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50 Books to Read in High School

This list includes classics as well as cultural phenomena, and you may find a great read you wouldn’t have immediately picked out for yourself!

The annotated Pride and prejudice
Looking for Alaska
Fahrenheit 451
1984 : a novel
The princess bride : S. Morgenstern's classic tale of true love and high adventure
Romeo and Juliet
Gone with the wind
Flowers for Algernon
Funny how things change
The hunger games
Little brother
Thirteen reasons why : a novel
The grapes of wrath
Black like me
A streetcar named desire
For colored girls who have considered suicide, when the rainbow is enuf : a choreopoem
American born Chinese
Sold
Native son
Nick and Norah's infinite playlist
Just listen : a novel
The book thief
I know why the caged bird sings
The bell jar
Twilight
To kill a mockingbird
Frankenstein
The book of three
Crank
Anne Frank : the diary of a young girl
The catcher in the rye
A child called "it" : one child's courage to survive
Ender's game
Fast food nation : the dark side of the all-American meal
The fellowship of the ring : being the first part of The Lord of the Rings
Go ask Alice
The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy
Lord of the flies : a novel
Maus I : a survivor's tale : my father bleeds history
Monster
The outsiders
The perks of being a wallflower
Persepolis
The Sandman. Volume 1, Preludes & nocturnes
The secret life of bees
Speak
Tears of a tiger
A wrinkle in time
Pride and prejudice