Past SPOT Lists
The Spirit of Texas (SPOT) Reading Program hopes to encourage a greater understanding of what it means to be a Texan, and to develop an appreciation for the literary works of and about Texas and Texans.
2021
Saadia FaruqiA Place at the Table A Thousand Questions |
K.A. HoltBenBee and the Teacher Griefer |
Julie MurphyDear Sweet Pea |
Christina SoontornvatAll Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys’ Soccer Team A Wish in the Dark |
Monica HesseThe War Outside |
Katharine McGeeAmerican Royals Majesty |
Kim JohnsonThis is My America |
Jeff AbbottBlame |
2020
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The Other Half of Happy |
Song for a Whale |
Free Lunch |
Path to the Stars: My Journey from Girl Scout to Rocket Scientist |
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The Magnolia Sword: The Ballad of Mulan |
After the Fire |
Butterfly Yellow |
The Last Wish of Sasha Cade |
2019
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Davils Unto Dust |
The Love Letters of Abelard and Lily |
Follow Me Back |
This Heart of Mine |
Dare Mighty Things |
Wait for Me and In Another Time |
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I Love You, Michael Collins |
Bonnie and Clyde: The Making of a Legend |
Me, Frieda and the Secret of the Peacock Ring |
Finding Esme |
The Parker Inheritance |
Lone Stars |
2018
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Until I Break |
Piper Perish |
Interference |
Moxie |
A List of Cages |
Disappeared |
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Wishtree |
Abrakapow |
The Great Hibernation |
Blooming at the Texas Sunrise Motel |
Revenge of the Star Survivors |
Evangelina Takes Flight |
2017
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Can’t Look Away |
Shattered Souls & Fragile Spirits |
Draw the Line |
A Fierce and Subtle Poison |
Lucky Few |
Rebel Mechanics |
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Fox, Janet The Charmed Children of Rookskill Castle |
Randoms |
This Side of Wild |
Eleven |
Fire & Flood Salt & Stone |
Falling Over Sideways Curveball: The Year I Lost My Grip |
2016
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Doomed |
The Young Elites |
Dumplin’ |
Out of Darkness |
Kissing in America |
Illegal |
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How Lamar’s Bad Prank Won a Bubba-Sized Trophy & The Laura Line |
The School for Unusual Girls |
Connect the Stars |
House Arrest |
Nightingale’s Nest The Sinister Sweetness of Splendid Academy Wish Girl |
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind |
2015
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Prince of Shadows |
Big Fat Disaster |
The Truth About Alice |
Summer of the Mariposas |
The Burning Sky |
Rebel & Reboot |
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Abby Spencer Goes to Bollywood |
The Odd Squad |
Sure Signs of Crazy & Courage for Beginners |
Tut: The Story of My Immortal Life |
The Great Greene Heist |
Popular: Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek |
2014
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Diviners |
Assassin’s Curse |
Skinny |
Splintered |
Silence of Our Friends |
Aristotle and Dante Discover Secrets of the Universe |
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Joshua Dread |
Summer and Bird |
Alien Investigation: Searching for the Truth about UFOs and Aliens |
The Fire Horse Girl |
We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children’s March |
Matthew Meets the Man |
2012
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Texas Gothic |
Right Behind You |
Born at Midnight |
Leitich-Smith, Cynthia Tantalize |
What Can’t Wait |
How Not to Be Popular |
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Through Her Eyes |
Can I See Your ID? |
Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition |
Deep in the Heart of High School |
Leviathan |
Windows on the World |
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