READING LIST: Lexile Level 1300's [FICTION and NON-FICTION]

The books listed below are fiction AND non-fiction in the Lexile Level of 1300-1390 (1300's). They are separated into two lists. Fiction will be listed first and then the non-fiction list will be second. They are in alphabetical order by the author's last name. In brackets, beside each title, is the exact Lexile Level for each title. 

Some of the books may be in a series. If so, only a few titles might be listed in the Lexile list. If you are curious about the Lexile Level of specific titles, you can search for them on the Lexile website.

Fiction Books: Lexile 1300-1390:
Alcott, Louisa May - Little Women [1300]
Alighieri, Dante - The Divine Comedy [1390]
Bennett, Claire-Louise - Pond [1360]
Burgess, Anthony - A Clockwork Orange [1310]
Burnford, Sheila - The Incredible Journey [1320]
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de - Don Quixote [1340]
Chaucer, Geoffrey - The Canterbury Tales [1310]
Cooper, James Fenimore - The Deerslayer [1340]
Defoe, Daniel - The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders [1390]
Defoe, Daniel - Robinson Crusoe [1360]
Dickens, Charles - The Old Curiosity Shop [1320]
Dickens, Charles - Sketches by Boz [1350]
Eliot, George - Romola [1300]
Eliot, George - Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe [1310]
Engle, Margarita - Jazz Owls: A Novel of the Zoot Suit Riots [1300]
Engle, Margarita - Silver People: Voices from the Panama Canal [1310]
Fielding, Henry - Tom Jones [1360]
Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The Scarlet Letter [1340]
Homer - The Iliad [1330]
Hugo, Victor - The Hunchback of Notre-Dame [1340]
Huxley, Aldous - Brave New World [1360]
Irving, Washington - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow [1380]
Kafka, Franz - The Metamorphosis and Other Stories [1340]
Machiavelli, Niccolo - The Prince [1350]
Mann, Thomas - The Magic Mountain [1350]
Marx, Karl - The Communist Manifesto [1360]
Miller, Arthur - The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts [1320]
Poe, Edgar Allan - Tales of Terror [1340]
Pyle, Howard - The Story of King Arthur and His Knights [1350]
Shakespeare, William - Hamlet [1390]
Shakespeare, William - The Taming of the Shrew [1340]
Snicket, Lemony - The End [1370]
Swift, Jonathan - Gulliver's Travels [1300]
Thoreau, Henry David - Walden, or, Life in the Woods [1360]


Non-Fiction Books: Lexile 1300-1390:
Alsenas, Linas - Gay America: Struggle for Equality [1340]
Alexander, Michelle - The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness [1390]
Bensinger, Ken - Red Card: How the U.S. Blew the Whistle on the World's Biggest Sports Scandal [1330]
Carson, Rachel - Silent Spring [1340]
Carter, Jimmy - An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood [1360]
Ehrenreich, Barbara - Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America [1340]
Ellis, Joseph - His Excellency: George Washington [1390]
Fleming, Thomas - Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Future of America [1340]
Franklin, Benjamin - The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin [1370]
Freedman, Russell - Who Was First?: Discovering the Americas [1310]
Freeland, Chrystia - Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else [1330]
Frydenbord, Kay - Chocolate: Sweet Science and Dark Secrets of the World's Favorite Treat [1330]
Glass, Andrew - Flying Cars: The True Story [1340]
Haley, Alex - Roots: The Saga of an American Family [1330]
Hamilton, Alexander; Madison, James; Jay, John - The Federalist Papers [1350]
Heyerdahl, Thor - Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft [1310]
Hidalgo, Pablo - Star Wars, the Force Awakens: The Visual Dictionary [1330]
Kaufman, Michael - 1968 [1310]
Krakauer, Jon - Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster [1320]
Krakauer, Jon - Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith [1350]
Lipkowitz, Daniel - The Lego Book [1340]
McCullough, David - 1776 [1300]
Morris, Willie - My Dog Skip [1380]
Paine, Thomas - Common Sense [1330]
Pinker, Steven - Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language [1360]
Pollan, Michael - In Defence of Food: An Eater's Manifesto [1390]
Prose, Francine - Anne Frank: The Book, the Life, the Afterlife [1360]
Rehak, Melanie - Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her [1350]
Renehan, Edward - The Lion's Pride: Theodore Roosevelt and His Family in Peace and War [1340]
Roy, Katherine - How to Be an Elephant: Growing Up in the Africa Wild [1310]
Roy, Katherine - Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting With the Great Whites of California's Farallon Islands [1330]
Shetterly, Margot Lee - Hidden Figures: the American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race [1350] 
Singer, Peter - Animal Liberation [1360]
Smith, Charles R. - Stars in the Shadows: the Negro League All-Stars Game of 1934 [1330]
Sobel, Dava - The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars [1330]
Sobel, Dava - Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time [1310]
Tarrant-Reid, Linda - Discovering Black America: From the Age of Exploration to the Twenty-First Century [1370]
Tocqueville, Alexis de - Democracy in America [1310]
Tuchman, Barbara W. - The Guns of August [1350]
Tyson, Neil deGrasse - Death by Black Hole and Other Cosmic Quandaries [1300]
Wallace-Wells, David - The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming [1370]
Winchester, Simon - The Professor and the Madman [1330]

*UPDATED: February 2020*