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And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
As You Like It by William Shakespeare
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
Briar Rose by Jane Yolen
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
A Death in the Family by James Agee
Deogratias, A Tale of Rwanda by Jean-Philippe Stassen
Emma by Jane Austen
Extreme Sports by Joe Tomlinson
Fences by August Wilson
For the Win by Cory Doctorow
Girl With The Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Good Poems by Garrison Keillor
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Having Our Say: The Delaney Sisters' First 100 Years by Sarah Louise Delany
Hiroshima by John Hersey
In My Father's House by Ann Rinaldi
The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
Last Shot: A Final Four Mystery by John Feinstein
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmeal Beah
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff
Neanderthal by John Darnton
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
On the Street Where You Live by Mary Higgins Clark
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by by Ken Kesey
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E Butler
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Philadelphia Fire by John Edgar Wideman
Pride of Baghdad by Brian Vaughan
A Place Where The Sea Remembers by Sandra Benitez
Running Loose by Chris Crutcher
Skim by Mariko Tamaki
Skinwalkers by Tony Hillerman
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You by Peter Cameron
Sons of Liberty by Alexander Lagos
Sunrise over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers
The Color of Water by James McBride
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Wheezie Bat by Francesca Lia Block
19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East by Naomi Shahib Nye
American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
Another Country by James Baldwin
Ash by Melinda Lo
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing by MT Anderson
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson
Bad Boy, A Memoire by Walter Dean Meyers
Beauty by Robin McKinley
A Bone from a Dry Sea by Peter Dickinson
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Carver: A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson
Chasing Lincoln's Killer by James Swanson
Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two by Joseph Bruchac
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Eragon by Christopher Paolini
Estrella's Quinceañera by Malin Alegria
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Find Where the Wind Goes: Moments from My Life by Mae Jemison
The First Part Last by Angela Johnson
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Freeze Frame by Heidi Ayarbe
Gold Dust by Chris Lynch
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
I am Number 4 by Pittacus Lore
An Island Like You: Stories of the Barrio by Judith Ortiz Cofer
Jefferson's Children by Shannon Lanier
Just Another Hero by Sharon Draper
Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown
Martha Graham: A Dancer's Life by Russell Freedman
Maus, I: A Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream by Sampson Davis and Others
The Piano Lesson by August Wilson
The Rules of Survival by Nanct Werlin
Sorrow's Kitchen: The Life and Folklore of Zora Neale Hurston by Mary E Lyons
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Staying Fat for Sarah Byrne
A Step From Heaven by An Na
Trickster: Native American Tales - A Graphic Collection by Matt Dembicki
Tyrell by Coe Booth
Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose
Unwind by Neal Shusterman
Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan
- Book Lists for 11th Graders
- Book Lists for 12th Graders
- Pulizer Prize Fiction (coming soon)
- Pulizer Prize Non-Fiction (coming soon)
- Career Enhancing Books (coming soon)
Popular Suggested Book List for 8th Grade
This list of books was put together based on popular books selected by 8th graders as well as teachers and literary professionals. The content should be appropriate and the vocabulary more complex than the lists for 6th and 7th grade readers. There are great books in this group that would enhance anyone's summer reading list. These are some solid additions to your Reading Bucket List.
Popular Book List for 6th and 7th Grade
This list of suggested books was compiled based on the appropriateness of the reading level as well as the content appeal for a 6th grade reader. The list can be a great one for setting year long goals. Or the 6th grade book list can be used as a menu from which to choose a handful of great books to read on your summer bucket list.
Bucket List Book and Reading Ideas
There are great short books, great long books, great books of fiction, non-fiction, fantasy and opinion. Sometimes it can be hard to narrow down which books you want to be sure to read within a given amount of time. Here are some great lists of books that could help kick off your bucket-full-of-books-reading-list! And remember, you might just love some of the books listed for 6th grade summer reading lists, even if you have not been in 6th grade for 50 years! Have fun with these bucket list book ideas!
The Absolutely True Biography of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Ask Me No Questions by Marina Budhos
California Blue by David Klasse
The Chosen by Chaim Potok
Dateline: Troy by Paul Fleischman
The Demon in the Teahouse by Dorothy Hoobler
Does my Head Look Big in This by Randa Abdel-Fattah
The Dreamer by Pam Muñoz Ryan
Fever 1793 by Laurie H Anderson
Fortune's Bones: The Manumission Requiem by Marilyn Nelson
Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement by Ann Bausum
Gandhi, Great Soul by John B Severance
Gifted Hands by Ben Carson
Harlem by Walter D Myers
Harlem Stomp! by Laban Carrick Hill
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Hush by Jacqueline Woodson
I, Too, Sing America by Catherine Clinton
The Invisible Thread: An Autobiography by Yoshiko Uchida
Iron West by Doug TenNepal
Jackie's Nine: Jackie Robison's Values to Live By by Sharon Robinson
Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
Jumped by Rita Williams-Garcia
Jumping the Nail by Eve Bunting
The Killer's Cousin by Nancy Werlin
The Misfits by James Howe
Red Kayk by Prescilla Cummings
Red Midnight by Ben Mikealsen
The Rock and the River by Kekla Magoon
Shadow Spinner by Susan Fletcher
Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy by Sonya Sones
Stuck in Nuetral by Terry Trueman
Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Tangerine by Edward Bloor
Team Moon by Catherine Thinmesh
The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke
Toads and Diamonds by Heather Tomlinson
The Trouble Begins at 8: A Life About Mark Twain in the Wild, Wild West by Sid Fleischman
Uglies by Scott Westerfield
Up From Slavery by Booker T Washington
Who Am I Without Him?: Short Stories About Girls and the Boys in Their Lives by Sharon Flake
Wolf Tower by Tanith Lee
Yummy: The Last Days of Southside Shorty by Greg Neri
Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Wartime Sarajevo by Zlata Filipovic
The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud
The Color of My Words by Lynn Joseph
The Dream Keeper and Other Poems by Langston Hughes
Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life Of Discovery by Russell Freedman
The Endless Steppe by Esther Hautzig
Esperanza Rising by Pamela Nuñez Ryan
Facing the Lion: Growing Up Maasai on the African Savanna by Joseph L Lekuton
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
The Great Fire by Jim Murphy
Guys Write for Guys Read by Joe Scieszka
Habibi by Naomi Shihab Nye
Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson
Hero-Type by Barry Lyga
The Land by Mildred D Taylor
The Last Book in the Universe by Rodman Philbrick
One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
Penny From Heaven by Jennifer Holm
Red Scarf Girl by Ji-Li- Jiang
Rosa Parks: My Story by Rosa Parks
Rules by Cynthia Lord
Running Out of Time by Margaret Petersen Haddix
Small Steps by Louis Sachar
Taking Sides by Gary Soto
Tales of Greek Heroes by Roger L Green
To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel by Siena Cherson Siegel
Top Secret: A Handbook of Codes, Ciphers and Secret Writing by Paul B. Janeczko
The Storyteller's Beads by Jane Kurtz
Thunder Rolling in the Mountain by Scott O'Dell and Elizabeth Hall
Totally Joe by James Howe
Travel Team by Mike Lupica
Walking to the Bus-Rider Blues by Harriet Gillen Robinet
We Are The Ship: The story of Negro League Baseball by Kadir Nelson
The Wednesday Wars by Gary D Schmidt
You Don't Even Know Me: Stories and Poems About Boys by Sharon Flake
Zel by Donna Jo Napoli
Suggested Book List for 10th Graders
If you are in high school and are making a bucket list for this summer, there are lots of great books on this reading list. Just pick a few of these for an amazing summer book bucket list.
Suggested Book List for 9th Graders
Ninth graders have an amazing set of books that are content and age appropriate. That being said, depending on a student's school or school district, this set of books could be good for an 8th grade book list or a 10th grade book list idea.
- Book Lists for 6th Graders
- Book Lists for 7th Graders
- Book Lists for 8th Graders
- Book Lists for 9th Graders
- Book Lists for 10th Graders
Career Enhancing and Success-Minded Books
For some this book list will be full of the obvious, but for people just getting started in their career or people who are just realizing that they will be able to manage the success of their career.
The Anied by Virgil
Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
Atonement by Ewan McEwan
Beowulf by Gareth Hines
Black and White by Paul Volponi
The Blind Side: Evolution of the Game by Michael Lewis
Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros
Color of Earth by Tong-hwa Kim
The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
Demo by Brian Wood
Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Endurance: Shakleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
Fisk Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence by Geoffery Canada
Foundation by Isaac Asimov
Frida: Viva La Vida! Long Live Life! by Carmen Bernier-Grand
Going Bovine by Libba Bray
The Good Negress by A.J. Verdelle
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Kendra by Coe Booth
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
Light in August by William Faulkner
Luna: A Novel by Julie Anne Peters
Makes Me Wanna Holler by Nathan McCall
Malcolm X: A Graphic Biography edited by Andrew Helfer
Monstrumologist by Richard Yancy
My Jim by Nancy Rawles
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Once And Future King by TH White
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Rose That Grew From Concrete by Tupac Shakur
The Salt Eaters by Toni Cade T Bambara
Shakespeare: The World as a Stage by Bill Bryson
Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
Soldier: A Poet's Childhood by June Jordan
Spindle's End by Robin McKinley
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer by Lynne Cox
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk KiddWhen Rain Clouds Gather by Bessie Head
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
What I Was by Meg Rosoff
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
Suggested Book List for 12th Graders
If you are about to be a high school senior and you want to get ahead this summer, pull your summer book bucket list from this list of books. You may have some on your syllabus next year, and you certainly do not want your brain to go on vacation this summer! This list of books for 12th graders is really great for anyone's bucket list!
Suggested Book List for 11th Graders
These recommended books for 11th Grade readers are, like all of the upperclassmen's book lists, good for anyone who is looking for a great read. There are at least 20 books on this list that should go on anyone's bucket list, summer reading list or otherwise.
The 9/11 report: A Graphic Adaptation by Sid Jacobson
A Cup Of Tea, A Novel of 1917 by Amy Ephon
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
All Soul's Rising by Madison Smart Bell
Before We Were Free by Julia Alvarez
The Big Sea: An Autobiography by Langston Hughes
Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao by Juno Diaz
Born Confused by Tanuja Desal Hidler
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Cover-Up by John Feinstein
The Curious Incident of the Dog In The Night-Time by Mark Haddon
DC Noir by George Pelecanos
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Gather Together in My Name by Maya Angelou
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin
Grendel by John Gardner
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Left Hand Of Darkness by Ursela K. LeGuin
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Looking For Alaska by John Green
Lost In The City By Edward P Jones
Madapple by Christina Meldrum
Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco X Stork
Murder in the Cathedral by T.S. Eliot
The Photographer: Into War Torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders by Emmanuel Guibert
Somebody Told Me: The Newspaper Stories of Rick Bragg by Rick Bragg
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
The Time Machine by HG Wells
Two Parties, One Tux and a Very Short Film About The Grapes Of Wrath by Steven Goldman
Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen
The Wedding by Dorothy West
What Is It by Lynda Barry
When I Was Puerto Rican
When The Legends Die by Hal Borland
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
Woman Hollering Creek And Other Stories by Sandra Cisneros
Woman Warrior: Memoirs of Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston
A Wreath for Emmet Till by Marilyn Nelson
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