Upper School-Adult
Book Recommendations for Upper School students-Adult
*There is a wide range of personal tastes, sensibilities, and parental guidelines among this age group, so this is an extremely limited list of suggestions! If you would like more personalized suggestions, please get in touch with Mrs. Meester, who is always happy to talk about books.
Biography/ Memoir
A Severe Mercy Sheldon Vanauken
The Hiding Place Corrie ten Boom
A Grief Observed C.S. Lewis
Peace Child Don Richardson
God's Smuggler Brother Andrew, with Elizabeth Sherrill
Fantasy
The Great Divorce C.S. Lewis
Phantastes George MacDonald
The Wise Woman and Other Stories George MacDonald
The Last Unicorn Peter Beagle
Watership Down
The Way of Kings Brandon Sanderson
(The following are more specifically categorized as Young Adult)
The Book of Pearl Timothee de Fambelle (translated by Sarah Ardizzone
The Forbidden Wish Jessica Khoury
Howl's Moving Castle Dianne Wynne Jones
Cinder Marissa Meyer
Longbow Girl Linda Davies (part historical fiction, AND contemporary)
Valiant Sarah McGuire
Historical Fiction
Mara, Daughter of the Nile Eloise Jarvis McGraw
The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Orzcy
Les Miserables Victor Hugo
Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
(and of course, everything by her!)
North and South Elizabeth Gaskell
My Antonia Willa Cather
Between Shades of Gray Rita Sepetys
Vango Timothee de Fombelle, translated by Sarah Ardizzone
Between Shades of Gray Rita Sepetys
The Stranger Albert Camus
(written in 1942, so perhaps historical, but actually regarded as contemporary fiction, or philosophical fiction.)
Mystery
The Innocence of Father Brown G.K. Chesterton
Science Fiction
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Brave New World Aldous Huxley
1984 George Orwell
Alas, Babylon Pat Frank
(Young Adult Sci-Fi)
A Wrinkle in Time (and sequels!) Madeleine L’Engle (also, she wrote many other science fiction/fantasy series!)
Ultraviolet R.J. Anderson
Origin Jessica Khoury The Six Mark Alpert
Non-Fiction
How Should We Then Live? Francis Schaeffer
The Universe Next Door James W. Sire
Total Truth Nancy Pearcey
Orthodoxy G.K. Chesterton
From Jerusalem to Irian Jaya Ruth A. Tucker
Amusing Ourselves to Death Neil Postman
Big Ideas Simply Explained Series (Shakespeare, Literature, Philosophy, History, Religion, and more!)
Series (various genres)
