Need a Good Book?
So what happens when Mr. McNealy makes you read a book for an assignment? Or Mrs. Moyer says you cannot sleep during advisory? Or Mr. Lawson has asked you for the third time in one week, "What are you reading these days?" All of this pressure and you have no idea what to read. Let the library help. The following list includes one hundred books from the Clever High School Library. Each of them is really worth reading. They are in no particular order and include adventures, love stories, poetry, histories, and even philosophy. So come, browse, and let one of these books take you to a new world.
| Title | Author | |
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1. |
To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee |
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2. |
Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen |
| 3. | The Hiding Place | Corrie Ten Boom |
| 4. | Girl in Hyacinth Blue | Susan Vreeland |
| 5. | Whale Talk | Chris Crutcher |
| 6. | The Hobbit | J.R.R. Tolkien |
| 7. | The Count of Monte Cristo | Alexandre Dumas |
| 8. | The Magician's Nephew | C.S. Lewis |
| 9. | Life of Pi | Yann Martel |
| 10. | A Room with a View | E. M. Forester |
| 11. | On Writing | Stephen King |
| 12. | My Antonia | Willa Cather |
| 13. | The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| 14. | Time and Again | Jack Finney |
| 15. | The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson | Emily Dickinson |
| 16. | The Lord of the Rings | J.R.R. Tolkien |
| 17. | The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe | C.S. Lewis |
| 18. | The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes | Langston Hughes |
| 19. | The Invention of Hugo Cabret | Brian Selznick |
| 20. | Winter Solstice | Rosmunde Pilcher |
| 21. | Inkheart | Cornelia Funke |
| 22. | The Princess Bride | William Goldman |
| 23. | Where the Heart Is | Billie Letts |
| 24. | The Scarlet Pimpernel | Baroness Oczy |
| 25. | All Over but the Shouting | Rick Bragg |
| 26. | The Taming of the Shrew | William Shakespeare |
| 27. | Ballistics | Billy Collins |
| 28. | West with the Night | Beryl Markham |
| 29. | 84 Charring Cross Road | Helene Hanff |
| 30. | Sense and Sensibility | Jane Austen |
| 31. | 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | Jules Verne |
| 32. | The Portrait of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde |
| 33. | Boy's Life | Robert McCammon |
| 34. | Alice in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll |
| 35. | Skellig | David Almond |
| 36. | House of the Scorpion | Nancy Farmer |
| 37. | Peter Pan | James M. Barrie |
| 38. | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | Betty Smith |
| 39. | Enchanted April | Elizabeth Von Arnum |
| 40. | And Then There Were None | Agatha Christie |
| 41. | Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury |
| 42. | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | Mark Twain |
| 43. | The | Jules Verne |
| 44. | Leaves of the Grass | Walt Whitman |
| 45. | Killer Angels | Michael Shaara |
| 46. | A Horse and His Boy | C.S. Lewis |
| 47. | Ender's Game | Orson Scott Card |
| 48. | Travels With Charlie | John Steinbeck |
| 49. | Picnic Lightning | Billie Collins |
| 50. | Maisie Dobbs | Jacqueline Winspear |
| 51. | The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian | Sherman Alexie |
| 52. | Outsiders | S.E. Hinton |
| 53. | The Acts of King Arthur and his Noble Knights | John Steinbeck |
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54. |
Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain |
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55. |
Anne Frank; the Diary of a Young Girl | Anne Frank |
| 56. | The Three Musketeers | Alexandre Dumas |
| 57. | A Movable Feast | Ernest Hemingway |
| 58. | Across the Nightingale Floor | Lian Hearn |
| 59. | Briar Rose | Jane Yolen |
| 60. | Twilight | Stephanie Meyers |
| 61. | Tall Grass | Sandra Dallas |
| 62. | Hattie Big Sky | Kirby Larson |
| 63. | The Last Sin Eater | Francine Rivers |
| 64. | The Crucible | Arthur Miller |
| 65. | The Joy Luck Club | Amy Tan |
| 66. | All I Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten | Robert Fulghum |
| 67. | The Devil's Arithmetic | Jane Yolen |
| 68. | The Day I became and Autodidact | Kendall Hailey |
| 69. | The Tempest | William Shakespeare |
| 70. | Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck |
| 71. | Speak | Laurie Halse Anderson |
| 72. | Shift | Jennifer Bradbury |
| 73. | Zorro | Isabella Allende |
| 74. | Undaunted Courage | Stephen Ambrose |
| 75. | 13 Reasons Why | Jay Asher |
| 76. | Monster | Walter Dean Myers |
| 77. | The Sword of Shanara | Terry Brooks |
| 78. | A Spell for Chameleon | Piers Anthony |
| 79. | Enchantment | Orson Scott Card |
| 80. | Girl with the Pearl Earring | Tracy Chevalier |
| 81. | Wicked | Gregory McQuire |
| 82. | John Adams | David McCullough |
| 83. | The Double Helix | James Watson |
| 84. | At Home in Mitiford | Jane Karon |
| 85. | Sleeping Freshman Never Lie | David Lubar |
| 86. | Rielly's Luck | Louis L'Amour |
| 87. | King of the Mild Frontier | Chris Crutcher |
| 88. | Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment | James Patterson |
| 89. | Skulduggery Pleasant | Derek Landy |
| 90. | This Present Darkness | Frank Peretti |
| 91. | Snow in August | Pete Hamill |
| 92. | Coming of Age in Mississippi | Ann Moody |
| 93. | Fantastic Voyage | Isaac Asimov |
| 94. | The Reagan Diaries | Ronald Reagan |
| 95. | Nicholas and Alexandra | Robert K. Massie |
| 96. | Watership Down | Richard Adams |
| 97. | Walden | Henry David Thoreau |
| 98. | Scribbler of Dreams | Mary Pearson |
| 99. | The Daybreakers | Louis L'Amour |
| 100. | The Hunt for Red October | Tom Clancy |
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Page last updated on: 09/11/2009