Summer reading lists

Books US public schools commonly assign as summer reading. Lists are tied to the grade the student is entering in the fall — pick a grade to see the titles for that year.

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49 summer reading titles

Every book with at least one school or district summer-reading citation in our database, sorted by grade level.

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Show all 49 titles

Holes · Louis Sachar
Number the Stars · Lois Lowry
Out of My Mind · Sharon M. Draper
Smile · Raina Telgemeier
Tuck Everlasting · Natalie Babbitt
Where the Red Fern Grows · Wilson Rawls
A Wrinkle in Time · Madeleine L'Engle
Hatchet · Gary Paulsen
One Crazy Summer · Rita Williams-Garcia
Rebound · Kwame Alexander
The Crossover · Kwame Alexander
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry · Mildred D. Taylor
The Giver · Lois Lowry
The Hunger Games · Suzanne Collins
The Parker Inheritance · Varian Johnson
Animal Farm · George Orwell
The Outsiders · S.E. Hinton
To Kill a Mockingbird · Harper Lee
Of Mice and Men · John Steinbeck
The Book Thief · Markus Zusak
The Hate U Give · Angie Thomas
Things Fall Apart · Chinua Achebe
The Great Gatsby · F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Kite Runner · Khaled Hosseini
Their Eyes Were Watching God · Zora Neale Hurston

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