“25 Books to Read Before You’re 25”
   (From: Seventeen Magazine, June 2004)

   WHS = Have in school library
   # = Lexile reading level
   AR = Accelerated Reader book, Have test

   1. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain WHS/990/AR
   2. Atonement by Ian Mcewan
   3. Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya WHS/840/AR
   4. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky WHS/1010
   5. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton WHS/1160/AR
   6. Flannery O’Conner: The Complete Stories by Flannery O’Conner              WHS
   7. The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles WHS
   8. Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene WHS
   9. I, Claudius by Robert Graves WHS
   10. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte WHS/890/AR (also in SP & VN)
   11. A Lesson Before Dying by Thomas Gaines
   12. The Little Prince by Saint Antoine de Exupery WHS/AR
   13. My Antonia by Willa Cather WHS/1010/AR
   14. Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough WHS
   15. Music for Chameleons by Truman Capote
   16. The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty WHS/880/AR
   17. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen WHS/1100/AR
   18. The Razor’s Edge by Somerset Maugham
   19. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in books by Azar Nafisi
   20. Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier WHS/880/AR
   21. Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
   22. Ship of Fools by Katherine Anne Porter WHS
   23. Siddhartha by Herman Hesse WHS/1010/AR
   24. Sophie’s Choice by William Styron WHS
   25. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy WHS/1200L