Recommended Summer Reading for High School Students, by Kristine Dement, Media Center Specialist

Here is a list of recommended book for High School students:

Christy by Catherine Marshall

Crime and Punishment by Dostoevski, Feodor

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Invisible Man by H.G. Wells

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Iliad by Homer

The Red Badge of Courage by Ralph Ellison

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Walden by Henry David Thoreau

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

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