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 • 3,661 Readers • 323 pages 4.2

Romeo and Juliet

1597 • 1,517 Readers • 281 pages 3.5

The Great Gatsby

1920 • 3,238 Readers • 180 pages 3.7

The Raven

1845 • 287 Readers • 12m 4.3

Of Mice and Men

1869 • 2,199 Readers • 162 pages 3.8

The Odyssey

-800 • 1,555 Readers • 541 pages 3.8

1984

1949 • 5,782 Readers • 328 pages 4.2

Lord of the Flies

1954 • 2,736 Readers • 208 pages 3.6

Macbeth

Coles Notes

1606 • 1,052 Readers • 160 pages 3.9

The Diary of a Young Girl

1944 • 1,603 Readers • 111 pages 4

The Inferno

#1 of 3 in La Divina Commedia

1320 • 506 Readers • 241 pages 4.1

Fahrenheit 451

1953 • 3,667 Readers • 227 pages 3.9

The Count of Monte Cristo

2 Le Comte de Monte-Cristo

1830 • 1,805 Readers • 1,276 pages 4.3

Night

#1 of 3 in The Night Trilogy

1955 • 963 Readers • 126 pages 4.3

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

1890 • 53 Readers • 36 pages 3.8

The Outsiders

1967 • 1,081 Readers • 6 pages 3.9

Hamlet

1600 • 1,219 Readers • 508 pages 4

The Kite Runner

1969 • 1,685 Readers • 401 pages 4.2

Faust. Der Tragödie Erster Teil

#1 of 2 in Goethes Faust

1808 • 358 Readers • 354 pages 3.9

Holes

#1 of 2 in Holes

1988 • 871 Readers • 263 pages 4

The Picture of Dorian Grey

1890 • 511 Readers • 186 pages 4.1

The Grapes of Wrath

1939 • 1,238 Readers • 496 pages 3.8

The Lottery

1948 • 290 Readers • 8 pages 4

The Invisible Man

1897 • 571 Readers • 216 pages 3.5

Julius Caesar

Graphic Shakespeare

1599 • 319 Readers • 145 pages 3.8

The Complete Maus

1994 • 673 Readers • 295 pages 4.7

The Old Man and the Sea

1952 • 1,508 Readers • 127 pages 3.7

The Giver

#1 of 4 in The Giver

1993 • 1,965 Readers • 202 pages 4

A Midsummer Night's Dream

1595 • 608 Readers • 166 pages 3.9

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

1962 • 1,008 Readers • 336 pages 4.1

The Catcher in the Rye

1951 • 2,942 Readers • 288 pages 3.6

And Then There Were None

1939 • 1,884 Readers • 116 pages 4.2

Crime and Punishment

19 • 2,054 Readers • 602 pages 4.3

Ready Player One

#1 of 2 in Ready Player One

2008 • 2,854 Readers • 384 pages 3.9

The Complete Poetry

Poetry for Young People

1831 • 41 Readers • 556 pages 3.8

The Crucible

1971 • 552 Readers • 484 pages 3.6

I Am David

1963 • 16 Readers • 171 pages 4.2

The Remains of the Day

1989 • 819 Readers • 258 pages 4.2

The Shadow of the Wind

#1 of 2 in The Cemetery of Forgotten Books

2001 • 1,154 Readers • 487 pages 4.1

Cassandra

1983 • 29 Readers • 159 pages 1

Cover 8

1885 • 5 Readers • 136 pages 3.7

Lakota Woman

2014 • 27 Readers • 202 pages 4.1

A Separate Peace

1959 • 292 Readers • 208 pages 3.2

Great Expectations

Graffex

1860 • 966 Readers • 548 pages 3.5

A Wizard of Earthsea

#1 of 6 in Earthsea Cycle

1968 • 1,478 Readers • 210 pages 3.9

Dom Casmurro

1865 • 87 Readers • 210 pages 4.2

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

1966 • 120 Readers • 64 pages 4.2

Wonder

#1 of 1 in Wonder

2012 • 585 Readers • 323 pages 4.1

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

2007 • 321 Readers • 301 pages 4

Survival in Auschwitz

#1 of 3 in Auschwitz Trilogy

1947 • 76 Readers • 198 pages 4.3

Rebecca

1938 • 847 Readers • 448 pages 4.2

The Complete Chronicles of Narnia

#1 of 7 in The Chronicles of Narnia (Publication Order)

1956 • 756 Readers • 768 pages 4.1

A Tale of Two Cities

Oxford Bookworms

19 • 1,157 Readers • 544 pages 3.6

Star Girl

#1 of 2 in Stargirl

2000 • 225 Readers • 192 pages 3.6

Othello

1603 • 509 Readers • 226 pages 3.8

The Road

1974 • 1,963 Readers • 287 pages 4

The Canterville Ghost

1887 • 132 Readers • 64 pages 3.8

Let the Great World Spin

2009 • 143 Readers • 351 pages 4.1

King Lear

1605 • 352 Readers • 284 pages 3.8

A Streetcar Named Desire

1947 • 321 Readers • 107 pages 3.9

Johann Wolfgang Goethe: Die Leiden des jungen Werthers

1971 • 177 Readers • 192 pages 3.5

Jane Eyre

1847 • 1,947 Readers • 580 pages 4

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

Barron's Graphic Classics

1831 • 304 Readers • 510 pages 3.8

Brave New World

1930 • 3,027 Readers • 332 pages 3.9

The Sound and the Fury

1929 • 453 Readers • 326 pages 3.7

Ethan Frome

1911 • 183 Readers • 178 pages 3.2

Three Men In A Boat

#1 of 2 in Three Men

1889 • 207 Readers • 177 pages 3.8

Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis

1802 • 5 Readers 4

The Yearling

1938 • 52 Readers • 428 pages 3.9

The late Mattia Pascal

1904 • 67 Readers • 252 pages 4.2

Krabat

1900 • 45 Readers • 349 pages 4.1