Which books do kids need for school this year? Check the list below and see which back-to-school titles Bookmans is keeping an eye out for!

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Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl – (self-authored)
Animal Farm – George Orwell

The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
The Book Thief – Markus Zusak

Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Day of the Locust – Nathanael West
Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller

Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card

Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
Frankenstein – Mary Shelley

The Giver – Lois Lowry
The Glass Castle – Jeannette Walls

The Hate U Give – Angie Thomas
How to Read Literature Like a Professor – Thomas C. Foster

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison

To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
Lord of the Flies – William Golding

Odyssey – Homer

The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston

A

A Doll’s House – Henrik Ibsen

A Farewell to Manzanar – Jeanne Houston and James D. Houston

A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines

A Man for All Seasons – Robert Bolt

A Midsummer Night’s Dream – William Shakespeare 

A Place Where the Sea Remembers – Sandra Benitez

A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens

A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain

The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho

All The Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr

Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl – (self-authored)

Animal Farm – George Orwell

Arabian Nights – Andrew Lang

As I Lay Dying – William Faulkner

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (self-authored)

The Autobiography of Malcolm X – Alex Haley

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman – Ernest J. Gaines

The Awakening – Kate Chopin

B

The Bean Trees – Barbara Kingsolver

Beloved – Toni Morrison

The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison

The Book Thief – Markus Zusak

Born a Crime – Trevor Noah

The Boys in the Boat – Daniel James Brown

Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

Breaking Through – Francisco Jimenez

C

The Call of the Wild – Jack London

Candide – Voltaire

The Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chaucer

Castle – David Macaulay

Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut

The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger    

Copper Sun – Sharon Draper

Crime and Punishment – Fedor Dostoyevsky

Cry, The Beloved Country – Alan Paton 

The Crucible – Arthur Miller

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night – Mark Haddon

D

The Day of the Locust – Nathanael West

Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller 

Democracy in America – Alexis de Tocqueville

Discourse on Methods and Meditations – Rene Descartes

E

East of Eden – John Steinbeck

The Elements of Style – Strunk and White (4th ed.)

Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close – Jonathan Foer

F

Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury

Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy

Five Dialogues of Plato – Grube translation

The Fixer – Bernard Malamud

Flowers for Algernon – Daniel Keys

For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway

The Four Winds – Kristin Hannah

Frankenstein – Mary Shelley

G

The Giver – Lois Lowery

The Glass Castle – Jeannette Walls

The Good Earth – Pearl Buck

Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck

Great Expectations – Charles Dickens

The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald                                          

H

Hamlet – William Shakespeare

The Hate You Give – Angie Thomas

Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad

Hiroshima – John Hersey

His Dark Materials series – Philip Pullman

The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien

House of Spirits – Isabel Allende

The House on Mango Street – Sandra Cisneros

How to Read Literature Like a Professor – Thomas C. Foster

The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo

I

I Am Malala – Malala Yousafzai

I, Claudius – Robert Graves

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou

The Iliad – Homer

The Importance of Being Earnest – Oscar Wilde

Into the Wild – Jon Krakauer

Ivanhoe – Walter Scott

Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison

J

Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte

The Jungle – Upton Sinclair

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption – Bryan Stevenson

K

To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

King Lear – William Shakespeare

Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini

L

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff – Christopher Moore

Letters from a Birmingham Jail – Martin Luther King, Jr.

Lord of the Flies – William Golding      

M

Macbeth – William Shakespeare

Make Lemonade – Virginia Wolff

The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett

Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood – Richard Rodriguez, Aria

Moby Dick – Herman Melville

Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe

My Antonia – Willa Cather

My Losing Season – Pat Conroy

N

Narrative of Life Frederick Douglass – Frederick Douglass

Native Son – Richard Wright

Night – Elie Wiesel

O

Odyssey – Homer

Oedipus Rex – Sophocles

Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck

The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway

On the Come Up – Angie Thomas

The Once and Future King – T. H. White

The Other Boleyn Girl – Philippa Gregory

P

Peace Like a River – Leif Enger

The Pearl – John Steinbeck

The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde

Plague of Doves – Louise Erdrich

Political Writings of John Locke – John Locke (Locke/Wooton, ed.)

Pride – Ibi Zoboi 

Pride & Prejudice – Jane Austen

R

Ready Player One – Ernest Cline

The Red Badge of Courage – Stephan Crane

Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution – Ji-Li Jiang

Riders of the Purple Sage – Zane Grey

The Road to Serfdom – F. A. Hayek

Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe

Romeo and Juliet – William ShakespeareRomiette and Julio – Sharon Draper

S

The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight – Gawain Poet (anonymous)

Slaughterhouse 5 – Kurt Vonnegut

Snow Falling on Cedars – David Guterson

Somewhere in the Darkness by Walter Dean Myers

Speak – Laurie Halse Anderson

Stargirl – Jerry Spinelli

The Story of My Life – Helen Keller

T

Taming of the Shrew – William Shakespeare

Tangerine – Edward Bloor

The Tempest – William Shakespeare

Tess of the d’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy

The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien

Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zorah Neale Hurston

Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe 

The Three Musketeers – Alexander Dumas

The Time Machine – H.G. Wells

Tuesdays With Morrie – Mitch Albom

The Turn of the Screw – Henry James

Two Among the Righteous Few – Marty Brounstein

U

Utopia – Thomas More

V

Vanity Fair – William Thackeray

W

Walden – Henry David Thoreau

White Fang – Jack London

Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte