100+ Novels Every High School Student Should Read

posted on February 1, 2017 Introduction to Literature Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson A Child Called â€Å"It† by Dave Pelzer Crank by Ellen Hopkins Divergent by Veronica Roth Dune by Frank Herbert Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card The Fault in Our Stars by John Green The Giver by Lois Lowry The Harry Potter series by J K Rowling The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins His Dark Materials series by Philip Pullman The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams House of Night series by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast Little Brother by Cory Doctorow Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds Lord of the Flies by William Golding The Maze Runner series by James Dashner Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs The Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare The Princess Bride by  William Goldman The Princess Diaries series by Meg Cabot Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson Speak: The Graphic Novel by  Laurie Halse Anderson Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt Twilight by Stephanie Meyer American Literature The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and  Brendan Kiely American Born Chinese by  Gene Luen Yang Anthem by Ayn Rand The Autobiography of Malcolm X  as told to Alex Haley The Call of the Wild by Jack London Catch-22 by Joseph Heller The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger Challenger Deep by  Neal Shusterman The Color Purple by Alice Walker Crank series by Ellen Hopkins Delirium series by Lauren Oliver Dragonwings by  Laurence Yep Dreamland Burning by Jennifer Latham Every Day by  David Levithan Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury The Fault In Our Stars by John Green Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes Go Ask Alice by Anonymous Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas The Help by Kathryn Stockett Holes by Louis Sachar The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison Jubilee by Margaret Walker Julie of the Wolves by  Jean Craighead George Little Women by Louisa May Alcott Looking for Alaska by John Green My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave by Frederick Douglass The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton Paper Towns by John Green The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky Rethinking Normal: A Memoir in Transition by Katie Rain Hill Roots by Alex Haley The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series by Ann Brashares Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee World Literature 1984: A Novel by George Orwell Americanah by  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne The Book Thief by Markus Zusak The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne Brave New World by Aldous Huxley A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess Dracula by Bram Stoker The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini Life of Pi by Yann Martel The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce British Literature Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens Pride And Prejudice by Jane Austen The Sherlock Holmes series by Arthur Conan Doyle Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (especially if you’re a Twilight fan)    Michelle WatersI am a secondary English Language Arts teacher, a University of Oklahoma student working on my Master’s of Education in Instructional Leadership and Academic Curriculum with an concentration in English Education, and a NBPTS candidate. I am constantly seeking ways to amplify my students’ voices and choices.