8th Grade Reading List - Salk School

8th Grade Humanities Recommended Reading List

These books have been popular with past 8th grade students.

YOUNG ADULT FICTION AND FANTASY

Douglas Adams

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Becky Albertalli

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

Kwame Alexander

The Crossover

M.T. Anderson

Feed

Stephen Chbosky

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Ernest Cline

Ready Player One

Suzanne Collins

The Hunger Games Trilogy

Robert Cormier

T he Chocolate War AND I Am the Cheese

Sharon Draper

Copper Sun AND Tears of a Tiger

Nancy Farmer

The House of the Scorpion

John Green

Looking for Alask a AND Paper Towns AND The Fault in

Our Stars AND Turtles All the Way Down

John Green and David Levithan Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Mark Haddon

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Laurie Halse Anderson

Speak AND Chains Trilogy

E. Lockhart

We Were Liars

Lois Lowry

The Giver

Marie Lu

Legend Trilogy

Patricia McCormick

Sold

Jandy Nelson

I'll Give You the Sun

Philip Pullman

His Dark Materials Trilogy

Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely All American Boys

Rainbow R owell Meg Rosoff Veronica Roth Benjamin Alire Saenz Andrew Smith Angie Thomas J.R.R Tolkien Ned Vizzini Scott Westerfeld M arkus Zusak

Eleanor and Park AND Fangirl How I Live Now Divergent Trilogy Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe Winger AND Grasshopper Jungle The Hate U Give The Hobbit AND The Lord of the Rings Trilogy Be More Chill AND It's Kind of a Funny Story Uglies Series I Am the Messenger AND The Book Thief

CLASSICS and CONTEMPORARY FICTION

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

Ray Bradbury

Fahrenheit 451

Emma Donoghue

Room

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

Arthur Golden

Memoirs of a Geisha

William Golding

Lord of the Flies

Sara Gruen

Water for Elephants

Khaled Hosseini

The Kite Runner AND A Thousand Splendid Suns

Daniel Keyes

Flowers for Algernon

John Knowles

A Separate Peace

Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird

Jack London

The Call of the Wild

Cormac McCarthy

The Road

Tim O'Brien

The Things They Carried

George Orwell J.D. Salinger Betty Smith Kathryn Stockett Mark Twain

Animal Farm AND 1984 The Catcher in the Rye AND Nine Stories A Tree Grows in Brooklyn The Help The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

NON-FICTION (including memoir)

Mitch Albom

Tuesdays with Morrie

Maya Angelou

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Bill Bryson

A Walk in the Woods

Dave Eggers

Zeitoun

Anne Frank

The Diary of a Young Girl

Laura Hillenbrand

Unbroken

Phillip Hoose

The Boys Who Challenged Hitler

Walter Isaacson

Steve Jobs: A Biography

Ji-li Liang

Red Scarf Girl

Jon Krakauer

Into the Wild

James McBride

The Color of Water

Sarah Miller

The Borden Murders: Lizzie Borden and the Trial of the

Century

Trevor Noah

Born a Crime

Michael Pollan

The Omnivore's Dilemma

Marjane Satrapi

Persepolis Series

Steve Sheinkin

Bomb: The Race to Build-and Steal-the World's Most

Dangerous Weapon

Rebecca Skloot

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Dashka Slater

Jeannette Walls Tobias Wolff Jacqueline Woodson Malala Yousafzai

The 57 Bus: The True Story of two Teenagers and the Crime that Changed Their Lives The Glass Castle AND Half Broke Horses This Boy's Life Brown Girl Dreaming I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

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