Here are some great books that your LSMS teachers and staff have read and loved! (Note: not all books will be suitable for all readers — some are written for adults or older teens.)
100 Authors Who Shaped World History by Christine Perkins
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
A Wrinkle in Time and The Wind in the Door by Madeleine L’Engle
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Animal Farm by George Orwell
any by Gary Paulsen
any by Jack London
any by Judy Blume
any by Shannon Hale
Any Star Trek book
anything by Anne Lamott
Beauty by Robin McKinley
Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
Birthmarked by Caragh M. O’Brien
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
Call of the Wild by Jack London
Calling Invisible Women by Jeanne Ray
Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
D’Aulaire’s Book of Greek Myths by Ingri and Edgar Parin D’Aulaire
Deathwatch by Robb White
Dirty Little Secrets by Cynthia Jaynes Omololu
Do or Die Time by Cameron Ventura
Earth Abides by George R. Stewart
Elantris by Brandon Sanderson
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
Ender’s Shadow by Orson Scott Card
Eragon by Christopher Paolini
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Faithful Elephants by Yukio Tsuchiya
Finnikin of the Rock by Melina Marchetta
Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen
Foundation by Isaac Asimov
Freckle Juice by Judy Blume
Golf’s Sacred Journey: Seven Days at the Links of Utopia by David L. Cook
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Gregor the Overlander [series] by Suzanne Collins
Hailstones and Halibut Bones by Mary O’Neill and John Wallner
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
Heist Society by Ally Carter
Home of the Brave by Katherine Applegate
Honor and Lies by Elizabeth Lee
I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven
In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Jacob, Have I Loved by Katherine Patterson
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life by Wendy Mass
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
Legend by Marie Lu
Loser by Jerry Spinelli
Lost Horizon by James Hilton
Math Doesn’t Suck! by Danica McKellar
Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Okay for Now by Gary D. Schmidt
Old Yeller by Fred Gipson
Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus by Orson Scott Card
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Poetry Out Loud edited by Robert Alden Rubin
Riding the Bus with my Sister by Rachel Simon
Robin Hood by Robin McKinley
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
So You Want to Be a Wizard by Diane Duane
Spindle’s End by Robin McKinley
Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
Stones into Schools by Greg Mortenson
Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz
Summer of the Monkeys by Wilson Rawls
Tangerine by Edward Bloor
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Alcatraz series by Brandon Sanderson
The Anne of Green Gables series by L.M. Montgomery
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov
The Cay by Theodore Taylor
The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau
The Color of Water by James McBride
The Dark is Rising [series] by Susan Cooper
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
The Divergent trilogy by Veronica Roth
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
The Eyre Affair series by Jasper Fforde
The False Prince by Jennifer Nielson
The Giver by Lois Lowry
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hot Zone by Richard Preston
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
The How to Train Your Dragon series by Cressida Cowell
The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins
The Iceberg Hermit by Arthur Roth
The Infernal Devices trilogy by Cassandra Clare
The Invention of Hugo Cabret: A Novel in Words and Pictures by Brian Selznick
The Land by Mildred D. Taylor
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
The Left-Hander’s Handbook by James De Kay
The Leviathan series by Scott Westerfeld
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
The Little House on the Prairie series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R.Tolkien
The Lunar Chronicles series by Marissa Meyer
The Matched trilogy by Allie Condie
The Maze Runner trilogy by James Dashner
The Mistborn trilogy by Brandon Sanderson
The Mortal instruments series by Cassandra Clare
The Mozart Season by Virginia Wolff
The Ordinary Princess by M.M. Kaye
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
The Pigman by Paul Zindel
The Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dilland
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson
The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Shiver trilogy by Maggie Stiefvater
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
The Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer
The Uglies series by Scott Westerfeld
The Underneath by Kathi Appelt
The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
This Dark Endeavor by Kenneth Oppel
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Totally Joe by James Howe
Tracker by Gary Paulsen
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Tunnel in the Sky by Robert Heinlein
Two Old Women by Velma Wallis
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
Wolf Brother by Michelle Paver
Wonder by R.J. Palacio
Zombie Haiku by Ryan Mecum
Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks
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