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Seniors' Favorite Books

1984 -- George Orwell
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- Mark Twain
All Quiet on the Western Front -- Erich Maria Remarque
Angela's Ashes: A Memoir -- Frank McCourt
Anthem -- Ayn Rand

"Reading is fun and it makes you smart."--D. S.

Bible
Brave New World -- Aldous Huxley
Candide -- Voltaire
Catch-22 -- Joseph L. Heller
The Catcher in the Rye -- J. D. Salinger
The Chamber -- John Grisham
Chinese Handcuffs -- Chris Crutcher
The Color of Water -- James McBride
Color Purple -- Alice Walker

"Reading lets your mind travel."--C. P.

Dune -- Frank Herbert
Emma -- Jane Austen
Ender's Game -- Orson Scott Card
Fahrenheit 451 -- Ray Bradbury
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas -- Hunter S. Thompson

"Reading gives me the chance to look at things from a different perspective."--K. M.

Girl, Interrupted -- Susanna Kaysen
The Giver -- Lois Lowry
Go Ask Alice -- Anonymous

The Great Gatsby -- F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Green Mile -- Stephen King

"Reading helps me to know more about different cultures."--D. L.

Hamlet -- William Shakespeare
Harry Potter books -- J. K. Rowling
Hatchet -- Gary Paulsen
Having Our Say -- Sarah Louise Delany
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- Douglas Adams
The Hobbit -- J. R. R. Tolkien
The Horse Whisperer -- Nicholas Evans

"Reading makes me think more than watching movies or television."--K. L.

In Cold Blood -- Truman Capote
Ishmael -- Daniel Quinn
Left Behind -- Tim F. LaHaye
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe -- C. S. Lewis
Little Women -- Louisa May Alcott
Lolita -- Vladimir Vladimirovoch Nabokov
The Lord of the Rings -- J. R. R. Tolkien

"Reading is necessary for intelligent conversation."--L. L.

My Antonia -- Willa Silbert Cather
Oedipus the King -- Sophocles
Of Mice and Men -- John Steinbeck
The Old Man and the Sea -- Ernest Hemingway
On the Road -- Jack Kerouac
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest -- Ken Kesey
"Reading is a good use of time and expands one's mind."--R. K.
The Scarlet Letter -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Shining -- Stephen King
Summer Sisters -- Judy Blume
Their Eyes were Watching God -- Zora Neale Hurston
To Kill a Mockingbird -- Harper Lee (most popular book for LHS Seniors)
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle -- Avi
Tuesdays with Morrie -- Mitch Albom

"Reading helps me broaden my insight, helps me learn more words and helps with my memory."--C. A.

The Vampire Lestat -- Anne Rice
Where the Heart Is -- Billie Letts

CHILDHOOD FAVORITES

The Cat in the Hat -- Dr. Seuss
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory -- Roald Dahl
Charlotte's Web -- E. B. White
Fox in Socks -- Dr. Seuss
Green Eggs and Ham -- Dr. Seuss
Goodnight Moon -- Margaret Wise Brown
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie -- Laura Joffe Numeroff
The Little Engine That Could -- Watty Piper
Oh, the Places You'll Go! -- Dr. Seuss
One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish -- Dr. Seuss
Walk Two Moons -- Sharon Creech
Where's Waldo? -- Martin Handford

"Reading is a transportable entertainment system, its soundtrack is the music I give it; a good book has an essence that TV, movies, and magazines can't give."--A. A.


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