What are some books everyone should read in high school?

This is a mix of classic and contemporary novels. I believe every one of these books has a reason to be included.

(SA)=Stand Alone Novels

(SE)=Series

1.The Perks of Being A Wallflower (SA) Classic High School coming of age story.

2. Divergent (SE) Dystopian novel, very easy to picture our future heading in this direction. Similar to the hunger games.

3. A Thousand Splendid Suns (SE) Realistic Fiction/Set in middle east, shows you an unfair life.

4. The Art of Racing in the Rain (SA) Realistic Fiction, dog's point of view, life lessons are learned

5. Twelfth Night (SA) Classic Comedy by William Shakespeare, what the movie she's the man is based on

6. Harry Potter (SE) Fanastical novel... considered to be a "Contemporary Classic" everyone in the world should read this series

7. Twilight (SE) Paranormal romance. Controversial novel, some people love it, others hate it.

8. Lovely, Dark and Deep (SA) Realistic fiction set in today's world. Shows how life can be cruel and beautiful and how we come out of our darkest times.

9. A Tale of Two Cities (SA) Classic by Charles Dickens. The two countries are England and France. It's similar to Les Miserables but shorter. A beautiful story if you can get past the first two parts.

10. Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (SA) Contemporary comedy play. Based on Shakespeare. It's really funny.

11. Spring Awakening (SA) Set in a historical time, but has themes that are timeless. This book has been turned into a musical. It is a favorite story amongst teenagers as it's themes are extraordinarily relatable.

12. Pretty Little Liars (SE) Contemporary Fiction/Murder Mystery. Set in today's world and gives you a really interesting perspective as to how one's lives can be ruined by secrets and social media.

13. The Fault In Our Stars (SA) Contemporary Fiction/Romance. Has to do with cancer. Very sad, but very beautiful.

14. The Diary of Anne Frank (SA) Nonfiction. It is about a teenaged girl in the holocaust. Everyone should read it. She wrote in such a beautiful way.

First, The Scarlet Letter, and anything else by Hawthorne.

Washington Irving's The Sketch Book.

Leaves of Grass and Song of Hiawatha (both epic poems)

a collection of tales by EA Poe

All Quiet on the Western Front

The Great Gatsby, and anything else by Fitzgerald

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

Gone With the Wind

Little Women if not read earlier

To Kill a Mockingbird if not read earlier, or read it again! It is a different book when you are older!

The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings (NOT THE MOVIES!)

Jane Eyre

Pride and Prejudice, and anything else by Austin

Tess of the D'Ubervilles

Moby Dick

Night

The Rievers

anything by Hemingway

anything by Tolstoy, but particularly Anna Karenina and War and Peace

Notes from the Underground

and far too many more to list here!

The Hunger Games, the Chaos Walking trilogy by Patrick Ness (constituted of The Knife of Never Letting Go, The Ask and the Answer, Monsters of Men), the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon, Uglies by Scott Westerfeld, Love Aubrey by Suzanne LaFleur, This Is Not Forgiveness, Heart shaped Bruise, To Kill a Mockingbird, Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice, The Hound of the Baskervilles, there are LOADS...

Honestly, I am not a fan of classics.

I think if technology and basically our world can change and modernize I think we should also.

But, if you want to know the 2 books I like that are classics are To Kill a Mockingbird and Romeo and Juliet.

I think you should add in the popular books The Hunger Games, Harry Potter.

My favorites?

I love Nicholas Sparks books and random teen romance. I am very into the fantasy and supernatural stuff.

The Vampire Diaries

I just started the Morganville vampires yesterday... 100 pages in haha

I also like Sarah Dessen but not as much.

I don't really remember names im sorry

Outsiders

Pride & Prejudice

Harry Potter

Hunger Games

She is...Africa

Gardens and the Warrior of Heaven

Tale of Two Cities

Anything by Jane Austen (my favs Persuasion and Sense & Sensibility)

Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Tes of the d'Urbervilles.

1984 and Animal Farm by George Orwell

Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse 5.

changed my life.

the giver

little women

harry potter

hunger games

fallen star series

percy jackson

narnia

spooks apprentice

the host

beautiful creatures...