Reading a list of books can be a big time commitment, one that we often don’t want to make. However, when we are genuinely invested in a story, this seemingly-stressful commitment becomes an afterthought.

To simplify the process, I thus assembled a list of books that are worth everyone’s time, books that have resonated with CB students and teachers for years after their initial read. Here are the most memorable books that you ought to read before the end of high school:

• The Reason I Jump
• Milk and Honey
• Annie John
• The Stranger
• Girl, Interrupted
• The Book Thief
• Tuesdays with Morrie
• The New Jim Crow
• Claro Enigma
• Goldfinch
• Obasan
• House of Earth
• Siddhartha
• Sorrows of Young Werther
• The Good Earth
• The Catcher in the Rye
• 1984
• Watership Down
• Know My Name
• Catch 22
• Cry, Beloved Country
• So Be It
• Atlas Shrugged
• Eragon
• Night Circus
• The Things They Carried
• The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
• A Simple Favor
• All the Light We Cannot See
• Long Bright River
• Carry On
• Of Mice and Men
• Becoming
• The Great Gatsby
• The Year We Fell Apart
• The Little Prince
• Educated
• Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Cannot Stop Talking
• The Handmaid’s Tale
• The Glass Castle
• A Man Called Ove
• Through the Looking Glass

Try a few!