Assigned Reading


To Kill a Mockingbird
The Great Gatsby
Romeo and Juliet
Hamlet
Animal Farm
Of Mice and Men
Lord of the Flies
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
Macbeth: Moment by Moment
The Catcher in the Rye
Fahrenheit 451
The Giver (Giver, #1)
1984
The Outsiders
Night
Stay by Bobbie PyronSweep by Jonathan AuxierCaterpillar Summer by Gillian McDunnWhat Do You Do with a Voice Like That? by Chris  BartonThey Call Me Güero by David  Bowles
2020-2021 Bluebonnet List
20 books — 7 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldLord of the Flies by William GoldingThe Outsiders by S.E. HintonHamlet by William Shakespeare
Glad my teacher made me read this book
340 books — 402 voters
Romeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Odyssey by HomerOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckGreat Expectations by Charles Dickens
Freshman Year English Curriculum
41 books — 33 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldLord of the Flies by William GoldingAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Required Reading in High School
817 books — 1,309 voters
About Time by Paul C.W. DaviesBeloved by Toni MorrisonThe Vagina Monologues by V (formerly Eve Ensler)The Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathIn the Blood by Suzan-Lori Parks
Forever in UHP
93 books — 7 voters

Laurie Frankel
Mrs. Lasserstein passes out copies of Lord of the Flies and says this will be our fall book, but a whole season seems too long because Lord of the Flies is only 208 pages, and I have already read it, and it is not very interesting. It is by William Golding who won an award for showing that boys are mean and badly behaved, even somewhere nice like the beach. This seems like something anyone in the entire world who has ever met a boy could tell you, but they gave William Golding a Nobel Prize for ...more
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