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Recommended Books

Looking for something good to read? Here are a few books we recommend, specifically for your age group - Scroll down for a more comprehensive list of must-reads!

8th Graders

To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee

My Antonia, by Willa Cather

Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury

Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte

Chronicles of Narnia, by C.S. Lewis

Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe

7 Habits of Highly Effective People, by Stephen Covey

Jeeves, by P.G. Wodehouse

The House of the Seven Gables, by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Short Stories, by Anton Chekov

Tuesdays with Morrie, by Mitch Alborn

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11th - 12th Graders

9th - 10th Graders

Preparing for College

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, by J.R.R. Tolkien

Joan of Arc, by Mark Twain

Space Trilogy, by C.S. Lewis

Charlotte's Web, E.B. White

Quo Vadis, by Henry Sienkiewicz

Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens

Emma, by Jane Austen

Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes

The Lady in White, by Wilkie Collins

The Citadel, by A.J. Cronin

Lay Siege to Heaven, by Louis de Wohl

Nichomachean Ethics, by Aristotle

The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Middlemarch, by George Eliot

Man's Search for Meaning, by Viktor Frankl

Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James

The Habit of Being, by Flannery O'Connor

Nicholas and Alexandra, by Robert K. Massie

Letters from the Tower, by Thomas More

The Apology, Phaedo, by Plato

Essays on Woman, by Edith Stein

Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh

The Best Things in Life, by Peter Kreeft

Ten Universal Principles, by Robert Spitzer

Common Nonsense, by Cliff Ermatinger

The Elements of Style, by William Strunk

How to Defend Your Faith Without Raising Your Voice, by Austen Ivereigh

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