Book Recommendations - By students for students

So after polling over 1,000 kids and going through lots of answers, I have compiled the list! I'm super proud of the kids because the results were totally varied! Infact I decided to read every book on this list just for fun!

So how did we decide to format this list? We toyed around with grouping them in genres, but decided that some students might cast aside certain books because they don't like that genre. A lot of the students listed their favorite classic books, mostly which they have read in class, so we decided to create a catagory just for the classics. Check them out!

Here's the list:

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom

Go Ask Alice by Anonymous

Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher

Boy In The Striped Pajamas by John Boyne

A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray

The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown

Women by Charles Bukowski

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Heaven Is For Real by Todd Burpo

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

Crazy Love: Overwhelmed By A Restless God by Francis Chan

Papillon by Henri Charrière

The Perks Of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare

The Supernaturalist by Eoin Colfer

The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins

Beach Music by Pat Conroy

Timeline by Michael Crichton

Spartan Gold by Clive Cussler

Seventeenth Summer by Maureen Daly

Thr3e by Ted Dekker

Lock and Key by Sarah Dessen

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? By Philip K. Dick

Drama High series by L. Divine

The Daughters of the Moon series by Lynne Ewing

Beastly by Alex Flinn

Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

Sandman series by Neil Gaiman

Old Yeller by Fred Gipson

Looking for Alaska by John Green

Be True To Your School by Bob Greene

Rachel and Darcy series by Emily Griffin

Christy Miller series by Robin Jones Gunn

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

Crank series by Ellen Hopkins

Alex Rider series by Anthony Horowitz

 Redwall series by Brian Jacques

Scar Tissue by Anthony Keidis

Alabama Moon by Watt Key

It by Stephen King

Take One by Karen Kingsbury

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

14,000 Things To Be Happy About by Barbara Ann Kipfer

Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt

Dramarama by E. Lockhart

I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore

The Giver by Lois Lowry

The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy & Goth Girl by Barry Lyga

The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx

Wake by Lisa McMann

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Vampire Academy series by Richelle Mead

Twilight series by Stephanie Meyers

Wilderness: The Lost Writings Of Jim Morrison by Jim Morrison

Fablehaven series by Brandon Mull

The Watchmen by Alan Moore

Inheritance series by Christopher Paolini

Witch and Wizard by James Patterson

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult

Song Of The Lioness series by Tamora Pierce

The Chosen by Chaim Potak

Anthem by Ayn Rand

Confessions of Georgia Nicholson series by Louise Rennison

Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers

Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan

Stiff: The Curious Life of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling

Rainbow High Trilogy by Alex Sanchez

A Non-Blonde Cheerleader series by Kieran Scott

The Alchemyst series by Michael Scott

The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara

Pretty Little Liars series by Sara Shepard

A Series Of Unfortunate Events series by Lemony Snicket 

The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks

The Wolves of Mercy Falls series by Maggie Stiefvater

Deadly Little Secrets series by Laurie Faria Stolarz

Give A Boy A Gun by Todd Strasser

Lord Of The Rings series by J.R.R. Tolkien

Slaughtehouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegurt

Night Angel series by Brent Weeks

Impossible by Nancy Werlin

Uglies series by Scott Westerfield

Night by Elie Wiesel

The Extraordinary Adventure of Alfred Kropp by Rick Yancy

Favorite Authors

Laurie Halse Anderson

Jane Austen

Dan Brown

Charles Bukowski

Orson Scott Card

Agatha Christie

Cassandra Clare

Suzanne Collins

Pat Conroy

Michael Crichton

Sarah Dessen

Philip K. Dick

Alex Flinn

Neil Gaiman

John Green

Robin Jones Gunn

Ellen Hopkins

Stephen King

Karen Kingsberry

Bernard Henri Levy

E. Lockhart

Alan Moore

Stephanie Meyers

George Orwell

James Patterson

Jodi Picoult

Tamora Pierce

Ayn Rand

Rick Riordan

Francine Rivers

J.K. Rowling

Nicholas Sparks

Laurie Faria Stolarz

J.R.R. Tolkien

Mark Twain

Scott Westerfield

Students’ Favorite Classics

The Divine Comedy by  Dante Alighieri

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Animal Farm by George Orwell

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

War And Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain