Book series for high schoolers
Book series for high schoolers let teens stick with the same characters and worlds across multiple volumes, whether it’s fantasy, sci-fi, romance, mystery, or real-life drama. The draw is in watching plots and relationships unfold over time, which makes the reading experience more immersive. Series also keep teens coming back for the next installment, turning reading into a long-term habit. Plus, they often spark fan conversations and communities, which makes the stories feel even bigger. This list features books by J. K. Rowling, Veronica Roth, Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Holly Jackson, Alice Oseman, Tomi Adeyemi, Jenny Han, Marissa Meyer, Stephanie Garber, and Neal Shusterman.
Book series for high schoolers – our recommendations
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling. 
The Wild Robot by Peter Brown. 
The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes. 
Divergent by Veronica Roth. 
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson. 
Heartstopper by Alice Oseman. 
Children of Anguish and Anarchy by Tomi Adeyemi. 
The Complete Summer I Turned Pretty Trilogy by Jenny Han. 
The Selection by Kiera Cass. 
Cinder by Marissa Meyer. 
Caraval by Stephanie Garber. 
Scythe by Neal Shusterman. 
Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare. 
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han. 
This Mortal Coil by Emily Suvada. 
Let the Sky Fall by Shannon Messenger. 
Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick. 
Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard. 
Jackaby by William Ritter. 
The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi. 
Rot & Ruin by Jonathan Maberry. 
Shadowshaper by Daniel José Older. 
Once Upon a Broken Heart by Stephanie Garber. 
Powerless by Lauren Roberts. Click the buttons below to purchase all of the books in this book series for high schoolers list, as well as classroom sets of any of these books and many more, from Bookshop.org. Or buy the 20 most popular titles from this list from Amazon – ideal for gifts or stocking your school library. If you are ordering from outside the US, have a look at our ‘worldwide orders’ page, which makes this process easy.
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Book series for high schoolers – resources for teachers
- HHMI BioInteractive – Classroom Resources NGSS-aligned films, data investigations, and case studies on genetics, evolution, and bioethics—ideal for debating technology, identity, and morality in series like Scythe, This Mortal Coil, or Red Queen.
- National Constitution Center – Classroom Resource Library Ready-to-teach lessons, primary sources, and case studies on rights, federalism, and the courts; pair with dystopian and power-politics arcs in Divergent, Red Queen, or mystery/legal plots in A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder.
- CISA NICCS – K-12 Students & Educators Cybersecurity labs, threat-modeling activities, and digital-citizenship modules to extend investigation, OSINT, and forensics threads found in contemporary YA mysteries and thrillers.
- Stanford d.school – Design Futures for Educators Free toolkits for human-centered problem solving (empathy, prototyping, testing) to fuel world-building and invention challenges connected to sci-fi/fantasy series such as Cinder or Once Upon a Broken Heart.
- PhET – Teaching Resources Inquiry-driven physics/chemistry/math simulations with assignable activities; use for modeling tech and consequence in science-heavy series (e.g., This Mortal Coil) or for gamified “academy” settings.
- MIT BLOSSOMS – Video Lessons Project-based STEM lessons (probability, networks, epidemiology) with teacher guides—great for logic/puzzle subplots in The Inheritance Games or investigations in contemporary YA.
- NOAA Climate.gov – Teaching Curated datasets, story maps, and HS lessons on climate systems, hazards, and resilience; connect to survival, governance, and ethics themes across dystopian or eco-adventure series.
- National Humanities Center – Humanities in Class Primary-source toolboxes and seminar recordings spanning literature, history, and culture—use for cross-text analysis and argument writing alongside historical fantasy, mystery, and romance series.
- Facing History & Ourselves – Resource Library Discussion protocols, case studies, and ethics inquiries on identity, power, and civic participation—supports thematic studies with Heartstopper, social-issue contemporaries, and fantasy with political stakes.
- NIST – Education Measurement, forensics, cryptography, and standards activities from a U.S. science agency; tie to tech intrigue, codebreaking, and lab scenes appearing across YA speculative and thriller series.
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