2010s books assigned in 9th grade
US schools assign 302 books written in the 2010s to 9th grade students, across 24 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
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Alan Gratz · on 15 reading lists
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- Titles
- 302
- Written
- 2010–2019
- Lexile range
- 560L–920L
- States assigning
- 24
The list — 2010s, 9th grade
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1919 The Year That Changed AmericaMartin W. Sandler
A Boy Called ChristmasMatt Haig
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
A Snicker of Magic (Scholastic Gold)Natalie Lloyd
Abigail AdamsNatalie S. Bober
Abigail AdamsNatalie S. Bober
AboveLeah Bobet
Above WorldJenn Reese
After the SnowS. D. Crockett
Akata WitchNnedi Okorafor
Alchemy and Meggy SwannKaren Cushman
All We Have LeftWendy Mills
Amelia LostCandace Fleming
Anger Is a GiftMark Oshiro
Anna and the Swallow ManGavriel Savit
Arabella of MarsDavid D. Levine
Archivist WaspNicole Kornher-Stace
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the UniverseBenjamin Alire Sáenz
Artemis Fowl and the Last GuardianEoin Colfer
Arthur, For the Very First TimePatricia MacLachlan
Aru Shah and the End of TimeRoshani Chokshi
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- Beautiful Creatures: The Manga (A Graphic Novel)
- Because You'll Never Meet Me
- Behemoth
- Belle Époque
- Better Nate Than Ever
- Between Shades Of Gray
- Black Enough
- Black Heart
- Black Potatoes
- Black Potatoes
- Blink and Caution
- Blood Water Paint
- Bloody Jack Series
- Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon
- Bone Gap
- Bonnie and Clyde: The Making of a Legend
- Boots on the Ground
- Borrowed Children
- Butterfly Yellow
- Call of the Klondike
- Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms
- Carver
- Catfishing on CatNet
- Challenger Deep
- Charm & Strange
- Check, Please! Book 1: # Hockey
- Children of Blood and Bone
- Chime
- Cinder
- Cog
- Conviction
- Court of Fives
- Crazy
- Creepy Carrots!
- 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
- Down Sand Mountain
- Dr. Bird's Advice for Sad Poets
- Dragon Pearl
- Drama
- Dread Nation
- Dream on Amber
- Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie
- Eleanor & Park
- Electric Ben
- Emmanuel's Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah
- Enchanted
- Enchanted Air
- Enchanted Air
- Esquivel! Space-Age Sound Artist
- 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
- Five, Six, Seven, Nate!
- Flora's Dare
- Four
- Frankly in Love
- Gabi, a Girl in Pieces
- Ghetto Cowboy
- Ghost Knight
- Girl Mans Up
- Girl, Stolen
- Girls Like Us
- Glory O'Brien's History of the Future
- Good Girl's Guide to Murder
- Grasshopper Jungle
- Greenglass House
- Guardian of the Dead
- H.O.R.S.E.
- Hearts Unbroken
- Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword
- Hey, Kiddo: A Graphic Novel
- Hold Me Closer, Necromancer
- House Arrest
- House of Purple Cedar
- Humbug Mountain
- Hurt Go Happy
- Hush
- I am the Weapon
- I Hunt Killers
- I Shall Wear Midnight
- I'll Give You the Sun
- I'm Dirty!
- If I Ever Get Out of Here
- In Darkness
- In the Shadow of Blackbirds
- Infinite Hope
- Iron Hearted Violet
- Kumukanda
- La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One
- Learning to Swear in America
- Legend
- Little Little
- Long Way Down
- Love and other Perishable Items
- Love Is the Drug
- Lovely War
- Magisterium: The Iron Trial
- Magnus Chase and the Sword of Summer (Book 1)
- Mapping the Bones
- March Book Three
- Martina the Beautiful Cockroach: A Cuban Folktale
- Matched
- Michael Vey: The Prisoner of Cell 25
- Midwinterblood
- Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
- Monster Blood Tattoo: Lamplighter
- Monstrous Beauty
- Most Dangerous
- Muckrackers
- New Moon
- Nimona
- Noah Webster and His Words
- Okay for Now
- One of Us Is Lying
- Orbiting Jupiter
- 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
- Princess & the Hustler
- Prisoner B-3087
- Projekt 1065
- Railhead
- Railsea
- Rani Patel In Full Effect
- Red Queen
- Redwood and Ponytail
- Refugee
- Revolution
- Rocks Fall Everyone Dies
- Room
- Rose Under Fire
- Rotters
- Run, Hide, Fight Back
- Sadie
- Saints and Misfits
- Salt to the Sea
- Salvage
- Scott Westerfeld: Leviathan Trilogy
- Scowler
- Scythe
- September Girls
- Seraphina
- Seriously Wicked
- Sex & Violence
- Shadowshaper
- Ship Breaker
- Siberia
- Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
- Sister Mine
- Skulduggery Pleasant
- Songs of Ourselves: Volume 1
- Songs of Ourselves: Volume 2
- Starfish
- Steelheart
- Stories of Ourselves: Volume 2
- Strange & Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
- Stung
- Summer of the Mariposas
- Surviving the City
- Tell Me Something Real
- Tess of the Road
- The 5th Wave
- The Art of Starving
- The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I
- 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 Doom Stone
- The Evil Wizard Smallbone
- The False Prince
- The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia
- The Fault in Our Stars
- The Field Guide to the North American Teenager
- The Five Lives of Our Cat Zook
- 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 Girl Who Drew Butterflies
- The Good, the Bad, and the Barbie: A Doll's History and Her Impact on Us
- The Hate U Give
- The Hidden Oracle
- The Hired Girl
- The House in the Cerulean Sea
- The Lie Tree
- The Lion Hunters Novels
- The Lost Hero
- The Miseducation of Cameron Post
- The Naturals
- The Notorious Benedict Arnold
- The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream
- The Pilgrims of Plimoth
- The Poet Slave of Cuba
- The Poet X
- The Port Chicago 50
- The Race to Save the Lord God Bird
- The Running Dream
- The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly
- The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place
- The Scar Boys
- The Scorpio Races
- The Selection
- The Serpent King
- The Smell of Other People's Houses
- The Son of Neptune
- The Star-Touched Queen
- The Story of Owen
- The Summer Prince
- The Sun is Also a Star
- The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B
- The Village by the Sea
- The Way Things Work Now
- The Weight of Feathers
- The Wizards of Once
- The Year of Secret Assignments
- There Will Come a Darkness
- This Is What Happy Looks Like
- This Promise of Change
- Those Who Wish Me Dead
- Three Dark Crowns
- Torpedoed
- Truly Devious
- Turtle in Paradise
- Ultraviolet
- Under the Mesquite
- Unmade (The Lynburn Legacy Book 3)
- Updraft
- Valiant
- Vessel
- Vincent and Theo
- Want
- We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga
- We Are Okay
- We Set the Dark on Fire
- We Will Not Be Silent
- We're Not from Here
- Weave a Circle Round
- What Girls Are Made Of
- What If It's Us
- What it Means When a Man Falls from the Sky
- What the Night Sings
- When We Collided
- When We Wake
- Where Things Come Back
- White Cat
- Who Killed My Daughter?
- Will Grayson, Will Grayson
- Wonder Show
- Written in the Stars
- You're Welcome, Universe
- Young Fredle
- Zeroboxer
Most-assigned 2010s authors in 9th grade
Holly Black (4) · Steve Sheinkin (4) · Rick Riordan (4) · Ruta Sepetys (3) · Margarita Engle (3) · Alan Gratz (3)
Common questions
- How many 2010s books are assigned in 9th grade?
- 302 books written between 2010 and 2019 appear on 9th 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 9th 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?
- 24 states assign at least one 2010s title at 9th 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.