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What are some good books for an eighth grader to read who is reading at a 12th grade level?

I have been reading books by Michael Crichton, John Grisham, and Lee Child.

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1. Metamorphasis, By Franz Kafka (anthology)
2. I wouldn't say John Grisham is 12th grade level, but try A Clockwork Orange. The Lost World, by Arthur Conan Doyle, is similar to a book by Crichton of the same title.
3. I'm not sure if these are 12th grade level, but I've enjoyed them all and I read them in 7th, 8th, 9th, and this year (10th). They aren't all very difficult, but they're all pretty thought-provoking and very enjoyable. 1984 by George Orwell (also, his Animal Farm is pretty good. It's really easy but it's very interesting. If you like his stuff, you might also like Farenheit 451 and A Clockwork Orange) The Joke by Milan Kundera Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco Lolita by ...I always have trouble with this author's name, LOL, but it's a very famous book, I'm sure if you go on amazon.com you'll find it.
4. the silmarillian by J.R.R.Tolkien its apsalutly amazing. if you can get your head arround it.
5. After like 6th grade, I don't think the grade levels matter. But out of my fave books, here are a few- Animal Farm Twilight Series Wutheirng Heights Sense and Sensibility all of Robert Cormier's books (BRILLIANT!!!!)
6. Ive never heard of any of those authors but im in 12th grade and ive been reading Jodi Picoult's books, my sisters keeper and vanishing acts were both really good. but the 10th circle was lame i wouldnt recommend it. if you havnt read it yet the Twilight Series by Stephanie Meyer was AMAZING The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monkidd Just Listen By Sarah Dessen
7. kay,dont read something boring and intellectual, read stephen king.he is NOT boring i take it that since u read at a 12th grade level that u know who he is read the shining in my opinion i think it his best piece of work. it is amazing and psychological
8. The Exorcist The Screwtape Letters Homer's Iliad and Odessey Ellis Peters' mysteries
9. William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet Hamlet Macbeth Othello King Lear John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968): The Grapes of Wrath 1939 Cannery Row 1945 East of Eden 1952 Of Mice and Men 1937 The Pearl 1947 The Winter of Our Discontent 1961 Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961): The Old Man and The Sea 1952 The Sun Also Rises 1926 A Farewell To Arms 1929 For Whom the Bell Tolls 1940 Margaret Mitchell: Gone With the Wind Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass George Eliot: Silas Marner Sinclair Lewis (1885 - 1951): Main Street 1920 Babbitt 1922 Arrowsmith 1925 Elmer Gantry 1927 F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby William Faulkner (1897 - 1962): Light in August 1932 Absalom, Absalom The Sound and the Fury 1929 As I Lay Dying Upton Sinclair: The Jungle Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse Mrs. Dalloway The Voyage Out Jacob's Room The Waves Orlando A Room of One's Own Three Guineas Sir Walter Scott: Ivanhoe Rob Roy Herman Melville: Moby Dick Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust Henrik Ibsen: A Doll's House Albert Camus: The Stranger The Plague Victor Hugo: Les Miserables The Hunchback of Notre-Dame Anton Chekhov: The Seagull Uncle Vanya The Three Sisters The Cherry Tree Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina War and Peace Alexander Solzhenitsyn: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich The First Circle The Cancer Ward The Gulag Archipelago Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Brothers Karamazov Crime and Punishment The Idiot
10. Go for Miriam Toews, Douglas Copeland, ect