Book recommendations
1st To Die
Title:
Author:
James Patterson
Vocabulary level:
6000
Genre:
Crime Fiction
A Bend in the River
Title:
Author:
V.S. Naipaul
Vocabulary level:
5000
Genre:
Postcolonial, Literary
A Farewell to Arms
Title:
Author:
Ernest Hemmingway
Vocabulary level:
5000
Genre:
War, Romance
A Game of Thrones
Title:
Author:
George R R Martin
Vocabulary level:
7000
Genre:
Fantasy, Epic fiction
A Gentleman in Moscow
Title:
Author:
Amor Towles
Vocabulary level:
7000
Genre:
Historical Fiction
A Mind to Murder
Title:
Author:
P.D. James
Vocabulary level:
5000
Genre:
Detective, Mystery
A Perfectly Good Family
Title:
Author:
Lionel Shriver
Vocabulary level:
9000
Genre:
Domestic Fiction
A Rule Against Murder
Title:
Author:
Louise Penny
Vocabulary level:
6000
Genre:
Crime Fiction
A Scanner Darkly
Title:
Author:
Philip K. Dick
Vocabulary level:
6000
Genre:
Crime Fiction
A Spy Among Friends
Title:
Author:
Ben Macintyre
Vocabulary level:
7000
Genre:
Espionage
A Tale of Two Cities
Title:
Author:
Charles Dickens
Vocabulary level:
7000
Genre:
Historical, Classic Literature
A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
Title:
Author:
Kevin Fedarko
Vocabulary level:
6000
Genre:
Outdoor
A War Like No Other
Title:
Author:
Victor Davis Hanson
Vocabulary level:
9000
Genre:
Narrative History
After Dunkirk
Title:
Author:
Lee Jackson
Vocabulary level:
6000
Genre:
Historical Fiction
Age of Extremes
Title:
Author:
Eric J. Hobsbawm
Vocabulary level:
6000
Genre:
History
Agent Sonya
Title:
Author:
Ben Macintyre
Vocabulary level:
7000
Genre:
Espionage
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Title:
Author:
Lewis Carroll
Vocabulary level:
6000
Genre:
Fantasy, Children's Literature
All the Broken Places
Title:
Author:
John Boyne
Vocabulary level:
4000
Genre:
Historical Fiction
All the Light We Cannot See
Title:
Author:
Anthony Doer
Vocabulary level:
8000
Genre:
Historical Fiction
Along Came a Spider
Title:
Author:
James Patterson
Vocabulary level:
5000
Genre:
Diaspora Fiction
American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century
Title:
Author:
Maureen Callahan
Vocabulary level:
5000
Genre:
True Crime
Amsterdam
Title:
Author:
Ian McEwan
Vocabulary level:
6000
Genre:
Dark Comedy
An Unstuitable Job for a Woman
Title:
Author:
P.D. James
Vocabulary level:
6000
Genre:
Detective, Mystery
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
Title:
Author:
P.D. James
Vocabulary level:
6000
Genre:
Detective, Mystery
And Then There Were None
Title:
Author:
Agatha Christie
Vocabulary level:
6000
Genre:
Detective, Mystery
And the Band Played On
Title:
Author:
Randy Shilts
Vocabulary level:
7000
Genre:
Narrative Journalism, Popular Science
Animal Farm
Title:
Author:
George Orwell
Vocabulary level:
7000
Genre:
Political Satire, Allegory
As I Lay Dying
Title:
Author:
William Faulkner
Vocabulary level:
6000
Genre:
Southern Gothic
Atomic Habits
Title:
Author:
James Clear
Vocabulary level:
5000
Genre:
Personal Development
Atonement
Title:
Author:
Ian McEwan
Vocabulary level:
8000
Genre:
Postmodernist, Historical, Tragedy
Becoming
Title:
Author:
Michelle Obama
Vocabulary level:
6000
Genre:
Memoir
Before We Were Yours
Title:
Author:
Lisa Wingage
Vocabulary level:
5000
Genre:
Historical Fiction, Domestic Fiction
Between the World and Me
Title:
Author:
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Vocabulary level:
6000
Genre:
Autobiography
Blindness
Title:
Author:
Jose Saramago
Vocabulary level:
5000
Genre:
Dystopian
Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life
Title:
Author:
J.M. Coetzee
Vocabulary level:
6000
Genre:
Autobiography
Brave New World
Title:
Author:
Aldous Huxley
Vocabulary level:
8000
Genre:
Dystopian, Science Fiction
City of Thieves
Title:
Author:
David Benioff
Vocabulary level:
6000
Genre:
Historical Fiction
Colonial Hong Kong in the Eyes of Elsie Tu
Title:
Author:
Elsie Tu
Vocabulary level:
5000
Genre:
Autobiography, History
Cover Her Face
Title:
Author:
P.D. James
Vocabulary level:
5000
Genre:
Detective, Mystery
Crime and Punishment
Title:
Author:
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Vocabulary level:
6000
Genre:
Philosophical, Psychological
Crying in H Mart
Title:
Author:
Michelle Zauner
Vocabulary level:
7000
Genre:
Memoir
Dartmouth Park
Title:
Author:
Rupert Thomson
Vocabulary level:
5000
Genre:
Literary
Dead Mountain: The Untold Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident
Title:
Author:
Donnie Eichar
Vocabulary level:
6000
Genre:
Historical Narrative Journalism, Outdoor, Mystery
Death Comes to Pemberley
Title:
Author:
P.D. James
Vocabulary level:
5000
Genre:
Detective, Mystery
Death on the Nile*
Title:
Author:
Agatha Christie
Vocabulary level:
6000
Genre:
Detective, Mystery
Disgrace
Title:
Author:
J.M. Coetzee
Vocabulary level:
6000
Genre:
Domestic Fiction
Dracula
Title:
Author:
Bram Soker
Vocabulary level:
7000
Genre:
Gothic Horror
East of Eden
Title:
Author:
John Steinbeck
Vocabulary level:
5000
Genre:
Family Saga
Eichmann in Jerusalem
Title:
Author:
Hannah Arendt
Vocabulary level:
6000
Genre:
Narrative Journalism
Empire of the Sun
Title:
Author:
J.G. Ballard
Vocabulary level:
8000
Genre:
Autobiographical War Fiction
Everything I Never Told You
Title:
Author:
Celeste Ng
Vocabulary level:
6000
Genre:
Diaspora Fiction
Everything She Ever Wanted
Title:
Author:
Ann Rule
Vocabulary level:
6000
Genre:
True Crime
Fahrenheit 451
Title:
Author:
Ray Bradbury
Vocabulary level:
6000
Genre:
Dystopian, Science Fiction
First They Killed My Father
Title:
Author:
Loung Ung
Vocabulary level:
5000
Genre:
Autobiography
Freakonomics
Title:
Author:
Steven Levitt
Vocabulary level:
6000
Genre:
Social Science
Grapes of Wrath
Title:
Author:
John Steinbeck
Vocabulary level:
7000
Genre:
Historical, Social commentary
Guns Germs and Steel
Title:
Author:
Jared Diamond
Vocabulary level:
8000
Genre:
Anthropology, Geography
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Title:
Author:
J K Rowling
Vocabulary level:
5000
Genre:
Fantasy, Young Adult
Hidden Valley Road
Title:
Author:
Robert Kolker
Vocabulary level:
6000
Genre:
Narrative Journalism
Hillbilly Elegy
Title:
Author:
J.D. Vance
Vocabulary level:
5000
Genre:
Autobiography
Hiroshima*
Title:
Author:
John Hersey
Vocabulary level:
6000
Genre:
Narrative Journalism
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Title:
Author:
Maya Angelou
Vocabulary level:
6000
Genre:
Autobiography
I'll Be Gone in the Dark
Title:
Author:
Michelle McNamara
Vocabulary level:
7000
Genre:
True Crime
In Cold Blood
Title:
Author:
Truman Capote
Vocabulary level:
6000
Genre:
True Crime, Narrative Journalism
Interior Chinatown
Title:
Author:
Charles Yu
Vocabulary level:
5000
Genre:
Diaspora Fiction
Into Thin Air
Title:
Author:
Jon Krakauer
Vocabulary level:
8000
Genre:
Narrative Journalism, Autobiography, Outdoor
Into the Wild
Title:
Author:
John Krakauer
Vocabulary level:
8000
Genre:
Narrative Journalism, Outdoor
Invisible Women
Title:
Author:
Caroline Criado Perez
Vocabulary level:
6000
Genre:
Social Science
Island of the Lost
Title:
Author:
Joan Druett
Vocabulary level:
7000
Genre:
Historical Narrative Journalism
Jane Eyre
Title:
Author:
Charlotte Bronte
Vocabulary level:
8000
Genre:
Gothic Romance, Coming-of-Age
Justice: What Is the Right Thing to Do
Title:
Author:
Michael Sandel
Vocabulary level:
6000
Genre:
Philosophy
Kite Runner
Title:
Author:
Khaled Hosseini
Vocabulary level:
7000
Genre:
Literary, Historical
Life of Pi
Title:
Author:
Yann Martel
Vocabulary level:
8000
Genre:
Adventure, Philosophical
Little Women
Title:
Author:
Louisa May Alcott
Vocabulary level:
6000
Genre:
Literary, Coming-of-Age
Lord of the Flies
Title:
Author:
William Golding
Vocabulary level:
6000
Genre:
Allegory, Psychological
Man's Search for Meaning
Title:
Author:
Viktor Frankl
Vocabulary level:
7000
Genre:
Philosophy
Manchurian Legacy: Memoirs of a Japanese Colonist
Title:
Author:
Kazuko Kuramoto
Vocabulary level:
5000
Genre:
Biography
Murder on the Orient Express*
Title:
Author:
Agatha Christie
Vocabulary level:
6000
Genre:
Detective, Mystery
Night Without End
Title:
Author:
Alistair MacLean
Vocabulary level:
6000
Genre:
Mystery, Outdoor
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Title:
Author:
George Orwell
Vocabulary level:
6000
Genre:
Dystopian
North
Title:
Author:
Scott Jurek
Vocabulary level:
6000
Genre:
Outdoor
Not Quite Dead Yet
Title:
Author:
Holly Jackson
Vocabulary level:
5000
Genre:
Mystery, Thriller
Nothing to Envy
Title:
Author:
Barbara Demick
Vocabulary level:
6000
Genre:
Narrative Journalism
Of Mice and Men
Title:
Author:
John Steinbeck
Vocabulary level:
6000
Genre:
Literary, Tragedy
On the Beach
Title:
Author:
Nevil Shute
Vocabulary level:
5000
Genre:
Apocalyptic
Operation Mincemeat
Title:
Author:
Ben McEntyre
Vocabulary level:
7000
Genre:
Espionage
Percy Jackson and the Olympians - The Titans Curse
Title:
Author:
Rick Roidan
Vocabulary level:
6000
Genre:
Fantasy, Adventure
Player Piano
Title:
Author:
Kurt Vonnegut
Vocabulary level:
8000
Genre:
Dystopian, Science Fiction
Postmortem
Title:
Author:
Patricia Cornwell
Vocabulary level:
6000
Genre:
Detective, Mystery
Pride and Prejudice
Title:
Author:
Jane Austen
Vocabulary level:
5000
Genre:
Classic Literature, Romance
Profiles in Courage
Title:
Author:
John F. Kennedy
Vocabulary level:
7000
Genre:
Biography
Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima, and the Surrender of Japan
Title:
Author:
Richard Overy
Vocabulary level:
5000
Genre:
Narrative History
Rebecca
Title:
Author:
Daphne Du Maurier
Vocabulary level:
6000
Genre:
Gothic, Romance, Crime
Red Rising
Title:
Author:
Pierce Brown
Vocabulary level:
8000
Genre:
Science Fiction
Salem's Lot
Title:
Author:
Stephen King
Vocabulary level:
7000
Genre:
Horror, Gothic
Salt to the Sea
Title:
Author:
Ruta Sepetys
Vocabulary level:
6000
Genre:
Historical Fiction
Sapiens
Title:
Author:
Yuval Noah Harari
Vocabulary level:
7000
Genre:
Anthropology, History
Say Nothing
Title:
Author:
Patrick Radden Keefe
Vocabulary level:
7000
Genre:
Historical Narrative Journalism, Mystery
Sense and Sensibility
Title:
Author:
Jane Austen
Vocabulary level:
5000
Genre:
Classic Literature, Romance
Seven Years
Title:
Author:
Peter Stamm
Vocabulary level:
4000
Genre:
Literary