What are some good books for high school student?

Answer 1

It depends on purpose for reading, if the student is male or female, and his or her interests. My students like The Secret Life of Bees, Killing Mr. Griffin, Let Sleeping Freshmen Lie, Godless, Speak, Angels and Demons, The DiVinci Code, any Nicholas Sparks books for girls, Steve Alten books for guys. Then there are the classics that other respondents have mentioned.

Answer 2

Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer (about the outdoors)
Less than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis (a good introduction to this author)
His Dark Materials - Phillip Pullman (a trilogy, I read in when I was in jr high but it is very good)
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk (as good as the movie)
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (some people like it, some don't, I do)
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (some find the content disgusting, but I find his writing style beautiful)
any of JD Salinger's books, not just Catcher in the Rye. Nine Stories is probably the second easiest to read.

you might want to post what you have read before and liked.

Answer 3

Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants
Anne of Green Gables
Anne Frank: Diary of A Young Girl Definative Edition
Harry Potter Series
Nancy Drew Series.

Answer 4

Looking For Alaska by John Green
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
Any book by Sarah Dessen (i.e., Just Listen; The Truth About Forever)
Uglies trilogy by Scott Westerfeld (Uglies; Pretties; Specials)
What Your Mother Doesn't Know by Sonya Sones

Answer 5

I am a hs teacher. What grade are you? That is most important. However, if you are a reader... you can read anything.

Here are my suggestions:

Life of Pi/Yann Martel
The Devil Wears Prada/Weisberger
Speak/ Laurie Halse Anderson
Prom/ Laurie Halse Anderson
Monster/Walter Dean Myers
Catcher in the Rye/Salinger
The Lovely Bones/Sebold
The Bean Trees/Kingsolver
Buried Onions/Soto

Anything by Gary Paulson or Paul Zindel will work too

Try Steven King too.

Answer 6

I'm in high school, and I read Sidney Sheldon, and Nicholas Sparks (he wrote A Walk To Remember, Message in a Bottle, and The Notebook), My favorite Book is Can You Keep a Secret by Sophie Kinsella (she also wrote the Shopaholic Series)

Answer 7

Well, most of those people are naming classics, but I hate classics. Some good other good books (other than classics) are: "Dirty Girls Social Culb" and "Playing with Boys" by Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez. Also Anne Rice, Some V.C. Andrews, Sidney Sheldon. I love these authors and i've read all of their books. ( I just graduated from high school so we are around the same level) Summer Sister by Judy Blume

Answer 8

For a fun book : Tourist Season by Carl Hiaasen
more serious: Stranger in a Strane Land by Robert Heinlein

Answer 9

I'd say all the classics listed in the above answers are good ones, and the populist tripe is NOT (aka DaVinci Code, Harry Potter and the like). In addition take a closer look at Shakespere and the Russians (Tolstoy and Dostoevsky in particular). Don't forget the playwrites (Ibsen) and short story writers (O Henry, Hemingway and the like).

Answer 10

Check out T.A. Barron, if you like the Harry Potter, this is a complete set ,no waiting for book to come out! The Lost years of Merlin series. All his books are great as well , and a little more mature and believable than Harry Potter.
http://www.tabarron.com/tabarron/