Writer to Writer 2024 Book Choices

  • Cleopatra: Queen of the Nile by Alan Venable
  • Dolores Huerta: Labor Leader by Alexis David
  • Chicken Soup for the Soul, story by Jennifer Zink by Amy Newmark
  • The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
  • Sensitive is the New Strong by Anita Moorjani
  • The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
  • Black Widow Beauty by Anne Schraff
  • The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • The Graduation of Jake Moon by Barbara Park
  • The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
  • In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Bao Lord
  • Socks by Beverly Cleary
  • Humans of New York by Brandon Stanton
  • Temple Grandin: Autism and Animal Welfare Activist by C.L. Laney
  • Crossings: A True Story of Love and Immigration by Carmen Garcia as told to Helen Mariner
  • Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck
  • Shadowhunters by Cassandra Clare
  • Letter from Chicago by Cathy Kelly
  • Cinderella by Charles Perrault
  • Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
  • Penguin Bloom by Chris Kunz, Shaun Grant & Harry Cripps
  • The Hospital: The Inside Story by Christie Nwora
  • It Starts With Us by Colleen Hoover
  • I Knew You Could: A Book for All the Stops in Your Life by Craig Dorfman
  • Half a Chance by Cynthia Lord
  • Meditation for Busy People by Dawn Groves
  • Parvana’s Journey by Deborah Ellis
  • Who Was Ben Franklin? by Dennis Brindell Fradin
  • A Butterfly is Patient by Dianna Hutts Aston
  • The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
  • What was the San Francisco Earthquake? by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler
  • Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
  • The Magical Language of Others by E.J. Koh
  • Harvesting Dreams by Erica Alfaro
  • Stage to Lordsburg by Ernest Haycox
  • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • The Circuit: Sories from the Life of a Migrant Child by Francisco Jiménez
  • From Scratch by Gail Anderson-Dargatz
  • No Return Address by Gail Anderson-Dargatz
  • Who Was Helen Keller? by Gare Thompson
  • The Cell Phone Lot by Greta Gorsuch
  • William Shakespeare by Hamlet
  • Pocket Michelle Obama Wisdom by Hardie Grant Books
  • Super Natural Simple: Whole-Food, Vegetarian Recipes for Real Life by Heidi Swanson
  • Violeta by Isabel Allende
  • Meet Martin Luther King, Jr. by James T. de Kay
  • Ellis Island: Rosalia’s Story by Janet Hardy-Gould
  • No Way to Run by Janice Greene
  • Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga
  • American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
  • The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han
  • Own your Past, Change your Future by John Delony, Dr.
  • The Broker by John Grisham
  • Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret. by Judy Blume
  • Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume
  • Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar
  • Because of Winn Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
  • Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
  • The Power of Silence by Kelvin W. Nathan
  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
  • Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Holes by Louis Sacher
  • Maisy Goes to School by Lucy Cousins
  • Citizenship: Passing the Test by Lynne Weintraub
  • Escape from Vietnam: Van’s Story by Mabel Ngo
  • I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
  • The Godfather by Mario Puzo
  • The Magic Tree House by Mary Osborne
  • Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War by Mary Roach
  • Who is MIchelle Obama? by Megan Stine
  • The California Gold Rush by Mel Friedman
  • What is the Declaration of Independence? by Michael C. Harris
  • Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
  • Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
  • The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
  • Frederick Douglass: For the Great Family of Man by Peter Burchard
  • A Foreigner in New York by Ramón Ybarra Rubio
  • The Distance Between Us by Reyna Grande
  • My Father’s Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett
  • The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
  • Esther’s Brave Story by Sandra Riggins
  • Who Was Rachel Carson? by Sarah Fabiny
  • Black Star, Bright Dawn by Scott O’Dell
  • The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
  • Who Moved My Cheese by Spencer Johnson
  • Chicken by Charlie by Tana Reiff
  • Harriet Tubman by Terry Barber
  • Rosa Parks by Terry Barber
  • The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients’ Lives by Theresa Brown, RN
  • Heat of Lava Dragon (Dragon Masters #18) by Tracey West
  • Finding Me by Viola Davis
  • Who Was Rosa Parks? by Yona Zeldis McDonough