The Best Books To Read With Your Tweens And Teens

Continuing my best books to read with your kids series, I’ve gathered some of my favorite books for middle school and high school students with this list of the best books for teens.

By the time your kids reach middle school and high school, you probably won’t be reading books aloud together as often as you did when your kids were young. You can still share your love for reading by reading the same books your tweens and teens are reading and talking about them together. Books are a great bridge to meaningful parent-child conversations.

Best Books For Teens

To make your next trip to the library or bookstore easier, here’s a list of some of my favorite books for teens. I’ve included both classic and contemporary fiction and non-fiction books. Note: this post contains affiliate links.

1. Wonder

2. Holes

3. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie

4. I Am Princess X

5. The Book Thief

6. All of the Agatha Christie mysteries

7. Uncle Tom’s Cabin

8. Diary of Anne Frank Eye-opening insight into the life of a remarkably brave Jewish girl during the Holocaust. It’s a must-read for every young person.

9. Jane Eyre

10. The Lord of the Rings trilogy

11. Eleanor & Park

12. The Chronicles of Kazam trilogy

13. To Kill A Mockingbird

14. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

15. The Hunger Games trilogy

16. The Story Of My Life, Hellen Keller’s Autobiography

17. The Screwtape Letters

18. The Mark Of The Lion trilogy

19. The Hiding Place

20. The Count of Monte Cristo

21. All of the books by Jane Austen

22. Fahrenheit 451

23. Sherlock Holmes series

What books would you add to this list? Please share your favorite books for teens in the comments.

For more great books, check out all of my reading lists for the best books to read with your kids.

Author: Dani Stringer, MSN, CPNP, PMHS – founder of KidNurse and MomNurse Academy