To engage in an intelligent conversation in high school, you need to read these books:

Beowulf

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams

2

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Sherman Alexie

Speak

Laurie Halse Anderson

Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World

Jennifer Armstrong

I, Robot

Isaac Asimov

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Frank L. Baum

Fahrenheit 451

Something Wicked This Way Comes

Ray Bradbury

Ender’s Game

Orson Scott Card

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Through the Looking Glass

Lewis Carroll

The Awakening

Kate Chopin

The Infernal Devices Trilogy

Cassandra Clare

The Hunger Games Trilogy

Susanne Collins

The Chocolate War

Robert Cormier

Getting Away with Murder: The True

Story of the Emmett Till Case

Chris Crowe

Running Loose

Chris Crutcher

The Little Prince

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens

Keesha’s House

Helen Frost

Looking for Alaska

John Greene

Dune

Frank Herbert

First Part Last

Angela Johnson

Howl’s Moving Castle

Diana Wynne Jones

Batman (original)

Bob Kane

A Separate Peace

John Knowles

The Far Side

Gary Larson

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

The Call of the Wild

Jack London

To engage in an intelligent conversation in high

school, you need to read these books:

Beowulf

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams

2

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Sherman Alexie

Speak

Laurie Halse Anderson

Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World

Jennifer Armstrong

I, Robot

Isaac Asimov

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Frank L. Baum

Fahrenheit 451

Something Wicked This Way Comes

Ray Bradbury

Ender’s Game

Orson Scott Card

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Through the Looking Glass

Lewis Carroll

The Awakening

Kate Chopin

The Infernal Devices Trilogy

Cassandra Clare

The Hunger Games Trilogy

Susanne Collins

The Chocolate War

Robert Cormier

Getting Away with Murder: The True

Story of the Emmett Till Case

Chris Crowe

Running Loose

Chris Crutcher

The Little Prince

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens

Keesha’s House

Helen Frost

Looking for Alaska

John Greene

Dune

Frank Herbert

First Part Last

Angela Johnson

Howl’s Moving Castle

Diana Wynne Jones

Batman (original)

Bob Kane

A Separate Peace

John Knowles

The Far Side

Gary Larson

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

The Call of the Wild

Jack London

To engage in an intelligent conversation in high

school, you need to read these books:

Beowulf

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams

2

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Sherman Alexie

Speak

Laurie Halse Anderson

Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World

Jennifer Armstrong

I, Robot

Isaac Asimov

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Frank L. Baum

Fahrenheit 451

Something Wicked This Way Comes

Ray Bradbury

Ender’s Game

Orson Scott Card

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Through the Looking Glass

Lewis Carroll

The Awakening

Kate Chopin

The Infernal Devices Trilogy

Cassandra Clare

The Hunger Games Trilogy

Susanne Collins

The Chocolate War

Robert Cormier

Getting Away with Murder: The True

Story of the Emmett Till Case

Chris Crowe

Running Loose

Chris Crutcher

The Little Prince

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens

Keesha’s House

Helen Frost

Looking for Alaska

John Greene

Dune

Frank Herbert

First Part Last

Angela Johnson

Howl’s Moving Castle

Diana Wynne Jones

Batman (original)

Bob Kane

A Separate Peace

John Knowles

The Far Side

Gary Larson

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

The Call of the Wild

Jack London

The Giver

Lois Lowry

Lonesome Dove

Larry McMurtry

White Lilacs

Carolyn Meyer

The Lunar Chronicles

Marissa Meyer

Twilight Saga

Stephanie Meyer

Monster

Walter Dean Myers

A Monster Calls

The Knife of Never Letting Go

Patrick Ness

1984

George Orwell

Wonder

R.J. Palacio

Pink and Say

Patricia Polacco

Eleanor and Park

Rainbow Rowell

Harry Potter and the… 1-7

J.K. Rowling

Holes

Louis Sachar

Between Shades of Gray

Ruta Sepetys

Unwind

Neal Shusterman

Plays and Sonnets of

William Shakespeare

A Series of Unfortunate Events

Lemony Snicket

Stop Pretending: What Happened

When My Sister Went Crazy

Sonya Sones

Who Moved My Cheese?

John Spencer

Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson

The Scorpio Races

The Raven Cycle

Maggie Stiefvater

With Their Eyes: The View from a

High School at Ground Zero

Annie Thoms, editor

The Hobbit

Lord of the Rings Trilogy

J.R.R Tolkien

Faithful Elephants: A True Story of Animals,

People and War

Yukio Tsuchiya

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain

The Time Machine

H. G. Wells

Charlotte’s Web

E.B. White

The Once and Future King Series

T. H. White

The Giver

Lois Lowry

Lonesome Dove

Larry McMurtry

White Lilacs

Carolyn Meyer

The Lunar Chronicles

Marissa Meyer

Twilight Saga

Stephanie Meyer

Monster

Walter Dean Myers

A Monster Calls

The Knife of Never Letting Go

Patrick Ness

1984

George Orwell

Wonder

R.J. Palacio

Pink and Say

Patricia Polacco

Eleanor and Park

Rainbow Rowell

Harry Potter and the… 1-7

J.K. Rowling

Holes

Louis Sachar

Between Shades of Gray

Ruta Sepetys

Unwind

Neal Shusterman

Plays and Sonnets of

William Shakespeare

A Series of Unfortunate Events

Lemony Snicket

Stop Pretending: What Happened

When My Sister Went Crazy

Sonya Sones

Who Moved My Cheese?

John Spencer

Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson

The Scorpio Races

The Raven Cycle

Maggie Stiefvater

With Their Eyes: The View from a

High School at Ground Zero

Annie Thoms, editor

The Hobbit

Lord of the Rings Trilogy

J.R.R Tolkien

Faithful Elephants: A True Story of Animals,

People and War

Yukio Tsuchiya

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain

The Time Machine

H. G. Wells

Charlotte’s Web

E.B. White

The Once and Future King Series

T. H. White

The Giver

Lois Lowry

Lonesome Dove

Larry McMurtry

White Lilacs

Carolyn Meyer

The Lunar Chronicles

Marissa Meyer

Twilight Saga

Stephanie Meyer

Monster

Walter Dean Myers

A Monster Calls

The Knife of Never Letting Go

Patrick Ness

1984

George Orwell

Wonder

R.J. Palacio

Pink and Say

Patricia Polacco

Eleanor and Park

Rainbow Rowell

Harry Potter and the… 1-7

J.K. Rowling

Holes

Louis Sachar

Between Shades of Gray

Ruta Sepetys

Unwind

Neal Shusterman

Plays and Sonnets of

William Shakespeare

A Series of Unfortunate Events

Lemony Snicket

Stop Pretending: What Happened

When My Sister Went Crazy

Sonya Sones

Who Moved My Cheese?

John Spencer

Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson

The Scorpio Races

The Raven Cycle

Maggie Stiefvater

With Their Eyes: The View from a

High School at Ground Zero

Annie Thoms, editor

The Hobbit

Lord of the Rings Trilogy

J.R.R Tolkien

Faithful Elephants: A True Story of Animals,

People and War

Yukio Tsuchiya

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain

The Time Machine

H. G. Wells

Charlotte’s Web

E.B. White

The Once and Future King Series

T. H. White