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