Prompts

What texts can you *fondly* recall studying during high/secondary school?

Help a midwestern US English teacher select books for students age 13-19.

To Kill a Mockingbird

1960 • 3,474 Readers • 309 pages 4.1

Romeo and Juliet

1597 • 1,454 Readers • 281 pages 3.5

The Great Gatsby

1920 • 3,086 Readers • 180 pages 3.7

The Raven

1845 • 269 Readers • 12m 4.3

Of Mice and Men

1869 • 2,098 Readers • 162 pages 3.8

1984

1949 • 5,483 Readers • 352 pages 4.2

The Odyssey

-800 • 1,484 Readers • 541 pages 3.8

Macbeth

1606 • 1,008 Readers • 160 pages 3.9

Lord of the Flies

1854 • 2,607 Readers • 208 pages 3.6

The Diary of a Young Girl

1944 • 1,526 Readers • 111 pages 4

Fahrenheit 451

1953 • 3,490 Readers • 227 pages 3.9

The Count of Monte Cristo

1830 • 1,694 Readers • 1,276 pages 4.3

The Inferno

1320 • 477 Readers • 241 pages 4

Night

1955 • 906 Readers • 126 pages 4.3

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

1890 • 34 Readers • 36 pages 3.7

The Outsiders

1967 • 1,032 Readers • 6 pages 3.9

Hamlet

1600 • 1,169 Readers • 508 pages 4

The Grapes of Wrath

1939 • 1,174 Readers • 496 pages 3.8

The Picture of Dorian Grey

1890 • 487 Readers • 186 pages 4.1

Faust. Der Tragödie Erster Teil

1808 • 337 Readers • 354 pages 3.9

Holes

1988 • 830 Readers • 263 pages 4

The Kite Runner

1969 • 1,603 Readers • 401 pages 4.1

The Lottery

1948 • 281 Readers • 8 pages 4

The Catcher in the Rye

1951 • 2,803 Readers • 288 pages 3.6

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

1962 • 964 Readers • 336 pages 4.1

The Giver

1993 • 1,871 Readers • 202 pages 4

The Invisible Man

1897 • 556 Readers • 216 pages 3.5

Julius Caesar

1599 • 300 Readers • 145 pages 3.8

The Complete Maus

1994 • 653 Readers • 295 pages 4.7

The Old Man and the Sea

1952 • 1,449 Readers • 96 pages 3.7

And Then There Were None

1939 • 1,800 Readers • 116 pages 4.2

Crime and Punishment

19 • 1,952 Readers • 602 pages 4.3

Ready Player One

2008 • 2,732 Readers • 384 pages 3.9

The Complete Poetry

1831 • 41 Readers • 556 pages 3.8

The Crucible

1971 • 515 Readers • 484 pages 3.6

I Am David

1963 • 16 Readers • 171 pages 4.2

The Remains of the Day

1989 • 796 Readers • 258 pages 4.2

The Shadow of the Wind

2001 • 1,112 Readers • 487 pages 4.1

Cassandra

1983 • 27 Readers • 159 pages 1

Cover 8

1885 • 2 Readers • 136 pages 4

Lakota Woman

2014 • 22 Readers • 202 pages 4.3

A Separate Peace

1959 • 287 Readers • 208 pages 3.2

Great Expectations

1860 • 926 Readers • 548 pages 3.5

A Wizard of Earthsea

1968 • 1,391 Readers • 210 pages 3.9

Dom Casmurro

1865 • 86 Readers • 210 pages 4.2

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

1966 • 120 Readers • 64 pages 4.2

Wonder

2012 • 558 Readers • 323 pages 4.2

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

2007 • 304 Readers • 301 pages 4

Survival in Auschwitz

1947 • 68 Readers • 198 pages 4.3

Rebecca

1938 • 816 Readers • 448 pages 4.1

The Complete Chronicles of Narnia

1956 • 718 Readers • 768 pages 4.1

A Midsummer Night's Dream

1595 • 588 Readers • 166 pages 3.9

A Tale of Two Cities

19 • 1,088 Readers • 544 pages 3.6

Star Girl

2000 • 214 Readers • 192 pages 3.6

The Road

1974 • 1,857 Readers • 287 pages 4

The Canterville Ghost

1887 • 129 Readers • 64 pages 3.8

Let the Great World Spin

2009 • 128 Readers • 349 pages 4.2

King Lear

1605 • 345 Readers • 284 pages 3.8

A Streetcar Named Desire

1947 • 300 Readers • 107 pages 3.9

Johann Wolfgang Goethe: Die Leiden des jungen Werthers

1971 • 164 Readers • 192 pages 3.6

Jane Eyre

1847 • 1,864 Readers • 580 pages 4

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

1831 • 287 Readers • 510 pages 3.8

Brave New World

1930 • 2,888 Readers • 332 pages 3.9

The Sound and the Fury

1929 • 428 Readers • 326 pages 3.7

Ethan Frome

1911 • 173 Readers • 178 pages 3.2

Three Men In A Boat

1889 • 198 Readers • 177 pages 3.8

Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis

1802 • 4 Readers 4

The Yearling

1938 • 46 Readers • 428 pages 3.9

The late Mattia Pascal

1904 • 62 Readers • 252 pages 4.2

Krabat

1900 • 40 Readers • 349 pages 4.1