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supernal (adj.): relating to the sky or the heavens; celestial; of exceptional quality.

What do we look for when identifying exceptional books? Writing style? Characters? Plot? Greater context and meaning? How does our definition of an exceptional book change as we grow?

1. Notes From the Woodshed by Jack Whitten
2. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
3. The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
4. 1984 by George Orwell
5. The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu
6. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
7. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
8. The Normal Heart by Larry Kramer
9. The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Stewart
10. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
11. The Odyssey by Homer
12. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
13. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
14. Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
15. Same Kind of Different as Me by Denver Moore, Lynn Vincent, and Ron Hall
16. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
17. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
18. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
19. Midnight Library by Matt Haig
20. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
21. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
22. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
23. Lord of the Flies
24. The Short and Tragic Life of Robert P
25. (Animal Farm, 1984)
26. Illusions by Richard Bach
27. The Giver
28. Brief Questions and Big Answers by Stephen Hawking
29. The Bible
30. House on Mango Street 
31. A Phonebooth at the Edge of the World or Please Look After Mom
32. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
33. Frozen Charlotte
34. The Nightingale by Christen Hannah
35. The Kingdom
36. Convenient Store Woman
37. Lord of the Flies
38. Harry Potter
39. Les Miserables and Journey to the West and The Brothers Keremozov 
40. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
41. Pride and Prejudice, Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didian
42. Misery by Stephen King
43. Wonder by R.J. Palacio
44. Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate Di Camillo
45. Holes by Louis Sachar
46. Twisted Games by Ana Wong
47. Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper
48. We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
49. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
50. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
51. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
52. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
53. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
54. Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
55. Percy Jackson by Rick Riordan
56. Plum Island by Nelson Deville
57. The Outsiders by S.E. Hilton
58. Lord of the Flies
59. Refugee by Alan Gratz
60. Percy Jackson by Rick Riordan
61. Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo