[Solution] Reading Material – 13 December 2021

As clued by the flavor text, each of these books is part of a series. We start by finding the name of that series (without any leading a/an/the) and the number of that book:

Boy-Crazy StaceyBaby-Sitters Club8*
Long HaulDiary of a Wimpy Kid9
Stay Out of the BasementGoosebumps2
On the Banks of Plum CreekLittle House on the Prairie4
Surprise IslandBoxcar Children2
New MoonTwilight2
Tyrannical Retaliation of the Turbo Toilet 2000Captain Underpants11
Prisoner of AzkabanHarry Potter3
Amber SpyglassHis Dark Materials3
Bad BeginningSeries of Unfortunate Events1
Midnight on the MoonMagic Treehouse8
Titan’s CursePercy Jackson and the Olympians3
InsurgentDivergent2
Yucky Blucky FruitcakeJunie B. Jones5
Brightest NightWings of Fire5

If we use the numbers to index into the names of the series, the clue phrase Two Towers Series is revealed. The Two Towers is the second book of The LORD OF THE RINGS.

Testsolving revealed that the graphic novels of The Baby-Sitters Club skip Claudia and Mean Janine, leaving Boy-Crazy Stacey as the seventh book. Fortunately, both the seventh and eighth letters give a T.