Back in 2013 I made a booklist called "Great Books for Boys: Beyond Wimpy Kid" that was really popular with parents. I don't do a lot of booklists, partly because we are a small library and prefer one-on-one help when you come in (let's face it, it's hard to hide in the stacks here) and because there are soooo many available on the Internet.
However, I think this booklist resonated with parents of boys because "Wimpy Kid" was so popular and their sons were clamoring for more but not knowing where to look outside of non-fiction. In the 5 years since then, I personally think there have been many great books, both fiction and non-fiction, published for boys in all sorts of genres. And more importantly, I've found that many boys don't mind reading books with a girl as a main character, despite what we adults tend to think. I have also heard from many parents that their sons are spending too much time on the computer and gaming, and they really want to get them reading QUALITY books. Luckily, there are more books than ever for ALL KINDS of boys - AND - feel free to use this for girl readers as well!
So, without further ado, here is my list - more of an addendum to the 2013 list as it only features books published between 2013 and 2018. You can always find the original list here:
Great Books for Boys 2013
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Early Chapter Books
JF Angleberger Inspector Flytrap series / Angleberger, Tom
JF Dillard Extraordinary Warren: a super chicken / Dillard, Sarah
PJ Cummings Notebook of Doom series / Cummings, Troy
PJ Here's Hank Here's Hank series / Winkler, Henry & Lin Oliver
PJ Holub Heroes in Training series / Holub, Joan
JF Meisel Stinky Spike and the Royal Rescue / Meisel, Peter
JF Milway Pigsticks and Harold series / Milway, Alex
JF Pennypacker Waylon! One Awesome Thing series / Pennypacker, Sara
JF Priebe Adventures of Henry Whiskers / Priebe, Gigi
JF Shurtliff Rump: the (Fairly) True Tale of Rumplestiltskin (also, Grump, Jack & Red) / Shurtliff, Liesl
JE-ER Snyder Charlie & Mouse / Snyder, Laurel
PJ Tarshis I Survived series / Tarshis, Lauren
JF Urban Weekends With Max and His Dad / Urban, Linda
Middle Grade Fiction (4th-6th)
YA Alexander The Crossover series / Alexander, Kwame (crossover, gr. 6 & up)
JF Anderson Ms. Bixby's Last Day / Anderson, John David
JF Brown The Wild Robot / Brown, Peter
JF Connor The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle / Connor, Leslie
JF Gidwitz The Inquisitor's Tale / Gidwitz, Adam
JF Gibbs Spy School series / Gibbs, Stuart
YA Gratz Refugee / Gratz, Alan (crossover, gr. 5 & up)
JF Griffiths 13-Story Treehouse series / Griffiths, Andy
YA Moore Stars Beneath Our Feet / Moore, David Barclay (crossover, gr. 5 & up)
JF Moore King of the Bench series / Moore, Steve
JF Patterson Max Einstein: the genius experiment series / Patterson, James & Chris Grabenstein
JF Peck The Best Man / Peck, Richard
JF Russell The Misadventures of Max Crumbly series / Russell, Rachel Rene
JF Ryan Echo / Ryan, Pam Munoz
Graphic Novels
J Graphic Annable Peter & Ernesto: a tale of two sloths / Annable, Graham (Gr. 1-4)
JGraphic Blabey The Bad Guys series / Blabey, Aaron (Gr. 2-5)
JGraphic Chmakova Awkward (Berrybrook Middle School series) / Chmakova, Svetlana (Gr. 5-9)
JGraphic Hatke Little Robot / Hatke, Ben (Gr. 1-4)
JGraphic Hayes Patrick Eats His Peas & other stories / Hayes, Geoffrey (Pre - Gr. 2)
JGraphic Pilkey Dogman series / Pilkey, Dav (Gr. 1-4)
JGraphic Science Science Comics: Dinosaurs (et al.) / Reed, M.K. (Gr. 4-7)
JGraphic Sell The Cardboard Kingdom / Sell, Chad (Gr. 4-7)
JGraphic Tobin Plants vs. Zombies series / Tobin, Paul et al. (Gr. 3-5)
JGraphic Winick Hilo: the boy who crashed to Earth series / Winick, Judd (Gr. 3-6)
Non-Fiction
J031.02 National 5,000 Awesome Facts (About Everything!) 2 / Nat Geo
J385 Floca Locomotive / Floca, Brian
JE 550 Gladstone When Planet Earth Was New / Gladstone, James
JE 571.3 Jenkins Creature Features: 25 animals explain why they look the way they do / Jenkins, Steve and Robin Page
J579.3 Mould The Bacteria Book / Mould, Steve
J793 Isaac 101 Things For Kids To Do On a Rainy Day / Isaac, David
J794 Stone Pass Go and Collect $200: the real story of how Monopoly was invented / Stone, Tanya Lee
J796.323 Coy Hoop Genius: how a desperate teacher and a rowdy gym class invented basketball / Coy, John
J811.6 Alexander Out of Wonder: poems celebrating poets / Alexander, Kwame et al.
J811.6 Harris I'm Just No Good at Rhyming: and other nonsense for mischievous kids and immature grownups / Harris, Chris
J973.46 Brown Aaron and Alexander: the most famous duel in American history / Brown, Don
various Who Would Win? series / Pallotta, Jerry
And a few newer Picture Books that break traditional gender stereotypes:
JE Demont I Love My Purse / Demont, Belle
JE Haack Prince & Knight / Haack, Daniel
JE Newman Sparkle Boy / Newman, Leslea
JE Pearlman Pink is For Boys / Pearlman, Robb
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