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 • 4,559 Readers • 323 pages 4.2

Romeo and Juliet

1597 • 1,841 Readers • 281 pages 3.5

The Great Gatsby

1920 • 4,331 Readers • 180 pages 3.7

Of Mice and Men

1937 • 2,786 Readers • 162 pages 3.8

The Raven

1845 • 354 Readers • 12m 4.3

1984

1949 • 7,395 Readers • 328 pages 4.2

Macbeth

2 Shakespeare Retellings

1606 • 1,261 Readers • 160 pages 3.9

The Odyssey

-800 • 2,022 Readers • 541 pages 3.8

Lord of the Flies

1954 • 3,418 Readers • 208 pages 3.6

Fahrenheit 451

1953 • 4,684 Readers • 227 pages 3.9

The Inferno

#1 of 3 in La Divina Commedia

1320 • 637 Readers • 241 pages 4

The Diary of a Young Girl

1944 • 1,959 Readers • 111 pages 4

The Outsiders

1967 • 1,327 Readers • 229 pages 3.9

Holes

#1 of 2 in Holes

1988 • 1,055 Readers • 263 pages 4

The Count of Monte Cristo

6 Le Comte de Monte-Cristo

1830 • 2,244 Readers • 1,276 pages 4.3

Night

#1 of 3 in The Night Trilogy

1955 • 1,234 Readers • 126 pages 4.3

The Picture of Dorian Grey

1890 • 3,094 Readers • 186 pages 4.1

Hamlet

1600 • 1,507 Readers • 508 pages 4

An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge

1890 • 67 Readers • 28 pages 3.8

The Grapes of Wrath

1939 • 1,596 Readers • 496 pages 3.8

The Lottery

1948 • 363 Readers • 8 pages 4

Faust

#1 of 2 in Goethes Faust

19 • 444 Readers • 526 pages 3.8

The Kite Runner

1969 • 2,079 Readers • 401 pages 4.2

And Then There Were None

1939 • 2,451 Readers • 116 pages 4.2

The Giver

#1 of 4 in The Giver

1993 • 2,459 Readers • 202 pages 4

King Lear

1605 • 442 Readers • 284 pages 3.9

The Complete Maus

#1 of 2 in Maus

1980 • 911 Readers • 295 pages 4.6

Crime and Punishment

1857 • 2,561 Readers • 602 pages 4.3

A Midsummer Night's Dream

1595 • 757 Readers • 166 pages 3.9

The Road

1974 • 2,494 Readers • 287 pages 4

Great Expectations

3 Graffex

1860 • 1,156 Readers • 548 pages 3.5

Julius Caesar

11 Shakespeare Made Easy

1599 • 389 Readers • 145 pages 3.8

The Old Man and the Sea

1952 • 1,974 Readers • 127 pages 3.7

The Invisible Man

1897 • 760 Readers • 216 pages 3.5

The Catcher in the Rye

200 • 3,670 Readers 3.6

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

1962 • 1,256 Readers • 336 pages 4.1

Johann Wolfgang Goethe: Die Leiden des jungen Werthers

1971 • 224 Readers • 192 pages 3.5

Three Men in a Boat

#1 of 2 in Three Men

1889 • 263 Readers • 185 pages 3.9

Cassandra

1983 • 42 Readers • 159 pages 3

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

1966 • 164 Readers • 64 pages 4.2

Lakota Woman

2014 • 33 Readers • 202 pages 3.9

Krabat

1900 • 55 Readers • 349 pages 4.1

Le meilleur des mondes

1932 • 2 Readers • 433 pages 3

Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis

1802 • 6 Readers 4

Cover 8

1885 • 5 Readers • 136 pages 3.7

Ready Player One

#1 of 2 in Ready Player One

2008 • 3,636 Readers • 384 pages 4

Purple Hibiscus

2003 • 244 Readers • 400 pages 4.1

Hatchet

#1 of 7 in Brian's Saga

1986 • 554 Readers • 214 pages 3.6

The Sound and the Fury

1929 • 568 Readers • 274 pages 3.8

I Am David

1963 • 22 Readers • 171 pages 4.3

The Hunger Games

#1 of 3 in The Hunger Games

2008 • 5,359 Readers • 384 pages 4.1

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

1 Barron's Graphic Classics

1831 • 378 Readers • 510 pages 3.8

Othello

1603 • 624 Readers • 226 pages 3.8

The Collector

1963 • 319 Readers • 294 pages 3.9

The Remains of the Day

1989 • 1,030 Readers • 213 pages 4.2

A Tale of Two Cities

1 Oxford Bookworms

19 • 1,401 Readers • 544 pages 3.6

Dom Casmurro

1865 • 108 Readers • 210 pages 4.3

The late Mattia Pascal

1904 • 84 Readers • 252 pages 4.2

The Canterville Ghost

1887 • 176 Readers • 64 pages 3.8

A Wrinkle in Time

#1 of 6 in Time Quintet

1962 • 1,746 Readers • 20 pages 3.8

The Tell-Tale Heart

1843 • 484 Readers • 25 pages 4.2

Rebecca

1938 • 1,416 Readers • 428 pages 4.1

If This Is a Man (Survival in Auschwitz)

#1 of 3 in Auschwitz Trilogy

1947 • 169 Readers • 198 pages 4.5

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

2007 • 397 Readers • 301 pages 4

The Chrysalids

1955 • 240 Readers • 312 pages 3.7

The Complete Poetry

16 Poetry for Young People

1831 • 60 Readers • 556 pages 3.8

Star Girl

#1 of 2 in Stargirl

2000 • 267 Readers • 192 pages 3.6

Into the Wild

1996 • 1,036 Readers • 228 pages 3.8

Brave New World

1900 • 3,834 Readers • 332 pages 3.9

The Shadow of the Wind

#1 of 2 in The Cemetery of Forgotten Books

2001 • 1,508 Readers • 487 pages 4.1

A Streetcar Named Desire

1947 • 397 Readers • 107 pages 3.9

Ethan Frome

1911 • 226 Readers • 178 pages 3.2

Let the Great World Spin

2009 • 177 Readers • 351 pages 4.1

The Yearling

1938 • 70 Readers • 428 pages 3.8

The Crucible

1971 • 656 Readers • 484 pages 3.6

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

2002 • 1,791 Readers • 290 pages 3.8

Wonder

#1 of 3 in Wonder

2012 • 725 Readers • 323 pages 4.2

Jane Eyre

1846 • 2,414 Readers • 580 pages 4

The Complete Chronicles of Narnia

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

1956 • 977 Readers • 768 pages 4.1

A Wizard of Earthsea

#1 of 6 in Earthsea Cycle

1968 • 1,867 Readers • 210 pages 3.9

A Separate Peace

1959 • 350 Readers • 208 pages 3.2