You by Lynne Rae Perkins
*The Glass Sentence by S.E. Grove
**Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater
*Flora & Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo
Angus and Sadie by Cynthia Voight
*Breathe by Sarah Crossan
*Absolutely, Almost by Lisa Graff
*A Mad, Wicked Folly by Sharon Biggs
*The Odyssey by Gillian Cross
Leroy Ninker Saddles Up by Kate DiCamillo
Gabriel Finley & The Raven's Riddle by George Hagen
*A Creature of Moonlight by Rebecca Hahn
*We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
*Get Happy by Mary Amato
**The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
*Fat Boy vs. the Cheerleaders by Geoff Herbach
***Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan
*Revenge of the Girl With the Great Personality by Elizabeth Eulberg
*The Tyrant's Daughter by J.C. Carleson
*The Scar Boys by Len Vlahos
*Sinner by Maggie Stiefvater (Shiver)
*Liar and Spy by Rebecca Stead
**The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights by Steve Sheinkin
**Prisoner B-3087 by Alan Gratz
*Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell
*Dreamer, Wisher, Liar by Charise Mericle Harper
*Prisoner 88 by Leah Pileggi
*Half Bad by Sally Green
*The Paperboy by Vince Vawter
**Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
*Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy by Karen Foxlee
*Dreams of Gods & Monsters (Daughter of Smoke and Bone) by Laini Taylor
*Magyk (Septimus Heap) by Angie Sage
*When I Was the Greatest by Jason Reynolds
*One Came Home by Amy Timberlake
*Threatened by Eliot Schrefer
**Ghosts of Tupelo Landing by Sheila Turnage
*A Question of Magic by E.D. Baker
*Under the Egg by Laura Marx Fitzgerald
*Nightengale's Nest by Nikki Loftin
*The True Blue Scout of Sugarman Swamp
**Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green
*Barefoot Gen, Vol. 1 by Keiji Nakazawa
*Fortunately, the Milk by Neil Gaiman
**Ninth Ward by Jewell Parker Rhodes
*Double Dog Dare by Lisa Graff
*Jake by Audrey Couloumbis
*Liesl & Po by Lauren Oliver
*A Tangle of Knots by Lisa Graff
*The Truth of Me by Patricia MacLachlan
*Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
*Bluffton by Matt Phelan
*Interworld by Neil Gaiman and Michael Reaves
**Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass by Meg Medina
*The Diviners by Libba Bray
*The Giver by Lois Lowry
*Divergent by Veronica Roth
*Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool
**The Impossible Knife of Memory by Laurie Halse Anderson
*One Boy and His Dog by Eva Ibbotson
Half Upon a Time by James Riley
*The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
*The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
*Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
*Blood On the River: Jamestown, 1607 by Elisa Carbone
*Graceling by Kristin Cashore
2013
*An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
*The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big, Round Things by Carolyn Mackler
*Delirium by Lauren Oliver
Ballad by Maggie Stiefvater
*The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
*Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
*Me Before You by JoJo Moyes
*Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
*We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo
The Harvest by Jim Crace
*Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
*The Testament of Mary by Colm Toibin
*The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
*The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje
*Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
*The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith (a.k.a. J.K. Rowling)
*The Son by Phillip Meyer
*That Old Ace in the Hole by Annie Proulx
*The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey
Drive by James Sallis
*Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
*Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls by David Sedaris
**The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Southern Cross the Dog by Bill Cheng
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
*Requiem by Lauren Oliver (* for the whole series)
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
**Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
Ballad by Maggie Stiefvater
Forever by Maggie Stiefvater
Linger by Maggie Stiefvater
**The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
*Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver
*The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
Lament by Maggie Stiefvater
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
*The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily Danforth
**The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Doing It by Melvin Burgess
Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
*American Plague by Jim Murphy
Black and White by Larry Dane Brimner
Marching for Freedom by Elizabeth Partridge
Freedom Riders by Ann Bausum
*Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Philip Hoose
*Personal Effects by E.M. Kokie
Sunrise Over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers
Ghosts of War by Ryan Smithson
*War Is...by Marc Aronson
Ball Don't Lie by Matt de la Pena
One Shot Away by T. Glen Coughlin
Pinned by Sharon Flake
*Let Me Play: The Story of Title IX by Karen Blumenthal
*Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
*The Shallows by Nicholas Carr
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