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The Mensa Reading List for Grades 9-12
How many of these books have you read?
I visited the local public library regularly and began reading the great adventure stories of Jules Verne, Alexander Dumas and Walter Scott.” It made me think, and not just about Homer or geography, but about the value of contrarian voices and what it means to question what ‘everyone knows.’ That kind of reading, difficult, sometimes a little mad, is not so different from tackling the books on the Mensa list. Edith Wharton threads a critique of societal constraint through every ballroom, and George Eliot slips class struggle into the quiet life of a weaver.
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