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How Many Of These Books Did You ACTUALLY Read In High School?

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1. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Charles Scribner's Sons

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2. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

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3. Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Faber and Faber

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4. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Blackwood's Magazine

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

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6. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

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7. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

Secker & Warburg

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8. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Delacorte

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9. The Scarlet Letter by Nathanial Hawthorne

Ticknor, Reed & Fields

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10. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Penguin

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11. Hamlet by Shakespeare

Cambridge School Shakespeare

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12. The Crucible by Arthur Miller

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13. Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

Kurt Wolff Verlag, Leipzig

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14. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Heinemann

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15. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Simon & Schuster

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16. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

Vintage International

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17. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Harper Perennial

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18. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Ballantine Books

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