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A high school reading list for the State of Texas.
TAYSHAS takes its name from the Caddo Indian word meaning “friends or allies.” Written as texas, texios, tejas, teyas or tayshas, the word was applied to the Caddos by the Spanish in eastern Texas, who regarded them as friends and allies against the Apaches.
The goal of the TAYSHAS reading list is to motivate young adults to become lifelong readers and to participate in the community of readers in Texas. Students in grades 9 – 12 are encouraged to read books for pleasure from the list which includes fiction and nonfiction titles.
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Click the button below to view the current nominations for the 2023 TAYSHAS List. The current nominations list is updated monthly.
2022 TAYSHAS Reading List TOP 10
2022 TAYSHAS Reading List – Printable Versions
2022 TAYSHAS Reading List – By Title
2022 TAYSHAS ANNOTATED Reading LIST
2022 TAYSHAS Reading List by Title
| TITLE | AUTHOR |
| 10 Truths and a Dare | Elston, Ashley |
| Admission | Buxbaum, Julie |
| All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto | Johnson, George M. |
| All Eyes On Her | Flynn, Laurie Elizabeth |
| Amelia Unabridged ** | Schumacher, Ashley |
| Assignment, The | Wiemer, Liza |
| Black Kids, The | Hammonds Reed, Christina |
| Blackout ** | Clayton, Dhonielle; Jackson, Tiffany D.; Stone, Nic; Thomas, Angie;Woodfolk, Ashley;Yoon, Nicola |
| Blazewrath Games | Ortiz, Amparo |
| Breath Too Late, A | Callen, Rocky |
| Burn | Ness, Patrick |
| Cast in Firelight | Swift, Dana |
| Charming as a Verb | Phillipe, Ben |
| Complicated Love Story Set in Space, A | Hutchinson, Shaun David |
| Cousins, The | McManus, Karen |
| Crossroads at Midnight, The | Howard, Abby |
| Crownchasers ** | Coffindaffer, Coffindaffer |
| Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea & Tomorrow, A | Namey, Laura |
| Dear Universe | Gonsalves, Florence |
| Every Single Lie | Vincent, Rachel |
| Everything I Thought I Knew | Takaoka, Shannon |
| Fifteen Hundred Miles from the Sun | Villa, Jonny Garza |
| Find Layla | Elison, Meg |
| Firekeeper’s Daughter ** | Boulley, Angeline |
| Furia ** | Méndez, Yamile Saied |
| Game Changer | Shusterman, Neal |
| Girls I’ve Been, The ** | Sharpe, Tess |
| Hard Wired | Vlahos, Len |
| Harrow Lake | Ellis, Kat |
| Heiress Apparently | Ma, Diana |
| House of Hollow | Sutherland, Krystal |
| I Hope You’re Listening | Ryan, Tom |
| In the Shadow of the Fallen Towers: The Seconds, Minutes, Hours, Days, Weeks, Months, and Years after the 9/11 Attacks | Brown, Don |
| In the Wild Light ** | Zentner, Jeff |
| Indivisible | Aleman, Daniel |
| Influence | Shepard, Sara and Lilia Buckingham |
| Initial Insult, The | McGinnis, Mindy |
| Instructions for Dancing | Yoon, Nicola |
| Ivies, The | Donne, Alexa |
| Just Our Luck | Walton, Julia |
| Legendborn ** | Deonn, Tracy |
| Living Beyond Borders | Longoria, Margarita (editor) |
| Loop, The | Oliver, Ben |
| Lore | Bracken, Alexandra |
| Luck of the Titanic | Lee, Stacey |
| Malice | Dunn, Pintip |
| My Eyes Are Up Here | Zimmerman, Laura |
| Nameless Queen | McLaughlin, Rebecca |
| New David Espinoza, The | Aceves, Fred |
| No True Believers | Lumbard, Rabiah York |
| Notes from a Young Black Chef: A Memoir (Adapted for Young Adults) | Onwuachi, Kwame and Joshua David Stein |
| Off the Record | Garrett, Camryn |
| Once Upon a Quinceanera | Gomez-Hira, Monica |
| Parachutes | Yang, Kelly |
| Pho Love Story, A | Le, Loan |
| Poisoned | Donnelly, Jennifer |
| Prepped | Mangle, Bethany |
| Princess Will Save You, The | Henning, Sarah |
| Project, The | Summers, Courtney |
| Pudge & Prejudice | Pittman, A.K. |
| Punching The Air ** | Zoboi, Ibi and Salaam, Yusef |
| Ravens, The | Morgan, Kass and Danielle Paige |
| Roman and Jewel | Davis, Dana L. |
| Rules for Being a Girl | Bushnell, Candace and Cotugno, Katie |
| Rural voices : 15 authors challenge assumptions about small-town America | Carpenter, Nora Shalaway (editor) |
| Seventh Raven, The | Elliott, David |
| Shine | Jung, Jessica |
| Sidelined | Bietz, Kara |
| Sixteen Scandals | Jordan, Sophie |
| Somewhere Between Bitter and Sweet | Kemp, Laekan Zea |
| Super Fake Love Song | Yoon, David |
| That Weekend | Thomas, Kara |
| The Summer of Broken Rules | Walther, K. L. |
| These Violent Delights | Gong, Chloe |
| They Went Left | Hesse, Monica |
| This is Not the Jess Show | Carey, Anna |
| Time Will Tell | Lyga, Barry |
| Truth Project, The | Medema, Dante |
| Up All Night | Silverman, Laura (editor) |
| Version Zero | Yoon, David |
| Watch Over Me | LaCour, Nina |
| What I Carry ** | Longo, Jennifer |
| Where the Road Leads Us | Reul, Robin |
| White Smoke | Jackson, Tiffany D. |
| Yesterday is History | Jackson, Kosoko |
| You Have A Match | Lord, Emma |
| You Should See Me In A Crown | Johnson, Leah |
Titles with ** indicate a TAYSHAS Top Ten Book.
*Top Ten Books are selected from those which received a unanimous vote in the committee’s initial voting process.
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