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2023
Book recommendations published in 2023.
| Book Title | Author | PubDate | Reading Age | Time Period | Time Frame | Geographic Area | Country | Topic | Genre | Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ancestory: The Mystery and Majesty of Ancient Cave Art | Salyer, Hannah | 2023 | LE | Prehistory | 30,000 BCE | various | various | Stone Age Cave Art | NF | PB |
| The Windeby Puzzle | Lowry, Lois | 2023 | UMG YA | Iron Age | 1 | Europe | Germany | Archaeology | F | CB |
| Wild Bird | Zahler, Diane | 2023 | UMG YA | High Middle Ages | 1300-1399 | Europe | France Norway | Plagues Medieval Life Bubonic Plague | F | N |
| History Smashers: Christopher Columbus and the Taino People | Messner, Kate | 2023 | MG UMG | Renaissance | 1492 | North America | United States | Colonization Exploration Caribbean Indigenous Americans | NF | B |
| A Fire Among Clouds: Codex Black | Lozano, Camilo Moncada | 2023 | YA | Renaissance | 1493 | North America | United States | Indigenous Americans Mesoamerican Mythology | HF | GN |
| Race to the Truth: Colonization and the Wampanoag Story | Coombs, Linda | 2023 | MG UMG | Enlightenment | 1600-1660 | North America | United States | Colonial America Indigenous Americans Wampanoag Colonization | NF | CB |
| Pandora | Stokes-Chapman, Susan | 2023 | A | Age of Revolutions | 1799 | Europe | Great Britain | Women in Art Greek Mythology | F | N |
| The House is on Fire | Beanland, Rachel | 2023 | A | Industrial Age | 1811 | North America | United States | Antebellum South Disasters Escaped Slaves | F | N |
| Immortality: A Love Story | Schwartz, Dana | 2023 | YA A | Industrial Age | 1818 | Europe | Great Britain | Medicine Graverobbers Women in Science | F | N |
| My Dear Henry: A Jekyll and Hyde Remix | Bayron, Kalynn | 2023 | YA A | Industrial Age | 1883-1885 | Europe | Great Britain | Victorian Era LGBTQ+ Retelling | F | N |
| Into the Bright Open: A Secret Garden Remix | Dimaline, Cherie | 2023 | UMG YA | Modern Age | 1900 | North America | Canada | Metis Nation Retelling Indigenous Americans LGBTQ+ | F | N |
| The Davenports | Marquis, Krystal | 2023 | YA A | Modern Age | 1910 | North America | United States | African American History Great Migration Civil Rights | F | N |
| The Lost Year | Marsh, Katherine | 2023 | UMG | Modern Age | 1933 | Russia | Russia United States | Soviet Union Holodomor | F | CB |
| Stars of the Night: The Courageous Children of the Czech Kindertransport | Stelson, Caren | 2023 | LE MG | Modern Age | 1938-1945 | Europe | Czechoslovakia | Holocaust Kindertransport | F | PB |
| The Blood Years | Arnold, Elana K. | 2023 | YA A | Modern Age | 1938-1945 | Europe | Romania | Holocaust | F | N |
| Love is Loud: How Diane Nash Led the Civil Rights Movement | Wallace, Sandra Neil | 2023 | LE MG | Modern Age | 1938–1967 | North America | United States | Civil Rights | NF | PB |
| Hidden Hope | Boxer, Elisa | 2023 | LE MG | Modern Age | 1938-1945 | Europe | France | Holocaust Jewish Resistance | F | PB |
| The Woman With the Cure | Cullen, Lynn | 2023 | YA A | Modern Age | 1940-1963 | North America | United States | History of Science Women in Science Vaccines | F | N |
| For Lamb | Cline-Ransome, Lesa | 2023 | YA A | Modern Age | 1944 | North America | United States | Segregation lynching Great Migration Jim Crow | F | N |
| In the Tunnel | Lee, Julie | 2023 | UMG | Modern Age | 1952 | Asia | North Korea | Korean War Escaping North Korea | F | N |
| Looking for Jane | Marshall, Heather | 2023 | A | Modern Age | 1971-2017 | North America | United States | Reproductive Rights | F | N |
| The Fight for Midnight | Solomon, Dan | 2023 | YA | Modern Age | 2013 | North America | United States | Reproductive Rights | F | N |
2022
Book recommendations published in 2022.
| Book Title | Author | PubDate | Reading Age | Time Period | Time Frame | Geographic Area | Country | Topic | Genre | Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ancient Eats: An Edible Exploration of the World | Hanson, Stephanie | 2022 | UMG YA | Early Civilization | 49,000 BCE-1200 CE | Various | Various | World History | NF | CB |
| 24 Hours in Ancient Egypt | Ryan, Donald P. | 2022 | YA A | Early Civilization | 1414 BCE | Africa | Egypt | Ancient Egypt | NF | B |
| Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts | Hall, Rebecca | 2022 | YA A | Age of Revolutions | 1708-2002 | Africa North America | United States | Racism Atlantic Slave Trade Slave Revolts | NF | GN |
| The Red Palace | Hur, June | 2022 | YA A | Age of Revolutions | 1758 | Asia | Korea | Joseon Era Political Murder | F | N |
| My Imaginary Mary | Hand, Cynthia Ashton, Brodi Meadows, Jodi | 2022 | YA A | Age of Revolutions | 1800-1851 | Europe | Great Britain | Mary Shelley | HF Bio | N |
| Freewater | Luqman-Dawson, Amina | 2022 | MG | Industrial Age | 1810 | North America | United States | Antebellum South Slavery Maroon Community Escaped Slaves | F | CB |
| Anatomy: A Love Story | Schwartz, Dana | 2022 | YA A | Industrial Age | 1817 | Europe | Great Britain | Medicine Graverobbers Women in Science | F | N |
| Babel: or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History | Kuang, R.F. | 2022 | YA A | Age of Revolutions | 1828-1839 | Europe | Great Britain | Colonization Revolution Oxford | HF | N |
| Quiet Fire: Emily Dickinson's Life and Poetry | Dommermuth-Costa, Carol | 2022 | UMG YA | Industrial Age | 1830-1890 | North America | United States | Emily Dickinson Poets and Writers | NF Bio | B |
| Charlotte Mason: The Teacher Who Revealed Worlds of Wonder | Gore, Lanaya | 2022 | UMG A | Industrial Age | 1842-1923 | Europe | Great Britain | Education Charlotte Mason | NF | PB |
| The Turning Point: 1851 - A Year That Changed Charles Dickens and the World | Douglas-Fairhurst, Robert | 2022 | YA A | Industrial Age | 1851 | Europe | Great Britain | Charles Dickens Victorian Era | NF | B |
| History Smashers: The Underground Railroad | Messner, Kate | 2022 | MG UMG | Industrial Age | 1854 | North America | United States | Underground Railroad Escaped Slaves | NF Bio | B |
| The Mad Girls of New York: A Nellie Bly Novel | Rodale, Maya | 2022 | Adult | Modern Age | 1887 | North America | USA | Gilded Age Writing Journalism Nellie Bly | F | N |
| A Million to One | Jaigirdar, Adiba | 2022 | YA A | Modern Age | 1912 | Europe | Great Britain | Titanic Heists LGBTQ+ | F | N |
| The Other Side of the River | Dobbs, Alda P. | 2022 | UMG | Modern Age | 1913 | North America | United States | Mexican Revolution Mexican Immigration | F | CB |
| Lines of Courage | Nielsen, Jennifer A. | 2022 | UMG | Modern Age | 1914-1918 | Europe | various | WWI | F | CB |
| The Star that Always Stays | Johnson, Anna Rose | 2022 | UMG | Modern Age | 1914 | North America | United States | Ojibwe Nation Indigenous Americans | F | CB |
| Daughters of a Dead Empire | Tara O'Neil, Carolyn | 2022 | YA A | Modern Age | 1918 | Russia | Russia | Russian Revolution | F | N |
| Beautiful Little Fools | Cantor, Jillian | 2022 | A | Modern Age | 1918-1923 | North America | United States | Jazz Age LGBTQ+ | F | B |
| A Book, Too, Can Be a Star | Jones Voiklis, Charlotte | 2022 | LE MG | Modern Age | 1920-1962 | North America | United States | Madeleine L'Engle Poets and Writers | NF Bio | PB |
| Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix | McLemore, Anna-Marie | 2022 | YA A | Modern Age | 1922 | North America | United States | Jazz Age LGBTQ+ Retelling | F | N |
| The German Wife | Rimmer, Kelly | 2022 | A | Modern Age | 1930-1950 | Europe North America | Germany United States | WWII Operation Paperclip | F | N |
| Nothing Sung and Nothing Spoken | Tyndall, Nita | 2022 | YA A | Modern Age | 1938-1945 | Europe | Germany | WWII LGBTQ+ | F | N |
| My Name is Selma | van de Perre, Selma | 2022 | YA A | Modern Age | 1938-1945 | Europe | Netherlands | Holocaust Jewish Resistance | NF | M |
| Just a Girl: A True Story of World War II | Levi, Lia | 2022 | MG | Modern Age | 1938-1945 | Europe | Italy | WWII Jews in Hiding Nazi Occupation | NF | CB |
| Yonder | Standish, Ali | 2022 | MG UMG | Modern Age | 1939 - 1943 | North America | United States | WWII | F | CB |
| Wish Upon a Crawdad | Condon, Curtis W. | 2022 | MG UMG | Modern Age | 1940 | North America | United States | electricity Great Depression | F | CB |
| The Kitchen Front | Ryan, Jennifer | 2022 | A | Modern Age | 1942 | Europe | Great Britain | WWII | F | N |
| Great or Nothing | McCullough, Joy Tung Richmond, Caroline Sharpe, Tess Spotswood, Jessica | 2022 | YA | Modern Age | 1942-1943 | North America Europe | United States Great Britain | WWII American Home Front Little Women Retelling | F | N |
| I Will Protect You: A True Story of Twins Who Survived Auschwitz | Kor, Eva Mozes | 2022 | MG | Modern Age | 1943-2019 | Europe | Romania | Holocaust Nazi Occupation Auschwitz | NF | CB |
| Red Scare: A Graphic Novel | Walsh, Liam Francis | 2022 | UMG YA | Modern Age | 1953 | North America | United States | McCarthyism Cold War | HF | GN |
| And We Rise | Martin, Erica | 2022 | YA A | Modern Age | 1954-1968 | North America | United States | Civil Rights | NF P | B |
| This Rebel Heart | Locke, Katherine | 2022 | YA A | Modern Age | 1956 | Europe | Hungary | Revolution Hungarian Revolution LGBTQ+ | F | N |
| The Lucky Ones | Williams Jackson, Linda | 2022 | MG UMG | Modern Age | 1967 | North America | United States | Civil Rights poverty | F | CB |
| History Comics: The Stonewall Riots | Bongiovanni, Archie Andrews, A. | 2022 | YA | Modern Age | 1969 | North America | United States | Stonewall Riots Activism LGBTQ+ | F | GN |
| The Taste of Ginger: A Novel | Shah, Mansi | 2022 | YA A | Modern Age | 1970-2020 | Southeast Asia North America | India United States | Immigration | F | N |
| Take My Hand | Perkins-Valdez, Dolen | 2022 | A | Modern Age | 1973-2016 | North America | United States | Civil Rights Reproductive Rights | F | N |
| The Prince of Steel Pier | Nockowitz, Stacy | 2022 | UMG | Modern Age | 1975 | North America | United States | Jewish Life Atlantic City Mobsters | F | N |
| Dream Annie, Dream | Brown, Waka T. | 2022 | MG UMG | Modern Age | 1987-1988 | North America | United States | Immigration American Dream | F | CB |
| I Must Betray You | Sepetys, Ruta | 2022 | YA A | Modern Age | 1989 | Europe | Romania | Cold War Communism | F | N |
| Troublemaker | Cho, John | 2022 | UMG | Modern Age | 1992 | North America | United States | LA Riots prejudice and racism | F | CB |
| New From Here | Yang, Kelly | 2022 | MG UMG | Modern Age | 2019-2020 | North America Asia | United States Hong Kong | Asian Americans COVID-19 Pandemic Plagues | F | CB |
| The Civil War of Amos Abernathy | Leali, Michael | 2022 | UMG | Modern Age | 2021-2022 | North America | United States | History Erasure LGBTQ+ American Civil War | F |
2021
Book recommendations published in 2021.
| Book Title | Author | PubDate | Reading Age | Time Period | Time Frame | Geographic Area | Country | Topic | Genre | Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fossils From Lost Worlds | Laverdunt, Damien | 2021 | MG | Prehistory | 4,500,000,000 BCE | Earth | Various | Evolution | NF | PB |
| The Age of Dinosaurs | Brusatte, Steve | 2021 | MG UMG | Prehistory | 252,000,000-66,000,000 BCE | World | Various | Dinosaurs | NF | CB |
| Ancient History: A Secular Exploration of the World | Hanson, Stephanie Hauris, Elizabeth | 2021 | MG UMG | Early Civilization | 49,000 BCE-1200 CE | Various | Various | World History | NF | CB |
| Clan | Brouwer, Sigmund | 2021 | MG UMG | Prehistory | 8,000 BCE | Europe | none | Ice Age | F | CB |
| A Thousand Ships | Haynes, Natalie | 2021 | YA A | Classical Age | 1194–1184 BCE | Europe | Greece | Trojan War | M | N |
| Evil Roman Emperors | Barlag, Phillip | 2021 | A | Classical Age | 616 BCE - 455 CE | Europe | Italy | Roman Emperors | NF | B |
| History Smashers: Plagues and Pandemics | Messner, Kate | 2021 | MG UMG | Modern Age | 430 BCE-2019 CE | North America Europe | United States | Plagues Pandemics | NF | B |
| Daughter of Sparta | Andrews, Claire | 2021 | YA A | Classical Age | 400 BCE | Europe | Greece | Sparta | M | N |
| The Middle Ages: A Graphic History | Janega, Eleanor | 2021 | YA A | Early Medieval High Middle Ages | 476-1500 | Europe | Various | Medieval Life | NF | GN |
| The Forgotten Kingdom, Book II | Pike, Signe | 2021 | A | Early Medieval | 573 | Europe | Scotland | Arthurian Legends | M F | N |
| The Witch's Heart | Gornichec, Genevieve | 2021 | YA A | Early Medieval | 700 | Europe | Scandinavia | Norse Mythology | M F | N |
| Queens of the Crusades: England's Medieval Queens | Weir, Alison | 2021 | A | High Middle Ages | 1154-1291 | Europe | Great Britain | Kings and Queens | F Bio | N |
| Peacemaker | Bruchac, Joseph | 2021 | MG UMG | High Middle Ages | 1300 | North America | United States | Indigenous Americans Iroquois Nation | F Bio | CB |
| Katharine Parr, The Sixth Wife | Weir, Alison | 2021 | A | Renaissance | 1543-1548 | Europe | Great Britain | Tudors Katharine Parr | F Bio | N |
| My Contrary Mary | Hand, Cynthia Ashton, Brodi Meadows, Jodi | 2021 | YA A | Renaissance | 1568-1587 | Europe | Great Britain | Tudors Mary Stuart | HF Bio | N |
| A Tip for the Hangman | Epstein, Allison | 2021 | A | Renaissance | 1585-1593 | Europe | Great Britain | Tudors Elizabeth I | F | N |
| The 1619 Project: Born on the Water | Hannah-Jones, Nikole Watson, Renee | 2021 | LE MG | Enlightenment | 1619-2021 | North America Africa | United States | Geneology Civil Rights Atlantic Slave Trade | NF OV | PB |
| Poison Priestess | Popovic, Lana | 2021 | YA | Enlightenment | 1640-1680 | Europe | France | Catherine Monvoisin | F Bio | N |
| Hour of the Witch | Bohjalian, Chris | 2021 | A | Enlightenment | 1662 | North America | United States | Witch Trials | F | N |
| My Name is Phillis Wheatley | Cooper, Afua | 2021 | MG | Age of Revolutions | 1753-1784 | North America | United States | Phillis Wheatley Slavery Poets and Writers | NF Bio | CB |
| History Smashers: The American Revolution | Messner, Kate | 2021 | MG UMG | Age of Revolutions | 1775-1783 | North America | United States | American Revolution | NF | B |
| By the Light of Fireflies | Walsh, Jenni L. | 2021 | MG | Age of Revolutions | 1777 | North America | United States | American Revolution Sybil Ludington Spies | F | CB |
| The Lost Apothecary | Penner, Sarah | 2021 | A | Age of Revolutions | 1791-2021 | Europe | Great Britain | Plagues Women in Science London Poison | F | N |
| The Silence of Bones | Hur, June | 2021 | YA A | Age of Revolutions | 1800 | Asia | Korea | political murder Joseon Era | F | N |
| Dear Mr. Dickens | Churnin, Nancy | 2021 | LE MG | Industrial Age | 1812-1870 | Europe | Great Britain | Charles Dickens antisemitism | NF | PB |
| Sixteen Scandals | Jordan, Sophie | 2021 | YA A | Age of Revolutions | 1812 | Europe | Great Britain | Regency Era | F | N |
| Miss Eliza's English Kitchen: A Novel of Victorian Cookery and Friendship | Abbs, Annabel | 2021 | A | Age of Revolutions | 1835 | Europe | Great Britain | Victorian Era Food | F | N |
| The Corpse Queen | Herrman, Heather M. | 2021 | YA A | Industrial Age | 1850 | North America | United States | Grave Robbers Women in Science | F | N |
| She Caught the Light: Williamina Stevens Fleming: Astronomer | Lasky, Kathryn | 2021 | LE | Industrial Age | 1857-1911 | North America | Scotland United States | Science Space Williamina Fleming | NF Bio | PB |
| Mornings With Monet | Rosenstock, Barb | 2021 | LE | Industrial Age | 1880 | Europe | France | Monet | NF | PB |
| The Legend of Auntie Po | Khor, Shing Yin | 2021 | MG UMG | Industrial Age | 1885-1886 | North America | United States | Logging Town Chinese Immigration Tall Tales and Legends LGBTQ+ | F OV | GN |
| The Dictionary of Lost Words | Williams, Pip | 2021 | A | Modern Age | 1887-1928 | Europe | Great Britain | WWI Women's Suffrage Oxford English Dictionary | F | N |
| A Slip of a Girl | Reilly Giff, Patricia | 2021 | MG | Industrial Age | 1890 | Europe | Ireland | Irish Land Wars | F | N |
| The City Beautiful | Polydoros, Aden | 2021 | YA A | Industrial Age | 1893 | North America | United States | Gilded Age Jewish Immigration Chicago World's Fair | F | N |
| The Gilded Girl | Coleman, Alyssa | 2021 | MG | Modern Age | 1905-1907 | North America | United States | Gilded Age magic | HF | CB |
| The Hidden Palace | Wecker, Helene | 2021 | YA A | Modern Age | 1910-1918 | North America | United States | Immigrants Jewish History | HF | N |
| Escape This Book! Titanic | Doyle, Bill | 2021 | MG UMG | Modern Age | 1912 | Atlantic Ocean | Great Britain | Titanic | NF | B |
| Luck of the Titanic | Lee, Stacey | 2021 | YA A | Modern Age | 1912 | Europe | Great Britain | Titanic Chinese Immigration | F OV | N |
| The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks: Young Readers' Edition | Theoharris, Jeanne | 2021 | UMG YA | Modern Age | 1913-1997 | North America | United States | Civil Rights Segregation Resistance | NF Bio | CB |
| Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna | Dobbs, Alda P. | 2021 | UMG | Modern Age | 1913 | North America | Mexico | Mexican Revolution | F | CB |
| Angel of Greenwood | Pink, Randi | 2021 | YA A | Modern Age | 1921 | North America | United States | Tulsa Race Massacre Civil Rights | F | N |
| The Burning (Young Readers Edition) | Beard, Hilary Madigan, Tim | 2021 | UMG YA | Modern Age | 1921 | North America | United States | Tulsa Race Massacre Civil Rights | NF | B |
| Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre | Boston Weatherford, Carole | 2021 | MG | Modern Age | 1921 | North America | United States | Tulsa Race Massacre Civil Rights | NF | PB |
| Ophie's Ghosts | Ireland, Justina | 2021 | MG UMG | Modern Age | 1922 | North America | United States | Jim Crow Ghosts Great Migration | F | CB |
| Classified: The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross | Sorell, Traci | 2021 | LE MG | Modern Age | 1925-2008 | North America | United States | WWII Cherokee Nation Indigenous Americans Space Race Women in Science | NF | PB |
| Our Violent Ends | Gong, Clohe | 2021 | YA A | Modern Age | 1927 | Asia | China | Romeo and Juliet | HF | N |
| The Last Queen: Elizabeth II | Irving, Clive | 2021 | A | Modern Age | 1936-2020 | Europe | Great Britain | Elizabeth II | NF Bio | B |
| When the World Was Ours | Kessler, Liz | 2021 | UMG YA | Modern Age | 1936-1945 | Europe | Austria | WWII Holocaust | F | N |
| Leonora in the Morning Light | Carter, Michaela | 2021 | YA A | Modern Age | 1937-1940 | Europe | France Great Britain | WWII Art | F | B |
| Names in a Jar | Gold, Jennifer | 2021 | YA A | Modern Age | 1939-1987 | Europe | Poland | Holocaust WWII | F | N |
| The Last Checkmate: A Novel | Saab, Gabriella | 2021 | YA | Modern Age | 1939-1945 | Europe | Poland Germany | WWII Chess Auschwitz | F | N |
| The Last Rose of Shanghai: A Novel | Dai Randel, Weina | 2021 | A | Modern Age | 1940 | Asia | China | WWII Jewish Immigration | F | N |
| The Bookseller of Dachau | Ryan, Shari J. | 2021 | A | Modern Age | 1940-2018 | Europe | Germany United States | WWII | F | N |
| Stealing Home | Torres, J | 2021 | MG UMG | Modern Age | 1941-1945 | North America | Canada | WWII Japanese Internment | F GN | GN |
| History Smashers: Pearl Harbor | Messner, Kate | 2021 | MG UMG | Modern Age | 1941 | United States | United States Japan | WWII Pearl Harbor | NF | B |
| Light Perpetual | Spufford, Francis | 2021 | A | Modern Age | 1944 | Europe | Great Britain | WWII | F | N |
| In The Shadow of the Moon | Cherrix, Amy | 2021 | UMG YA | Modern Age | 1945–1980 | North America | United States Soviet Union | Space Space Race Operation Paperclip | NF | CB |
| Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown | Sheinkin, Steve | 2021 | YA | Modern Age | 1945-1985 | North America | United States | Cold War | NF | B |
| Cold War Correspondent | Hale, Nathan | 2021 | MG UMG | Modern Age | 1950 | North America | United States North Korea | Korean War | NF Bio | GN |
| The Death of Jane Lawrence: A Novel | Starling, Caitlin | 2021 | A | Modern Age | 1950 | Europe | Great Britain | Gothic Fantasy | HF | N |
| Last Night at the Telegraph Club | Nichols Lo, Malinda | 2021 | YA A | Modern Age | 1954 | North America | United States | McCarthyism Cold War Chinese American Immigrants LGBTQ+ | F OV | N |
| Cuba in my Pocket | Cuevas, Adrianna | 2021 | MG UMG | Modern Age | 1961-1962 | North America | Cuba United States | Immigration | F | CB |
| Root Magic | Royce, Eden | 2021 | MG UMG | Modern Age | 1963 | North America | United States | Civil Rights | F M | CB |
| Bad Girls Never Say Die | Mathieu, Jennifer | 2021 | YA A | Modern Age | 1964 | North America | United States | Social Classes Feminism | F | N |
| The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music | Grohl, Dave | 2021 | A | Modern Age | 1969-2020 | North America | United States | Dave Grohl Musicians | NF Bio | B |
| The Island of Missing Trees: A Novel | Shafak, Elif | 2021 | YA A | Modern Age | 1975-2015 | Europe | Cyprus Great Britain | Postcolonial Cyprus | F | N |
| While I Was Away | Brown, Waka T. | 2021 | MG UMG | Modern Age | 1984 | Asia | Japan | Japanese Culture | F | CB |
| Concrete Rose | Thomas, Angie | 2021 | YA A | Modern Age | 1998-1999 | North America | United States | Modern Age | F | N |
| Ground Zero | Gratz, Alan | 2021 | UMG YA | Modern Age | 2001-2019 | North America Asia | United States Afghanistan | 9/11 Afghanistan War | F | N |
| Firekeeper's Daughter | Boulley, Angeline | 2021 | YA A | Modern Age | 2004 | North America | United States | Indigenous Americans Ojibwe Nation drug abuse | F | N |
| Rez Dogs | Bruchac, Joseph | 2021 | MG UMG | Modern Age | 2020 | North America | United States | Indigenous Americans Wabanaki Nation COVID-19 Pandemic Plagues | F | CB |
| Cloud Cuckoo Land: A Novel | Doerr, Anthony | 2021 | A | Modern Age | 2020 | Asia North America | Turkey United States | Historical Fiction | HF | N |
| City of the Plague God | Chadda, Sarwat | 2021 | MG UMG | Early Civilization | 2021 | Western Asia | Middle East | Mesopotamia Gilgamesh | OV M | N |
2020
Book recommendations published in 2020.
| Book Title | Author | PubDate | Reading Age | Time Period | Time Frame | Geographic Area | Country | Topic | Genre | Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Could You Survive the Jurassic Period?: An Interactive Prehistoric Adventure | Doeden, Matt | 2020 | MG | Prehistory | 201,000,000-145,000,000 BCE | World | Various | Jurassic Period Dinosaurs | NF | CB |
| Could You Survive the Cretaceous Period?: An Interactive Prehistoric Adventure | Braun, Eric Mark | 2020 | MG | Prehistory | 145,000,000-65,000,000 BCE | World | Various | Cretaceous Period Dinosaurs | NF | CB |
| Sapiens: A Graphic History: The Birth of Humankind (Vol. 1) | Harari, Yuval Noah | 2020 | YA A | Prehistory | 70,000,000 BCE-2000 CE | World | Various | Evolution | NF S | GN |
| Could You Survive the Ice Age?: An Interactive Prehistoric Adventure | Hoena, Blake | 2020 | MG | Prehistory | 2,600,000-9,500 BCE | World | Various | Ice Age | NF | CB |
| Could You Survive the New Stone Age?: An Interactive Prehistoric Adventure | Troupe, Thomas Kingsley | 2020 | MG | Prehistory | 10,000-4,500 BCE | World | Various | Stone Age | NF | CB |
| Mulan: Before the Sword | Lin, Grace | 2020 | MG UMG | Early Civilization | 400 | Asia | China | Mulan Han Dynasty Mythology | F | CB |
| Arthur and the Golden Rope | Todd-Stanton, Joe | 2020 | LE MG | High Middle Ages | 800 | Scandinavia | Iceland | Vikings | M F | PB GN |
| War Lord | Cornwell, Bernard | 2020 | A | High Middle Ages | 937 | Europe | Great Britain | Saxon Stories Vikings | F | N |
| All Out | Mitchell, Saundra | 2020 | YA | various | 1350-1999 | North America Europe | United States Mexico Great Britain France | LGBTQ+ | F | N |
| Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You | Reynolds, Jason Kendi, Ibram X. | 2020 | UMG YA | Renaissance | 1415-2020 | North America | United States | Racism Civil Rights | NF OV | NF |
| Katheryn Howard, The Scandalous Queen | Weir, Alison | 2020 | A | Renaissance | 1528-1542 | Europe | Great Britain | Tudors Katheryn Howard | F Bio | N |
| Blood Countess | Popovic, Lana | 2020 | YA | Renaissance | 1575-1614 | Europe | Hungary | Elizabeth Báthory LGBTQ+ Hungary | F Bio | N |
| History Smashers: The Mayflower | Messner, Kate | 2020 | MG UMG | Enlightenment | 1620 | North America | United States | Colonial America Mayflower | NF | B |
| Dark Tides | Gregory, Philippa | 2020 | A | Enlightenment | 1670 | Europe | Great Britain | English Civil War Restoration London | F | N |
| One Dead Spy | Hale, Nathan | 2020 | MG UMG | Age of Revolutions | 1755-1776 | North America | United States | American Revolution Nathan Hale | NF Bio | GN |
| Blades of Freedom | Hale, Nathan | 2020 | MG UMG | Age of Revolutions | 1803-1804 | North America | United States | Louisiana Purchase | NF | GN |
| The White House is Burning | Sutcliffe, Jane | 2020 | MG UMG | Age of Revolutions | 1814 | North America | United States | War of 1812 Disasters | F | CB |
| The Last American Aristocrat: The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams | Brown, David S. | 2020 | A | Industrial Age | 1838-1918 | North America | United States | Henry Adams Gilded Age | NF Bio | N |
| Mr. Dickens and His Carol | Silva, Samantha | 2020 | YA A | Industrial Age | 1843 | Europe | Great Britain | Charles Dickens | NF | B |
| The Snow Fell Three Graves Deep | Wolf, Allan | 2020 | YA A | Industrial Age | 1846–1847 | North America | United States | Westward Expansion Donner Party | F | N |
| Blood and Germs: The Civil War Battle Against Wounds and Disease | Jarrow, Gail | 2020 | UMG | Industrial Age | 1860-1865 | North America | United States | American Civil War Medicine | NF | B |
| Making Our Way Home: The Great Migration and the Black American Dream | Imani, Blair | 2020 | YA A | Industrial Age | 1865-1979 | North America | United States | Great Migration | NF | CB |
| The Story of Marie Curie | Katz, Susan B. | 2020 | MG | Industrial Age | 1867-1934 | Europe North America | Poland United States | Chemistry Women in Science | NF | CB |
| Jane Against the World | Blumenthal, Karen | 2020 | YA A | Modern Age | 1873-2018 | North America | United States France | Activism Reproductive Rights | NF Bio | B |
| Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster | Auxier, Jonathan | 2020 | MG UMG | Industrial Age | 1874 | Europe | Great Britain | Child Labor Victorian England | HF | CB |
| My Calamity Jane | Hand, Cynthia Ashton, Brodi Meadows, Jodi | 2020 | YA A | Industrial Age | 1876 | North America | United States | Calamity Jane | HF Bio | N |
| Prairie Lotus | Park, Linda Sue | 2020 | MG UMG | Industrial Age | 1880 | Dakota Territory | United States | Prairie Life | F | CB |
| Inventing Victoria | Bolden, Tonya | 2020 | YA A | Industrial Age | 1880 | North America | United States | Reconstruction | F OV | CB |
| Deathless Divide | Ireland, Justina | 2020 | YA | Industrial Age | 1880 | North America | United States | Reconstruction | HF | N |
| History Smashers: Women's Right to Vote | Messner, Kate | 2020 | UMG MG | Industrial Age | 1885-1920 | North America | United States | Women's Suffrage Voting | NF Bio | B |
| The Nerviest Girl in the World | Wiley, Melissa | 2020 | MG | Modern Age | 1911 | North America | United States | California Early Filmmaking | F | CB |
| History Smashers: The Titanic | Messner, Kate | 2020 | MG UMG | Modern Age | 1912 | Atlantic Ocean | Great Britain | Titanic | NF | B |
| The Radium Girls: Young Readers' Edition: The Scary but True Story of the Poison that Made People Glow in the Dark | Moore, Kate | 2020 | MG UMG | Modern Age | 1917-1938 | North America | United States | Toxicology | NF Bio | CB |
| Saving Savannah | Bolden, Tonya | 2020 | YA A | Modern Age | 1919 | North America | United States | African American History | F | N |
| How Women Won the Vote | Campbell Bartoletti, Susan | 2020 | LE MG | Modern Age | 1909 | North America | United States | Women's Suffrage Voting Activism | NF | PB |
| Ring Shout | Clark, P. Djeli | 2020 | A | Modern Age | 1922 | North America | United States | Racism Jim Crow | HF | B |
| These Violent Delights | Gong, Clohe | 2020 | YA A | Modern Age | 1926 | Asia | China | Romeo and Juliet | HF | N |
| The Degenerates | Mann, J. Albert | 2020 | YA A | Modern Age | 1928 | North America | United States | Eugenics Institutionalization LGBTQ+ | F | N |
| Flowers in the Gutter | Gaddy, K. R. | 2020 | YA A | Modern Age | 1932-1945 | Europe | Germany | WWII | NF | B |
| Echo Mountain | Wolk, Lauren | 2020 | UMG | Modern Age | 1934 | North America | United States | Great Depression | F | CB |
| The Library of Legends | Chang, Janie | 2020 | YA A | Modern Age | 1937-1945 | Asia | China | WWII | F | N |
| The Island of Sea Women | See, Lisa | 2020 | A | Modern Age | 1938-2008 | Asia | Korea | Korea | F | N |
| Out of Hiding | Gruener, Ruth | 2020 | MG | Modern Age | 1938-2019 | Europe | Poland United States | Holocaust Immigration Jewish Refugees | NF | M |
| Atomic Women: The Untold Story of the Scientists Who Helped Create the Nuclear Bomb | Montillo, Roseanne | 2020 | YA A | Modern Age | 1938-1945 | North America | United States | WWII Atomic Bomb | NF | B |
| We'll Soon Be Home Again | Bab Bonde, Jessica | 2020 | UMG YA | Modern Age | 1939-1945 | Europe | Various | Holocaust | F Bio | GN |
| 28 Days: A Novel of Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto | Safier, David | 2020 | YA A | Modern Age | 1940-1945 | Europe | Poland | Holocaust Auschwitz Jewish Resistance | F | N |
| Catherine's War | Billet, Julia | 2020 | UMG | Modern Age | 1942-1945 | Europe | France | WWII Jews in Hiding Nazi Occupation | F | GN |
| The Paper Girl of Paris | Taylor, Jordyn | 2020 | YA A | Modern Age | 1940-1945 | Europe | France | WWII | F | N |
| Island War | Reilly Giff, Patricia | 2020 | MG | Modern Age | 1941-1945 | Aleutian Islands | United States | WWII | F | N |
| We Are Not Free | Chee, Traci | 2020 | YA A | Modern Age | 1942-1945 | North America | United States | WWII Japanese Internment | F OV | N |
| Displacement | Hughes, Kiku | 2020 | YA A | Modern Age | 1942-1945 | North America | United States | WWII Japanese Internment | HF | GN |
| The Shadow War | Smith, Lindsay | 2020 | YA | Modern Age | 1942 | Europe | Germany | WWII | HF | N |
| On the Horizon: World War II Reflections | Lowry, Lois | 2020 | MG UMG | Modern Age | 1942-1945 | North America Asia | United States Japan | WWII | F | CB |
| The Redhead of Auschwitz: A True Story | Birnbaum, Nechama | 2020 | YA A | Modern Age | 1944 | Europe | Romania Germany | Holocaust Auschwitz | F | N |
| They Went Left | Hesse, Monica | 2020 | YA A | Modern Age | 1945 | Europe | Poland Germany | Holocaust | F | N |
| The Blossom and the Firefly | Smith, Sherri L. | 2020 | YA A | Modern Age | 1945 | Asia | Japan | WWII | F | CB |
| My Long List of Impossible Things | Barker, Michelle | 2020 | YA A | Modern Age | 1945 | Europe | Germany | WWII | F | N |
| Miss Benson's Beetle | Joyce, Rachel | 2020 | YA A | Modern Age | 1950 | Oceania | Great Britain New Caledonia | History of Science Women in Science | F | N |
| Brother's Keeper | Lee, Julie | 2020 | UMG | Modern Age | 1950 | Asia | North Korea | Korean War Escaping North Korea | F | N |
| The Fountains of Silence | Sepetys, Ruta | 2020 | YA A | Modern Age | 1957 | Europe | Spain | Spanish Civil War | F | N |
| Kent State | Wiles, Deborah | 2020 | UMG YA | Modern Age | 1970 | Southeast Asia North America | United States | Vietnam War Activism | F | CB |
| Orange for the Sunsets | Athaide, Tina | 2020 | MG UMG | Modern Age | 1972 | Africa | Uganda | Immigration | F | N |
| Cub | Copeland, Cynthia L. | 2020 | MG UMG | Modern Age | 1972 | North America | USA | Writing Journalism | F | GN |
| The Last Days of John Lennon | Patterson, James | 2020 | A | Modern Age | 1980 | North America | United States | John Lennon Musicians | NF Bio | N |
| Banned Book Club | Kim, Hyun Sook | 2020 | YA | Modern Age | 1983-2016 | Asia | South Korea | Banned Books Resistance Activism | F | GN |
| The Blackbird Girls | Blankman, Anne | 2020 | UMG | Modern Age | 1986 | Europe | Ukraine Russia Uzbekistan | Chernobyl Communism Soviet Union | F | CB |
| Planet Earth is Blue | Panteleakos, Nicole | 2020 | MG | Modern Age | 1986 | North America | United States | Space Space Shuttle Challenger | F | CB |
| Like a Love Story | Nazemian, Abdi | 2020 | YA A | Modern Age | 1989 | North America | United States | Immigration LGBTQ+ AIDs Crisis | F OV | N |
| Riot Baby | Onyebuchi, Tochi | 2020 | A | Modern Age | 1992 | North America | United States | LA Riots | HF | N |
| When Stars Are Scattered | Jamieson, Victoria Mohamed, Omar | 2020 | UMG | Modern Age | 1996-2011 | Africa | Somalia Kenya | Somalian Civil War Kenyan Refugee Camp | NF Bio OV | GN |
| Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree | Nwaubani, Adaobi Tricia | 2020 | YA A | Modern Age | 2014 | Africa | Nigeria | Boko Haram | F | N |
| Mission to Pluto: The First Visit to an Ice Dwarf and the Kuiper Belt | Carson, Mary Kay | 2020 | MG | Modern Age | 2015 | North America | United States | Space Pluto | NF | PB |
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| Reading Age | Genre | Format |
| LE = lower elementary MG = middle grade (8-12 yrs.) UMG = upper-middle grade (11-14 yrs.) YA = young adult (14+) A = adult (18+) |
NF - non fiction F = fiction Bio = biography HF = historical fantasy AH = alternate history OV - own voices M = mythology S = spine book |
PB = picture book GN = graphic novel ER = early reader CB = chapter book B = book (NF) N = novel M = memoir |