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 Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook | Leslie Connor | Realistic Fiction |
| All the Blues in the Sky | Renee Watson | Realistic/Novel in Verse |
| The Bad Beginning | Lemony Snicket | Fantasy/Mystery |
| Cinder | Marissa Meyer | Science Fiction |
| Coach | Jason Reynolds | Sports Fiction |
| Courtesy of Cupid | Nashe Jones | Romance |
| The Deadlands: Hunted | Skye Melki-Wegner | Fantasy/Adventure |
| The Experiment | Rebecca Stead | Science Fiction |
| Fifty-Four Things Wrong with Gwendolyn Rogers | Caela Carter | Realistic Fiction |
| Flora and Ulysses | Kate DiCamillo | Animal Fiction |
| Free Lunch | Rex Ogle | Nonfiction |
| The Free State of Jax | Jennifer Nielsen | Mystery/Adventure |
| The Girl Who Sang – Graphic Novel | Estel Nadel | Historical/Graphic Novel |
| I Know You Started It | Daphne Benedis-Grab | Mystery |
| The Last Resort | Erin Entrada Kelley | Mystery |
| Lion of Mars | Jennifer Holm | Science Fiction |
| Not If I Save You First | Ally Carter | Romance/Adventure |
| The Old Willis Place – Graphic Novel | Mary Downing Hahn | Paranormal/Horror/Graphic Novel |
| Pony | RJ Palacio | Historical Fiction |
| Red Pyramid | Rick Riordan | Fantasy |
| Refugee | Alan Gratz | Historical Fiction |
| Restart | Gordon Korman | Realistic Fiction |
| Sherlock Society | James Ponti | Mystery |
| Starfish | Lisa Flips | Realistic/Novel in Verse |
| The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest | Aubrey Hartman | Animal Fantasy |
| X Marks the Haunt | Lindsay Currie | Horror |
| The Walk On | John Feinstein | Sports Fiction |
| The Watsons Go to Birmingham | Christopher Curtis | Historical Fiction |
| Westfallen | Ann and Ben Brashares | Altered History |
| Wild River | Rodman Philbrick | Adventure |