Reading Resources
Book Ideas for High School Readers
Recommendations from Your Teachers:
Recommendations from Your Teachers:
ACE HS teachers Adams HS teachers Rochester HS teachers Stoney Creek HS teachers
Recommendations Online:
Recommendations Online:
- Books & Authors (login with your public library card number on your student ID)
- Teen Book Finder and the Teen Book Finder app
- LitPick Under "All Books," search using the drop down menus
- Amazon's Teen Book Section browse with the menu on the left
OurStory Teen books about various diversities
Unique Book Lists:
Unique Book Lists:
- Based on the Book books made into movies
- Young Adult Books in Series and Sequels look up books of a series and the order to read them in by author or series name
- Find the Right Book for You get book ideas based on your own reading ability and genres you like
Titles and Authors to Check Out:
Titles and Authors to Check Out:
Click on a title for reviews from Goodreads!
Realistic Fiction
Realistic Fiction
- Harley in the Sky
- Loveless
- Influence
- Admission
- Lucky Caller
- Pumpkinheads
- The Hate U Give
- On the Come Up
- Once and for All
- Moxie
- I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
- The Inexplicable Logic of My Life
- You Bring the Distant Near
- Turtles All the Way Down
- What Girls are Made of
- Eleanor & Park
- Wintergirls
- Looking for Alaska
- Wonder
- Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
- Everything, Everything
- Me & Earl & The Dying Girl
- All the Bright Places
Classics
Classics
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- Anne of Green Gables
- The Awakening
- The Bell Jar
- Brave New World
- The Call of the Wild
- The Color Purple
- Death of a Salesman
- A Doll's House
- East of Eden
- The Grapes of Wrath
- Hiroshima
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- Invisible Man
- Jane Eyre
- Little Women
- Moby Dick
- Native Son
- The Old Man and the Sea
- One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Persepolis
- The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Robinson Crusoe
- Slaughterhouse 5
- The Sound and the Fury
- A Streetcar Named Desire
- A Tale of Two Cities
- Their Eyes Were Watching God
- Things Fall Apart
- Walden
- Wuthering Heights
Sports
Sports
- We Are The Wildcats
- Losers Take All
- anything by author Mike Lupica
- anything by author Carl Deuker
- anything by author Chris Crutcher
Fantasy
Fantasy
- Chain of Gold
- Four Dead Queens
- Courting Darkness
- All the Stars and Teeth
- The Kingdom of Back
- The Shadows Between Us
- Scavenge the Stars
- The Midnight Lie
- Where Dreams Descend
- Mask of Shadows
- Set Fire to the Gods
- Strange the Dreamer
- Rosemarked
- Book of Lies
- The Last Magician
- The Disappearances
- Caraval
- The Black Witch
- Wild Beauty
- A Skinful of Shadows
- Throne of Glass
- Graceling
- Shadow and Bone
- Seraphina
Mystery / Suspense / Adventure
Mystery / Suspense / Adventure
Romance
Romance
- More Than Maybe
- What I Like About You
- Meet Me at Midnight
- How to Speak Boy
- Finding Mr. Better-Than-You
- Love, Life, and the List
- Tweet Cute
- Time of Our Lives
- Today Tonight Tomorrow
- The Hating Game
- When Dimple Met Rishi
- Words in Deep Blue
- Paper Hearts
- The Fault in Our Stars
- Pushing the Limits
- If I Stay
- Matched
- To All the Boys I've Loved Before
- anything by author Sarah Dessen
- anything by author Simone Elkeles
Horror
Horror
- Burn Our Bodies Down
- Bad Girls Don't Die
- The Ghost Files
- The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
- Anna Dressed in Blood
- Coraline
- A Living Nightmare
- The Forest Dweller
- The Replacement
- I Hunt Killers
- The Forest of Hands and Teeth
- The Knife of Never Letting Go
- Rotters
- A Monster Calls
- Asylum
- Rot & Ruin
- Dollhouse
- The Graveyard Book
- anything by author Christopher Pike
- anything by author Darren Shan