What to Read After Taking Sides
Readers who loved Taking Sides by Gary Soto keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Taking Sides is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Taking Sides
The Legend of Bass Reeves
Poetry Speaks Who I Am
The Door of No Return
Bad Boy
Akeelah and the Bee
The Heart of a Chief
Last summer with Maizon
The Cay
Al Capone does my shirts
One Crazy Summer
Chains
The House of the Scorpion
American Born Chinese
Walk Two Moons
Fruits Basket, Vol. 1
The West
I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You (Gallagher Girls #1)
The House on Mango Street
Messenger (The Giver #3)
The Battle of the Labyrinth
The City of Ember (The First Book of Ember)
Legend
The Invention of Hugo Cabret
The Throne of Fire