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    23 Books You Didn't Read In High School But Actually Should

    You probably SparkNoted these books before, but now's your chance to read them.

    1. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

    2. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

    3. Night by Elie Wiesel

    4. Lord of the Flies by William Golding

    5. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

    6. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

    7. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

    8. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

    9. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

    10. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

    11. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

    12. Animal Farm by George Orwell

    13. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

    14. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

    15. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

    16. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

    17. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

    18. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

    19. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

    20. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

    21. Beowulf by Anonymous

    22. Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

    23. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

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