Thirteen Reasons Why
Jay Asher (2007)
“A girl leaves behind thirteen cassette tapes explaining why she died — and one boy has to listen to all of them.”
Short Summary
Clay Jensen arrives home to find a box of cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker, his classmate who recently died by suicide. On the tapes, Hannah explains the thirteen people and thirteen events that, she says, led to her death. Clay must listen to every side to learn his own role in the story — and discover that silence, rumor, and small cruelties compounded into something none of her classmates could see coming.
Detailed Summary
Clay Jensen, a high school junior, comes home one afternoon to find an unmarked package on his doorstep. Inside are seven cassette tapes, numbered one through thirteen, recorded by Hannah Baker — the classmate who died by suicide two weeks earlier. Hannah instructs each listener to pass the tapes to...