How many 2000s books are assigned in 12th grade?

87 books written between 2000 and 2009 appear on 12th grade reading lists tracked by ReadingList. Each one is cited from a state department of education, district list, or AP/IB syllabus.

What Lexile range do these 2000s books cover?

Lexile measures for the 2000s titles assigned in 12th grade run from 530L to 1090L. Poetry, drama, and graphic novels without a published Lexile measure are not counted in that range.

Are these assigned nationally or in a few states?

13 states assign at least one 2000s title at 12th grade in the lists tracked here, so this is a broad pattern rather than a single state's canon. Per-state lists are on each state page.

2000s books assigned in 12th grade

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US schools assign 87 books written in the 2000s to 12th grade students, across 13 states, spanning 530L–1090L. Every title below is cited from a state ELA standard, district reading list, or AP/IB syllabus.

Most widely assigned from the 2000s

The Hunger Games

Suzanne Collins · on 23 reading lists

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Titles: 87
Written: 2000–2009
Lexile range: 530L–1090L
States assigning: 13

The list — 2000s, 12th grade

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Ice · Sarah Beth Durst
Impulse · Ellen Hopkins
Into the Wild · Sarah Beth Durst
Jellicoe Road · Melina Marchetta
Life as We Knew It · Susan Beth Pfeffer
Life of Pi · Yann Martel
Looking for Alaska · John Green
Madapple · Christina Meldrum
Marcelo in the Real World · Francisco X. Stork
Me, the Missing, and the Dead · Jenny Valentine
Midnighters #2: Touching Darkness · Scott Westerfeld
My Sister's Keeper · Jodi Picoult
Peaches · Jodi Lynn Anderson
Peeps · Scott Westerfeld
Perfect Chemistry · Simone Elkeles
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood · Marjane Satrapi
Purple Hibiscus · Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Savvy · Ingrid Law
Selected Poems · Christina Rossetti
Selected Poetry · Lord Byron
Selected Stories · Katherine Mansfield
Shattering Glass · Gail Giles
Shiver (Shiver, Book 1) · Maggie Stiefvater
Sold · Patricia McCormick
Son of the Mob · Gordon Korman
Stormwitch · Susan Vaught
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian · Sherman Alexie
The Adoration of Jenna Fox · Mary E. Pearson
The Amethyst Road · Louise Spiegler
The Boxes · William Sleator
The Brimstone Journals · Ron Koertge
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time · Mark Haddon
The Everafter · Amy Huntley
The First Part Last · Angela Johnson
The Glass Castle · Jeannette Walls
The Hotel Under the Sand · Kage Baker
The House Next Door · Richie Tankersley Cusick
The Hunger Games · Suzanne Collins
The King of Attolia · Megan Whalen Turner
The Kite Runner · Khaled Hosseini
The Knife of Never Letting Go · Patrick Ness
The Land · Mildred D. Taylor
The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler · James Cross Giblin
The Lovely Bones: A Novel · Alice Sebold
The Maze Runner · James Dashner
The Namesake · Jhumpa Lahiri
The River Between Us · Richard Peck
The Second Summer of the Sisterhood · Ann Brashares
The Secret Life of Bees · Sue Monk Kidd
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants · Ann Brashares
The Surrender Tree / El ábol de la rendición · Margarita Engle
The Tequila Worm · Viola Canales
The True Meaning of Smekday · Adam Rex
The Underground Railroad · Colson Whitehead
The White Darkness · Geraldine McCaughrean
Thirteen Reasons Why · Jay Asher
Twilight · Stephenie Meyer
Uglies · Scott Westerfeld
Unwind · Neal Shusterman
Vintage · Steve Berman
What I Saw and How I Lied · Judy Blundell
Wolf Rider: A Tale of Terror · Avi
Zoe's Tale · John Scalzi

Most-assigned 2000s authors in 12th grade

Scott Westerfeld (3) · Neal Shusterman (2) · Sarah Beth Durst (2) · Ann Brashares (2) · Terry Pratchett · Louise Rennison

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How many 2000s books are assigned in 12th grade?: 87 books written between 2000 and 2009 appear on 12th grade reading lists tracked by ReadingList. Each one is cited from a state department of education, district list, or AP/IB syllabus.
What Lexile range do these 2000s books cover?: Lexile measures for the 2000s titles assigned in 12th grade run from 530L to 1090L. Poetry, drama, and graphic novels without a published Lexile measure are not counted in that range.
Are these assigned nationally or in a few states?: 13 states assign at least one 2000s title at 12th grade in the lists tracked here, so this is a broad pattern rather than a single state's canon. Per-state lists are on each state page.

2000s books assigned in 12th grade

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Most-assigned 2000s authors in 12th grade

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