BookList - 9th-12th Grades
9th Grade- Adult Book Recommendations
*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.
Fantasy
The Once and Future King T.H. White
The Hobbit J.R.R Tolkien
Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien
Till We Have Faces C.S. Lewis
The Lost World Arthur Conan Doyle
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court Mark Twain
The Great Divorce C.S. Lewis
Phantastes George MacDonald
The Forbidden Wish Jessica Khoury
Historical Fiction
Killer Angels Michael Shaara
Little Women Louisa May Alcott
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
Between Shades of Gray Rita Sepetys
Salt to the Sea Rita Sepetys
Eagle of the Ninth Rosemary Sutcliffe
Longbow Girl Linda Davies (also a time travel book!)
Mara, Daughter of the Nile Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Les Miserables Victor Hugo
The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Orzcy
The Chosen Chaim Potok
Mystery
Death on the Nile Agatha Christie
Murder on the Orient Express Agatha Christie
Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (and sequels) Alan Bradley
Rebecca Daphne du Maurier
Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle
Science Fiction
Ender’s Game Orson Scott Card
The Space Trilogy C. S. Lewis
Frankenstein Mary Shelley
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson
The Invisible Man
The Time Machine H.G. Wells
A Wrinkle in Time (and sequels!) Madeleine L’Engle (also, she wrote many other science fiction/fantasy series!)
Ultraviolet R.J. Anderson
Origin and Vitro Jessica Khoury
Non-Fiction
Darwin’s Black Box Michael Behe
How Should We Then Live? Francis Shafer
A Severe Mercy Sheldon Vanauken
Big Ideas Simply Explained Series(Shakespeare, Literature, Philosophy, History, Religion, and more!)
Series (various genres)
The Lunar Chronicles Marissa Mayer
Unwind Neil Shusterman
The Stormlight Archives Brandon Sanderson
