READING LIST: Lexile Level 1400's and Up [FICTION and NON-FICTION]

The books listed below are fiction and non-fiction in the Lexile Level of 1400's and beyond. 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 1400+:
Boccaccio, Giovanni - The Decameron [1500]
Buck, Pearl S. - The Good Earth [1530]
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de - Exemplary Stories [1470]
Defoe, Daniel - A Journal of the Plague Year [1420]
Faulkner, William - Absalom, Absalom! [1570]
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel - Love in the Time of Cholera [1440]
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel - One Hundred Years of Solitude [1410]
Gibbons, Kaye - The Life All Around Me by Ellen Foster [1420]
Hamid, Mohsin - Exit West [1660]
Kneale, Matthew - When We Were Romans [1440]
Melville, Herman - Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories [1430]
Milton, John - Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained [1460]
Paulsen, Gary - Alida's Song [1460]
Rosoff, Meg - How I Live Now [1620]
Roth, Philip - The Plot Against America [1640]
Scott, Walter - The Bride of Lammermoor [1560]
Scott, Walter - Ivanhoe [1410]
Scott, Walter - Rob Roy [1560]


Non-Fiction Books: Lexile 1400+:
Brodie, Fawn McKay - Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History [1490]
Darwin, Charles - On the Origin of Species [1450]
Diamond, Jared - Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed [1460]
Einstein, Albert - Relativity: The Special and the General Theory [1540]
Ellis, Joseph J. - Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation [1410]
Fry, Jason - Star Wars, The Force Awakens: Incredible Cross-Sections [1460] 
Frydenborg, Kay - A Dog in the Cave: The Wolves Who Made Us Human [1400]
Fursenko, A.V. - One Hell of a Gamble: Krushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958-1964 [1420]
Gioia, Ted - The History of Jazz [1440]
Grandin, Greg - Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City [1440]
Kennedy, David M. - Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 [1460]
King, Ross - Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture [1400]
Martin, Russell - The Mysteries of Beethoven's Hair [1400]
Melville, Herman - Billy Budd [1430]
Mortenson, Greg - Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan [1420]
O'Connell, Mark - To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modern Problem of Death [1400]

Pincus, Meeg - Winged Wonders [1460]

Rempel, Gerhard - Hitler's Children: The Hitler Youth and the SS [1470]

Shipton, Alyn - Groovin' High: The Life of Dizzy Gillespie [1600]
Sobel, Dava - Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love [1530]
Washington, Harriet - Medical Apartheid: the Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present [1400]


***UPDATED: September 2020***