Recommended 11th Grade Reading List

Looking for an 11th grade reading list? Here is a recommended reading list for you.

We found some non-fiction and mystery books that are ideal for a high school student. They may just spark a love of great literature!

Whether you are looking to supplement your child’s learning or for a great summer reading list, simply click on the story link for a complete description and reviews from Amazon if you want to learn more.

Click on the story name link for a book description and reviews from Amazon if you want to learn more, or scroll further down to read previews of the books.

If you haven’t read them yet yourself, we bet that you will love reading them too!

Non-Fiction

• Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science by Marc Aronson
• Spies of Mississippi: The True Story of the Spy Network that Tried to Destroy the Civil Rights Movement by Rick Bowers
• Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916 by Michael Capuzzo
• We Beat the Street: How a Friendship Pact Led to Success by Sampson Davis
• Faces from the Past: Forgotten People of North America by James M. Deem
• Because They Marched: The People’s Campaign for Voting Rights that Changed America by Russell Freedman
• Letters to a Young Brother: Manifest Your Destiny by Hill Harper
• We Turned Back to See Where Where We Came From – Snapshots, Vignettes, and Stories by the Students of Greater Egleston High School by Daniel Boston
• Marvel Comics: The Untold Story by Sean Howe
• Freaks and Revelations by Davida Wills Hurwin
• Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative by Austin Kleon
• Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out by Susan Kuklin
• Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean
• Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy by Albert Marrin
• The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore
• Imprisoned: The Betrayal of Japanese Americans during World War II by Martin W. Sandler
• Chew On This: Everything You Don’t Want to Know About Fast Food by Eric Schlosser & Charles Wilson
• The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights by Steve Sheinkin
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
• Simeon’s Story: An Eyewitness Account of the Kidnapping of Emmett Till by Simeon Wright

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Mystery & Suspense

• Kissed by an Angel: Kissed by an Angel; The Power of Love; Soulmates by Elizabeth Chandler
• The Moonstone (Penguin Classics) by Wilkie Collins
• The Face on the Milk Carton (The Face on the Milk Carton Series) by Caroline B. Cooney
• Croak (Croak (Quality)) by Gina Damico
• The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Dover Thrift Editions) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Burning Blue by Paul Griffin
• Skeleton Crew by Stephen King
• Bel Canto (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by Ann Patchett
• The Angel Experiment: A Maximum Ride Novel (Book 1) by James Patterson
• Tokyo Heist by Diana Renn

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