where books become social

guess what? you can write in these books!

When you find a book with this star sticker on the spine, feel free to sketch and doodle while your read!

Use colored pens or a specific symbol to identify your comments as yours. Be sure to add your first name and pen color/ symbol to the list. Check back later to see how your fellow readers have responded.

star with smiley face

How It Works

Write comments in the margins or between the lines.

– What are your favorite parts? Least favorite?

– Sketch and doodle to add to the story.

– Put a heart or star by what you really loved.

– Circle or underline quotes.

– Keep it clean.

– Please only use first name or nickname only (no last names or usernames)

– Please do not mark out text or other people’s comments.

– Make sure you have a Margin Project book BEFORE you start writing in it! Don’t mark in the regular library books.

Books Currently Part of the Margin Project

  • Speak – Laurie Halse Anderson
  • Wintergirls – Laurie Halse Anderson
  • Me and Earl and the Dying Girl – Jesse Andrews
  • Thirteen Reasons Why – Jay Asher
  • Inheritance Games – Jennifer Lynn Barnes
  • Cinderella is Dead – Kalynn Bayron
  • Far From the Tree- Robin Benway
  • The Princess Diaries – Meg Cabot
  • The Light in Hidden Places – Sharon Cameron
  • All Fall Down – Ally Carter
  • Ready Player One – Ernest Cline
  • The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins
  • Catching Fire – Suzanne Collins
  • Words in Deep Blue – Cath Crowley
  • The Maze Runner – James Dashner
  • Legendborn – Tracy Deonn
  • The Moon and More – Sarah Dessen
  • Once and For All – Sarah Dessen
  • I Was Here – Gayle Forman
  • If I Stay – Gayle Forman
  • Only Mostly Devastated – Sophie Gonzales
  • The Fault in Our Stars – John Green
  • Turtles All The Way Down – John Green
  • To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before – Jenny Han
  • The Eleventh Plague – Jeff Hirsch
  • Will Grayson, Will Grayson – David Levithan
  • A Court of Thorns and Roses – Sarah J. Maas
  • The Female of the Species – Mindy McGinnis
  • Cousins – Karen McManus
  • One of Us Is Lying – Karen McManus
  • One of Us Is Next – Karen McManus
  • Two Can Keep A Secret – Karen McManus
  • You’ll Be the Death of Me – Karen McManus
  • Dumplin’ – Julie Murphy
  • Loop – Ben Oliver
  • Before I Fall – Lauren Oliver
  • Dorothy Must Die – Danielle Paige
  • Eragon – Christopher Paolini
  • First Love – James Patterson
  • Charming as a Verb – Ben Philippe
  • Five Total Strangers – Natalie Richards
  • Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children – Ransom Riggs
  • Divergent – Veronica Roth
  • Insurgent – Veronica Roth
  • Eleanor & Park – Rainbow Rowell
  • Four Dead Queens – Astrid Scholte
  • Dry – Neal Shusterman
  • The Both Die at the End – Adam Silvera
  • Teen Killers Club – Lily Sparks
  • Dear Martin – Nic Stone
  • An Ember in the Ashes – Sabaa Tahir
  • A Torch Against the Night – Sabaa Tahir
  • On the Come Up – Angie Thomas
  • The Sun is Also a Star – Nicola Yoon
  • The Book Thief – Martin Zusak