2021 Abraham Lincoln Illinois' High School Readers' Choice Award List 

All the Crooked Saints* by Maggie Stiefvater
Black Enough: Stories of Being Young and Black in America by Ibi Zoboi, editor
Darius the Great is Not Okay by Adib Khorram
Devils Within by S. F. Henson
Dress Codes for Small Towns* by Courtney C. Stevens
Dry* by Neal Shusterman & Jarrod Shusterman
Every Falling Star: The True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea by Sungju Lee
A Heart in a Body in the World by Deb Caletti
Heroine by Mindy McGinnis
Hey, Kiddo: How I Lost My Mother, Found My Father, and Dealt with Family Addiction by Jarrett J. Krosoczka
Internment* by Samira Ahmed
Obsessed: A Memoir of My Life with OCD by Allison Britz
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay
Price of Duty by Todd Strasser
Slay by Brittney Morris
They Called Us Enemy by George Takei, Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott, & Harmony Becker
Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson
A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi
We'll Fly Away by Bryan Bliss

*Student reader selections