Can you name the most frequently assigned literature (books & plays) in American high school English classes? by erant

Can you name the most frequently assigned literature (books & plays) in American high school English classes?

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Correctly named novels will show up below
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Note: this list contains novels, novellas, and plays.
Source: Applebee, "A Study of Book-Length Works Taught in High School English Programs"
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Hints	Novel	Author
Young love, suicide, a family feud		William Shakespeare
Regicide, insanity, witches		William Shakespeare
Racism, a journey down the Mississippi river		Mark Twain
Roman assassination, friendship, betrayal		William Shakespeare
Racism, rape, a lawyer		Harper Lee
Puritans, adultery, public shame		Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Great Depression, a mental handicap, a lynch mob		John Steinbeck
Denmark, revenge, insanity		William Shakespeare

Hints	Novel	Author
Prohibition, a war hero, decadence		F. Scott Fitzgerald
Kill the pig, anarchy, innocence lost		William Golding
A homeward voyage, angry Gods, heroism		Homer
Mexico, a diver, greed		John Steinbeck
Hiding, the Holocaust, Kitty		Anne Frank
Prep school, friendship, Sarcastic Summer		John Knowles
Teenage angst, profanity, superficiality		J. D. Salinger
A small town, Grover's Corners, the cycle of life		Thornton Wilder

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	amehta:	Jan 21st, 2010 at 03:10 GMT		3 points
	Fun quiz. I even missed books i read last year!

	cubalibre411:	Jan 21st, 2010 at 03:20 GMT		21 points
	A lot of these are plays and not novels.

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	debbiedoesnothin:	Jan 21st, 2010 at 03:31 GMT		20 points
	@willa: Romeo and Juliet was a novel before it was a play??? MacBeth? Hamlet? Julius Caesar? WTH are they teaching you kids these days?

	smekeldorfed:	Jan 21st, 2010 at 06:08 GMT		3 points
	Seeing as it's the proper title, you should accept "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." And The Scarlett Letter is quite possibly the worst book ever written.

	RebeccaAMax:	Jan 21st, 2010 at 06:40 GMT		5 points
	Not novels, accept the full title of Huck Finn (that abbreviation would be nice too)

	erant:	Jan 21st, 2010 at 08:08 GMT		-2 points
	@cubalibre411: I did make a note that "book-length works" are included on the list. I thought simply titling the quiz with 'novels' was much pithier. @smekeldorfed & RebeccaAMax: thanks for the suggestions. I totally agree that The Scarlet Letter is among the worst books ever written. I read it the same year I was assigned Wuthering Heights. Between the two of them, I almost lost my love of books altogether.

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	tk925:	Jan 22nd, 2010 at 18:45 GMT		1 point
	I definitely thought the "daily life, a wedding, a cemetery" was Great Expectations (the wedding being Miss Havisham's that never took place, the cemetery being where Pip he meets Magwitch and daily life being a "plot element" of nearly every novel ever written). You may want to change that description.

	Stewart:	Jan 22nd, 2010 at 21:28 GMT		6 points
	I suggest accepting "Diary of Anne Frank" since it's commonly referred to as such, and some editions are published under that name.

	erant:	Jan 22nd, 2010 at 21:59 GMT		1 point
	@tk925 I could see how you could think that. I adjusted the description to be way more obvious, I think. I didn't want to give it away, but since so few people were getting it right, I figure it's okay. @Stewart: thanks for the suggestion. I've added that.

	geniusonwheels:	Jan 23rd, 2010 at 12:53 GMT		-4 points
	Just a couple of things to say. The official title is 'The Catcher in the Rye' with two 'the's. And try expermineting with the colors for the quiz. Most people like to see a quiz with a cool color scheme, and Sporcle bland gray isn't very appealing. Great quiz!

	mellybmel:	Jan 23rd, 2010 at 20:35 GMT		6 points
	Try, literature assigned instead of 'novels.'

	hiho:	Jan 28th, 2010 at 00:46 GMT		-4 points
	awesome, but too hard if we don't know the author; but I loved it!!

	RS89:	Jan 28th, 2010 at 19:42 GMT		1 point
	I've been assigned to read 7 of these books throughout my educational career.

	RedLIon:	Feb 3rd, 2010 at 02:54 GMT		4 points
	The Scarlet Letter is a great book.

	Granadog:	Feb 5th, 2010 at 03:17 GMT		11 points
	Well, it's the only non-Harry Potter quiz in the Most Played Literature section, so props for that.

	Craig_Hodges:	Feb 5th, 2010 at 20:55 GMT		9 points
	I agree, @RedLion. As is Wuthering Heights. If we're picking "worst books ever written," I'd never expect a Bronte sister or Hawthorne to come up. I'd be thinking more along the lines of Dan Brown.

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	magister:	Feb 9th, 2010 at 18:24 GMT		2 points
	Weird. I was assigned 5 of these. Other books I was assigned: Tale of Two Cities, Jane Eyre, Fahrenheit 451, Animal Farm, King Lear, Grapes of Wrath, Beloved, Jazz, Thomas More's Utopia, Dante's Inferno, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Red Badge of Courage, Heart of Darkness, Beowulf, The Education of Little Tree.

	kristen58:	Feb 17th, 2010 at 04:52 GMT		3 points
	The heading "Novel" is wrong. Just because some of these plays are published as books does not make them novels.

	alyr57:	Mar 4th, 2010 at 01:12 GMT		3 points
	I've had to read 13 of these works throughout my educational career, although I only actually read about half. Not to say these books aren't worth reading, but you know how it is in high school. Fun quiz =).

	Cinecrab:	Mar 6th, 2010 at 00:31 GMT		4 points
	What information is this quiz based on? The Pearl can't really be taught more frequently than 1984 can it?

	drummerchic312:	Mar 16th, 2010 at 17:04 GMT		1 point
	i have read 9/16 of those....

	Chocolatl:	Mar 22nd, 2010 at 16:12 GMT		1 point
	I've read them all, but I was assigned 9 of them in school. And yes, Cinecrab, we were assigned The Pearl and not 1984.

	d3bates:	Mar 29th, 2010 at 21:16 GMT		0 points
	I only got the Diary of Anne Frank =(

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	hello0olleh:	Mar 30th, 2010 at 02:25 GMT		-1 points
	Animal Farm would also work for the clues given for Lord of the Flies.

	emjayyellow:	Apr 15th, 2010 at 14:42 GMT		1 point
	Could you accept "Homer's Odyssey" pls

	cmn8:	Jul 5th, 2010 at 05:11 GMT		2 points
	@d3bates, mixed up with what? Seperate isn't a word, it's just a misspelling of separate. I was assigned 12 of these...but is Diary of a Young Girl really assigned in high school? I had to read it in 7th grade; my cousin read it in 6th. I don't think anyone I know read it in high school, even though most of them read it. Huh.

	emn8:	Jul 7th, 2010 at 02:58 GMT		1 point
	I was assigned 11. For some reason we didn't do Steinbeck...I actually tried The Crucible first for Scarlet Letter, glad I was wrong. Always thought A Separate Peace had the "suicide summer," not sarcastic, though...maybe it's been too long since I last read it.

	lalalala:	Jul 13th, 2010 at 06:46 GMT		0 points
	The Crucible. 1984. Animal Farm. Maybe even Oedipus Rex. How are these not on here?

	bibliophile17:	Jul 15th, 2010 at 21:43 GMT		2 points
	Shameful. I thought to myself, "why would anyone read Charlotte's Web in high school?" for the Lord of the Flies clue. (Although I have no idea how anarchy would have fit.)

	MoneyGrip:	Oct 29th, 2010 at 19:20 GMT		1 point
	LOL, we were assigned all but two of these in high school - didn't read "Our Town" and "Anne Frank" - many of them for summer reading. Fortunately, most of them are worthwhile reads, except "A Separate Peace" which was hopelessly corny and unwittingly homo erotic.

	ravenclaw:	Mar 10th, 2012 at 04:33 GMT		1 point
	The Crucible also works for The Scarlet Letter