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 a limited list. Please use the Readers' Advisory Form for more detailed recommendations! What IS listed here is selected with high school students in mind, however. Parents of voracious young readers who need a challenge, PLEASE do not assume that these recommendations are simply the next step in regard to reading level and ability. They are also listed here as age-appropriate suggestions that may not be suitable for younger readers. Please use the RA form, and Mrs. Meester can help your reader with challenging reads!***
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)
Atlantia Ally Condie
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
The Traitor's Game Jennifer A. Nielson
Sky in the Deep Adrienne Young
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
Killer Angels Michael Shaara
The Stranger Albert Camus (written in 1942, so perhaps historical, but actually regarded as contemporary fiction, or philosophical fiction.)
(The following are more specifically categorized as Young Adult).
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.)
(The following are more specifically categorized as Young Adult).
Between Shades of Gray Rita Sepetys
The Enigma Game Elizabeth Wein
Lovely War Julie Berry
Mystery
The Innocence of Father Brown G.K. Chesterton
Death in Kashmir (and companion books) M.M. Kaye
(The following are more specifically categorized as Young Adult)
The Disappearances Emily Bain Murphy
Vango Timothee de Fambelle
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!)
Make Your Bed William McRaven
Shackleton's Way Margaret Morrell
Series (various genres)
Legend Marie Lu
Shadow and Bone Leigh Bardugo
Spin the Dawn Elizabeth Lim
Starbound Amie Kaufman and Megan Spooner
