The Giver by Lois LowryGathering Blue by Lois LowryThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankWhite Fang by Jack London
Top 100 Middle School Must-Reads
2,268 books — 3,655 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsThe House of the Scorpion by Nancy FarmerThe Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
Best Science Fiction
3,658 books — 6,995 voters

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Martian Chronicles by Ray BradburyThe Giver by Lois LowryThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,444 books — 24,709 voters
Divergent by Veronica RothInsurgent by Veronica RothApartment Therapy by Maxwell Gillingham-RyanThe Night Circus by Erin MorgensternThe Magicians by Lev Grossman
2012: What the Over 35s Have Read So Far
3,300 books — 728 voters

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsDivergent by Veronica Roth
Best Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
1,241 books — 3,410 voters