Classics

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When I was in school in the 90s, there were classics I kinda had to read.  Earliest examples probably from the 60s maybe catcher in the rye or catch 22.  It's been 30 years since the 90s, are there new 'classics'?

Lots of lists if you Google something like "typical books read in high school english classes" but every school district probably has its own list and most of the lists you find are what people think students "should" read.

Shakespeare is still there, but as Duke said, no other poetry.  Catcher in the Rye still shows up, along with things like 1984, Fahrenheit 451, To Kill a Mockingbird, Slaughterhouse-Five, The Great Gatsby, The Scarlet Letter, Moby Dick......the lists go on and on.

This is a list by a Long Beach middle school teacher I found when I asked the question on Quora:

9th grade: To Kill a Mockingbird, The Lord of the Flies, The Call of the Wild, Jane Eyre, The Catcher in the Rye, The Fault in Our Stars, Romeo & Juliet
10th grade: Things Fall Apart, The Great Gatsby, The Count of Monte Cristo, Hamlet, Great Expectations, The Alchemist, Dracula, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, The Hobbit, The Scarlet Letter, Treasure Island, Frankenstein, The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, All the Light We Cannot See, King Lear, Blindness
11th grade: The Federalist Papers, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Ethan Frome, The Jungle, Walden and “Civil Disobedience,” Black Like Me, I am Malala, A Separate Peace, The Crucible, Dubliners, The Grapes of Wrath, A Tale of Two Cities, The Devil in the Write City, Heart of Darkness and the Secret Sharer, The Red Badge of Courage, The Glass Castle (Walls), Of Mice and Men
12th Grade: (Depends on the course): Shane, Forrest Gump, Angela’s Ashes, The Kite Runner, Beloved, The Joy Luck Club, The House on Mango Street, Like Water for Chocolate, Life of Pi, The Hate U Give, 1984, Flowers for Algernon, Fahrenheit 451, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee
The school district and each school determines which books will be read.