Rec | “HIGH SCHOOL BOOKS”

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okay so i don’t think a lot of the books i had to read in school are that worth reading so if i had to recommend a high school reading list here’s what i’d include (based on my thoughts and also my book-ish jobs. some of these came out after i was in school but this is a theoretical list anyways): classics: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen; Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury; Frankenstein by Mary Shelley realistic fiction: Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson; The House On Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros; Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews fantasy and dystopia: The Hobbit by JRR Tolkein; The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins; The Giver by Lois Lowry historical nonfiction and autobiographies: An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States for Young People by Debbie Reese and Jean Mendoza / Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz; The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank; The Souls of Black Folk by WEB Du Bois; Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi graphic novels: Mis(h)rada by Iasmin Omar Ata; The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen; Maus I & II by Art Spiegelman (def read interviews with Spiegelman as well) plays: A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansbury; The Laramie Project by Moisés Kaufman poetry and prose: Ballast by Quenton Baker; Blue Horses by Mary Oliver; The Prophet by Khalil Gibran

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Feb 7, 2025

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@pastramimami

this is awesome!!!! thank you :)

Feb 7, 2025

@marxinista

pastramimami yay happy reading!! obv check your library first but if you can’t find the graphic novels through yours readallcomics has all the ones i listed i think. also in particular if you read hunger games, maus, or raisin in the sun def check out interviews with the authors about why they wrote what they wrote (this is a good reading strategy i enjoy in general, i feel it’s useful when you feel like you don’t “get it”). also i know austen’s writing style is off buf if you can get past it in pride and prejudice the plot is soo juicy. and ballast is difficult to read in an ebook so try to get a physical copy if you can. anyway lol!! :)

Feb 7, 2025

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marxinista oh also mary shelley’s biography is super interesting. though if you don’t want to read an entire one, her wiki page will also suffice lol!

Feb 7, 2025

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My fave books i read in HIGH SCHOOL for class:

Wuthering Heights Catcher In The Rye Frankenstein Jane Eyre The Namesake Animal Farm Guns, Germs and Steel

@beangirl94

Feb 7, 2025

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Here are some!

Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess Brave New World by Aldous Huxley The Stranger by Albert Camus The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell Animal Farm by George Orwell The Chosen by Chaim Potok Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens Not all of them are necessarily Highschool required reading, but they are mostly books I read around that time, and most are considered classics.

@ugliestbinch

Feb 6, 2025

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my fav books

(in no order / hierarchy) crush - richard siken fahrenheit 451 - ray bradbury devotions - mary oliver (or any of her stuff) annihilation - jeff vandermeer we do this til we free us - mariame kaba hunger games series - suzanne collins (the nostalgiaaa but also genuinely good) this is water - david foster wallace (it’s a book but not technically a book i guess?) dear god. dear bones. dear yellow. - noor hindi this is how you lose the time war - amal el-montar & max gladstone the prophet - khalil gibran pride & prejudice - jane austen the tragedy of heterosexuality - jane ward sharp objects - gillian flynn the great gatsby - f. scott fitzgerald elite capture: how the powerful took over identity politics - olúfémi o. táíwò

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