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Best Books to Teach in high school
As a high school English teacher, I have taught many, many novels. Here are the ones that are absolutely wonderful to teach year after year (you know it has to be good to read it every single year!)
Tags: english, high, novel, school, teacher, and young

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Night
Night
by Elie Wiesel 14 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee 11 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
3
Of Mice and Men
Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck 10 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
4
1984
1984
by George Orwell 8 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Eats, Shoots  &  Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance...
by Lynne Truss 7 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald 7 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
7
Macbeth
Macbeth
by William Shakespeare 6 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream
by William Shakespeare 6 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare 6 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
10
Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad 5 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
by Jonathan Safran Foer 4 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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The Things They Carried
The Things They Carried
by Tim O'Brien 4 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
13
Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar
by William Shakespeare 4 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
14
Oedipus Rex
Oedipus Rex
by Sophocles 4 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury 4 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and ...
by Anne Lamott 4 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Fast Food Nation
Fast Food Nation
by Eric Schlosser 3 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
18
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain 3 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Ken Kesey 3 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
21
Zen in the Art of Writing
Zen in the Art of Writing
by Ray Bradbury 3 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, ...
by Mitch Albom 3 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Slaughterhouse-Five
Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut 3 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street
Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street
by Herman Melville 3 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
27
A Lesson Before Dying
A Lesson Before Dying
by Ernest J. Gaines 2 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Brave New World
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley 2 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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The Martian Chronicles
The Martian Chronicles
by Ray Bradbury 2 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
32
This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women
This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Re...
by Jay Allison (Editor), Dan Gediman (Editor) 2 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales
Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales
by Ray Bradbury 2 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
34
Dracula
Dracula
by Bram Stoker 2 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
35
A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present
A People's History of the United States: 1492 t...
by Howard Zinn 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
36
Parable of the Talents
Parable of the Talents
by Octavia E. Butler 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
36
The Omnivore's Dilemma
The Omnivore's Dilemma
by Michael Pollan 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
38
Parable of the Sower
Parable of the Sower
by Octavia E. Butler 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
39
Little Brother
Little Brother
by Cory Doctorow 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
40
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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The Art of Rhetoric
The Art of Rhetoric
by Aristotle 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies: A Guide to Language for Fun and Spite
Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies: A Guide to...
by June Casagrande 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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