Living books are just as important for teenagers as they are for younger students. Use this booklist as you create a reading list for your homeschool high schoolers, and you’ll help them cultivate a love of literature and prepare them for a lifetime of learning.
- The Aeneid by Virgil
- All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
- Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
- Beowulf
- The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
- Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
- Common Sense by Thomas Paine
- Confessions by St. Augustine
- The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
- The Epic of Gilgamesh
- The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- God’s Smuggler by Brother Andrew
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Henry V by William Shakespeare
- The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom
- The Iliad by Homer
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
- The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
- Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- The Lord of the Ring Series by J. R. R. Tolkein
- Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
- Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
- O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
- The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
- The Odyssey by Homer
- Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
- The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
- The Republic by Plato
- Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
- The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis
- A Separate Peace by John Knowles
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- The Tempest by William Shakespeare
- Theodore Roosevelt’s Letters to His Children by Theodore Roosevelt
- The Three Theban Plays (Antigone, Oedipus the King, and Oedipus at Colonus) by Sophocles
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Unbroken by Laura Hillebrand
- Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Walden by Henry David Thoreau
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
- Why We Can’t Wait by Martin Luther King
Need even more ideas for your high schoolers? Check out this selection of living books for grades 9 through 12.
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