Below is a list of suggested novels. These books are popular amongst high school
students and many of them can be found on the summer reading lists given out at other
high schools. The College Board’s recommended SAT reading list is also found below.
The books on these lists are merely suggestions. Students are not limited to these
books.
Summer Reading List
Albom, Mitch
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Tuesdays with Morrie
Anderson, Laurie Halse
Speak
Twisted
Angelou, Maya
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Asher, Jay
Thirteen Reasons Why
Bauer, Joan
Hope was Here
Bacigalupi, Paolo
Ship Breaker
Brooks, Max
World War Z
Cast, P. C.
All titles*
Chbosky, Stephen
Perks of Being a Wallflower
Clare, Cassandra
City of Angels
Glass
Bones
Ashes
Collins, Suzanne
Hunger Game Series*
Dashner, James
Maze Runner
Death Cure
Scorch Trials
Kill Order
Dessen, Sara
All titles*
Deuker, Carl
Gym Candy
Draper, Sharon
All titles*
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
The Great Gatsby
Friedman, Thomas
The World is Flat
Gaines, Ernest
A Lesson Before Dying
Garcia, Kami &
Beautiful Creatures
Stohl, Margaret
Beautiful Chaos
Beautiful Darkness
Beautiful Redemption
Gier, Kerstin
Ruby Red
Sapphire Blue
Gladwell, Malcolm
The Tipping Point
Outliers
Going, K. L.
Fat Kid Rules the World
Golding, William
Lord of the Flies
Green, John
Looking for Alaska
The Fault in Our Stars
Griffin, Emily
Something Borrowed
Something Blue
Baby Proof
Love the One You’re With
Gruen, Sara
Water for Elephants
Gurtler, Janet
How I Lost You
If I Tell
I’m not Her
Who I Kissed
Hemingway, Ernest
The Old Man and the Sea
Hopkins, Ellen
All titles*
Husseini, Khaled
Kite Runner
A Thousand Splendid Suns
King, Stephen
Knowles, John
Krakauer, Jon
All titles*
A Separate Peace
Into Thin Air
Into the Wild
Lee, Harper
To Kill a Mockingbird
Lewis, C. S.
Chronicles of Narnia
Lowry, Lois
The Giver Trilogy
Lupica, Mike
All titles*
Martel, Yann
Life of Pi
McCormick, Patricia
Sold
Cut
McCourt, Frank
McMann, Lisa
Angela’s Ashes
Cryer’s Cross
Fade
Gone
Wake
Crash
Myers, Walter Dean
Monster
Sunrise over Fallujah
Fallen Angels
Orwell, George
1984
Paolini, Christopher
Eragon
Elder
Brisingr
Patterson, James
All titles*
Pelzer, Dave
A Child Called It
Picoult, Jodi
All titles*
Roberts, Jeyn
Dark Inside
Rage Within
Rodrigues, Carmen
34 Pieces
Roth, Veronica
Divergent
Insurgent
Rowlands, J. K.
Harry Potter Series*
Roy, Travis
Eleven Seconds
Runyon, Brent
Burn Journals
Salinger, J.D.
Sebold, Alice
The Catcher in the Rye
The Lovely Bones
Shepard, Sara
Pretty Little Liars Series*
Smith, L. J.
Vampire Diaries Series*
Sniegoski, Thomas E.
The Fallen Series*
Sparks, Nicholas
All titles*
Stiefvater, Maggie
Forever
Linger
Shiver
Stockett, Kathryn
The Help
Stolarz, Laurie Faria
Deadly Little Lies Series*
Tolkien, JRR
The Hobbit
The Lord of the Rings
Twain, Mark
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Ung, Loung
First They Killed My Father
Vizzini, Ned
Be More Chill
Walls, Jennifer
Glass Castles
Half Broke Horses
Westerfeld, Scott
The Pretties
The Uglies
The Specials
The Extras
The College Board’s SAT recommended reading list
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Achebe, Chinua
Agee, James
Austen, Jane
Baldwin, James
Beckett, Samuel
Bellow, Saul
Brontë, Charlotte
Brontë, Emily
Camus, Albert
Cather, Willa
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Chekhov, Anton
Chopin, Kate
Conrad, Joseph
Cooper, James Fenimore
Crane, Stephen
Dante
de Cervantes, Miguel
Defoe, Daniel
Dickens, Charles
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
Douglass, Frederick
Dreiser, Theodore
Beowulf
Things Fall Apart
A Death in the Family
Pride and Prejudice
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Waiting for Godot
The Adventures of Augie March
Jane Eyre
Wuthering Heights
The Stranger
Death Comes for the Archbishop
The Canterbury Tales
The Cherry Orchard
The Awakening
Heart of Darkness
The Last of the Mohicans
The Red Badge of Courage
Inferno
Don Quixote
Robinson Crusoe
A Tale of Two Cities
Crime and Punishment
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
An American Tragedy
Dumas, Alexandre
The Three Musketeers
Eliot, George
The Mill on the Floss
Ellison, Ralph
Invisible Man
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Selected Essays
Faulkner, William
As I Lay Dying
Faulkner, William
The Sound and the Fury
Fielding, Henry
Tom Jones
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
The Great Gatsby
Flaubert, Gustave
Madame Bovary
Ford, Ford Madox
The Good Soldier
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang vonFaust
Golding, William
Lord of the Flies
Hardy, Thomas
Tess of the d’Urbervilles
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
The Scarlet Letter
Heller, Joseph
Catch 22
Hemingway, Ernest
A Farewell to Arms
Homer
The Iliad
Homer
The Odyssey
Hugo, Victor
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hurston, Zora Neale
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Huxley, Aldous
Brave New World
Ibsen, Henrik
A Doll’s House
James, Henry
The Portrait of a Lady
James, Henry
The Turn of the Screw
Joyce, James
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Kafka, Franz
The Metamorphosis
Kingston, Maxine Hong
The Woman Warrior
Lee, Harper
To Kill a Mockingbird
Lewis, Sinclair
Babbitt
London, Jack
The Call of the Wild
Mann, Thomas
The Magic Mountain
Marquez, Gabriel García
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Melville, Herman
Bartleby the Scrivener
Melville, Herman
Moby Dick
Miller, Arthur
The Crucible
Morrison, Toni
Beloved
O’Connor, Flannery
A Good Man is Hard to Find
O’Neill, Eugene
Long Day’s Journey into Night
Orwell, George
Animal Farm
Pasternak, Boris
Doctor Zhivago
Plath, Sylvia
The Bell Jar
Poe, Edgar Allan
Selected Tales
Proust, Marcel
Swann’s Way
Pynchon, Thomas
The Crying of Lot 49
Remarque, Erich Maria
All Quiet on the Western Front
Rostand, Edmond
Cyrano de Bergerac
Roth, Henry
Salinger, J.D.
Shakespeare, William
Shakespeare, William
Shakespeare, William
Shakespeare, William
Shaw, George Bernard
Shelley, Mary
Silko, Leslie Marmon
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander
Sophocles
Sophocles
Steinbeck, John
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Swift, Jonathan
Thackeray, William
Thoreau, Henry David
Tolstoy, Leo
Turgenev, Ivan
Twain, Mark
Voltaire
Vonnegut, Kurt Jr.
Walker, Alice
Wharton, Edith
Welty, Eudora
Whitman, Walt
Wilde, Oscar
Williams, Tennessee
Woolf, Virginia
Wright, Richard
Call It Sleep
The Catcher in the Rye
Hamlet
Macbeth
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Romeo and Juliet
Pygmalion
Frankenstein
Ceremony
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Antigone
Oedipus Rex
The Grapes of Wrath
Treasure Island
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Gulliver’s Travels
Vanity Fair
Walden
War and Peace
Fathers and Sons
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Candide
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Color Purple
The House of Mirth
Collected Stories
Leaves of Grass
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Glass Menagerie
To the Lighthouse
Native Son