These are the 2026 Westmoreland Interscholastic Reading Competition selections. Click the title to be taken directly to the book’s entry in our catalog where you can place a request and check for any available copies.
| All Better Now | Neal Shusterman | Dystopian |
| The Words in My Hands | Asphyxia | Dystopian |
| The Faraway Inn | Sarah Beth Durst | Fantasy |
| Strange the Dreamer | Laini Taylor | Fantasy |
| Long Way Down (Graphic Novel) | Jason Reynolds | GN/Realistic Fiction |
| Persepolis (Graphic Novel) | Marjane Satrapi | Graphic Memoir |
| I Must Betray You | Ruta Sepetys | Historical Fiction |
| Last Night at the Telegraph Club | Malinda Lo | Historical Fiction |
| The Great Cool Ranch Dorito in the Sky | Josh Galarza | Humor |
| Me and Earl and the Dying Girl | Jesse Andrews | Humor |
| My Sister’s Big Fat Indian Wedding | Sajni Patel | Humor |
| Legendary Frybread Drive-In: Intertribal Stories | Cynthia Leitich Smith, ed. | Magical Realism |
| Americanized | Sara Saedi | Memoir |
| Whale Eyes: A Memoir About Seeing and Being Seen | James Robinson | Memoir |
| Beth Is Dead | Katie Bernet | Mystery |
| Firekeeper’s Daughter | Angeline Boulley | Mystery/Thriller |
| The 57 Bus | Dashka Slater | Non-Fiction |
| Enigma Girls: How Ten Teenagers Broke Ciphers, Kept Secrets, and Helped Win World War II | Candace Fleming | Non-Fiction |
| Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad | M. T. Anderson | Non-Fiction |
| Concrete Rose | Angie Thomas | Realistic Fiction |
| Impossible Knife of Memory | Laurie Halse Anderson | Realistic Fiction |
| Reality Boy | A. S. King | Realistic Fiction |
| Serpent King | Jeff Zentner | Realistic Fiction |
| Louder Than Hunger | John Schu | Realistic/Novel in Verse |
| Change of Plans | Sarah Dessen | Romance |
| Fake Skating | Lynn Painter | Romance/Humor |
| Under the Neon Lights | Arriel Vinson | Romance/Novel in Verse |
| Curveball: The Year I Lost My Grip | Jordan Sonnenblick | Sports Fiction |
| Genuine Fraud | E. Lockhart | Thriller |
| That’s Not My Name | Megan Lally | Thriller |