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CTL graduates become voracious readers: that's a fact. But after 8th grade-and without booktalks and classroom libraries-it can be hard to find books for pleasure reading. Nancie created these lists of recommended titles for high school guys and girls looking for the next level of great books to read independently. If you're a CTL alum who's found a great book that's not on the list, would you give Krista a call? We'd love to add your beloved new titles and spread the word.
Pleasure Reading for High School Guys
Adams, Douglas The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series
Adigo, Aravind The White Tiger
Alexie, Sherman Flight
Anderson, M.T. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing: The Pox Party
and The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing: The Kingdom on the Waves
Atwood, Margaret A Handmaid's Tale
Banks, Russell Rule of the Bone
Barker, Pat Regeneration
Benioff, David City of Thieves
Bissinger, H.G. Friday Night Lights
Bolaņo, Roberto The Savage Detectives
Bradbury, Ray Fahrenheit 451
Bryson, Bill A Short History of Nearly Everything, The Thunderbolt Kid, and
A Walk in the Woods
Bowden, Mark Blackhawk Down
Burgess, Anthony A Clockwork Orange
Carroll, Jim The Basketball Diaries
Chabon, Michael Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, The Yiddish
Policeman's Union, and Wonder Boys
Cheever, John The Wapshot Chronicles
Dick, Phillip Man in the High Castle
Dawidoff, Nicholas The Crowd Sounds Happy
Doctorow, E.L. Ragtime and The March
Eggers, Dave A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and What Is
the What
Fleming, Keith The Boy with a Thorn in His Side
Foer, Jonathan Safran Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Frazier, Charles Cold Mountain
Gaiman, Neil American Gods and Anansi Boys
Galloway, Gregory As Simple as Snow
Garland, Alex The Beach
Gladwell, Malcolm Blink, The Tipping Point, and Outliers
Gore, Al An Inconvenient Truth
Guest, Judith Ordinary People
Guterson, David Snow Falling on Cedars
Haddon, Mark The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Haig, Matt The Dead Fathers Club
Heller, Joseph Catch-22
Herbert, Frank Dune
Hillenbrand, Laura Seabiscuit
Hornby, Nick High Fidelity, About a Boy, and Slam
Hosseini, Khaled The Kite Runner
Huxley, Aldous Brave New World
Irving, John The Ciderhouse Rules, Hotel New Hampshire,
A Prayer for Owen Meany, and The World According to Garp
Ishiguro, Kazuo Never Let Me Go
Jones, Lloyd Mr. Pip
Joravsky, Ben Hoop Dreams
Kesey, Ken One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Kneale, Matthew When We Were Romans
Kovic, Ron Born on the Fourth of July
Krakauer, John Into Thin Air and Into the Wild
Lee, Harper To Kill a Mockingbird
Lehane, Dennis Mystic River
Maclean, Norman Young Men and Fire
McCarthy, Cormac The Crossing, The
Road, and No Country for Old Men
McEwan, Ian Atonement and Saturday
Mailer, Norman The Naked and the Dead
Martel, Yann Life of Pi
Martinez, A. Lee Gil's All-Fright Diner
Mezrich, Ben Bringing Down the House
Moehringer, J.R. The Tender Bar
Mosley, Walter 47
Nasar, Sylvia A Beautiful Mind
Obama, Barack Dreams from My Father
O'Brien, Patrick The Master and Commander series
O'Brien, Tim The Things They Carried and If I Die in a Combat Zone
O'Neill, Joseph Netherland
Prachett, Terry Nation
Proulx, E. Annie The Shipping News
Rice, Anne Interview with the Vampire
Robbins, Tom Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Robinson, Lewis Water Dogs
Roth, Phillip Good-bye, Columbus and The Human Stain
Russo, Richard Empire Falls
Sacco, Joe Palestine and Safe Area Gorazde
Sagan, Carl Contact
Salinger, J.D. Catcher in the Rye
Satrapi, Marjane Persepolis and Persepolis II
Sedaris, David Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, Naked,
and Me Talk Pretty One Day
Sharra, Michael The Killer Angels
Shepard, Jim Project X
Silverstein, Ken The Radioactive Boy Scout
Spiegelman, Art Maus I and Maus II
Swofford, Anthony Jarhead
Tartt, Donna The Secret History
Tinti, Hannah The Good Thief
Trumbo, Dalton Johnny Got His Gun
Updike, John The Centaur, Couples, and the Rabbit trilogy
Vizzini, Ned Be More Chill and It's Kind of a Funny Story
Vonnegut, Kurt Welcome to the Monkeyhouse, Armageddon in Retrospect,
Slapstick, and Slaughterhouse-Five
Walls, Jeanette The Glass Castle
Whitehead, Colson Sag Harbor
Wiesel, Elie Night
Wolff, Tobias In Pharaoh's Army, Our Story Begins, Old School,
and This Boy's Life
Wright, Richard The Invisible Man
Wroblewski, David The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
Young, Rusty and Thomas McFadden Marching Powder
Zusak, Markus The Book Thief and I Am the Messenger
Zinn, Howard A People's History of the United States
Pleasure Reading for High School Girls
Allende, Isabel The House of the Spirits
Atkinson, Kate Behind the Scenes at the Museum
Atwood, Margaret Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin, Cat's Eye,
The Handmaid's Tale, Moral Disorder, and Surfacing
Austen, Jane Emma, Pride and Prejudice, and Mansfield Park
Bank, Melissa The Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing and The Wonder Spot
Banks, Russell The Rule of the Bone and The Sweet Hereafter
Barker, Pat Regeneration
Bauby, Jean-Dominique The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Beattie, Ann Chilly Scenes of Winter
Brontë, Charlotte Jane Eyre
Byatt, A.S. Possession
Chabon, Michael Wonder Boys and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier
and Clay
Chang, Jung Wild Swans
Cheever, John The Wapshot Chronicles
Colwin, Laurie Happy All the Time, Shine On, Bright and Dangerous Object
Desai, Kiran The Inheritance of Loss
Doctorow, E.L. The Book of Daniel and Ragtime
Donnelly, Jennifer A Northern Light
Dorris, Michael A Yellow Raft in Blue Water
Dudman, Martha Augusta Gone
DuMaurier, Daphne Rebecca
Edwards, Kim The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Eggers, Dave A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Enright, Anne The Gathering
Eugenides, Jeffrey Middlesex and The Virgin Suicides
Fitch, Janet White Oleander
Fitzgerald, F. Scott The Great Gatsby and Tender Is the Night
Foer, Jonathan Safran Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Forster, E.M. Howard's End and A Room with a View
Fowler, Karen The Jane Austen Book Club
Fowles, John The French Lieutenant's Woman
Franzen, Jonathan The Corrections
Frazier, Charles Cold Mountain
Freudenberger, Neil Lucky Girls
Galloway, Gregory As Simple As Snow
Gilbert, Elizabeth Stern Men
Gladwell, Malcolm Blink, The Tipping Point, and Outliers
Green, Hannah I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Guest, Judith Ordinary People
Haig, Matt The Dead Fathers Club
Harris, Jane The Observations
Harris, Joanne Chocolat
Haddon, Mark The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Haruf, Ken Plainsong
Hoffman, Alice At Risk
Hornby, Nick About a Boy and High Fidelity
Irving, John Ciderhouse Rules, The Hotel New Hampshire,
A Prayer for Owen Meany, and The World According to Garp
Ishiguro, Kazuo Never Let Me Go and The Remains of the Day
Johnson, Diane Le Divorce
Johnson, Joyce Minor Characters
Jones, Lloyd Mr. Pip
Karr, Mary Cherry and Liar's Club
Kaysen, Susanna Girl, Interrupted
Kidd, Sue Monk The Secret Life of Bees
Kingsolver, Barbara Animal Dreams, The Bean Trees,
and The Poisonwood Bible
Kneale, Matthew When We Were Romans
Krakauer, John Into the Wild and Into Thin Air
Krauss, Nichole The History of Love
Lamott, Anne Blue Shoe
Lee, Harper To Kill a Mockingbird
Letts, Billie Where the Heart Is
Levy, Andrea A Small Island
McCarthy, Mary A Charmed Life and The Group
McEwan, Ian Atonement
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia Love in the Time of Cholera
and One Hundred Years of Solitude
Martin, Steve Shopgirl
Messud, Claire The Emperor's Children
Minot, Susan Evening and Monkeys
Moody, Rick The Ice Storm
Moore, Lorrie Birds of America and Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?
Morrison, Toni Beloved, The Bluest Eye, and A Mercy
Munro, Alice Dance of the Happy Shades, Friend of My Youth,
Lives of Girls and Women, The Love of a Good Woman, Runaway,
and Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You
Nabukov, Vladimir Lolita and Pale Fire
Nafisi, Azar Reading Lolita in Tehran
Nasar, Sylvia A Beautiful Mind
Oates, Joyce Carol We Were the Mulvaneys
Obama, Barack Dreams from My Father
O'Brien, Tim The Things They Carried
Ondaatje, Michael The English Patient
Patchett, Anne Bel Canto and Truth and Beauty
Perotta, Tom Election
Pessl, Marisha Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Plath, Sylvia The Bell Jar
Prose, Francine Goldengrove
Proulx, E. Annie The Shipping News
Robinson, Marilyn Gilead and Housekeeping
Reichl, Ruth Tender at the Bone
Rosoff, Meg How I Live Now and What I Was
Roth, Philip Good-bye Columbus and The Human Stain
Roy, Arundhati The God of Small Things
Russo, Richard Empire Falls
Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye
Satrapi, Marjane Persepolis and Persepolis II
Sebold, Alice Lovely Bones
Sedaris, David Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim,
Me Talk Pretty Some Day, and Naked
Shields, Carol Unless
Simpson, Mona Anywhere But Here
Sittenfeld, Curtis Prep
Smiley, Jane A Thousand Acres
Smith, Ali The Accidental
Smith, Alison Name All the Animals
Smith, Dodie I Capture the Castle
Smith, Zadie On Beauty and White Teeth
Spencer, Scott Waking the Dead
Stewart, Leah The Myth of You and Me
Stegner, Wallace Angle of Repose and Crossing to Safety
Strout, Elizabeth Amy and Isabelle and Olive Kitteridge
Sullivan, J. Courtney Commencement
Tan, Amy The Joy Luck Club
Tartt, Donna The Secret History
Tinti, Hannah The Good Thief
Toews, Miriam A Complicated Kindness
Trillin, Calvin About Alice, Remembering Denny, and others
Updike, John The Centaur, Couples, The Witches of Eastwick, and
the Rabbit series
Vonnegut, Jr., Kurt Slapstick and Slaughterhouse Five
Walbert, Kate A Short History of Women
Wall, Jeanette The Glass Castle
Waugh, Evelyn Brideshead Revisited
Wharton, Edith House of Mirth
Woolf, Virginia To the Lighthouse and A Room of One's Own
Wroblewski, David The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
Young, Rusty and Thomas McFadden Marching Powder
Zinn, Howard A People's History of the United States
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