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My fave books i read in HIGH SCHOOL for class:

Wuthering Heights Catcher In The Rye Frankenstein Jane Eyre The Namesake Animal Farm Guns, Germs and Steel

@beangirl94

Feb 7, 2025

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“high school books”

okay so i don’t think a lot of the books i had to read in school are that worth reading so if i had to recommend a high school reading list here’s what i’d include (based on my thoughts and also my book-ish jobs. some of these came out after i was in school but this is a theoretical list anyways): classics: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen; Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury; Frankenstein by Mary Shelley realistic fiction: Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson; The House On Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros; Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews fantasy and dystopia: The Hobbit by JRR Tolkein; The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins; The Giver by Lois Lowry historical nonfiction and autobiographies: An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States for Young People by Debbie Reese and Jean Mendoza / Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz; The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank; The Souls of Black Folk by WEB Du Bois; Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi graphic novels: Mis(h)rada by Iasmin Omar Ata; The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen; Maus I & II by Art Spiegelman (def read interviews with Spiegelman as well) plays: A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansbury; The Laramie Project by Moisés Kaufman poetry and prose: Ballast by Quenton Baker; Blue Horses by Mary Oliver; The Prophet by Khalil Gibran

@marxinista

Feb 7, 2025

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Books mostly what i remember from Highschool and a few are from college, and a few i read in both.

I think a few of these were mentioned already but it doesn't hurt to have duplicats: Slaughter House five (was my personal favorite) 1984 Lord of the flies Hamlet Call of the wild (i read this one in college) Into the wild Dracula Frankenstein Romeo and Juliet The hate you give

@confused_crisis

Feb 6, 2025

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