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
Gertrude Chandler Warner
Dinosaurs Before Dark
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
Louis Sachar
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
John Boyne
Schindler’s List
Thomas Keneally
The Book Thief
Markus Zusak
Code Name Verity
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
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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