• Chambers Lit & Comp Independent Reading List  For independent reading assignments, I will expect you to select a book from this list.  If you would like to choose a book that is not listed here, please check with me first—if I have read it, I am usually okay with other books. (Each book’s lexile measure is indicated in parentheses.  Consider choosing a book within or just past your lexile range)

     

    • With the Fire on High, Elizabeth Acevedo (810)
    • Children of Blood and Bone, Tomi Adeyemi (670)
    • The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie (600)
    • The Five People You Meet in Heaven (780), Tuesdays with Morrie, (830) Mitch Albom
    • How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (950),  In the Time of the Butterflies (910), Julia Alvarez
    • Bless Me, Ultima, Rudolpho Anaya (840)
    • Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson (890)
    • Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen (1100)
    • A Man Called Ove, Fredrik Backman (870)
    • Sing Me to Sleep, Gabi Burton (NA)
    • The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros (870)
    • The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho (910)
    • All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr (880)
    • Like Water for Chocolate, Laura Esquivel (1030)
    • Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank (1080)
    • Stardust (970), Neverwhere (760), The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Neil Gaiman (NA)
    • The Cellist of Sarajevo, Steven Galloway (NA)
    • Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden (1000)
    • Lord of the Flies, William Golding (770)
    • Bronx Masquerade, Nikki Grimes (670)
    • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon (1180)
    • Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse (1010)
    • The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini (840)
    • Farewell to Manzanar, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston (1040)
    • Five Flavors of Dumb, Antony John (890)
    • The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd (840)
    • The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver (900)
    • Shoeless Joe (1020), The Iowa Baseball (NA) Confederacy, W. P. Kinsella
    • The House in the Cerulean Sea, T.J. Klune (620)
    • A Separate Peace, John Knowles (1110)
    • We Were Liars, E. Lockhart (600)
    • I’m Glad My Mom Died, Jennette McCurdy (NA)
    • One of Us Is Lying, Karen M McManus (780)
    • Life of Pi, Yan Martel (830) 
    • Fallen Angels (650), Monster (670), Walter Dean Myers
    • Born a Crime, Trevor Noah (780)
    • 1984, George Orwell (1090)
    • Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens (880)
    • The Icarus Girl, Helen Oyeyemi (NA)
    • A Long Walk to Water, Linda Sue Park (720)
    • The Chosen, Chaim Potok (970)
    • Such a Fun Age, Kiley Reid (NA)
    • All American Boys, Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely(770)
    • Long Way Down, Jason Reynolds (720)
    • Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Benjamin Alire Sáenz (380)
    • The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger (790)
    • I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, Erika Sanchez (730)
    • Salt to the Sea, Ruta Sepetys (560)
    • They Both Die at the End, Adam Silvera (870)
    • Coffee Will Make You Black, April Sinclair (NA)
    • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot (1140)
    • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith (810)
    • Maus I/II, Art Spiegelman (NA)
    • The Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein (850)
    • Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson (1130)
    • Dear Martin, Nic Stone (720)
    • The Joy Luck Club (930), The Kitchen God’s Wife, (810) The Bonesetter’s Daughter (800), Amy Tan
    • Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Mildred Taylor (920)
    • The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas (590)
    • First They Killed My Father:  A Daughter of

    Cambodia Remembers, Loung Ung (920)

    • Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut (850)
    • The Glass Castle, Jeanette Walls (1010)
    • Night, Elie Weisel (570)
    • Educated, Tara Westover (NA)
    • Fences, August Wilson (NA), The Piano Lesson (NA), August Wilson
    • The Sun is Also a Star, Nicola Yoon (650)
    • I Am Malala, Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb (1000)
    • Crying in H Mart, Michelle Zauner (NA)
    • Pride, Ibi Zoboi (760)
    • The Book Thief, Markus Zusak (730)