Recommended Reading for Middle School Pre AP Students
Highlight each the title you read. Keep this sheet in the “Reading Notes” section of your ELA binder.
Author
Title
Genre
Adams, Richard
Watership Down
Classic-Fantasy
Angelou, Maya
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Classic-Autobiography (Nonfiction)
Alcott, Louisa Mae
The Little Women series
Classic Series-Romance
Austen, Jane
Pride and Prejudice
Classic-Romance
Avi
Nothing But the Truth
Historical Fiction
Blackwood, Gary
The Year of the Hangman
Historical Fiction (American
Revolution)
Bradbury, Ray
Dandelion Wine
Classic-Fiction
Burnett, Frances Hodgson
The Secret Garden; Little Princess
Classic-Fiction
Card, Orson
Ender’s Game (series)
Contemporary Fiction-Fantasy
Carroll, Lewis
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland; Alice Classic-Fantasy
Through the Looking Glass
Carson, Rachel
Silent Spring
Classic-Nonfiction (Environmental
Issues)
Cather, Willa
My Antonia
Classic Fiction
Choi, Nyul Sook
The Year of Impossible Goodbyes
Nonfiction--Autobiography
Cisneros, Sandra
The House on Mango Street
Short Stories
Coolidge, Olivia
The Trojan War
Nonfiction
Cormier, Robert
The Chocolate War; I am the Cheese;
Contemporary Fiction
Tunes for Bears to Dance To
Crane, Stephen
The Red Badge of Courage
Classic-Historical Fiction
Dickens, Charles
Great Expectations; A Christmas Carol; Classic-Fiction
A Tale of Two Cities; Oliver Twist
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
The Hound of the Baskervilles; The
Classic-Mystery
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Dumas, Alexander
The Man in the Iron Mask; The Three
Classic-Adventure
Musketeers; The Count of Monte Cristo
Forbes, Esther
Johnny Tremain
Historical Fiction
Fox, Paula
The Slave Dancer
Historical Fiction
Frank, Anne
Diary of a Young Girl
Classic-Autobiography (Nonfiction)
Geis, Miep
Anne Frank Remembered
Biography-Nonfiction
Hamilton, Edith
Mythology
Classic-Assorted Myths
Hamilton, Virginia
Slave
Nonfiction
Herriot, James
All Things Bright and Beautiful; All
Classic-Nonfiction
Creatures Great and Small; The Lord
God Made Them All
Hesse, Karen
Witness; Out of the Dust
Historical Fiction
Irving, Washington
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Classic-Suspense
Jacques, Brian
Mossflower; The Pearl of Lutra
Epic Fantasy
Keller, Helen
The Story of My Life
Classic-Autobiography (Nonfiction)
Kerr, M.E.
Gentlehands
Historical Fiction (Holocaust)
Kidd, Sue Monk
The Secret Life of Bees
Contemporary Fiction
Kingsolver, Barbara
The Poisonwood Bible
Contemporary Fiction (Historical)
Krakauer, Jon
Into Thin Air
Nonfiction-Adventure/Survival
Lee, Harper
To Kill A Mockingbird
Classic-Historical Fiction
L’Engle, Madeline
Lewis, C.S.
London, Jack
McGraw, Eloise Jarvis
McKinley, Robert
Mazer, Harry
Meyers, Carolyn
Montgomery, L.M.
Mitchell, Margaret
Mowat, Farley
Myers, Walter Dean
Paulsen, Gary
Pullman, Philip
Pyle, Howard
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan
Salisbury, Grahame
Shaara, Michael
Shelley, Mary
Soto, Gary
Speare, Elizabeth
Stevenson, R.L.
Ten Boom, Corrie
Tolkien, J.R.R.
Twain, Mark
Ullman, James Ramsey
Verne, Jules
Weisel, Elie
Wells, H.G.
Windle, Janis Wood
Yolen, Jane
A Wrinkle in Time and others from the
Time Quartet
The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe;
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader; The
Magician’s Nephew (and any of the
Narnia series)
The Call of The Wild; White Fang
The Golden Goblet
The Blue Sword
A Boy At War: A Novel of Pearl Harbor
Where the Broken Heart Still Beats
Anne of Green Gables
Gone With the Wind
Never Cry Wolf
Amistad: The Long Road to Freedom;
The Glory Road
Soldier’s Heart
The Golden Compass and other series
novels
The Story of King Arthur and His
Knights; The Merry Adventures of Robin
Hood
The Yearling
Under the Blood Red Sun
The Killer Angels
Frankenstein
Living Up the Street; A Summer Life
The Witch of Blackbird Pond; The
Bronze Bow
Treasure Island; Kidnapped; The Black
Arrow
The Hiding Place
The Hobbit; The Lord of the Rings
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s
Court; The Adventures of Hucklberry
Finn; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Banner in the Sky
Journey to the Center of The Earth;
Around the World in Eighty Days
Night
The Time Machine; The War of the
Worlds
True Women
The Devil’s Arithmetic
Classic—Science Fiction
Classic-Fantasy
Classic-Adventure
Mystery (Ancient Egypt)
Contemporary Fiction-Fantasy
Historical Fiction (World War II)
Historical Fiction
Classic Fiction
Classic Romance
Nonfiction
Nonfiction;
Historical Fiction
Historical Fiction
Contemporary Fantasy
Classic-Legend
Classic Fiction
Historical Fiction (World War
II/Japanese Traditions)
Contemporary Fiction
Classic-Science Fiction
Nonfiction
Historical Fiction
Classic-Adventure
Classic-Nonficion (Holocaust)
Classic-Fantasy
Classic Fiction
Nonfiction--Survival
Classic-Science Fiction
Classic-Nonfiction (Holocaust)
Classic-Science Fiction
Historical Fiction
Historical Fiction (Holocaust)