EXTRA: Suggested Reading

Reading at home is the best thing you can do to pass the GED/HiSET. You can read whatever interests you. Anything you read is beneficial. Like history? Read that. Like science fiction? Read that. Magazine articles, comic books, newspapers. Anything you read improves your skills. Try to shoot for 20 minutes a day!

 

FICTION

 

Don’t Let Go by Harlan Coben

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Blackman

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

The ABC Murders Agatha Christie

Whose Body? Dorothy L. Sayers

The Jade Peony by Wayson Choy

Complete Takes and Poems by Edgar Allen Poe

Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

Letters from Cuba by Ruth Behar

The Neighborhood by Mario Vargas Llosa

The Hummingbird’s Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea

 

NON FICTION

 

Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen

Atlas Obscura by Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras and Ella Morton

A Fine and Pleasant Misery by Patrick F. McManus

Paper Shadows by Wayson Choy

Humans of New York by Brandon Stanton

Brothers and Keepers by John Edgar Wideman