Bulldogs Read
2025-2026 Bulldogs Read
Submit a Bulldogs Read book you have read and then you will be entered into the monthly prize drawings. You will also be one book closer to being invited on our end-of-year field trip!
- Put Bulldogs Read books on hold in our Madison Library Catalog
- Borrow Digital Copies of the Bulldogs Read books from SPL
About Bulldogs Read Program
Watch this video to better understand what the Bulldogs Read challenge is all about:
Thank You to Our Donors!
Thank you to the following donors who have generously supported our Bulldogs Read program this year by donating prizes for our monthly prize drawings:
- Pegasus Book Exchange
2025-26 Bulldog Reads List – By Genre
These are our 60 Bulldogs Read books for the 2025-2026 school year!
*Contains more mature content
Realistic Fiction
- All the Blues in the Sky by Renee Watson
- *All the Noise at Once by DeAndra Davis
- And Then, Boom! by Lisa Fipps
- The Beat I Drum by Dusti Bowling
- The Extraordinary Orbit of Alex Ramirez by Jasminne Paulino
- Let It Glow by Marissa Meyer and Joanne Levy
- Murray Out of Water by Taylor Tracy
- The Right Call by Tommy Greenwald
- Shadowed by Carl Deuker
- The Shape of Lost Things by Sarah Everett
- Shark Teeth by Sherri Winston
- *The Story of My Anger by Jasminne Mendez
- The Trouble With Heroes by Kate Messner
- The Witching Wind by Natalie Lloyd
Romance
- As You Wish by Nashae Jones
- Better Than Revenge by Kasie West
- I Hope This Doesn’t Find You by Ann Liang
- The Romantic Tragedies of a Drama King by Harry Trevaldwyn
- The Sticky Note Manifesto of Aisha Agarwal by Ambika Vohra
Fantasy & Adventure
- A Forgery of Fate by Elizabeth Lim
- A Wolf Called Fire by Rosanne Parry
- *Breath of the Dragon by Shannnon Lee
- Chronicles of Whetherwhy: The Age of Enchantment by Anna James
- Dreamslinger by Graci Kim
- The Grace of Wild Things by Heather Fawcett
- The Last Hope School for Magical Delinquents by Nicki Pau Preto
- My Salty Mary by Cynthia Hand
- *The Rose Bargain by Sasha Peyton Smith
Sci-Fi & Dystopian
- Beasts by Ingvild Bjerkeland
- *Best of All Worlds by Kenneth Oppel
- The Last Dragon on Mars by Scott Reintgen
- *Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
Mystery & Horror
- I.R.L by Jenny Goebel
- The Lake House by Sarah Beth Durst
- The Lonely Below by G. Haron Davis
- The Mystery of Locked Rooms by Lindsay Currie
- *No Place Left to Hide by Megan Lally
- *Out of Air by Rachel Reiss
- The Sherlock Society by James Ponti
- *Under the Surface by Diana Urban
- Very Dangerous Things by Lauren Munoz
- *We Were Warned by Chelsea Ichaso
Historical Fiction
- The Bletchley Riddle by Steve Sheinkin and Ruta Sepetys
- Buffalo Dreamer by Violet Duncan
- The Teacher of Nomad Land by Daniel Nayeri
- Westfallen by Ann Brashares
- Will’s Race for Home by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Graphic Novels
- Almost Sunset by Wahab Algarmi
- A Wizard of Earthsea: a graphic novel by Ursula Le Guin and Fred Fordhan
- Buzzing by Samuel Sattin
- *Dan in Green Gables by Rey Terciero
- How It All Ends by Emma Hunsinger
- Huda F Wants to Know by Huda Fahmy
- Outsider Kids by Betty Tang
- RuriDragon Vol. 1 (manga) by Masoiki Shindo
- We Could Be Magic by Marissa Meyer
Non Ficton
- A Deathly Compedium of Poisonous Plants by Rebecca Hirsch
- The Girl Who Sang by Estelle Nadel (graphic novel memoir)
- Homebody by Theo Parish (graphic novel memoir)
- The Race to Be Myself by Caster Semenya