Books from high school to re-read

Rediscover the classics with these must-read books from high school. Relive the stories that shaped your youth and gain new insights today!

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The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

NOBEL PRIZE WINNER ā€¢ One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century is the story of a family of Southern aristocrats on the brink ā€¦
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Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

Goldingā€™s iconic 1954 novel, now with a new foreword by Lois Lowry, remains one of the greatest books ever written for young adults and an ā€¦
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The Catcher in the Rye

by J.D. Salinger

The "brilliant, funny, meaningful novel" (The New Yorker) that established J. D. Salinger as a leading voice in American literature--and that has instilled in millions ā€¦
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The Chosen

by Chaim Potok

Story of Jewish family life revealing optimism and good-humor.
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My Name Is Asher Lev

by Chaim Potok

NATIONAL BESTSELLER ā€¢ In this modern classic from the National Book Awardā€“nominated author of The Chosen, a young religious artist is compulsively driven to render ā€¦
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Macbeth

by William Shakespeare

The authoritative edition of Macbeth from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers. In 1603, James ā€¦
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My Ɓntonia

by Willa Cather

The reminiscences of a New York lawyer, Jim Burden, about his boyhood in Nebraska, particularly a young Bohemian girl named Antonia Shimerda, are set against ā€¦
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Giants in the Earth

by Ole Edvart Rolvaag

The classic story of a Norwegian pioneer family's struggles with the land and the elements of the Dakota Territory as they try to make a ā€¦
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The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanizedā€”and sometimes outragedā€”millions of readers. One of The Atlanticā€™s Great American Novels of the ā€¦
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Of Mice and Men

by John Steinbeck

A controversial tale of friendship and tragedy during the Great Depression They are an unlikely pair: George is "small and quick and dark of face"; ā€¦
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The Great Gatsby

by Francis Scott Fitzgerald

Tells the tragic love story of Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan.
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The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Hailed by Henry James as "the finest piece of imaginative writing yet put forth in the country," Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter reaches to our ā€¦
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The Crucible

by Arthur Miller

A haunting examination of groupthink and mass hysteria in a rural community A Penguin Classic "I believe that the reader will discover here the essential ā€¦
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The Fountainhead

by Ayn Rand

The revolutionary literary vision that sowed the seeds of Objectivism, Ayn Rand's groundbreaking philosophy, and brought her immediate worldwide acclaim. This modern classic is the ā€¦
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The Stranger

by Albert Camus

With the intrigue of a psychological thriller, The Strangerā€”Camus's masterpieceā€”gives us the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an ā€¦
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The Bell Jar

by Sylvia Plath

The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under--maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath ā€¦
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A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

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Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

Nominated as one of Americaā€™s best-loved novels by PBSā€™s The Great American Read ā€œIt is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession ā€¦