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 • 3,073 Readers • 309 pages 4.1

The Great Gatsby

1920 • 2,729 Readers • 180 pages 3.7

Romeo and Juliet

1597 • 1,298 Readers • 281 pages 3.5

The Raven

1845 • 239 Readers • 72 pages 4.3

Of Mice and Men

1869 • 1,842 Readers • 162 pages 3.8

The Odyssey

-800 • 1,305 Readers • 541 pages 3.8

Lord of the Flies

1854 • 2,300 Readers • 208 pages 3.5

Macbeth

1606 • 895 Readers • 160 pages 3.9

1984

1949 • 4,819 Readers • 352 pages 4.2

The Diary of a Young Girl

1944 • 1,323 Readers • 111 pages 4

The Count of Monte Cristo

1830 • 1,489 Readers • 1,276 pages 4.3

Fahrenheit 451

1953 • 3,068 Readers • 227 pages 3.9

The Inferno

1320 • 431 Readers • 241 pages 4

Night

1955 • 766 Readers • 126 pages 4.3

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

1890 • 34 Readers • 36 pages 3.7

The Outsiders

1967 • 896 Readers • 6 pages 4

Faust. Der Tragödie Erster Teil

1808 • 305 Readers • 354 pages 3.9

Holes

1988 • 710 Readers • 263 pages 4

Hamlet

1600 • 1,053 Readers • 508 pages 4

The Kite Runner

1969 • 1,423 Readers • 401 pages 4.2

The Picture of Dorian Grey

1890 • 418 Readers • 186 pages 4.1

The Grapes of Wrath

1939 • 1,048 Readers • 496 pages 3.8

The Lottery

1948 • 244 Readers • 8 pages 4

The Invisible Man

1897 • 472 Readers • 216 pages 3.5

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

1962 • 850 Readers • 336 pages 4.1

The Catcher in the Rye

1951 • 2,497 Readers • 288 pages 3.6

Crime and Punishment

19 • 1,728 Readers • 602 pages 4.3

The Giver

1993 • 1,636 Readers • 202 pages 4

Julius Caesar

1599 • 271 Readers • 145 pages 3.8

The Sound and the Fury

1929 • 378 Readers • 326 pages 3.7

Ethan Frome

1911 • 140 Readers • 178 pages 3.3

Three Men In A Boat

1889 • 166 Readers • 177 pages 3.8

Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis

1802 • 4 Readers 4

The Yearling

1938 • 37 Readers • 428 pages 3.9

The late Mattia Pascal

1904 • 57 Readers • 252 pages 4.2

Ready Player One

2008 • 2,432 Readers • 384 pages 3.9

The Complete Poetry

1831 • 37 Readers • 556 pages 3.9

The Crucible

1971 • 448 Readers • 484 pages 3.6

I Am David

1963 • 16 Readers • 171 pages 4.2

The Remains of the Day

1989 • 707 Readers • 258 pages 4.2

The Old Man and the Sea

1952 • 1,285 Readers • 96 pages 3.7

The Shadow of the Wind

2001 • 989 Readers • 487 pages 4.1

Cassandra

1983 • 27 Readers • 159 pages 3

Cover 8

1885 • 2 Readers • 136 pages 4

Krabat: Roman

2017 • 1 Reader • 256 pages

Lakota Woman

2014 • 22 Readers • 202 pages 4.3

A Separate Peace

1959 • 254 Readers • 208 pages 3.2

Great Expectations

1860 • 832 Readers • 548 pages 3.6

Dom Casmurro

1865 • 83 Readers • 210 pages 4.2

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

1966 • 120 Readers • 64 pages 4.2

Wonder

2012 • 489 Readers • 323 pages 4.2

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

2007 • 271 Readers • 301 pages 4

And Then There Were None

1939 • 1,596 Readers • 116 pages 4.2

Survival in Auschwitz

1996 • 58 Readers • 198 pages 4.3

Rebecca

1938 • 722 Readers • 448 pages 4.1

The Chronicles of Narnia

1955 • 604 Readers • 799 pages 4.1

A Midsummer Night's Dream

1595 • 525 Readers • 166 pages 3.9

A Tale of Two Cities

19 • 964 Readers • 544 pages 3.6

Stargirl

2000 • 187 Readers • 200 pages 3.7

The Road

2006 • 1,625 Readers • 287 pages 4

The Canterville Ghost

1887 • 108 Readers • 64 pages 3.8

Let the Great World Spin

2009 • 86 Readers • 351 pages 4.3

King Lear

1605 • 305 Readers • 284 pages 3.8

A Streetcar Named Desire

1947 • 265 Readers • 107 pages 3.9

Johann Wolfgang Goethe: Die Leiden des jungen Werthers

1971 • 148 Readers • 192 pages 3.6

The Complete Maus

1994 • 570 Readers • 295 pages 4.7

Jane Eyre

1847 • 1,656 Readers • 580 pages 4

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

1831 • 245 Readers • 510 pages 3.8

Brave New World

1930 • 2,532 Readers • 332 pages 3.9