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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Readers63

Details	Rating	Readers Count
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee	4.17	3,072 reads
Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare	3.49	1,521 reads
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald	3.73	3,111 reads
The Raven Edgar Allan Poe	4.31	245 reads
Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck	3.8	1,931 reads
1984 George Orwell	4.21	4,766 reads
The Odyssey Homer Robert Fagles (Translator)	3.78	1,034 reads
Macbeth William Shakespeare	3.9	947 reads
Lord of the Flies William Golding	3.56	2,291 reads
The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank	4.01	1,321 reads
The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas	4.31	882 reads
The Inferno Nicholas Kilmer (Translator) Dante Alighieri	4.05	202 reads
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury	3.9	2,889 reads
Night Elie Wiesel Stella Rodway (Translator)	4.34	784 reads
Hamlet William Shakespeare Millôr Fernandes (Translator)	4.04	1,089 reads
Holes Louis Sachar	3.96	848 reads
An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge Ambrose Bierce	3.72	38 reads
The Outsiders S. E. Hinton	3.94	970 reads
The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck	3.81	734 reads
The Lottery Shirley Jackson	4.04	222 reads
Faust Johann Wolfgang von Goethe George Madison Priest (Translator)	3.84	182 reads
The Picture of Dorian Grey Oscar Wilde	4.06	1,616 reads
The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini	4.15	1,224 reads
A Midsummer Night's Dream William Shakespeare	3.85	550 reads
And Then There Were None Agatha Christie	4.25	1,410 reads
The Complete Maus Art Spiegelman	4.66	514 reads
The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway	3.69	1,214 reads
Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky Richard Pevear (Translator) Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)	4.25	1,026 reads
Julius Caesar William Shakespeare	3.78	265 reads
The Giver Lois Lowry	4	1,800 reads
All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque Arthur Wesley Wheen (Translator)	4.1	553 reads
King Lear William Shakespeare	3.85	283 reads
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey	4.07	544 reads
The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger	3.59	2,376 reads
The Invisible Man H. G. Wells	3.5	368 reads
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame Victor Hugo Walter J. Cobb (Translator)	3.84	133 reads
The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner	3.73	192 reads
The Yearling Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings	3.95	29 reads
The late Mattia Pascal Luigi Pirandello	4.16	47 reads
Purple Hibiscus Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	4.13	95 reads
The Complete Poetry Edgar Allan Poe	3.88	35 reads
A Wrinkle in Time Madeleine L'Engle	3.76	1,173 reads
The Crucible	3.57	499 reads
The Collector John Fowles	3.94	123 reads
I Am David Anne Holm	4.25	11 reads
Cassandra Christa Wolf Anita Raja (Translator)	2.5	3 reads
Krabat Otfried Preußler	4.1	42 reads
A Separate Peace John Knowles	3.17	213 reads
Great Expectations Charles Dickens	3.52	610 reads
Three Men in a Boat Jerome Klapka Jerome	3.88	163 reads
Wonder R.J. Palacio	4.19	472 reads
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Sherman Alexie	3.99	243 reads
If This Is a Man (Survival in Auschwitz) Primo Levi	4.53	86 reads
The Complete Chronicles of Narnia C. S. Lewis	4.11	671 reads
Star Girl Jerry Spinelli	3.63	201 reads
Othello William Shakespeare	3.81	413 reads
The Road Cormac McCarthy	4.03	1,373 reads
The Canterville Ghost Oscar Wilde	3.79	107 reads
Der Besuch der alten Dame: Eine tragische Komödie Friedrich Dürrenmatt	3.5	2 reads
Brave New World Aldous Huxley	3.88	2,256 reads
Ethan Frome Edith Wharton	3.22	130 reads
Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis Ugo Foscolo	4	3 reads
Ready Player One Ernest Cline	3.95	2,575 reads
The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro	4.17	439 reads
The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafón Lucia Graves (Translator)	4.14	636 reads
Lakota Woman Mary Crow Dog Richard Erdoes	3.94	11 reads
Into the Wild Jon Krakauer Christopher Johnson McCandless	3.84	626 reads
A Wizard of Earthsea Ursula K. Le Guin	3.89	901 reads
Dom Casmurro Machado de Assis	4.26	49 reads
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Tom Stoppard	4.23	78 reads
The Chrysalids John Wyndham	3.71	107 reads
Rebecca Daphne du Maurier	4.14	560 reads
A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens	3.62	638 reads
Matryona's House and Other Stories Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Michael Glenny (Translator)	3	3 reads
Le meilleur des mondes Aldous Huxley	3	2 reads
Let the Great World Spin Colum McCann	4.11	85 reads
A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams	3.89	247 reads
Johann Wolfgang Goethe: Die Leiden des jungen Werthers Kurt Rothmann	3.53	91 reads
Unterm Birnbaum Unterm Birnbaum Theodor Fontane	3.67	4 reads
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Mark Haddon	3.82	1,259 reads
Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë	3.99	1,266 reads