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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!

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