Recommended Books for Teens In High School

Most books on this list are actually adult books of interest to young adults.

  • Watership Down, Adams
  • I Know Why A Caged Bird Sings, Angelou
  • The Education Of Little Tree, Carter
  • The House on Mango Street, Cisneros
  • Gai-Jin, Clavell
  • Jurassic Park, Crichton
  • Ellen Foster, Gibbons
  • Lord of the Flies, Golding
  • Black Like Me, Griffin
  • That Was Then, This Is Now, Hinton
  • Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop, Café Flagg
  • A Prayer For Owen Meany, Irving
  • Flowers For Algernon, Keyes
  • The Body (Stand By Me), King
  • Animal Dreams, Kingsolver
  • Into Thin Air, Krakauer
  • Out of the Madness : from the projects to a life of hope, Ladd
  • She’s Come Undone, Lamb
  • To Kill A Mockingbird, Lee
  • Where the Heart Is, Letts
  • Tomorrow, When the War Began (5 titles), Marsden
  • Out of Nowhere, Ouida
  • The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck
  • The Color Purple, Walker