2000s books assigned in 10th grade
US schools assign 109 books written in the 2000s to 10th grade students, across 15 states, spanning 530L–920L. Every title below is cited from a state ELA standard, district reading list, or AP/IB syllabus.
Most widely assigned from the 2000s
The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins · on 23 reading lists
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- Titles
- 109
- Written
- 2000–2009
- Lexile range
- 530L–920L
- States assigning
- 15
The list — 2000s, 10th grade
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A Curse Dark as GoldElizabeth C. Bunce
A Hat Full of SkyTerry Pratchett
A Life in the WildPamela S. Turner
AfterFrancine Prose
American Born ChineseGene Luen Yang · 530L
An American PlagueJim Murphy
An American PlagueJim Murphy
Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal SnoggingLouise Rennison
AshMalinda Lo
Ashley Bryan: Words to My Life's SongAshley Bryan
Breathing UnderwaterAlex Flinn
BrooklynColm Tóibín
ChainsLaurie Halse Anderson · 780L
Children of the Great DepressionRussell Freedman
City of BonesCassandra Clare
Claudette ColvinPhillip Hoose
Commodore Perry in the Land of the ShogunRhoda Blumberg
Copper SunSharon Draper
Dairy QueenCatherine Gilbert Murdock
Darkness Over DenmarkEllen Levine
Day of TearsJulius Lester
Define "Normal"Julie Anne Peters
DevilishMaureen Johnson
Dooby Dooby MooDoreen Cronin
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- Dust to Eat
- Fat Kid Rules The World
- Fathers and Sons
- FIREBOAT
- Flash Burnout
- Flora Segunda
- Full Tilt
- Going Bovine
- Graceling
- Hanging on to Max
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- Hold Still
- Hope Was Here
- How I Live Now
- Ice
- Impulse
- In the Belly of the Bloodhound
- Into the Wild
- Jellicoe Road
- Leon's Story
- Leonardo, the Beautiful Dreamer
- Life as We Knew It
- Looking for Alaska
- Madapple
- Marcelo in the Real World
- Marching For Freedom
- Me, the Missing, and the Dead
- Midnighters #2: Touching Darkness
- My Sister's Keeper
- Peace, Locomotion
- Peaches
- Peeps
- Perfect Chemistry
- Purple Hibiscus
- Savvy
- Secrets of a Civil War Submarine
- Shattering Glass
- Shiver (Shiver, Book 1)
- Sold
- Son of the Mob
- Space Station Science
- Stormwitch
- Stuck in Neutral
- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
- The Adoration of Jenna Fox
- The Amethyst Road
- The Boxes
- The Brimstone Journals
- The Double Life of Pocahontas
- The Everafter
- The First Part Last
- The Glass Castle
- The Hotel Under the Sand
- The House Next Door
- The Hunger Games
- The King of Attolia
- The Kite Runner
- The Knife of Never Letting Go
- The Land
- The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler
- The Lincolns
- The Longitude Prize
- The Lovely Bones: A Novel
- The Maze Runner
- The River Between Us
- The Second Summer of the Sisterhood
- The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
- The Strongest Man in the World
- The Surrender Tree / El ábol de la rendición
- The Tequila Worm
- The True Meaning of Smekday
- The Voice That Challenged a Nation
- The Wall
- The White Darkness
- Things Not Seen
- Thirteen Reasons Why
- Twilight
- Uglies
- Unwind
- Upon the Head of the Goat
- Vintage
- We Are the Ship
- What I Saw and How I Lied
- Wolf Rider: A Tale of Terror
- Zoe's Tale
Most-assigned 2000s authors in 10th grade
Scott Westerfeld (3) · Jim Murphy (2) · Russell Freedman (2) · Neal Shusterman (2) · Sarah Beth Durst (2) · Ann Brashares (2)
Common questions
- How many 2000s books are assigned in 10th grade?
- 109 books written between 2000 and 2009 appear on 10th grade reading lists tracked by ReadingList. Each one is cited from a state department of education, district list, or AP/IB syllabus.
- What Lexile range do these 2000s books cover?
- Lexile measures for the 2000s titles assigned in 10th grade run from 530L to 920L. Poetry, drama, and graphic novels without a published Lexile measure are not counted in that range.
- Are these assigned nationally or in a few states?
- 15 states assign at least one 2000s title at 10th grade in the lists tracked here, so this is a broad pattern rather than a single state's canon. Per-state lists are on each state page.