All of these books I got assigned to read between elementary, middle, and high school and they have changed and wrecked me for the better.
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last updated July, 2026
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
Marjane Satrapi
The Martian
Andy Weir
James and the Giant Peach
Roald Dahl
The Boxcar Children (The Boxcar Children, #1)
Gertrude Chandler Warner
Dinosaurs Before Dark (Magic Tree House, #1)
Mary Pope Osborne
Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus (Junie B. Jones, #1)
Barbara Park
Flat Stanley (Flat Stanley, #1)
Jeff Brown
Holes (Holes, #1)
Louis Sachar
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
John Boyne
Schindler’s List
Thomas Keneally
The Book Thief
Markus Zusak
Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity #1)
Elizabeth Wein
Brown Girl Dreaming
Jacqueline Woodson
Because of Winn-Dixie
Kate DiCamillo
The House of the Scorpion (Matteo Alacran, #1)
Nancy Farmer
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Fault in Our Stars
John Green
Fences (The Century Cycle #6)
August Wilson
The BFG
The Phantom Tollbooth
Norton Juster
The Odyssey
Homer Homer
The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963
Christopher Paul Curtis
The Giver
Lois Lowry
The Glass Castle
Jeannette Walls
The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts
Arthur Miller
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare
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