“What are the best books to read in High School?” We looked at 371 of the top books, aggregating and ranking them so we could answer that very question!
The top 28 books, all appearing on 4 or more, “Best High School” book lists, are ranked below by how many times they appear. The books include images, descriptions, and links. The remaining 225+ books, as well as the lists we used, are in alphabetical order on the bottom of the page.
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“Fifty years after its original publication, Catch-22 remains a cornerstone of American literature and one of the funniest—and most celebrated—books of all time. In recent years it has been named to “best novels” lists by Time, Newsweek, the Modern Library, and the London Observer.
Set in Italy during World War II, this is the story of the incomparable, malingering bombardier, Yossarian, a hero who is furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him. But his real problem is not the enemy—it is his own army, which keeps increasing the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service. Yet if Yossarian makes any attempt to excuse himself from the perilous missions he’s assigned, he’ll be in violation of Catch-22, a hilariously sinister bureaucratic rule: a man is considered insane if he willingly continues to fly dangerous combat missions, but if he makes a formal request to be removed from duty, he is proven sane and therefore ineligible to be relieved. “
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Mary Shelley’s groundbreaking classic—begun as a ghost story for friends—is a potent blend of science fiction and horror that has inspired countless movie and other adaptations. Nothing, however, equals the depth and beauty of Shelley’s original, which emains as relevant as ever. In his arrogance, Dr. Victor Frankenstein dreams of discovering the very secret of life…and he succeeds, bringing a new creature into existence. But should man ever play God—and if he does, what does he owe his creation?
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Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations charts the course of orphan Pip Pirrip’s life as it is transformed by a vast, mysterious inheritance. A terrifying encounter with the escaped convict Abel Magwitch in a graveyard on the wild Kent marshes; a summons to meet the bitter, decrepit Miss Havisham and her beautiful, cold-hearted ward Estella at Satis House; the sudden generosity of a mysterious benefactor – these form a series of events that change the orphaned Pip’s life forever, and he eagerly abandons his humble station as an apprentice to blacksmith Joe Gargery, beginning a new life as a gentleman. Charles Dickens’s haunting late novel depicts Pip’s education and development through adversity as he discovers the true nature of his identity, and his ‘great expectations’. This definitive version uses the text from the first published edition of 1861. It includes a map of Kent in the early nineteenth century, and appendices on Dickens’s original ending and his working notes, giving readers an illuminating glimpse into the mind of a great novelist at work.
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A novel of intense power and intrigue, Jane Eyre has dazzled generations of readers with its depiction of a woman’s quest for freedom. Having grown up an orphan in the home of her cruel aunt and at a harsh charity school, Jane Eyre becomes an independent and spirited survivor-qualities that serve her well as governess at Thornfield Hall. But when she finds love with her sardonic employer, Rochester, the discovery of his terrible secret forces her to make a choice. Should she stay with him whatever the consequences or follow her convictions, even if it means leaving her beloved? This updated Penguin Classics edition features a new introduction by Brontë scholar and award-winning novelist Stevie Davies, as well as comprehensive notes, a chronology, further reading, and an appendix.
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In this classic novel, Ken Kesey’s hero is Randle Patrick McMurphy, a boisterous, brawling, fun-loving rebel who swaggers into the world of a mental hospital and takes over. A lusty, life-affirming fighter, McMurphy rallies the other patients around him by challenging the dictatorship of Nurse Ratched. He promotes gambling in the ward, smuggles in wine and women, and openly defies the rules at every turn. But this defiance, which starts as a sport, soon develops into a grim struggle, an all-out war between two relentless opponents: Nurse Ratched, backed by the full power of authority, and McMurphy, who has only his own indomitable will. What happens when Nurse Ratched uses her ultimate weapon against McMurphy provides the story’s shocking climax.
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“Persepolis is the story of Satrapi’s unforgettable childhood and coming of age within a large and loving family in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution; of the contradictions between private life and public life in a country plagued by political upheaval; of her high school years in Vienna facing the trials of adolescence far from her family; of her homecoming–both sweet and terrible; and, finally, of her self-imposed exile from her beloved homeland. It is the chronicle of a girlhood and adolescence at once outrageous and familiar, a young life entwined with the history of her country yet filled with the universal trials and joys of growing up.
Edgy, searingly observant, and candid, often heartbreaking but threaded throughout with raw humor and hard-earned wisdom–Persepolis is a stunning work from one of the most highly regarded, singularly talented graphic artists at work today.”
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“One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell by chance into the hands of the hobbit Bilbo Baggins.
From Sauron’s fastness in the Dark Tower of Mordor, his power spread far and wide. Sauron gathered all the Great Rings to him, but always he searched for the One Ring that would complete his dominion.
When Bilbo reached his eleventy-first birthday he disappeared, bequeathing to his young cousin Frodo the Ruling Ring and a perilous quest: to journey across Middle-earth, deep into the shadow of the Dark Lord, and destroy the Ring by casting it into the Cracks of Doom.”
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“First published in 1850, The Scarlet Letter is Nathaniel Hawthorne’s masterpiece and one of the greatest American novels. Its themes of sin, guilt, and redemption, woven through a story of adultery in the early days of the Massachusetts Colony, are revealed with remarkable psychological penetration and understanding of the human heart.
Hester Prynne is the adulteress, forced by the Puritan community to wear a scarlet letter A on the breast of her gown. Arthur Dimmesdale, the minister and the secret father of her child, Pearl, struggles with the agony of conscience and his own weakness. Roger Chillingworth, Hester’s husband, revenges himself on Dimmesdale by calculating assaults on the frail mental state of the conscience-stricken cleric. The result is an American tragedy of stark power and emotional depth that has mesmerized critics and readers for nearly a century and a half.”
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Things Fall Apart is the first of three novels in Chinua Achebe’s critically acclaimed African Trilogy. It is a classic narrative about Africa’s cataclysmic encounter with Europe as it establishes a colonial presence on the continent. Told through the fictional experiences of Okonkwo, a wealthy and fearless Igbo warrior of Umuofia in the late 1800s, Things Fall Apart explores one man’s futile resistance to the devaluing of his Igbo traditions by British political andreligious forces and his despair as his community capitulates to the powerful new order.
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Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families.
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Slaughterhous-Five is one of the world’s great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim’s odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know.
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“The first ten lies they tell you in high school.
“”Speak up for yourself–we want to know what you have to say.”” From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless, outcast, because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to her. As time passes, she becomes increasingly isolated and practically stops talking altogether. Only her art class offers any solace, and it is through her work on an art project that she is finally able to face what really happened at that terrible party: she was raped by an upperclassman, a guy who still attends Merryweather and is still a threat to her. Her healing process has just begun when she has another violent encounter with him. But this time Melinda fights back, refuses to be silent, and thereby achieves a measure of vindication. In Laurie Halse Anderson’s powerful novel, an utterly believable heroine with a bitterly ironic voice delivers a blow to the hypocritical world of high school. She speaks for many a disenfranchised teenager while demonstrating the importance of speaking up for oneself.”
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“It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still.
Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist–books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement.
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The critically acclaimed debut novel from Stephen Chbosky, Perks follows observant “wallflower” Charlie as he charts a course through the strange world between adolescence and adulthood. First dates, family drama, and new friends. Sex, drugs, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Devastating loss, young love, and life on the fringes. Caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it, Charlie must learn to navigate those wild and poignant roller-coaster days known as growing up.
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George Orwell’s famous satire of the Soviet Union, in which “all animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
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“They are an unlikely pair: George is “”small and quick and dark of face””; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a “”family,”” clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation.
Laborers in California’s dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. For George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can call their own. When they land jobs on a ranch in the Salinas Valley, the fulfillment of their dream seems to be within their grasp. But even George cannot guard Lennie from the provocations of a flirtatious woman, nor predict the consequences of Lennie’s unswerving obedience to the things George taught him.”
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Few have failed to be charmed by the witty and independent spirit of Elizabeth Bennet in Austen’s beloved classic Pride and Prejudice. When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, she is determined to dislike him more than ever. In the sparkling comedy of manners that follows, Jane Austen shows us the folly of judging by first impressions and superbly evokes the friendships, gossip and snobberies of provincial middle-class life.
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The novel’s preeminence derives from its wonderfully imaginative re-creation of boyhood adventures along the Mississippi River, its inspired characterization, the author’s remarkable ear for dialogue, and the book’s understated development of serious underlying themes: “natural” man versus “civilized” society, the evils of slavery, the innate value and dignity of human beings, and other topics. Most of all, Huckleberry Finn is a wonderful story, filled with high adventure and unforgettable characters.
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In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. Long ago the districts waged war on the Capitol and were defeated. As part of the surrender terms, each district agreed to send one boy and one girl to appear in an annual televised event called, “The Hunger Games,” a fight to the death on live TV. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives alone with her mother and younger sister, regards it as a death sentence when she is forced to represent her district in the Games. The terrain, rules, and level of audience participation may change but one thing is constant: kill or be killed.
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“Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future.
Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden.
Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But then he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television.
When Mildred attempts suicide and Clarisse suddenly disappears, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known. He starts hiding books in his home, and when his pilfering is discovered, the fireman has to run for his life.”
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First published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads—driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots evolves a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, elemental yet plainspoken, tragic but ultimately stirring in its human dignity. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man’s fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman’s stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. At once a naturalistic epic, captivity narrative, road novel, and transcendental gospel, Steinbeck’s powerful landmark novel is perhaps the most American of American Classics.
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One of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth century, Their Eyes Were Watching God brings to life a Southern love story with the wit and pathos found only in the writing of Zora Neale Hurston. Out of print for almost thirty years—due largely to initial audiences’ rejection of its strong black female protagonist—Hurston’s classic has since its 1978 reissue become perhaps the most widely read and highly acclaimed novel in the canon of African-American literature.
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Aldous Huxley’s profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order–all at the cost of our freedom, full humanity, and perhaps also our souls.
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As provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, Lord of the Flies continues to ignite passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature. William Golding’s compelling story about a group of very ordinary boys marooned on a coral island has been labeled a parable, an allegory, a myth, a morality tale, a parody, a political treatise, and even a vision of the apocalypse. But above all, it has earned its place as one of the indisputable classics of the twentieth century for readers of any age.
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“The hero-narrator of THE CATCHER IN THE RYE is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days.
The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he was born in the world not just strongly attracted to beauty but, almost, hopelessly impaled on it.
There are many voices in this novel: children’s voices, adult voices, underground voices–but Holden’s voice is the most eloquent of all. Transcending his own vernacular, yet remaining marvelously faithful to it, he issues a perfectly articulated cry of mixed pain and pleasure. However, like most lovers and clowns and poets of the higher orders, he keeps most of the pain to, and for, himself. The pleasure he gives away, or sets aside, with all his heart. It is there for the reader who can handle it to keep.”
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“Winston Smith toes the Party line, rewriting history to satisfy the demands of the Ministry of Truth. With each lie he writes, Winston grows to hate the Party that seeks power for its own sake and persecutes those who dare to commit thoughtcrimes. But as he starts to think for himself, Winston can’t escape the fact that Big Brother is always watching…
A startling and haunting vision of the world, 1984 is so powerful that it is completely convincing from start to finish. No one can deny the influence of this novel, its hold on the imaginations of multiple generations of readers, or the resiliency of its admonitions—a legacy that seems only to grow with the passage of time.”
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In planning his novel, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, “I want to write something new – something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned.” Working with anxiety and saw he feeling that it was the supreme test, he committed all his imaginative resources to the project. He eagerly awaited the reception of his masterpiece. T. S. Eliot immediately saw The Great Gatsby for what it was “the first step that American fiction has taken since Henry James,” however, the reviewers and public were not enthusiastic. Only in the subsequent years, after Fitzgerald’s death, has The Great Gatsby come be seen as perhaps the great 20th century American novel, and its protagonist, Jay Gatsby, as one of the truly mythological creations in American culture.
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One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than forty million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the twentieth century by librarians across the country. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a young girl, as her father—a crusading local lawyer—risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime.
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| 29 | A Clockwork Orange | Anthony Burgess | Canal Winchester Schools |
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| 30 | Death Of A Salesman | Betches | |
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| 31 | Dracula | Bram Stoker | Goodreads |
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| 32 | Ender’s Game | Orson Scott Card | Lexington Public Library |
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| 33 | Extremely Loud and Incredib… | Jonathan Safran Foer | Fab Fit Fun |
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| 34 | Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad | Flavorwire |
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| 35 | Looking for Alaska | John Green | BuzzFeed |
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| 36 | Macbeth | William Shakespeare | Goodreads |
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| Edutopia | |||
| 37 | Monster | Walter Dean Myers | Canal Winchester Schools |
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| 38 | The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath | Prep Scholar |
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| 39 | The Crucible | Arthur Miller | Goodreads |
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| 40 | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | Mark Haddon | BuzzFeed |
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| 41 | The Diary of a Young Girl | Anne Frank | Canal Winchester Schools |
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| 42 | The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | Lexington Public Library |
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| 43 | The Hobbit | J.R.R. Tolkien | Canal Winchester Schools |
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| 44 | The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini | Canal Winchester Schools |
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| 45 | The Old Man and the Sea | Ernest Hemingway | Canal Winchester Schools |
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| 46 | The Secret Life of Bees | Sue Monk Kidd | BuzzFeed |
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| Lexington Public Library | |||
| 47 | Thirteen Reasons Why | Jay Asher | BuzzFeed |
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| 48 | A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens | Goodreads |
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| 49 | A Farewell to Arms | Ernest Hemingway | Flavorwire |
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| 50 | A Prayer for Owen Meany | John Irving | BuzzFeed |
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| 51 | A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens | Canal Winchester Schools |
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| 52 | A Thousand Splendid Suns | Khaled Hosseini | Canal Winchester Schools |
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| 53 | All Quiet on the Western Front | Erich Maria Remarque | Canal Winchester Schools |
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| 54 | Black Like Me | John Howard Griffin | Canal Winchester Schools |
| Lexington Public Library | |||
| 55 | Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee | Alexander Dee Brown | Canal Winchester Schools |
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| 56 | Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? | Philip K. Dick | Goodreads |
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| 57 | Dune | Frank Herbert | Goodreads |
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| 58 | East of Eden | John Steinbeck | Modern Mrs Darcy |
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| 59 | Fast Food Nation : The Dark Side Of The All-American Meal | Eric Schlosser | Lexington Public Library |
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| 60 | Flowers for Algernon | Daniel Keyes | Prep Scholar |
| Lexington Public Library | |||
| 61 | For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf | Ntozake Shange | Prep Scholar |
| Lexington Public Library | |||
| 62 | Go Ask Alice | Beatrice Sparks | Goodreads |
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| 63 | Gone With The Wind | Margaret Mitchell | Goodreads |
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| 64 | Gulliver’s Travels | Jonathan Swift | Tes |
| Canal Winchester Schools | |||
| 65 | Hamlet | William Shakespeare | Goodreads |
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| 66 | I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings | Maya Angelou | Goodreads |
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| 67 | Life of Pi | Yann Martel | Penny Kittle |
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| 68 | Little Brother | Cory Doctorow | Goodreads |
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| 69 | Maus I : A Survivor’s Tale : My Father Bleeds History | Art Spiegelman | Lexington Public Library |
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| 70 | Mrs. Dalloway | Virginia Woolf | Flavorwire |
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| 71 | Native Son | Richard A. Wright | Canal Winchester Schools |
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| 72 | Night | Elie Wiesel | Goodreads |
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| 73 | Oedipus Rex | Sophocles | Goodreads |
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| 74 | Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens | Canal Winchester Schools |
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| 75 | Siddhartha | Hermann Hesse | Canal Winchester Schools |
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| 76 | The Alchemist | Paulo Coelho | Goodreads |
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| 77 | The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope | William Kamkwamba | Penny Kittle |
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| 78 | The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao | Junot Díaz | Penny Kittle |
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| 79 | The Handmaid’s Tale | Margaret Atwood | BuzzFeed |
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| 80 | The Martian Chronicles | Ray Bradbury | Goodreads |
| Penny Kittle | |||
| 81 | The Odyssey | Homer | Prep Scholar |
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| 82 | The Outsiders | S.E. Hinton | Goodreads |
| Lexington Public Library | |||
| 83 | The Picture of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde | Betches |
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| 84 | The Poisonwood Bible | Barbara Kingsolver | BuzzFeed |
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| 85 | The Princess Bride | William Goldman; Michael Manomivibul (Illustrator) | Spring Share |
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| 86 | The Stranger | Albert Camus | Betches |
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| 87 | The Things They Carried | Tim O’Brien | Thought Co. |
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| 88 | Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson | Canal Winchester Schools |
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| 89 | Water for Elephants | Sara Gruen | BuzzFeed |
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| 90 | Wuthering Heights | Emily Bronte | Tes |
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| 91 | 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East | Naomi Shihab Nye | Canal Winchester Schools |
| 92 | 90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Life and Death | Don Piper & Cecil Murphy | Canal Winchester Schools |
| 93 | A Bottle in the Gaza Sea | Valerie Zenatti | Penny Kittle |
| 94 | A Child Called “It” : One Child’s Courage To Survive | Lexington Public Library | |
| 95 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court | Mark Twain | Canal Winchester Schools |
| 96 | A Gracious Plenty | Sheri Reynolds | Canal Winchester Schools |
| 97 | A Hand Full of Stars | Rafik Schami translated | Penny Kittle |
| 98 | A Kestrel for a Knave | Barry Hines | Tes |
| 99 | A Lesson Before Dying | Ernest J. Gaines | Goodreads |
| 100 | A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier | Ishmael Beah | Canal Winchester Schools |
| 101 | A Midsummer Night’s Dream | William Shakespeare | Goodreads |
| 102 | A Modest Proposal | Jonathan Swift | Tes |
| 103 | A Monster Calls | Patrick Ness | Tes |
| 104 | A Passage to India | EM Forster | Tes |
| 105 | A People’s History of the U… | Howard Zinn | Goodreads |
| 106 | A River Runs Through It | Norman Maclean | Canal Winchester Schools |
| 107 | A Rose that Grew from Concrete | Tupac Shakur | Canal Winchester Schools |
| 108 | A Song of Ice and Fire series | George RR Martin | Tes |
| 109 | A Streetcar Named Desire | Lexington Public Library | |
| 110 | A Time to Dance | Bernard MacLaverty | Tes |
| 111 | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | Betty Smith | Goodreads |
| 112 | A Wrinkle In Time | Lexington Public Library | |
| 113 | Acceptance | Susan Coll | Bustle |
| 114 | After | Amy Efaw | Canal Winchester Schools |
| 115 | Alexander Hamilton | College Xpress | |
| 116 | Alice in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | Canal Winchester Schools |
| 117 | All the Truth That’s in Me | Julie Berry | Penny Kittle |
| 118 | Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream | Tanya Lee Stone | Penny Kittle |
| 119 | American Born Chinese | Lexington Public Library | |
| 120 | And Harry Potter | J.K. Rowling | BuzzFeed |
| 121 | Angels and Demons | Dan Brown | Canal Winchester Schools |
| 122 | Anita and Me | Meera Syal | Tes |
| 123 | Anne Frank : The Diary Of A Young Girl | Lexington Public Library | |
| 124 | Ape House : A Novel | Sara Gruen | Canal Winchester Schools |
| 125 | Around the World in Eighty Days | Jules Verne | Tes |
| 126 | As I Lay Dying | William Faulkner | Modern Mrs Darcy |
| 127 | As You Like It | William Shakespeare | Goodreads |
| 128 | Atlas Shrugged | Ayn Rand | Canal Winchester Schools |
| 129 | Atonement | Ian McEwan | Tes |
| 130 | Awkward | Svetlana Chmakova | Spring Share |
| 131 | Bartle | Herman Melville | Goodreads |
| 132 | Bastard out of Carolina | Dorothy Allison | Canal Winchester Schools |
| 133 | Beautiful Music for Ugly Children | Kirstin Cronn-Mills | Penny Kittle |
| 134 | Before Life Happened | Isabel Curtis | Goodreads |
| 135 | Being Jazz | Jazz Jennings (Read by) | Spring Share |
| 136 | Beloved | Toni Morrison | Canal Winchester Schools |
| 137 | Beneath a Meth Moon | Jacqueline Woodson | Bustle |
| 138 | Beneath My Mother’s Feet | Amjed Qamar | Penny Kittle |
| 139 | Bird | Anne Lamott | Goodreads |
| 140 | Birdsong | Sebastian Faulks | Tes |
| 141 | Black Paratroopers written | Tanya Lee Stone, published | Penny Kittle |
| 142 | Black Rain | Masuji Ibuse | Prep Scholar |
| 143 | Bless Me, Ultima | Rudolfo Anaya | Prep Scholar |
| 144 | Blue Gold | Elizabeth Stewart | Penny Kittle |
| 145 | Bluefish | Pat Schmatz | eSchool News |
| 146 | Bonfire of the Vanities | Tom Wolfe | Flavorwire |
| 147 | Bossypants | Tina Fey | BuzzFeed |
| 148 | Bradbury Stories: 100 of Hi… | Ray Bradbury | Goodreads |
| 149 | Brighton Rock | Graham Greene | Tes |
| 150 | Brotherhood | A.B. Westrick | Penny Kittle |
| 151 | Caramelo | Sandra Cisneros | Canal Winchester Schools |
| 152 | Carrie | Stephen King | Bustle |
| 153 | Carry the Sky | Kate Gray | Bustle |
| 154 | Catcher in the Rye | Edutopia | |
| 155 | Charlie & the Chocolate Factory | Roald Dahl | Canal Winchester Schools |
| 156 | Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter | Adeline Mah | Canal Winchester Schools |
| 157 | Chupacabra | Roland Smith | Penny Kittle |
| 158 | Cider with Rosie | Laurie Lee | Tes |
| 159 | Convicted in the Womb | Carl Upchurch | Penny Kittle |
| 160 | Courage Has No Color | Tanya Lee Stone | Penny Kittle |
| 161 | Cradle to Cradle: Remaking … | William McDonough | Goodreads |
| 162 | Crank | Lexington Public Library | |
| 163 | Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Goodreads |
| 164 | Criminals : A Novel | Margot Livesey | Canal Winchester Schools |
| 165 | Crush It! | Huffpost | |
| 166 | Danny, Champion of the World | Roald Dahl | Tes |
| 167 | Dare Me | Megan Abbott | Bustle |
| 168 | Deadline | Chris Crutcher | Canal Winchester Schools |
| 169 | Destined to Witness: Growing up Black in Nazi Germany | Hans J. Massaquoi | Penny Kittle |
| 170 | Does My Head Look Big in This? | Randa Abdel-Fattah | BuzzFeed |
| 171 | Dragonsong | Anne McCaffrey (Book One of Harper Hall Trilogy) | Penny Kittle |
| 172 | Dubliners | James Joyce | Tes |
| 173 | Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The … | Lynne Truss | Goodreads |
| 174 | Eleanor & Park | Rainbow Rowell | BuzzFeed |
| 175 | Emma | Jane Austen | Tes |
| 176 | Face | Benjamin Zephaniah | Tes |
| 177 | Feed | M.T. Anderson | Canal Winchester Schools |
| 178 | Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights and Other Identities | Anna Deveare Smith | Canal Winchester Schools |
| 179 | First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers | Loung Ung | Canal Winchester Schools |
| 180 | Forever | Judy Blume | Tes |
| 181 | Forgotten Fire | Adam Bagdasarian | Canal Winchester Schools |
| 182 | Freakonomics: A Rogue Econo… | Steven D. Levitt | Goodreads |
| 183 | Freedom | Jonathan Franzen | Fab Fit Fun |
| 184 | From the Barrio to the Board Room, or Mi Barrio | Robert Renteria | eSchool News |
| 185 | Funny How Things Change | Lexington Public Library | |
| 186 | Go: A Kidd’s Guide to Graphic Design | Chip Kidd, published by | Penny Kittle |
| 187 | Golden Boy | Tara Sullivan | Penny Kittle |
| 188 | Half Brother | Kenneth Oppel | Canal Winchester Schools |
| 189 | Half of a Yellow Sun | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | BuzzFeed |
| 190 | Have a Little Faith | Mitch Albom. | Canal Winchester Schools |
| 191 | High Fidelity | Nick Hornby | Canal Winchester Schools |
| 192 | Hiroshima | Plexuss | |
| 193 | His Dark Materials | Philip Pullman | Tes |
| 194 | Holes | Louis Sachar | Tes |
| 195 | House Rules | Jodi Picoult | eSchool News |
| 196 | How to Read Literature Like… | Thomas C. Foster | Goodreads |
| 197 | How To Win Friends and Influence People | Huffpost | |
| 198 | I am Four | Pittacus Lore | Penny Kittle |
| 199 | I Am Malala | Christina Lamb and Malala Yousafzai | BuzzFeed |
| 200 | I Am the Darker Brother: An Anthology of Modern Poems | African Americans | Canal Winchester Schools |
| 201 | I Was Jane Austen’s Best Friend | Cora Harrison | Canal Winchester Schools |
| 202 | Imprisoned: The Betrayal of Japanese Americans During WW11 | Martin Sandler | Penny Kittle |
| 203 | In Cold Blood | Plexuss | |
| 204 | In the Time of Butterflies | Julia Alvarez | Canal Winchester Schools |
| 205 | In the Unlikely Event | Judy Blume | Spring Share |
| 206 | Inside Out | Maria Snyder (Inside Out Series) | Penny Kittle |
| 207 | Invisible Man | Edutopia | |
| 208 | iSucceed | Huffpost | |
| 209 | James L. Swanson, published | Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. | Penny Kittle |
| 210 | Jasper Jones | Craig Silvey | BuzzFeed |
| 211 | Jesus Land | Julia Scheeres | Penny Kittle |
| 212 | John Adams | David McCullough | Canal Winchester Schools |
| 213 | Journey to the Center of the Earth | College Xpress | |
| 214 | Julius Caesar | William Shakespeare | Goodreads |
| 215 | Jumping off Swings | Johanna Knowles | Canal Winchester Schools |
| 216 | Just Listen : A Novel | Lexington Public Library | |
| 217 | Leaves of Grass | Walt Whitman | Goodreads |
| 218 | Les Miserables | Victor Hugo | Thought Co. |
| 219 | Liberal Media | John Stossel. | Canal Winchester Schools |
| 220 | Life is Funny | E.R. Frank | Canal Winchester Schools |
| 221 | Lindbergh | Scott A. Berg | Canal Winchester Schools |
| 222 | Little Women | Louisa May Alcott | Canal Winchester Schools |
| 223 | Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov | Canal Winchester Schools |
| 224 | Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger’s | John Elder Robison. | Canal Winchester Schools |
| 225 | Lord of the Rings | J.R.R. Tolkien | Canal Winchester Schools |
| 226 | Lucky | Alice Sebold | Canal Winchester Schools |
| 227 | MaddAddam | Margaret Atwood | Penny Kittle |
| 228 | Maus II: A Survivor’s Tale:… | Art Spiegelman | Goodreads |
| 229 | Med School Confidential: A Complete Guide to the Medical School Experience, | Students, for Students | Canal Winchester Schools |
| 230 | Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus | Huffpost | |
| 231 | Mere Christianity | C.S. Lewis | Goodreads |
| 232 | Midnight’s Children | Salaman Rushdie | Canal Winchester Schools |
| 233 | Moby Dick | Herman Melville | Canal Winchester Schools |
| 234 | Moonhead and the Music Machine | Andrew Rae | Bustle |
| 235 | Most Notorious Nazi | Neal Bascomb, published | Penny Kittle |
| 236 | My Family and Other Animals | Gerald Durrell | Tes |
| 237 | Never Let Me Go | Kazuo Ishiguro | Tes |
| 238 | Nick And Norah’s Infinite Playlist | Lexington Public Library | |
| 239 | Nineteen Minutes | Jodi Picoult | Goodreads |
| 240 | Ninjas Have Issues | Greg Stones | Spring Share |
| 241 | Notorious Nazi | Neal Bascomb | Penny Kittle |
| 242 | On the Road | Jack Kerouac | Canal Winchester Schools |
| 243 | On Writing: A Memoir of the… | Stephen King | Goodreads |
| 244 | Oryx and Crake | Margaret Atwood | BuzzFeed |
| 245 | Palace Walk | Naguib Mahfouz | Penny Kittle |
| 246 | Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida | Victor Martinez | Penny Kittle |
| 247 | Percy Jackson’s Greek Heroes | Rick Riordan; John Rocco (Illustrator) | Spring Share |
| 248 | Postcards from No Man’s Land | Aidan Chambers | Canal Winchester Schools |
| 249 | Prep | Curtis Sittenfeld | Bustle |
| 250 | Private Peaceful | Michael Morpurgo | Tes |
| 251 | Proxy | Alex London | Penny Kittle |
| 252 | Push | Jacqueline Woodson | Canal Winchester Schools |
| 253 | Raising Stony Mayhall | Daryl Gregory | eSchool News |
| 254 | Reading Between the Lines | Thomas Foster | Canal Winchester Schools |
| 255 | Red Hot Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Being Young and Latino in the United States | Lori | Penny Kittle |
| 256 | Refugee Boy | Benjamin Zephaniah | Tes |
| 257 | Rich Dad, Poor Dad | Huffpost | |
| 258 | Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe | Canal Winchester Schools |
| 259 | Room : A Novel | Emily Donohue | Canal Winchester Schools |
| 260 | Roots | Alex Haley | Canal Winchester Schools |
| 261 | Rose Under Fire | Elizabeth Wein | Penny Kittle |
| 262 | Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead | Tom Stoppard | Modern Mrs Darcy |
| 263 | Scan | Sarah Fine and Walter Jury | Penny Kittle |
| 264 | Sea of Poppies | Amitav Ghosh | Penny Kittle |
| 265 | Shaken | Eric Walters | Penny Kittle |
| 266 | She’s Come Undone | Wally Lamb | BuzzFeed |
| 267 | Shizuko’s Daughter | Kyoko Mori | Penny Kittle |
| 268 | Sing You Home | Jodi Picoult | Canal Winchester Schools |
| 269 | Skellig | David Almond | Tes |
| 270 | Smoke and Ashes: The Story of the Holocaust | Barbara Rogasky | Canal Winchester Schools |
| 271 | Sold | Lexington Public Library | |
| 272 | Special Topics in Calamity Physics | Marisha Pessl | Bustle |
| 273 | Speed of Dark | Elizabeth Moon | Penny Kittle |
| 274 | Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different, a biography | Karen Blumenthal | Penny Kittle |
| 275 | Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde | Robert Louis Stevenson | Tes |
| 276 | Students on Strike | John A. Stokes; Lois Wolfe (As told to); Herman J. Viola; Herman Viola | Spring Share |
| 277 | Tears Of A Tiger | Lexington Public Library | |
| 278 | Tess of the d’Urbervilles | Thomas Hardy | Tes |
| 279 | The 1963 Birmingham Children’s March | Cynthia Levinson | Penny Kittle |
| 280 | The Absolutely True Story of a Part-Time Indian | College Xpress | |
| 281 | The Artemis Fowl series | Eoin Colfer | Tes |
| 282 | The Autobiography of Malcolm X | Malcolm X | Goodreads |
| 283 | The Awakening | Kate Chopin | Prep Scholar |
| 284 | The Bald Soprano | Eugène Ionesco | Flavorwire |
| 285 | The Bean Trees | Barbara Kingsolver | Canal Winchester Schools |
| 286 | The Bluest Eye | Edutopia | |
| 287 | The Book Of Three | Lexington Public Library | |
| 288 | The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas | John Boyne | Tes |
| 289 | The Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoevsky | Canal Winchester Schools |
| 290 | The Color Purple | Alice Walker | eSchool News |
| 291 | The Compound Effect | Huffpost | |
| 292 | The Crazy Makers: How the Fook Industry is Destroying our Brains and Harming our Children | Carol | Canal Winchester Schools |
| 293 | The DaVinci Code | Dan Brown | Canal Winchester Schools |
| 294 | The Difference Maker | Huffpost | |
| 295 | The Discworld series | Terry Pratchett | Tes |
| 296 | The Ecological Rift | John Bellamy Foster | Goodreads |
| 297 | The Farming of Bones | Edwidge Danticat | Canal Winchester Schools |
| 298 | The Fault In Our Stars | John Green | Tes |
| 299 | The Fifth Wave | Rick Yancey | Penny Kittle |
| 300 | The First Part Last | Lexington Public Library | |
| 301 | The Giver | Lois Lowry | Goodreads |
| 302 | The Glass Castle | Jeannette Walls | BuzzFeed |
| 303 | The Good Braider | Terry Farish | Penny Kittle |
| 304 | The Great Divorce | C.S. Lewis | Goodreads |
| 305 | The Harry Potter Series | JK Rowling | Tes |
| 306 | The Help | Kathryn Stockett | Canal Winchester Schools |
| 307 | The House of the Scorpion | Nancy Farmer | Goodreads |
| 308 | The House on Mango Street | Sandra Cisneros | Penny Kittle |
| 309 | The Iliad | Homer | Goodreads |
| 310 | The Inventor’s Secret (The Inventor’s Secret #1) | Andrea Cremer | Penny Kittle |
| 311 | The Iron Breed | Andre Norton | Penny Kittle |
| 312 | The Joy Luck Club | Amy Tan | Prep Scholar |
| 313 | The Lessons of History | Huffpost | |
| 314 | The Lightning Thief | Rick Riordan | Goodreads |
| 315 | The Lion, the Witch and the… | C.S. Lewis | Goodreads |
| 316 | The Lives of Tao | Wesley Chu | Penny Kittle |
| 317 | The Long Earth | Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter | Penny Kittle |
| 318 | The Magic of Thinking Big | Huffpost | |
| 319 | The Mayor of Casterbridge | Thomas Hardy | Tes |
| 320 | The Merchant of Venice | William Shakespeare | Goodreads |
| 321 | The Metamorphosis | Kafka | Canal Winchester Schools |
| 322 | The New Kids | Brooke Hauser | Spring Share |
| 323 | The Norton Anthology Series | Flavorwire | |
| 324 | The Noughts and Crosses trilogy | Malorie Blackman | Tes |
| 325 | The Ocean at the End of the Lane | Neil Gaiman | Spring Share |
| 326 | The Once and Future King | College Xpress | |
| 327 | The Prisoner’s Wife | asha bandele | Penny Kittle |
| 328 | The Queen of Water | Laura Resau | Penny Kittle |
| 329 | The Raven and Other Poems | Edgar Allan Poe | Goodreads |
| 330 | The Return of the King | J.R.R. Tolkien | Goodreads |
| 331 | The Road | Edutopia | |
| 332 | The Sandman. Volume 1, Preludes & Nocturnes | Lexington Public Library | |
| 333 | The Sherlock Holmes series | Arthur Conan Doyle | Tes |
| 334 | The Testing (The Testing Trilogy Series #1) | Joelle Charbonneau | Penny Kittle |
| 335 | The Two Towers | J.R.R. Tolkien | Goodreads |
| 336 | The Ugly American | Eugene Burdick and William Lederer | Prep Scholar |
| 337 | The Ultimate Gift | Huffpost | |
| 338 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel | Milan Kundera | Canal Winchester Schools |
| 339 | The Virgin Suicides | Jeffrey Eugenides | Bustle |
| 340 | The War Within These Walls | Aline Sax | Penny Kittle |
| 341 | The Wolves of Currumpaw | William Grill (Illustrator) | Spring Share |
| 342 | The Yearling | Marjorie Kinnans Rawlings | Canal Winchester Schools |
| 343 | This Changes Everything: Ca… | Naomi Klein | Goodreads |
| 344 | This I Believe: The Persona… | Jay Allison | Goodreads |
| 345 | Through My Eyes | Ruby Bridges | Penny Kittle |
| 346 | Timebound (The Chronos Files, Book 1) | Rysa Walker | Penny Kittle |
| 347 | Titanic: Voices from the Disaster | Deborah Hopkinson | Penny Kittle |
| 348 | To the Lighthouse | Virginia Woolf | Canal Winchester Schools |
| 349 | Traffik | Norman Jean Roy and Mariane Pearl | Penny Kittle |
| 350 | True Letters from a Fictional Life | Kenneth Logan | Spring Share |
| 351 | Tuesdays with Morrie | Mitch Albom | Goodreads |
| 352 | Twilight | Lexington Public Library | |
| 353 | Uglies | Scott Westerfeld | BuzzFeed |
| 354 | Waiting | Ha Jin | Penny Kittle |
| 355 | Walden and Other Writings | Henry David Thoreau | Goodreads |
| 356 | War Horse | Michael Morpurgo | Tes |
| 357 | Watchmen | Alan Moore | Goodreads |
| 358 | Whale Talk | Lexington Public Library | |
| 359 | What If? | Randall Munroe | Spring Share |
| 360 | When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit | Judith Kerr | Tes |
| 361 | White Teeth | Zadie Smith | Tes |
| 362 | Will Grayson, Will Grayson | John Green | Goodreads |
| 363 | Wise Blood | Flannery O’Connor | Canal Winchester Schools |
| 364 | Witch Hunt: Mysteries of the Salem Witch Trials | Marc Aronson | Canal Winchester Schools |
| 365 | Witches | Rosalyn Schanzer | Spring Share |
| 366 | Wonder | RJ Palacio | Tes |
| 367 | World War Z : An Oral History of the Zombie War | Max Brooks | Canal Winchester Schools |
| 368 | Writing Down the Bones: Fre… | Natalie Goldberg | Goodreads |
| 369 | You Killed Wesley Payne | Sean Beaudoin | Canal Winchester Schools |
| 370 | Your Path Ahead: Don’t Dig … | Jeff Smith | Goodreads |
| 371 | Zen in the Art of Writing | Ray Bradbury | Goodreads |
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| Bustle | 11 High School Books That Will Take You Back to Your Days in the Schoolyard |
| BuzzFeed | 26 Contemporary Books That Should Be Taught In High School |
| Canal Winchester Schools | Books You Should Read Before Graduating from High School |
| College Xpress | Great Books to Read This Summer if You’re in High School |
| Deseret News | Dust off one of these 21 classic books that you probably read in high school for National Read A Book Day |
| Edutopia | 20 Indispensable High School Reads |
| eSchool News | 10 books for high school summer reading |
| Fab Fit Fun | All the Best Books You Read in High School |
| Flavorwire | The Best Books We Were Assigned in High School |
| Goodreads | Best Books to Teach in high school |
| Huffpost | 11 Books Every High School Student Should Read |
| Lexington Public Library | 50 Books to Read in High School |
| Modern Mrs Darcy | 9 books you should have read in high school that are totally worth reading now. |
| Penny Kittle | Non-fiction Social Justice books for High School |
| Plexuss | 15 Books Every High School Student Should Read |
| Prep Scholar | The 31 Best Books to Read in High School |
| Spring Share | Best Books for Freshman High School Students |
| Tes | 100 fiction books all children should read before leaving secondary school – according to teachers |
| Thought Co. | Great Books from High School Summer Reading Lists |
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