“25 Books to Read Before You’re 25”
   (From: Seventeen Magazine, June 2004)

MHS = Have in Library
AR = Have AR Test
# Lexile = Lexile Reading Level

   1. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain MHS  AR 990 Lexile
   2. Atonement by Ian Mcewan
   3. Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya  MHS AR 840 Lexile
   4. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky  MHS AR 1010 L
   5. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton  MHS  AR  1160 Lexile
   6. Flannery O’Conner:The Complete Stories by Flannery O’Conner
       MHS
   7. The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles MHS
   8. Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene  MHS
   9. I, Claudius by Robert Graves   MHS
   10. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte   MHS  AR 890 Lexile
   11. A Lesson Before Dying by Thomas Gaines
   12. The Little Prince by Saint Antoine de Exupery MHS 710 Lexile
   13. My Antonia by Willa Cather   MHS  AR 1010 Lexile
   14. Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough   MHS
   15. Music for Chameleons by Truman Capote
   16. The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty   MHS 880 Lexile
   17. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen   MHS  AR  1100 Lexile
   18. The Razor’s Edge by Somerset Maugham   MHS
   19. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in books by Azar Nafisi
   20. Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier  MHS  AR 880 Lexile
   21. Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
   22. Ship of Fools by Katherine Anne Porter  
   23. Siddhartha by Herman Hesse   MHS AR 1010 Lexile
   24. Sophie’s Choice by William Styron   MHS
   25. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy   MHS  AR  1200 Lexile