Top 10 Trending Books For 10th Graders

Featuring a mix of classic and more recent books! For other grades, be sure to check out what kids are reading.

1. The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)

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This is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetlelike insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man.

2. An Abundance of Katherines (John Green)

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Having been dumped for the nineteenth time by yet another girl named Katherine, recent high school graduate and former child prodigy Colin sets off on a road trip with his best friend to try to find some new direction in life.

3. Legend (Marie Lu)

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In a dark future, when North America has split into two warring nations, 15-year-olds Day, a famous criminal, and prodigy June, the brilliant soldier hired to capture him, discover they have a common enemy. Book #1 of Legend series.

4. Paper Towns (John Green)

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One month before graduating from high school, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his life until his beautiful and exciting classmate, Margo Roth Spiegelman, takes him on a midnight adventure and then mysteriously disappears.

5. The Book Thief (Markus Zusak)

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Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel, a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding.

6. Heaven Is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back (Todd Burpo)

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Todd Burpo shares his son's visions of heaven after a near-fatal illness, describing what Colton saw and learned about faith and love after listening to Colton's stories of his time with Jesus.

7. Macbeth (William Shakespeare)

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Beguiled by the prophesies of the "weird sisters," and urged on by his wife, Macbeth acts on his intense political ambition, with tragic consequences.

8. Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card)

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Andrew "Ender" Wiggin thinks he is playing computer games. But in reality he is being trained to be the military genius that the planet needs in its all-out war with an alien enemy. Book #1 of Ender series.

9. 1984 (George Orwell)

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Eternal warfare is the price of bleak prosperity in this satire of totalitarian barbarism.

10. City of Fallen Angels (Cassandra Clare)

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As mysterious murders threaten the new peace between Shadowhunters and Downworlders, only Simon, the Daylighter vampire, can help bring both groups together. Book #4 of the Mortal Instruments series.