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

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

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Answers191

Readers50

Details	Readers Count
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee	1,659 reads
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald	1,623 reads
The Raven Edgar Allan Poe	137 reads
Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare	876 reads
The Odyssey Homer Robert Fagles (Translator)	573 reads
Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck	1,034 reads
Macbeth William Shakespeare	537 reads
Lord of the Flies William Golding	1,237 reads
1984 George Orwell	2,433 reads
The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank	706 reads
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury	1,566 reads
The Inferno Nicholas Kilmer (Translator) Dante Alighieri	120 reads
The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas	435 reads
The Outsiders S.E. Hinton	517 reads
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Ambrose Bierce	20 reads
Night Elie Wiesel Stella Rodway (Translator)	391 reads
The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck	368 reads
The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini	661 reads
The Lottery Shirley Jackson	117 reads
Faust Johann Wolfgang von Goethe F.D. Luke	100 reads
Holes Louis Sachar	472 reads
The Picture of Dorian Grey Oscar Wilde	125 reads
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey	283 reads
Julius Caesar William Shakespeare	152 reads
Hamlet William Shakespeare	630 reads
The Giver Lois Lowry	981 reads
Stargirl Jerry Spinelli	122 reads
The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner	107 reads
Brave New World Aldous Huxley	1,212 reads
Ethan Frome Edith Wharton	71 reads
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Sherman Alexie	123 reads
King Lear William Shakespeare	149 reads
Lakota Woman Mary Crow Dog	6 reads
Three Men In A Boat Jerome K. Jerome	73 reads
The Sorrows of Young Werther and Novella Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Louise Bogan (translator) Elizabeth Mayer (translator)	47 reads
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame Victor Hugo Walter J. Cobb (Translator)	73 reads
All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque Arthur Wesley Wheen (Translator)	300 reads
Wonder R.J. Palacio	218 reads
The Canterville Ghost Oscar Wilde	56 reads
The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger	1,331 reads
The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafón	311 reads
The Crucible	279 reads
The Chronicles of Narnia C. S. Lewis	359 reads
Into the Wild Jon Krakauer Christopher Johnson McCandless	314 reads
I Am David Anne Holm	7 reads
A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens	359 reads
Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky Richard Pevear (Translator) Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)	526 reads
The Complete Maus Art Spiegelman	252 reads
Great Expectations Charles Dickens	373 reads
Unterm Birnbaum Unterm Birnbaum Theodor Fontane	2 reads
The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro	219 reads
The late Mattia Pascal Luigi Pirandello William Weaver (Translator)	10 reads
The Road Cormac McCarthy	730 reads
Let the Great World Spin Colum McCann	41 reads
Rebecca Daphne du Maurier	209 reads
Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis Ugo Foscolo	3 reads
Cassandra Christa Wolf Jan van Heurck (Translator)	1 read
The Complete Poetry Edgar Allan Poe	20 reads
Krabat: Roman Otfried Preußler	0 reads
Matryona's House and Other Stories Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Michael Glenny (Translator)	1 read
Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë	674 reads
And Then There Were None Agatha Christie	769 reads
The yearling Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings	16 reads
The Invisible Man H. G. Wells	197 reads
Survival in Auschwitz Primo Levi Stuart J. Woolf (Translator)	13 reads
Ready Player One Ernest Cline	1,434 reads
Dom Casmurro Machado de Assis	28 reads
A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams	130 reads
A Midsummer Night's Dream William Shakespeare	313 reads
A Separate Peace John Knowles	122 reads
The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway	627 reads

Details	Readers Count
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee	1,659 reads
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald	1,623 reads
The Raven Edgar Allan Poe	137 reads
Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare	876 reads
The Odyssey Homer Robert Fagles (Translator)	573 reads
Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck	1,034 reads
Macbeth William Shakespeare	537 reads
Lord of the Flies William Golding	1,237 reads
1984 George Orwell	2,433 reads
The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank	706 reads
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury	1,566 reads
The Inferno Nicholas Kilmer (Translator) Dante Alighieri	120 reads
The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas	435 reads
The Outsiders S.E. Hinton	517 reads
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Ambrose Bierce	20 reads
Night Elie Wiesel Stella Rodway (Translator)	391 reads
The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck	368 reads
The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini	661 reads
The Lottery Shirley Jackson	117 reads
Faust Johann Wolfgang von Goethe F.D. Luke	100 reads
Holes Louis Sachar	472 reads
The Picture of Dorian Grey Oscar Wilde	125 reads
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey	283 reads
Julius Caesar William Shakespeare	152 reads
Hamlet William Shakespeare	630 reads
The Giver Lois Lowry	981 reads
Stargirl Jerry Spinelli	122 reads
The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner	107 reads
Brave New World Aldous Huxley	1,212 reads
Ethan Frome Edith Wharton	71 reads
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Sherman Alexie	123 reads
King Lear William Shakespeare	149 reads
Lakota Woman Mary Crow Dog	6 reads
Three Men In A Boat Jerome K. Jerome	73 reads
The Sorrows of Young Werther and Novella Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Louise Bogan (translator) Elizabeth Mayer (translator)	47 reads
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame Victor Hugo Walter J. Cobb (Translator)	73 reads
All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque Arthur Wesley Wheen (Translator)	300 reads
Wonder R.J. Palacio	218 reads
The Canterville Ghost Oscar Wilde	56 reads
The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger	1,331 reads
The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafón	311 reads
The Crucible	279 reads
The Chronicles of Narnia C. S. Lewis	359 reads
Into the Wild Jon Krakauer Christopher Johnson McCandless	314 reads
I Am David Anne Holm	7 reads
A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens	359 reads
Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky Richard Pevear (Translator) Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)	526 reads
The Complete Maus Art Spiegelman	252 reads
Great Expectations Charles Dickens	373 reads
Unterm Birnbaum Unterm Birnbaum Theodor Fontane	2 reads
The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro	219 reads
The late Mattia Pascal Luigi Pirandello William Weaver (Translator)	10 reads
The Road Cormac McCarthy	730 reads
Let the Great World Spin Colum McCann	41 reads
Rebecca Daphne du Maurier	209 reads
Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis Ugo Foscolo	3 reads
Cassandra Christa Wolf Jan van Heurck (Translator)	1 read
The Complete Poetry Edgar Allan Poe	20 reads
Krabat: Roman Otfried Preußler	0 reads
Matryona's House and Other Stories Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Michael Glenny (Translator)	1 read
Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë	674 reads
And Then There Were None Agatha Christie	769 reads
The yearling Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings	16 reads
The Invisible Man H. G. Wells	197 reads
Survival in Auschwitz Primo Levi Stuart J. Woolf (Translator)	13 reads
Ready Player One Ernest Cline	1,434 reads
Dom Casmurro Machado de Assis	28 reads
A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams	130 reads
A Midsummer Night's Dream William Shakespeare	313 reads
A Separate Peace John Knowles	122 reads
The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway	627 reads

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

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

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

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