I am 12 years old and have a lexile measure around 1400. What are some good books I can try?

Question

I like classics, but answers should not be limited to them.

Answer 1

G.A. Henty wrote a series of historical fiction that are really good and a bit challenging for your age. Try Jack London, or Jim Kielgaard if you like animal stories. Arthur Conan Doyle - the Sherlock Holmes series. Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, or Jules Verne for adventure stories. Go to the library and pick up Gladys Hunt's book, Honey for a Child's Heart. It is a book that lists hundreds of good books to read, both old classics and new books.

Answer 2

Try  http://www.lexile.com/findabook/

There are heaps of suggestions there, listed by lexile measure, by genre, by author etc. I tried just a couple of combinations and it came up with hundreds of suggestions!

Alternatively, according to the site's own information, having a lexile measurement of c. 1400 gives you an approximate reading level of Grade 12; hence, you might try taking a look at some of the reading lists available online of the various reading programmes, providers of distance education etc.

You might also try visiting your local library and asking the librarian for her suggestions. Additionally, you might consider checking with your local university library; my mum paid a token fee for me to join our state university's library. Maybe the university where you live offers a similar scheme? They are likely to have a wider range of books appropriate to your level.

Finally some of the authors I'd recommend you might want to take a look at include: Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Alfred Tennyson, Oscar Wilde, C.S. Lewis, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Joseph Conrad, Edgar Allen Poe, Lewis Carroll, Rudyard Kipling, Walter Scott, Mary Shelley, any of the Brontes, Jane Austen, Burton Raffell, Geoffrey Chaucer, Daniel Defoe, Robert Louis Stevenson & William Langland.

Answer 3

When I was 12, I had a great time with Sherlock Holmes, Huck Finn, The Three Musketeers, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea, and Journey To The Center Of The Earth.

I'm not familiar with lexile measures, but I assume that means you're an advanced reader. Those books should be about right for you, then.