An incomplete list of classic books, plays, and short stories that are common readings for middle and high school students in the US.
created by archercasper
last updated November, 2025
A Wrinkle in Time (A Wrinkle in Time Quintet, #1)
Madeleine L'Engle
The Fall of the House of Usher
Edgar Allan Poe
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
Hatchet (Brian's Saga, #1)
Gary Paulsen
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
Holes (Holes, #1)
Louis Sachar
1984
George Orwell
A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry
Night (The Night Trilogy, #1)
Elie Wiesel
The Hobbit (The Lord of the Rings, #0)
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Moon Is Down
John Steinbeck
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
Lois Lowry
Animal Farm
Great Expecations
The Glass Castle
Jeannette Walls
Educated
Tara Westover
Lord of the Flies
William Golding
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
In Cold Blood
Truman Capote
Of Mice and Men
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
Frankenstein
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes
The Outsiders
S.E. Hinton
Orbiting Jupiter
Gary D. Schmidt
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
The Cask of Amontillado
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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