High School – Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Freshmen

Persepolis (Volume 1) by Marjane Satrapi
Lion by Saroo Brierley
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass
 

Sophomores

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (the entire series)
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer

Juniors 

Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Kindred by Octavia Butler
All Souls by Michael MacDonald
Here to Stay by Sara Farizam

Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression

Seniors

The Lady Elizabeth: A Novel by Alison Weir
Dubliners by James Joyce (Specifically the short story: The Dead)
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells

 A.P. Classes:

Gideon's Trumpet by Anthony Lewis
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps that Explain Everything About the World (Politics of Place)
Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
Evicted by Matthew Desmond
The Girl with the Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Tsotsi by Athol Fugard
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood