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 • 4,260 Readers • 323 pages 4.2

Romeo and Juliet

1597 • 1,752 Readers • 281 pages 3.5

The Great Gatsby

1920 • 4,009 Readers • 180 pages 3.7

The Raven

1845 • 333 Readers • 12m 4.3

Of Mice and Men

1937 • 2,612 Readers • 162 pages 3.8

1984

1949 • 6,840 Readers • 328 pages 4.2

The Odyssey

-800 • 1,824 Readers • 541 pages 3.8

Macbeth

3 Coles Notes

1606 • 1,198 Readers • 160 pages 3.9

Lord of the Flies

1954 • 3,188 Readers • 208 pages 3.6

The Diary of a Young Girl

1944 • 1,864 Readers • 111 pages 4

The Count of Monte Cristo

5 Le Comte de Monte-Cristo

1830 • 2,082 Readers • 1,276 pages 4.3

The Inferno

#1 of 3 in La Divina Commedia

1320 • 591 Readers • 241 pages 4.1

Fahrenheit 451

1953 • 4,350 Readers • 227 pages 3.9

Night

#1 of 3 in The Night Trilogy

1955 • 1,150 Readers • 126 pages 4.3

Hamlet

1600 • 1,425 Readers • 508 pages 4

Holes

#1 of 2 in Holes

1988 • 1,011 Readers • 263 pages 4

An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge

1890 • 63 Readers • 28 pages 3.7

The Outsiders

1967 • 1,257 Readers • 229 pages 3.9

The Grapes of Wrath

1939 • 1,495 Readers • 496 pages 3.8

The Lottery

1948 • 342 Readers • 8 pages 4

Faust

#1 of 2 in Goethes Faust

19 • 409 Readers • 526 pages 3.8

The Picture of Dorian Grey

1890 • 2,870 Readers • 186 pages 4.1

The Kite Runner

1969 • 1,968 Readers • 401 pages 4.2

A Midsummer Night's Dream

1595 • 717 Readers • 166 pages 3.9

And Then There Were None

1939 • 2,268 Readers • 116 pages 4.2

The Complete Maus

#1 of 2 in Maus

1980 • 853 Readers • 295 pages 4.7

The Old Man and the Sea

1952 • 1,776 Readers • 127 pages 3.7

Crime and Punishment

1857 • 2,376 Readers • 602 pages 4.3

Julius Caesar

6 Graphic Shakespeare

1599 • 365 Readers • 145 pages 3.8

The Giver

#1 of 5 in The Giver

1993 • 2,313 Readers • 202 pages 4

King Lear

1605 • 423 Readers • 284 pages 3.9

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

1962 • 1,167 Readers • 336 pages 4.1

The Catcher in the Rye

200 • 3,388 Readers • 288 pages 3.6

The Invisible Man

1897 • 687 Readers • 216 pages 3.5

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

1 Barron's Graphic Classics

1831 • 354 Readers • 510 pages 3.8

The Sound and the Fury

1929 • 523 Readers • 274 pages 3.7

The Yearling

1938 • 60 Readers • 428 pages 4

The late Mattia Pascal

1904 • 76 Readers • 252 pages 4.2

Purple Hibiscus

2003 • 227 Readers • 400 pages 4.1

The Complete Poetry

16 Poetry for Young People

1831 • 52 Readers • 556 pages 3.9

A Wrinkle in Time

#1 of 6 in Time Quintet

1962 • 1,634 Readers • 247 pages 3.8

The Crucible

1971 • 635 Readers • 484 pages 3.6

The Collector

1963 • 293 Readers • 294 pages 3.9

I Am David

1963 • 22 Readers • 171 pages 4.3

Cassandra

1983 • 39 Readers • 159 pages 2.5

Krabat

1900 • 50 Readers • 349 pages 4.1

A Separate Peace

1959 • 335 Readers • 208 pages 3.2

Great Expectations

3 Graffex

1860 • 1,099 Readers • 548 pages 3.5

Three Men in a Boat

#1 of 2 in Three Men

1889 • 257 Readers • 185 pages 3.9

Wonder

#1 of 3 in Wonder

2012 • 685 Readers • 323 pages 4.2

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

2007 • 384 Readers • 301 pages 4

If This Is a Man (Survival in Auschwitz)

#1 of 3 in Auschwitz Trilogy

1947 • 160 Readers • 198 pages 4.5

The Complete Chronicles of Narnia

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

1956 • 918 Readers • 768 pages 4.1

Star Girl

#1 of 2 in Stargirl

2000 • 256 Readers • 192 pages 3.6

Othello

1603 • 594 Readers • 226 pages 3.8

The Road

1974 • 2,319 Readers • 287 pages 4

The Canterville Ghost

1887 • 164 Readers • 64 pages 3.8

Brave New World

1900 • 3,553 Readers • 332 pages 3.9

Ethan Frome

1911 • 211 Readers • 178 pages 3.2

Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis

1802 • 5 Readers 4

Ready Player One

#1 of 2 in Ready Player One

2008 • 3,375 Readers • 384 pages 4

The Remains of the Day

1989 • 972 Readers • 213 pages 4.2

The Shadow of the Wind

#1 of 1 in The Cemetery of Forgotten Books

2001 • 1,355 Readers • 487 pages 4.1

Lakota Woman

2014 • 31 Readers • 202 pages 3.9

Into the Wild

1996 • 978 Readers • 228 pages 3.8

A Wizard of Earthsea

#1 of 6 in Earthsea Cycle

1968 • 1,741 Readers • 210 pages 3.9

Dom Casmurro

1865 • 96 Readers • 210 pages 4.3

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

1966 • 154 Readers • 64 pages 4.2

The Chrysalids

1955 • 227 Readers • 312 pages 3.7

Rebecca

1938 • 1,343 Readers • 428 pages 4.1

A Tale of Two Cities

1 Oxford Bookworms

19 • 1,327 Readers • 544 pages 3.6

Le meilleur des mondes

1932 • 2 Readers • 433 pages 3

Let the Great World Spin

2009 • 169 Readers • 351 pages 4.1

A Streetcar Named Desire

1947 • 379 Readers • 107 pages 3.9

Johann Wolfgang Goethe: Die Leiden des jungen Werthers

1971 • 210 Readers • 192 pages 3.5

Cover 8

1885 • 5 Readers • 136 pages 3.7

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

2002 • 1,707 Readers • 290 pages 3.8

Jane Eyre

1847 • 2,270 Readers • 580 pages 4