2010s books assigned in 12th grade
US schools assign 212 books written in the 2010s to 12th grade students, across 13 states, spanning 560L–920L. Every title below is cited from a state ELA standard, district reading list, or AP/IB syllabus.
Most widely assigned from the 2010s
The Fault in Our Stars
John Green · on 12 reading lists
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- Titles
- 212
- Written
- 2010–2019
- Lexile range
- 560L–920L
- States assigning
- 13
The list — 2010s, 12th grade
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1919 The Year That Changed AmericaMartin W. Sandler
A Conspiracy of KingsMegan Whalen Turner
A Corner of WhiteJaclyn Moriarty
A Few Red DropsClaire Hartfield
A Light in the Dark (Dark Stars Book 2)A. K. Duboff
AboveLeah Bobet
Above WorldJenn Reese
After the SnowS. D. Crockett
Akata WitchNnedi Okorafor
All We Have LeftWendy Mills
Anger Is a GiftMark Oshiro
Arabella of MarsDavid D. Levine
Archivist WaspNicole Kornher-Stace
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the UniverseBenjamin Alire Sáenz
Aru Shah and the End of TimeRoshani Chokshi
Barber Shop ChroniclesInua Ellams
Beautiful Creatures: The Manga (A Graphic Novel)Cassandra Jean
Because You'll Never Meet MeLeah Thomas
BehemothScott Westerfeld
Belle ÉpoqueElizabeth Ross
Black HeartHolly Black
Blood Water PaintJoy McCullough
Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous WeaponSteve Sheinkin · 920L
Bone GapLaura Ruby
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- Bonnie and Clyde: The Making of a Legend
- Boots on the Ground
- Butterfly Yellow
- Catfishing on CatNet
- Challenger Deep
- Charm & Strange
- Check, Please! Book 1: # Hockey
- Children of Blood and Bone
- Chime
- Cinder
- Cog
- Collected Poems
- Conviction
- Court of Fives
- Crazy
- Crime and Punishment
- Crossing the Tracks
- Cuckoo Song
- Cursed
- Darius the Great Is Not Okay
- Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares
- Daughter of Smoke and Bone
- Dear Martin
- Devils Within
- Dig
- Dirty Wings
- Divergent
- Dr. Bird's Advice for Sad Poets
- Dragon Pearl
- Dread Nation
- Eleanor & Park
- Enchanted
- Everless
- Every Day
- Everybody Sees the Ants
- Everything, Everything
- Exo
- Eyes Like Stars
- Fair Coin
- Fake ID
- Faking Normal
- Far From The Tree
- Five Flavors of Dumb
- Flora's Dare
- Four
- Frankly in Love
- Gabi, a Girl in Pieces
- Girl Mans Up
- Girl, Stolen
- Girls Like Us
- Glory O'Brien's History of the Future
- Good Girl's Guide to Murder
- Greenglass House
- Guardian of the Dead
- Hearts Unbroken
- Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword
- Hey, Kiddo: A Graphic Novel
- Hold Me Closer, Necromancer
- House of Purple Cedar
- Hush
- I am the Weapon
- I Hunt Killers
- I Shall Wear Midnight
- I'll Give You the Sun
- If I Ever Get Out of Here
- In Darkness
- In the Shadow of Blackbirds
- Iron Hearted Violet
- Learning to Swear in America
- Long Way Down
- Love and other Perishable Items
- Love Is the Drug
- Lovely War
- Mapping the Bones
- March Book Three
- Matched
- Midwinterblood
- Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
- Monster Blood Tattoo: Lamplighter
- New Moon
- Night Sky with Exit Wounds
- Nimona
- One of Us Is Lying
- Paper Covers Rock
- Patron Saints of Nothing
- Paul, Big, and Small
- Peasprout Chen, Future Legend of Skate and Sword
- Peasprout Chen: Battle of Champions
- Piecing Me Together
- Railhead
- Railsea
- Rani Patel In Full Effect
- Red Queen
- Rocks Fall Everyone Dies
- Room
- Rose Under Fire
- Saints and Misfits
- Salt to the Sea
- Salvage
- Scott Westerfeld: Leviathan Trilogy
- Scythe
- September Girls
- Seraphina
- Seriously Wicked
- Sex & Violence
- Shadowshaper
- Ship Breaker
- Siberia
- Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
- Sister Mine
- Songs of Ourselves: Volume 2
- Starfish
- Steelheart
- Strange & Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
- Summer of the Mariposas
- Surviving the City
- Sweat
- Tell Me Something Real
- Tess of the Road
- The Art of Starving
- The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I
- The Boy at the End of the World
- The Boy from Ilysies
- The Candle and the Flame
- The Carnival at Bray
- The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
- The Diviners
- The Evil Wizard Smallbone
- The Fault in Our Stars
- The Field Guide to the North American Teenager
- The Fountains of Silence
- The Freak Observer
- The Freedom Maze
- The Girl of Fire and Thorns Stories
- The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
- The Hate U Give
- The Hired Girl
- The House in the Cerulean Sea
- The Lie Tree
- The Lion Hunters Novels
- The Miseducation of Cameron Post
- The Naturals
- The Overstory
- The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream
- The Poet Slave of Cuba
- The Poet X
- The Running Dream
- The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly
- The Scar Boys
- The Selection
- The Serpent King
- The Smell of Other People's Houses
- The Star-Touched Queen
- The Story of Owen
- The Summer Prince
- The Sun is Also a Star
- The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B
- The Weight of Feathers
- The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
- The Year of Secret Assignments
- There Will Come a Darkness
- This Is What Happy Looks Like
- Those Who Wish Me Dead
- Three Dark Crowns
- Torpedoed
- Truly Devious
- Ultraviolet
- Under the Mesquite
- Unmade (The Lynburn Legacy Book 3)
- Updraft
- Valiant
- Vessel
- Want
- We Are Okay
- We Set the Dark on Fire
- Weave a Circle Round
- What Girls Are Made Of
- What If It's Us
- What the Night Sings
- When We Collided
- When We Wake
- Where Things Come Back
- White Cat
- Who Killed My Daughter?
- Wonder Show
- Written in the Stars
- You're Welcome, Universe
- Zeroboxer
Most-assigned 2010s authors in 12th grade
Holly Black (4) · Jaclyn Moriarty (2) · Roshani Chokshi (2) · Scott Westerfeld (2) · Neal Shusterman (2) · Greg van Eekhout (2)
Common questions
- How many 2010s books are assigned in 12th grade?
- 212 books written between 2010 and 2019 appear on 12th 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 2010s books cover?
- Lexile measures for the 2010s titles assigned in 12th grade run from 560L 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?
- 13 states assign at least one 2010s title at 12th 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.