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Required Reading in High School
A list of books that you were required to read in high school.
Tags: high-school

1
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee 56 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
2
Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare 53 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
3
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald 35 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
4
Hamlet
Hamlet
by William Shakespeare, Richard Andrews (Editor) 28 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
5
The Catcher in the Rye
The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger 27 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
6
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain 26 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
7
Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Flies
by William Golding 25 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
8
The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne 25 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
9
The Odyssey
The Odyssey
by Homer, Robert Fagles (Translator) 24 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
10
Animal Farm
Animal Farm
by George Orwell 23 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
11
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë 21 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
12
Of Mice and Men
Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck 20 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
13
Brave New World
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley 18 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
14
1984
1984
by George Orwell 18 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
15
Macbeth
Macbeth
by William Shakespeare 18 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
16
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë 15 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
17
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen 14 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
18
Night
Night
by Elie Wiesel 13 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
19
The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck 13 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
20
Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar
by William Shakespeare 12 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
21
Great Expectations
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens 12 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
22
Frankenstein
Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley, Maurice Hindle (Editor) 12 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
23
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou 12 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
24
The Awakening
The Awakening
by Kate Chopin 11 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
25
The Giver
The Giver
by Lois Lowry 10 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
26
The Chosen
The Chosen
by Chaim Potok 10 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
27
A Separate Peace
A Separate Peace
by John Knowles 10 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
28
The Old Man and the Sea
The Old Man and the Sea
by Ernest Hemingway 9 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
29
A Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens 9 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
30
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston 8 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
31
The Pearl
The Pearl
by John Steinbeck 7 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
32
Death of a Salesman
Death of a Salesman
by Arthur Miller 7 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
33
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank 7 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
34
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
by Anonymous, Seamus Heaney (Translator) 6 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
35
The Red Badge of Courage
The Red Badge of Courage
by Stephen Crane 6 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
36
The Taming of the Shrew
The Taming of the Shrew
by William Shakespeare 6 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
37
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
by Benjamin Franklin 6 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
38
A Raisin in the Sun
A Raisin in the Sun
by Lorraine Hansberry 6 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
39
Ender's Game
Ender's Game
by Orson Scott Card 5 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
40
King Lear
King Lear
by William Shakespeare 5 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
41
Mythology
Mythology
by Edith Hamilton 5 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
42
Beloved
Beloved
by Toni Morrison 5 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
43
Rebecca
Rebecca
by Daphne du Maurier 5 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
44
The Good Earth
The Good Earth
by Pearl S. Buck 5 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
45
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Hound of the Baskervilles
by Arthur Conan Doyle 5 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
46
Slaughterhouse-Five
Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut 5 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
47
Ethan Frome
Ethan Frome
by Edith Wharton 5 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
48
Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury 4 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
49
Grendel
Grendel
by John Champlin Gardner Jr. 4 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
50
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
51
Madame Bovary
Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert, Margaret Mauldon (translator) 3 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
52
The Taming Of The Shrew
The Taming Of The Shrew
by William Shakespeare 3 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
53
Alas, Babylon
Alas, Babylon
by Pat Frank 3 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
54
The House on Mango Street
The House on Mango Street
by Sandra Cisneros 3 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
55
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your Americ...
by James W. Loewen 3 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
56
Warriors Don't Cry
Warriors Don't Cry
by Melba Pattillo Beals 3 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
57
Moby Dick
Moby Dick
by Herman Melville 3 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
58
Inferno
Inferno
by Dante Alighieri, Anthony Esolen 3 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
59
The House of Mirth
The House of Mirth
by Edith Wharton 2 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
60
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by James Joyce 2 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
61
Ten Little Indians
Ten Little Indians
by Agatha Christie 2 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
62
Dune
Dune
by Frank Herbert 2 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
63
The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer 2 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
64
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
by Carson McCullers 2 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
65
The Last Days of Socrates
The Last Days of Socrates
by Plato 2 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
66
Much Ado About Nothing
Much Ado About Nothing
by William Shakespeare 2 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
67
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 2 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
68
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
by Frederick Douglass 2 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
69
The Republic
The Republic
by Plato, Desmond Lee (translator) 2 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
69
Native Son
Native Son
by Richard Wright 2 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
71
Invisible Man
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison 2 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
72
Democracy in America
Democracy in America
by Alexis de Tocqueville 2 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
73
The Federalist Papers
The Federalist Papers
by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay 2 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
74
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
by Ray Lawler 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
74
Dragonsong
Dragonsong
by Anne McCaffrey 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
74
A Hero of Our Time
A Hero of Our Time
by Mikhail Lermontov 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
74
Black Boy
Black Boy
by Richard Wright 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
78
A Town Like Alice
A Town Like Alice
by Nevil Shute 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
78
The Big Wave
The Big Wave
by Pearl S. Buck 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
78
The Trial
The Trial
by Franz Kafka 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
81
The Fountainhead
The Fountainhead
by Ayn Rand 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
81
Fences
Fences
by August Wilson 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
81
Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
84
The Farming of Bones
The Farming of Bones
by Edwidge Danticat 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
84
The Sound and the Fury
The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
84
The Reivers
The Reivers
by William Faulkner 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
87
The Bean Trees
The Bean Trees
by Barbara Kingsolver 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
88
As I Lay Dying
As I Lay Dying
by William Faulkner 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
89
The Sun Also Rises
The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
89
All Quiet on the Western Front
All Quiet on the Western Front
by Erich Maria Remarque 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
91
Les Misérables
Les Misérables
by Victor Hugo 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
91
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
by Betty Smith 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
93
Othello
Othello
by William Shakespeare 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
94
The Princess Bride
The Princess Bride
by William Goldman 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
95
After the First Death
After the First Death
by Robert Cormier 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
98
Selected Works
Selected Works
by Aristotle 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
99
Leviathan
Leviathan
by Thomas Hobbes 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
100
Second Treatise of Government
Second Treatise of Government
by John Locke 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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message 1: by Redpoint (new)
09/21/2008 09:23AM

1363105 Are we voting on what we had to read, or what we liked out of what we had to read?


message 2: by Josh (new)
10/23/2008 12:47PM

1641441 I think on what we HAD to read, whether we liked it or not.


message 3: by Joann (new)
03/05/2009 12:24PM

1791879 The Promise by Chaim Potok


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