Big Books of 2026
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Required Reading


Required Reading Books

To Kill a Mockingbird
The Great Gatsby
Romeo and Juliet
Lord of the Flies
Animal Farm
Of Mice and Men
Hamlet
Macbeth
1984
Fahrenheit 451
The Scarlet Letter
The Catcher in the Rye
Night
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
The Odyssey
More required reading books...

Lists

East of Eden by John SteinbeckLittle House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls WilderWalk Two Moons by Sharon CreechThe Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. LewisWhere the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
Required for Citizenship
15 books — 3 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeePride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëHamlet by William Shakespeare1984 by George Orwell
School Curriculum Books That Are Actually Good
38 books — 36 voters

The Orb of Truth by Brae WyckoffThe Summoner by Randy MasseyThe Dry by Rebecca NolenThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienFifth Grave Past the Light by Darynda Jones
Fantasy Books That Should Be Required Reading
96 books — 129 voters
Travel Team by Mike LupicaGame by Walter Dean MyersGodless by Pete HautmanCut by Patricia McCormickSaint Iggy by K.L. Going
Curtis HS 2010 Fresh. Summer Reading List
13 books — 2 voters

Blood River by Tim ButcherThe Trigger by Tim ButcherThe Daughter of Kurdland by Widad AkreyiSketches from the Periphery by M.P. SummersZoroastrians' Fight for Survival by Widad Akreyi
Must Reads
182 books — 154 voters
Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeExtremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran FoerA Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty SmithInvisible Man by Ralph EllisonThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Not-So-Required Reading List
95 books — 3 voters

Quotes Tagged “Required Reading”

Richard Armour
“ Dedicated to that amazing device, the Required Reading List, better even than artificial respiration for keeping dead authors alive. ”
― Richard Armour, The Classics Reclassified
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Groups Tagged "Required Reading"

Traverse Area Teachers and Tutors A group for all teachers and tutors in the Traverse City, Michigan area. Read, review, and discu…more
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