I don't think kids today have to read so much? Some of these books felt like torture to get through, but also grateful for a good foundation. I will add as I remember more.
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last updated March, 2026
The Razorâs Edge
W. Somerset Maugham
On the Road
Jack Kerouac
The Pearl
John Steinbeck
Anthem
Ayn Rand
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
A Separate Peace
John Knowles
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry
Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
Richard Adams
Native Son
Richard Wright
The Odyssey
Homer Homer
Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller
Jonathon Livingston Seagull a story
Richard Bach
The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts
The Hobbit (The Lord of the Rings, #0)
J.R.R. Tolkien
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
The Tell-Tale Heart
Edgar Allan Poe
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Animal Farm
George Orwell
Of Mice and Men
Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare
The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank
Frankenstein
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
The Outsiders
S.E. Hinton
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