High School Reading List
Literary Fiction
- Animal Farm, George Orwell
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick
- Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
- Bodega Dreams, Ernesto Quiñonez
- Lemon, Kwon Yeo-Sun
- Before the Coffee Gets Cold, Toshikazu Kawaguchi
- Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
- Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
- Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
- Lord of the Flies, William Golding
- Clara Luz, Jorge Eliécer Pardo
- Everything I Never Told You, Celeste Ng
- Exit West, Mohsin Hamid
- The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz
- We Are Okay, Nina LaCour
- Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel
- 1984, George Orwell
- Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
- The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
- The Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri
- The Stars Beneath Our Feet, David Barclay Moore
- The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, Holly Jackson
Historical Fiction
- The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien
- Fences, August Wilson
- Lilac Girls, Martha Hall Kelly
- All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
- The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt
- Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie
- A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
Non-Fiction
- The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer
- The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia, Candace Fleming
- Crying in H-Mart, Michelle Zauner
- Brown Girl Dreaming By Jacqueline Woodson
- Bring It, Ken Jennings
- The Vast Wonder of the World: Biologist Ernest Everett Just, Melina Mengal
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot
- Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood, Trevor Noah
- The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Elizabeth Kolbert
- Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, Susan Cain
- The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story, Richard Preston
- Educated, Tara Westover
- The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Elizabeth Kolbert
