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Can you name the most commonly taught books (Grades 7-12)?
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rleemorton
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Author
Book
% of Schools
William Shakespeare
90%
William Shakespeare
81%
Mark Twain
78%
Harper Lee
71%
William Shakespeare
71%
John Steinbeck
64%
Nathaniel Hawthorne
62%
John Steinbeck
60%
William Shakespeare
56%
Anne Frank
56%
William Golding
56%
F. Scott Fitzgerald
54%
George Orwell
51%
Jack London
51%
John Knowles
48%
Stephen Crane
47%
Arthur Miller
47%
Thornton Wilder
44%
Charles Dickens
44%
Charles Dickens
41%
S.E. Hinton
39%
Paul Zindel
38%
Author
Book
% of Schools
Arthur Miller
36%
Mark Twain
32%
William Gibson
32%
John Steinbeck
31%
Homer
29%
George Orwell
28%
Sophocles
28%
John Steinbeck
28%
Jack Shaefer
28%
Emily Brontë
26%
J.D. Salinger
26%
Tennessee Williams
24%
Conrad Richter
24%
Robert Newton Peck
22%
Sophocles
21%
Esther Forbes
21%
George Bernard Shaw
21%
Wilson Rawls
21%
William Shakespeare
20%
Ray Bradbury
20%
Charles Dickens
20%
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Commonly Taught Books (Grades 7-12) Quiz
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imclala
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Mar 30th, 2010 at 19:01 GMT
3 points
Thor
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. You should accept "Diary of Anne Frank."
rleemorton
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Mar 30th, 2010 at 20:18 GMT
1 point
Done! Thank you for your help.
Chunklets
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Mar 30th, 2010 at 22:21 GMT
1 point
Interesting quiz! I was suprised and happy to see that Antigone was on the list. One minor typo: There are 2 'n's in "Finn".
krs1291
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Mar 31st, 2010 at 03:24 GMT
3 points
The correct spelling is: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. I think you should accept Huck Finn, since that's what it's commonly referred to. Probably the same for Tom Sawyer.
rleemorton
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Mar 31st, 2010 at 05:17 GMT
3 points
Thanks for the assistance everyone.
rleemorton
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Mar 31st, 2010 at 05:18 GMT
2 points
Corrections have been made!
JimmyJames
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Mar 31st, 2010 at 12:49 GMT
11 points
For a brief moment after seeing William Gibson, I thought there was a chance 32% of high schools had "Neuromancer" in their curriculum.
shyn12
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Apr 5th, 2010 at 02:13 GMT
3 points
I've read 9 of these books in English class already, and I'm only in 10th grade. I read The Miracle Worker in 6th grade, however. And To Kill A Mockingbird = AMAZING book even if my teacher ripped it apart TT_TT
micah
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Apr 5th, 2010 at 02:20 GMT
1 point
This is great, but I don't understand the ordering.
sabresfan
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Apr 5th, 2010 at 04:36 GMT
14 points
This quiz would be better ordered by %schools teaching it, not by author.
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Bulletchewer6
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Apr 5th, 2010 at 10:30 GMT
-6 points
Anne Frank's Diary is overrated. Lord of the Flies and 1984 are very important books which have influenced many later works.
Thalia
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Apr 5th, 2010 at 16:28 GMT
8 points
This is an interesting quiz but the source material is more than 20 years old, which I think you should note in the quiz's information section. I would be curious to see (if there is a more recent study somewhere) whether the list has significantly changed since the 1980s.
kromclovinfasho
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Apr 5th, 2010 at 19:04 GMT
1 point
What? no Hemingway? He's my favorite author!
Navarro2814
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Apr 5th, 2010 at 22:18 GMT
0 points
Apparently I'm the only school who reads the Cat in the Hat
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fastdawg07
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Apr 5th, 2010 at 23:07 GMT
-7 points
I'm glad that I don't see Hemingway on this list. He is a horrible author with a terrible writing style. And Lord of the Flies was a horrible book. I hated reading it in school, but hey, that's just my opinion.
alphadog
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Apr 5th, 2010 at 23:15 GMT
1 point
Might also want to accept "Oedipus the King" for "Oedipus Rex" as the former is its English name, whereas the later is its Latin name. Great quiz btw.
penguinsfan
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Apr 5th, 2010 at 23:24 GMT
7 points
That many 7-12 graders study Where the Red Fern Grows? Isn't that more of a children's novel? I had to read it when I was 9.
Illini13
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Apr 6th, 2010 at 01:39 GMT
2 points
just to be fair, a lot of these works aren't 'books' per se, such as all of Shakespeare's plays, for example, which have been packaged into books for the sake of the modern reader, but are in actuality still plays, very interesting quiz overall nonetheless
newenglander
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Apr 6th, 2010 at 19:42 GMT
1 point
I agree with thalia. a lot of schools now study books like the kite runner along with the ones on this list.
rleemorton
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Apr 9th, 2010 at 01:15 GMT
1 point
Thanks for the help everyone. Unfortunately, I cannot find an updated list of books. However, I've fixed the ordering. If anyone can link me to a newer list, please feel free to do so. Thanks again, everyone!
josephriddle
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Apr 9th, 2010 at 04:59 GMT
1 point
Fantastic quiz. Tried finding a new source for you. No luck, but you're right, barely anything has changed! This should be on the Sporcle home page.
redbone666
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Apr 9th, 2010 at 05:22 GMT
3 points
awesome game
djdjmyst9119
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Apr 9th, 2010 at 21:49 GMT
3 points
good quiz
MuffinMaddness
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Aug 18th, 2010 at 05:07 GMT
3 points
no "A Midsummer Night's Dream"? I've honestly read that book in school at least three times since eighth grade
LuckyLeft
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Mar 20th, 2012 at 16:19 GMT
2 points
No The Canterbury Tales? That was one of the notable books in my 12th Grade English Class....
mrness86
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Mar 21st, 2012 at 06:33 GMT
1 point
I'm not shocked by anything on the list, but rather by what's not on it. I thought for sure One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Brave New World, Night, Like Water for Chocolate and a few others would be on here.
chair
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Mar 21st, 2012 at 21:12 GMT
2 points
A lot of fun! One teensy nitpick - there is no "The" in "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." 5 globes.
Mutford
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Mar 24th, 2012 at 20:19 GMT
1 point
I wonder if The Giver or Holes would make the updated list?
Calvin44
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Apr 30th, 2012 at 23:04 GMT
1 point
please accept "Oedipus Tyrannus"...
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