We count down the 21 books high school students should be reading.
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Here’s the list:
1. “The Catcher in the Rye” – J.D. Salinger
2. “Frankenstein” – Mary Shelley
3. “The Great Gatsby” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
4. “To Kill A Mockingbird” – Harper Lee
5. “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” – Harriet Beecher Stowe
6. “Romeo and Juliet” – William Shakespeare
7. “Tropic of Cancer” – Henry Miller
8. “The Count of Monte Cristo” – Alexandre Dumas
9. “A People’s History of the United States” – Howard Zinn
10. “Invisible Man” – Ralph Ellison
11. “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” – Mark Twain
12. “The Handmaid’s Tale” – Margaret Atwood
13. “Death of a Salesman” – Arthur Miller
14. “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” – Ken Kesey
15. “Lord of the Flies” – William Golding
16. “A Doll’s House” – Henrik Ibsen
17. “Animal Farm” – George Orwell
18. “The Bell Jar” – Sylvia Plath
19. “The Grapes of Wrath” – John Steinbeck
20. “Pride and Prejudice” – Jane Austen
21. “Slaughterhouse Five” – Kurt Vonnegut
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