Best Books for 16 Year Olds
222 books at the Grade 9+ reading level. Every book rated for content intensity so you can find the right fit.
See also: Grade 8 , High School+
222
Books
Grade 9+
Reading Level
2.2/5
Avg. Intensity
Ages 16
Target Age
Top Picks for 16 Year Olds
High engagement, gentle content
Page-Turner
The neutrino
Alfred B. Bortz
Gentle
Page-Turner
The Photon (The Library of Subatomic Particles)
Fred Bortz
Gentle
Page-Turner
The Mystery Library - Mysterious Places (The Mystery Library)
John F. Grabowski
Gentle
Page-Turner
The Curse of King Tut (Mystery Library)
Patricia D. Netzley
Mild
Page-Turner
The Mystery Library - UFOs (The Mystery Library)
Patricia D. Netzley
Mild
Page-Turner
The Mystery Library - The Disappearance of Amelia Earhart (The Mystery Library)
Patricia D. Netzley
Mild
Page-Turner
The Electron (The Library of Subatomic Particles)
Fred Bortz
Gentle
Page-Turner
The neutron
Alfred B. Bortz
Gentle
Page-Turner
The proton
Alfred B. Bortz
Gentle
Page-Turner
The Quark (The Library of Subatomic Particles)
Fred Bortz
GentleAll Books for 16 Year Olds
The neutrino
Alfred B. Bortz
Gentle The Photon (The Library of Subatomic Particles)
Fred Bortz
Gentle The Mystery Library - Mysterious Places (The Mystery Library)
John F. Grabowski
Gentle The Curse of King Tut (Mystery Library)
Patricia D. Netzley
Mild The Mystery Library - UFOs (The Mystery Library)
Patricia D. Netzley
Mild The Mystery Library - The Disappearance of Amelia Earhart (The Mystery Library)
Patricia D. Netzley
Mild The Electron (The Library of Subatomic Particles)
Fred Bortz
Gentle The neutron
Alfred B. Bortz
Gentle The proton
Alfred B. Bortz
Gentle The Quark (The Library of Subatomic Particles)
Fred Bortz
Gentle
Osprey
Stephen Carpenteri
Gentle
Drug testing
David E. Newton
Mild
Haunted houses
Patricia D. Netzley
Mild
The Way People Live - Life on an Everest Expedition (The Way People Live)
Patricia D. Netzley
Mild
Medieval knights and warriors
Janet R. Zohorsky
Mild
Forensics
Gail Stewart
Mild
Mary Todd Lincoln
Mary Hull
Moderate
Lexington and Concord
King, David C.
ModerateThe Civil Rights Movement Revisited
Patrick B. Miller, Therese Frey Steffen, Elisabeth Schäfer-Wünsche
Moderate
Senegal
Elizabeth Berg
Gentle
Structure of matter.
Time-Life Books
Gentle
Bill Gates
Adam Woog
Gentle
South Korea
Jean Kinney Williams
Gentle
Canada
John F. Grabowski
Gentle
Japan (Modern Nations of the World)
Patricia D. Netzley
Gentle
Baseball (History of Sports)
John F. Grabowski
Gentle
Unicorns (Mystery Library)
Patricia D. Netzley
Gentle
Basketball (History of Sports)
John F. Grabowski
Gentle
Football (History of Sports)
John F. Grabowski
Gentle
History of Sports - Hockey (History of Sports)
John F. Wukovits
Gentle
The Mystery Library - Angels (The Mystery Library)
Patricia D. Netzley
Gentle
The Mystery Library - ESP (The Mystery Library)
Patricia Netzley
Gentle
Switzerland
Patricia D. Netzley
Gentle
Forgery (Crime Scene Investigations)
Gail Stewart
GentleWomen business leaders
Robert B. Pile
Gentle
Philanthropists and their legacies
Carol G. Traub
Gentle
Monaco
King, David C.
Gentle
Killer Superbugs
Nancy Day
Mild
Malaria, West Nile, and other mosquito-borne diseases
Nancy Day
Mild
John Charles Frémont and the Great Western Reconnaissance
Harris, Edward D.
Mild
Somalia
Salome Nnoromele
Mild
Acid rain
Rebecca O'Connor
Mild
Spain
John F. Grabowski
Mild
Colin Powell
John F. Wukovits
Mild
Diseases and Disorders - Lyme Disease (Diseases and Disorders)
Gail Stewart
Mild
How to survive a robot uprising
Daniel H. Wilson
Mild
Life in the Negro baseball leagues
John F. Wukovits
Mild
Ben Affleck
John F. Wukovits
Mild
Tobey Maguire
John F. Wukovits
Mild
Woodrow Wilson And the Progressive Era (World Leaders)
Bonnie L. Lukes
Mild
Nancy Pelosi (Political Profiles)
Sandra H. Shichtman
MildLatinos in béisbol
James D. Cockcroft
Moderate
The history of Henry IV, part 1
William Shakespeare
Moderate
Homeless or hopeless?
Margery G. Nichelason
Moderate
Coping with schizophrenia
Evelyn B. Kelly
Moderate
Biological and Chemical Weapons
Allan B. Cobb
Moderate
Teen violence
David E. Newton
Moderate
Civil rights, the long struggle
Eileen Lucas
Moderate
Native American Chiefs & Warriors (History Makers)
Stuart A. Kallen
Moderate
Martin Luther King, Jr.
John F. Wukovits
ModerateBrowse all 222 books for 16 year olds
- Understanding Lord of the flies
- Modern Nations of the World - Israel (Modern Nations of the World)
- Overview Series - Police Brutality (Overview Series)
- SARS
- Ida B. Wells-Barnett
- The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
- Genocide
- Australia
- Domestic Terrorism
- How to debate
- A female focus
- James Earl Jones
- Adventures in archaeology
- Lost Civilizations Series
- Sri Lanka in pictures
- Careers in the movies
- The bald eagle
- The Sistine Chapel
- Snakes
- The Baltics
- Building History - The Suez Canal (Building History)
- Indigenous Peoples of North America - Native Americans of the Northwest Plateau (Indigenous Peoples of North America)
- Endangered Animals and Habitats - Frogs and Toads (Endangered Animals and Habitats)
- Xrays
- Buddhism
- Alberta
- Manitoba
- The Maritime Provinces
- J.R.R. Tolkien
- Nicolaus Copernicus
- Shakira
- Don't know much about mythology
- Griswold v. Connecticut
- Miranda v. Arizona
- Lotteries
- Prohibition
- The 1970s
- Understanding to kill a mockingbird
- Great Medical Discoveries - Tuberculosis (Great Medical Discoveries)
- Greek Americans
- Words of the ancient Romans
- Great Medical Discoveries - Reproductive Technology (Great Medical Discoveries)
- Saving the Natural World
- Puritans, pilgrims, and merchants
- I, too, sing America
- Ralph Ellison
- Alexander the Great
- Fighting for Freedom
- The Nazi Olympics
- Guns in the United States
- Latinos in the struggle for equal education
- Gideon v. Wainwright and the right to counsel
- Christopher Reeve
- The 1930s
- An uneasy peace, 1945-1980
- Responding to attack
- Defending the borders
- Meningitis
- Hurricane Katrina
- Legacy
- The war at home
- Life under the Taliban
- Arson
- The D.c. Sniper Shootings (Crime Scene Investigations)
- Abortion
- Getting into the game
- Tracking dinosaurs in the Gobi
- Henry Ford
- Life in Elizabethan London
- Colonial craftsmen
- Profiles in economics
- Profiles in economics
- Profiles in economics
- The mind of the Maker
- Mary Baker Eddy (Spiritual Leaders and Thinkers)
- The search for King Arthur
- Lost Civilizations - Aztecs (Lost Civilizations)
- The Italian Americans
- A multicultural portrait of life in the cities
- SuperFreakonomics
- Teenage Dropouts
- Black Wind
- Women's Rights (Individual Freedom, Civic Responsibility)
- Weapons of war
- Life of an American soldier in Europe
- The Spanish-American War
- The Irish Americans
- Weapons of peace
- Life of a soldier in Washington's army
- American War Library - Korean War
- American War Library - The War on Terrorism
- The Great Society
- The Patriot Act
- Dune
- Pioneers of LGBTQ+ Rights
- Shadow warriors
- Life as a POW
- The war in Afghanistan
- Heroes & Villains - Saddam Hussein (Heroes & Villains)
- The war at home
- Illiteracy in America
- To the young scientist
- Dinosaurs (Time-Life Guides)
- Lizards and Turtles of South Central Texas
- Samuel Adams
- Thomas Jefferson
- Breaking ground, breaking silence
- Theodor Herzl
- Young, Black, and determined
- The way things never were
- Angelina Grimké
- Teenagers and compulsive gambling
- Friends indeed
- Freakonomics Rev Ed LP
- Dune
- The Prince (Modern Library Classics)
- The rise & fall of Jim Crow
- Kids who kill
- Ulysses
- The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- A traveler's guide to Mars
- Joyful Newes Out of the New Found World
- Profiles in courage
- Sailing the wine-dark sea
- They went whistling
- Founding mothers
- Undaunted courage
- The Time Machine (Bantam Classics)
- Expedition Whydah
- Mary, Queen of Scots, and the murder of Lord Darnley
- Love and hate in Jamestown
- 2001
- Killing time
- Nothing like it in the world
- The hunger games companion
- Teen spirit
- The Bradbury chronicles
- Mockingbird
- The tipping point
- Merriam-Webster's collegiate dictionary
- A Brilliant Solution
- The majesty of the law
- Eisenhower
- The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin
- Breaking Rockefeller
- Twelfth Night (Folger Shakespeare Library)
- Tender Is the Night (Reissue)
- Little Dorrit
- Our mutual friend
- Forbidden love
- The Children of Men
- The Last Stand
- The Merchant of Venice (Folger Shakespeare Library)
- History on trial
- How we die
- D Day: June 6, 1944
- 1776
- Brave New World
- We
- Half the Sky
- Nineteen Eighty-Four
- A Clockwork Orange
Get Weekly Book Picks
Curated recommendations matched to your child's grade level and interests. Free, no spam, unsubscribe anytime.
We respect your privacy. Privacy policy