High Lexile Titles
Here are high lexile (1000+) titles with content appropriate for high school students.  These can be found in the Teen or Adult section of the library as noted.
 
Love & War: An Alex & Eliza Story
by Melissa De la Cruz

After the American Revolution, newlyweds Alexander and Elizabeth Hamilton find themselves in New York City, with Alex facing off against a rival lawyer and Eliza struggling to make a home and feeling neglected by her husband.
Idea Makers: 15 Fearless Female Entrepreneurs
by Lowey Bundy Sichol

Shares the incredible stories of fifteen women who changed the world through their entrepreneurship. Author Lowey Bundy Sichol presents five industries that women are leading in recent years: food, fashion and clothing, health and beauty, science and technology, and education.
Disability Visibility: 17 First-Person Stories for Today: Adapted for Young Adults
by Alice Wong

Collects 17 thought-provoking essays written by disabled people that offer keen insight into the complex and rich disability experience, and ask readers to think of them as members of a community with its own history, culture and movements.
Miss Peregrine's Museum of Wonders: An Indispensable Guide to the Dangers and Delights of the Peculiar World for the Instruction of New Arrivals
by Ransom Riggs

Written by Miss Peregrine herself, this must-have guide to the peculiar world introduces countless new peculiars, enemies, time loops, stories and secrets, along with never-before-seen vintage found photographs and illustrations.
MunMun
by Jesse Andrews

 In a society where a person's size is directly proportional to his or her wealth, little poor Warner, thirteen, and Prayer, fifteen, struggle to improve their lot in a world built against them.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot

(1140 Lexile) Documents the story of how scientists took cells from an unsuspecting descendant of freed slaves and created a human cell line that has been kept alive indefinitely, enabling discoveries in such areas as cancer research, in vitro fertilization and gene mapping.

This title is located in the Adult section of the library under the call number 616.0277 SKLOO. 
My Losing Season
by Pat Conroy

(1100 Lexile) In a heartwarming new memoir, the author of The Water Is Wide reflects on the place of sports in his own life, describing his love of basketball, the role of the athlete for young men searching for their own identity and place in the world, his education at the Citadel, his relationship with his coach, and his journey to best-selling writer.

This book is located in the Adult Nonfiction section under the call number 796.3236 CONRO. 
In the Heart of the Sea: the Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
by Nathaniel Philbrick

(1210 Lexile) Recounts the story of the 1820 wreck of the whaleship Essex—which inspired Melville's classic Moby Dick—and its doomed crew's 90-day attempt to survive whale attacks and the elements on three tiny lifeboats, in a book that is the basis of the forthcoming film directed by Ron Howard.

This book is located in the Adult Nonfiction section under the call number 910.9164 PHILB.
Maus : a Survivor's Tale
by Art Spiegelman

The author-illustrator traces his father's imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp through a series of disarming and unusual cartoons arranged to tell the story as a novel.

This book is located in the Adult Graphic Novel Section.
Emma
by Jane Austen

(1070 Lexile) Content with her life and not interested in marriage, Emma Woodhouse, a rich and beautiful heiress, causes complications with her matchmaking schemes.

This book is located in the Paperback Classics section.
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald

(1010 Lexile) Jay Gatsby had once loved beautiful, spoiled Daisy Buchanan, then lost her to a rich boy. Now, mysteriously wealthy, he is ready to risk everything to woo her back. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan has been acclaimed by generations of readers.

This title can be found in the Paperback Classics section of the library.
Envy
by Anna Godbersen

(1140 Lexile) Two months after Elizabeth Holland's dramatic homecoming, Manhattan eagerly awaits her return to the pinnacle of society. When Elizabeth refuses to rejoin her sister Diana's side, however, those watching New York's favorite family begin to suspect that all is not as it seems behind the stately doors of No. 17 Gramercy Park South.

This title can be found in the Teen section of the library.
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens

(1150 Lexile) The orphan, Pip, and the convict, Magwitch, the beautiful Estella, and her guardian, the embittered and vengeful Miss Havisham, the ambitious lawyer, Mr. Jaggers -- all have a part to play in the mystery.

This title can be found in the Paperback Classics section of the library.
 
1776
by David G. McCullough

(1300 Lexile) The two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian draws on personal correspondence and period diaries to present a landmark history of the American Revolution that ranges from the siege of Boston, to the American defeat at Brooklyn and retreat across New Jersey, to the stunning American victory at Trenton, capturing the people and events that transformed American history. 

This title can be found in the Adult Non-fiction section of the library.
Animal Farm
by George Orwell

(1170 Lexile) A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned--a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just as terrible.

This title can be found in the Paperback Classics section of the library.
The Good Earth
by Pearl S. Buck

(1530 Lexile) This moving, classic story of the honest farmer Wang Lung and his selfless wife O-lan is must reading for those who would fully appreciate the sweeping changes that have occurred in the lives of the Chinese people. Nobel Prize winner Pearl S. Buck traces the whole cycle of life: its terrors, its passions, its ambitions and rewards.

This title can be found in the Paperback Classics section of the library. 
Year of Wonders : A Novel of the Plague
by Geraldine Brooks

(1080 Lexile) Young Anna Frith, a vicar's maid, is faced with the loss of her family, the disintegration of her local community, and a passionate, illicit love as she and her village confront the horrors of the plague, in a historical novel based on real-life events in seventeenth-century England.

This title can be found in the Adult section of the library. 
Spindle's End
by Robin McKinley

(1220 Lexile) The New York Times best-selling and Newbery Honor-winning author recreates the Sleeping Beauty tale, where a curse fates a young princess to prick her finger on a spinning wheel spindle and fall into a poisoned slumber.

This title can be found in the Teen section of the library. 
Code Name Verity
by Elizabeth Wein

In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage, and great courage as she relates what she must do to survive while keeping secret all that she can.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas 
by John Boyne

(1000 Lexile) Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence.

This title can be found in the Teen section of the library.
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