Fiction
Classic Fiction
Mystery & Suspense
Speak..............................................................................Anderson
Compromised...................................................................... Ayarbe
Year of the Hangman.....................................................Blackwood
Shift................................................................................ Bradbury
Going Bovine........................................................................... Bray
All That Remains: 3 Stories.................................................. Brooks
Hate List...............................................................................Brown
The Perks of Being a Wallflower.........................................Chbosky
Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares.............................Cohn and Levithan
Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes..............................................Crutcher
Mare’s War.............................................................................Davis
We Were Here.................................................................De la Pena
Little Brother...................................................................Doctorow
Romiette and Julio............................................................... Draper
Keesha’s House....................................................................... Frost
Fat Kid Rules the World..........................................................Going
Will Grayson, Will Grayson............................... Green and Levithan
Bronx Masquerade..............................................................Grimes
Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow.............................................................Guene
Things Left Unsaid: A Novel in Poems................................Hemphill
Girl, Stolen.............................................................................Henry
The First Part Last..............................................................Johnson
Real Time................................................................................. Kass
Please Ignore Vera Dietz..........................................................King
Strays.................................................................................Koertge
Girl in Translation...................................................................Kwok
The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl...............Lyga
Zenzele: A Letter to My Daughter........................................Maraire
Jellicoe Road...................................................................Marchetta
A Mango-Shaped Space.......................................................... Mass
Cut................................................................................McCormick
Shooter.................................................................................Myers
The Other Side of Truth........................................................Naidoo
The Adoration of Jenna Fox.................................................Pearson
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe.........Saenz
Getting It........................................................................... Sanchez
The Lovely Bones................................................................. Sebold
One Good Punch.................................................................Wallace
So Yesterday..................................................................Westerfeld
Emako Blue......................................................................... Woods
Go Ask Alice................................................................. Anonymous
Emma.................................................................................. Austen
Forever.................................................................................Blume
Annie on My Mind...............................................................Garden
Not Without the Laughter................................................... Hughes
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter............................................McCullers
Frankenstein .......................................................................Shelley
The Hobbit...........................................................................Tolkien
Slaughterhouse Five: A Novel...........................................Vonnegut
War of the Worlds...................................................................Wells
The Naturals........................................................................ Barnes
Something Wicked This Way Comes................................. Bradbury
Kissed by an Angel............................................................Chandler
Murder on the Orient Express.............................................. Christie
The Face on the Milk Carton (series).....................................Cooney
A Study in Scarlet................................................................... Doyle
Burning Blue........................................................................ Griffin
Skeleton Crew..........................................................................King
The Prodigal Son (Frankenstein series)................................. Koontz
The Angel Experiment (Maximum Ride series).................Patterson
Non-Fiction
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice,
Slavery, Freedom, and Science.......................................Aronson
Spies of Mississippi: The True Story of the Spy Network
that Tried to Destroy the Civil Rights Movement.............. Bowers
Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916...........Capuzzo
Faces from the Past: Forgotten People of North America.........Deem
Letters to a Young Brother: MANifest Your Destiny............... Harper
Rocket Boys........................................................................ Hickam
We Turned Back To See Where We Came From................... Hinojosa
Steal Like An Artist................................................................ Kleon
Young Men and Fire...........................................................Maclean
Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire
and Its Legacy..................................................................Marrin
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates.........................Moore
Juvenile in Justice.................................................................... Ross
Imprisoned: The Betrayal of Japanese Americans
During World War II.......................................................Sandler
Witches! The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem......Schanzer
Chew on This: Everything You Don’t Want to Know
about Fast Food.......................................................... Schlosser
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks..................................... Skloot
I Love Yous Are for White People: A Memoir................................. Su
“The President Has Been Shot!”: The Assassination of
John F. Kennedy...........................................................Swanson
Simeon’s Story: An Eyewitness Account of Kidnapping
of Emmett Till.................................................................. Wright
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.................................... Adams
The Foundation Trilogy....................................................... Asimov
The Martian Chronicles.................................................... Bradbury
Ready Player One................................................................... Cline
The Libriomancer................................................................... Hines
Magic’s Pawn (Last Herald Mage trilogy)..............................Lackey
Redwall (series)..................................................................Jacques
Cinder (Lunar Chronicles series)............................................ Meyer
The Night Circus..........................................................Morgenstern
Delirium (series)....................................................................Oliver
Divergent (series)....................................................................Roth
The Alchemyst (series)............................................................ Scott
The Crystal Cave..................................................................Stewart
Shiver (trilogy)................................................................Stiefvater
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Poetry
Red Hot Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Being Young
and Latino in the United States.......................................Carlson
The Best American Poetry (multiple years)...............................Doty
You Don’t Even Know Me.........................................................Flake
Wicked Girls: A Novel of the Salem Witch Trials.................Hemphill
Burned / Smoke................................................................. Hopkins
The Realm of Possibility.................................................... Levithan
Sold...............................................................................McCormick
Dizzy in Your Eyes: Poems About Love.....................................Mora
Street Love.............................................................................Myers
Quiet Storm: Voices of Young Black Poets........................... Okutoro
Paint Me Like I Am: Teen Poems from WritersCorps.....WritersCorps
Biography & Autobiography
Frederick Douglass: A Noble Life.............................................Adler
A Girl Named Faithful Plum.............................................Bernstien
Lost Boy, Lost Girl: Escaping Civil War in the Sudan....................Dau
Zeitoun.................................................................................Eggers
The Speckled People........................................................ Hamilton
Letter Q: Queer Writers’ Notes to Their Younger Selves............Moon
Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger’s........................ Robison
Persepolis (series)................................................................Satrapi
Bad Girls: Sirens, Jezebels, Murderesses, Thieves
& Other Female Villains................................ Yolen and Stemple
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education
and Was Shot by the Taliban....................................... Yousafzai
Anthologies
Welcome to Bordertown: New Stories and Poems
about the Borderlands..................................Black and Kushner
Diverse Energies................................................ Buckell and Monti
Teeth: Vampire Tales......................................Datlow and Windling
Who Am I Without Him?.........................................................Flake
Unnatural Creatures: Stories Selected by Neil Gaiman.........Gaiman
The Dark Game: True Spy Stories.......................................Janeczko
Black Juice........................................................................ Lanagan
How They Met and Other Stories....................................... Levithan
Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and
Strange Stories....................................................Link and Grant
Starry-Eyed: 16 Stories that Steal the Spotlight...................Michael
145th Street: Short Stories.....................................................Myers
Yell-Oh Girls!: Emerging Voices Explore Culture, Identity,
and Growing Up Asian American.........................................Nam
Growing Up in Slavery: Stories of Young Slaves as
Told by Themselves............................................................Taylor
Tomo: Friendship Through Fiction: An Anthology
of Japan Teen Stories................................................. Thompson
Plays
A Raisin in the Sun..........................................................Hansberry
A Doll’s House.........................................................................Ibsen
All My Sons............................................................................Miller
Twelfth Night............................................................. Shakespeare
Brighton Beach Memoirs......................................................Simon
The Glass Menagerie......................................................... Williams
The Piano Lesson................................................................. Wilson
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Dear Students and Parents/Guardians,
he summer months are a wonderful time to explore the
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Public Schools and Boston Public Library look forward to
helping you plan a reading program to last the whole summer.
T
This Summer Book List will help you choose high quality
literature geared to the interests of high school students.
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