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Mensa Kids

Reading lists from Mensa for Kids, graded by age band; the band each book is filed under is kept alongside it.

202 books in the catalog stand on this list. The list itself (opens the list's own website) ↗

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32 of these books cover age 18. The 9 that name no age at all are left off rather than guessed at — choose any age to bring them back.

• 1984 by George Orwell, 1949 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 1090L · AR 8.9 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
  also on Time Magazine 1923-2005, TJEd Adult Recommended
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• A Man For All Seasons by Robert Bolt, 1962 · ages 14–18 · AR 4.6 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
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• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, 1878 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 1080L · AR 9.6 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
  also on Harvard Classics
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• A Passage to India by E. M. Forster, 1924 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 950L · AR 7.7 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
  also on Time Magazine 1923-2005
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• Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin, 1791 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 1370L · AR 11.8 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
  also on Harvard Classics, TJEd Youth Recommended
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• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, 1931 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 780L · AR 7.5 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
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• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 900L · AR 8.7 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
  also on Harvard Classics
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• Don Quixote, Part 1 by Miguel Cervantes, 1612 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 1410L · AR 13.2 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
  also on Davidson Gifted, Harvard Classics, St. John's College, TJEd Youth Recommended
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• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, 1818 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 560L · AR 12.4 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
  also on TJEd Youth Recommended
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• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, 1860 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 1090L · AR 9.2 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
  also on Deep Roots Grade, TJEd Adult Recommended
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• Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, 1726 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 1370L · AR 13.5 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
  also on Davidson Gifted, Deep Roots Grade, St. John's College, TJEd Youth Recommended
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• Hamlet by William Shakespeare, 1603 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 650L · AR 10.5 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
  also on Harvard Classics, St. John's College, TJEd Youth Recommended
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• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, 1847 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 1040L · AR 7.9 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
  also on TJEd Adult Recommended
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• King Lear by William Shakespeare, 1603 · ages 14–18 · AR 8.8 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
  also on St. John's College
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• Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, 1862 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 1010L · AR 9.8 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
  also on Deep Roots Grade, TJEd Adult Recommended
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• Moby Dick by Herman Melville, 1851 · ages 15–18 · Lexile 1150L · AR 10.3
  also on Deep Roots Grade, TJEd Youth Recommended
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• Narrative on the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass, 1845 · ages 15–18 · Lexile 920L
  also on Beautiful Feet, Halsted - Best Friends, TJEd Youth Recommended
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• Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan, 1678 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 1030L · AR 10.4 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
  also on Deep Roots Grade, Harvard Classics
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• Robinson Crusoe by Daniel DeFoe, 1719 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 920L · AR 5.8 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
  also on Deep Roots Grade, TJEd Adult Recommended, TJEd Youth Recommended
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• Silas Marner, The Weaver of Raveloe by George Eliot, 1861 · ages 15–18 · Lexile 1250L
  also on Deep Roots Grade
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• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, 1844 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 1080L · AR 8.8 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
  also on Deep Roots Grade
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• The Iliad by Homer, -750 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 740L · AR 11.3 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
  also on St. John's College, TJEd Adult Recommended
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• The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper, 1826 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 1230L · AR 12.0 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
  also on TJEd Youth Recommended
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• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving, 1820 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 1460L · AR 11.0 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
  also on Harvard Classics, TJEd Early Recommended
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• The Odyssey by Homer, -800 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 1050L · AR 10.3 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
  also on Harvard Classics, St. John's College, TJEd Adult Recommended
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• The Once and Future King by T.H. White, 1958 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 1080L · AR 7.4 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
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• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, 1890 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 900L · AR 7.7 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
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• Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1852 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 1050L · AR 9.3 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
  also on Beautiful Feet, Deep Roots Grade, TJEd Adult Recommended
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• Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, 1985 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 1270L · AR 12.4 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
  also on TJEd Adult Recommended
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• Walden by Henry David Thoreau, 1854 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 1420L · AR 8.7 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
  also on TJEd Adult Recommended
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• War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells, 1898 · ages 15–18 · Lexile 1160L · AR 3.8
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• Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, 1847 · ages 14–18 · AR 11.3 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
  also on TJEd Adult Recommended
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