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 The 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 Alaska 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 Rowell Eleanor and Park AND Fangirl ​ ​ Meg Rosoff How I Live Now Veronica Roth Divergent Trilogy Benjamin Alire Saenz Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe Andrew Smith Winger AND Grasshopper Jungle ​ Angie Thomas The Hate U Give J.R.R Tolkien The Hobbit AND The Lord of the Rings Trilogy ​ ​ Ned Vizzini Be More Chill AND It’s Kind of a Funny Story ​ ​ Scott Westerfeld Uglies Series Markus Zusak 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 Animal Farm AND 1984 ​ ​ J.D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye AND Nine Stories ​ ​ Betty Smith A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Kathryn Stockett The Help Mark Twain 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 The 57 Bus: The True Story of two Teenagers and the Crime that Changed Their Lives Jeannette Walls The Glass Castle AND Half Broke Horses ​ ​ Tobias Wolff This Boy’s Life Jacqueline Woodson Brown Girl Dreaming Malala Yousafzai I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban .